<p>If you think it is a tutor, where do you find a great one? If it's a company, which is the best?</p>
<p>Checck out the Xiggi method - it's described in a post at the top of the SAT prep forum.</p>
<p>My suggestions:
1. The Princeton Review's <em>Cracking the System</em> book on the SAT: Learn about slick tricks that have nothing to do with high school or college work but everything to do with the SAT. Examples include the use-your-pencil-as-a-ruler trick, the Joe Bloggs Rule, and anticipating the sentence completion answer.
2. The book <em>Up Your Score</em>: It's greatest strengths are the humor and the vocabulary list. It teaches you to see the SAT (the Slimy and Atrocious Torture) as a game you play in which the object is to outsmart the villain (the Evil Testing Serpent).
3. Practice the techniques and vocabulary knowledge on the REAL exams available in the College Board books. Do NOT trust the fake questions from Barron's, Arco's, etc., because these questions have only a very superficial resemlance to the SAT.</p>
<p>Xiggi Method, hands down IMO. BUT, get a baseline first by taking two or three tests in the 10 REAL SATs book. For certain learning issues tutors are best and for others books (like those mentioned by jhsu2) are great. But the Xiggi Method gets to the heart of the issue -- WHY is a particular response right/wrong.</p>