<p>My dad saw an ad on Craigslist:" World-famous SAT tutor". So he checked out the tutor's site <a href="http://www.sat2400.org%5B/url%5D">www.sat2400.org</a> and you know what? the fees for one-on-one SAT tutoring are $2,500/2 hr. and $7,500/ 5 week class! The tutor claims that he took more than 100 standardized tests and had perfect scores on all of them. He also wrote a book called" SAT1600 Test Prep Series",the price? $399.99. Hey Xiggi, what do you think? BTW: I put this on the wrong forum earlier today.</p>
<p>don't waste your money...unless you've been self-studying and you really think you're not getting anywhere. But if you already have a decent score, just specialize and work on your weaknesses</p>
<p>Are you kidding? Of course not.</p>
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<p>your better off just using that money to pay for college....</p>
<p>^yeah...
I doubt an hours worth of tutoring will help you score enough to be worth that fee...</p>
<p>i was taught by a similar guy and it was like 100 a week</p>
<p>as long as he does not write the real sat test material for every test date, he gotta be going for some business.</p>
<p>What is this world coming to?</p>
<p>our in-state school's tuition is 5000. So yea......</p>
<p>I've checked out this tutor. His claim that he has scored perfectly on more than 100 standardized tests is probably blatantly false. For one thing, no one has EVER scored perfectly on all three sections of the MCAT (45). (The highest score I have heard of is a 43.) And while he definitely appears to be intelligent, I doubt that he has even scored perfectly on all other exams besides the MCAT. There are numerous, somewhat embarrassing grammatical errors on his website and course contract, so I am not sure he can even score an 800 on the new SAT Writing section. And the best SAT tutors I know charge about $200-$500 an hour, not a ridiculous amount of $1250 per hour!</p>
<p>I actually e-mailed him about a year ago, asking him to send me copies of score reports to verify his claim of these perfect scores. He responded with a terse e-mail stating that I would have to personally drop by his office for him to show me his scores. I smell a fraud.</p>
<p>I didn't find his website to be particularly compelling. Sounds like an enormous waste of money to me.</p>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p>I, or rather, my parents, spent 1000 on an SAT course for me.</p>
<p>But that went on for 2-3 months, two 4 (or was it 5?)-hour days a week.</p>
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<p>How much did it improve your score?</p>
<p>2200ish? I believe I may have fluctuated between that and 2100 --> 2360.</p>
<p>I smell fraud...
It is pretty clear that spending around $20 every minute is ludicrious when I have a great tutor that only takes about $1 a minute. That means that "technically" that class is 20 times the learning experience. I sense something really wrong with that.</p>
<p>it's not only $2500 for a two hour session, there is a six session commitment!
who would actually do that?</p>
<p>right. that and its not that hard to cut and paste stuff into jpg or gif images using microsith paint, to make it look like he has all 800s</p>
<p>^true. and it's such bad pictures of the reports you wouldn't be able to notice anyway...</p>
<p>Woah, he takes the SAT and SAT II every year. Does collegeboard even allow this?</p>