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Hi. I think that the quotations around the secrets is totally warranted. I was trying to state that I always thought that the "secrets" that many test prep cour
by IMAYousaf 7y ago
Hi. I think that the quotations around the secrets is totally warranted. I was trying to state that I always thought that the "secrets" that many test prep courses tried to sell to parents/students were just question design, and not actually some behind the scenes insight.
Do you really disagree with that? That's what a lot of the marketing seems to be focused on. I felt like question exposure alone got me those same insights, and in fact, the official SAT book rather explicitly lists those things out.
Most people don't read the annoying small text that accompanies the books that spells out a lot of those strategies. Instead they'd rather pay someone a lot of money to tell that to them :)
- BeetleB 7y agoI myself did not take any SAT prep courses, so I can't disagree. My point was that some small tricks do exist, and most test takers are not aware of them. Knowing those tricks will give you a slight advantage. For me, those prep courses would likely be a poor value. However, I likely am not in the demographic who would benefit most from them. There are plenty of people out there who haven't learned how to learn from a book, and so having someone teach them will result in better scores. I would have thought such people will likely struggle in college, yet my grad school had quite a few of them. I guess they found a way to compensate. The trick I mentioned was not in the official SAT book.