Report Rips SAT Prep Courses

MOMH20
Sat, 23 May 2009 06:25:48 +0000

Obviously, not everyone makes those kinds of gains but I also think the College Board does its best to collect sloppy data to hide how frequently those kinds of gains, in fact, do occur. My brother’s son improved from 650 to 800 in math with a tutor, a friend’s daughter improved from 530 to 670 in math through Kaplan course, and my own daughter went from 200 on PSAT to 2100 then 2300 on SATs with a tutor. My advice would be to assess your child – is there some realistic reason to believe your child could benefit from a course or tutoring as compared to other kinds of studying? Will your child really devote himself or herself to the kind of studying necessary for these programs to work? Yes, it’s completely unfair that some parents can afford to purchase this assistance for their children and others can’t. And I’d be thrilled to hear that more colleges go to a test optional policy. (Canada survives without these tests!) The unfairness issue, however, should not cloud whether these services sometimes help motivated children to improve.