SAT prep classes or Collegeboard online course?

demolitionlvr
Thu, 21 Jun 2007 10:19:15 +0000

ok so i got my SATs back and I was dissappointed.
Critical Reading: 500
Math: 670
Writing: 550

My math went wayy up and my writing improved (but i still want a 600) and i was extremely bummed about my reading score.
I went to a korean SAT prep class and heres what it was like

Math class: it definitely helped. i got practice ws, quizzes and my teacher taught me plenty tricks
Writing class: we practiced a new prompt each week with plenty grammar ws to work on. I definitely did better but my grammar’s still not as great as it should be. before my grammar was horrible.
Critical reading class: it didnt help. it wasnt even a critical reading class. it was a vocab class that gave 50 new vocab words for us to memorize and taking a vocab quiz all the time (the quizzes had typos everywhere). we only had one ws for actual critical reading.

I quit that place of course and decided to improve on my own (the classes were expensive by the way). and i didnt get the scores i wanted.
I looked at collegeboard and saw the online course and it looked really good. Would it be better for me to do that instead of going to a different SAT prep class over the summer? I mean the prep classes helped but the fact that its expensive and that i dont know if its going to improve my score at all.
Thank you.

PS I reallllly want to improve my reading score a lot since i want to go to UVA >.<