Re:Colleges that ditched admission tests find it harder to f...
by kelnos on Saturday October 22, 2022 @06:28PM
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It's a little weird that you're trying to tell someone that SAT test prep doesn't work, when test prep absolutely did work for them.
It worked for me, too, though I already had a high score, and wanted to see if I could get it even higher. (It worked; I did.)
That's great that you managed to develop SAT-ready vocabulary and math techniques on your own before taking the test. Many, many people don't, and test prep can help fill that gap, not only in their knowledge, but in strategies that work well for the test itself. And that last bit was probably what helped most for me: I, too, had a solid vocabulary (I read a lot growing up), and I never had trouble acing my math classes. But understanding how the test itself worked was helpful too, and netted me a nearly-perfect score.
It's pretty irrefutable that this can work; not sure why this is the hill you've decided to die on.
It worked for me, too, though I already had a high score, and wanted to see if I could get it even higher. (It worked; I did.)
That's great that you managed to develop SAT-ready vocabulary and math techniques on your own before taking the test. Many, many people don't, and test prep can help fill that gap, not only in their knowledge, but in strategies that work well for the test itself. And that last bit was probably what helped most for me: I, too, had a solid vocabulary (I read a lot growing up), and I never had trouble acing my math classes. But understanding how the test itself worked was helpful too, and netted me a nearly-perfect score.
It's pretty irrefutable that this can work; not sure why this is the hill you've decided to die on.