Self-Studying vs Solid Prep Course

HopingtobeaGTmom
Wed, 30 Jan 2013 18:23:19 +0000

I have been reading this forum for a while and created an account solely to reply to this post. A friend of mine, who has an 11th grade daughter, paid $3950 for 24 hours of one on one tutoring to a tutor from the Princeton Review. As part of the tutoring, her daughter completed 10 full length practice SAT exams. On the December SAT, her daughter scored around a 1590/2400. It was her first time taking the SAT so we don’t really know how she would have scored taking it cold. She didn’t take the October PSAT. She’s a bright girl who takes AP classes (achieved a high B in AP World History last year) and has a high GPA. I really don’t believe she would have scored significantly lower than that going into the test cold. This experience would really make me question the idea of spending so much on tutoring. I spoke with the tutor and considered using him for my 11th grade son but decided that it was too much money.