The Test Prep Industry Is Booming

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Thousands of high school students will take the SAT this weekend. Many of them will try to boost their scores with tricks learned from high-priced tutoring services, which have turned Americans’ college anxiety into a booming business. The number of test prep centers in the U.S. more than doubled to 11,000 from 1998 to 2012, the last year for which Census data are available.

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<p>So if each of those centers serves only 100 students, and I would imagine most serve many more, that’s well over a million students using these test prep centers. Interesting that, armed with all those high priced “tricks”, fewer than 1000 of them manage a perfect score. </p>