<p>Its like 69.99 for four months, is it worth buying?</p>
<p>Is it just like random exams they give with answers and explanations?</p>
<p>I might do it.</p>
<p>tnx</p>
<p>I'm not so sure. I just bought it, but primarily to get detailed answers and have my essay graded. My practice test from the blue book is being graded, which apparently should only have taken "up to 30 seconds." Must be the essay.</p>
<p>Does a real human grade the essay? Or is it a computer?</p>
<p>comp^ (10 char)</p>
<p>Hmmm. Are the real essays on test day graded by computer too?! I thought they were graded by humans. </p>
<p>Princeton Review supposedly has a Live Grader tool where people read the essays and grade them. Has anyone tried that?</p>
<p>I got the feeling that the whole online course was worthless from the desciption. If you buy the official book, you get all you need including online scoring of it if you put the answers in. I really don't get why you need to pay for it.</p>
<p>I am sure I am not alone on this, but I have always gotten a striking suspicion that the SAT essay is graded by a computer. That is probably why most colleges don't even consider the writing section of the SAT. My AP English Language teacher used to joke about how he thought the same thing about "that garbage SAT essay".</p>
<p>you do NOT get online scoring with the book. u MUST buy the course to get ur essays graded...</p>
<p>I'm sure there's a blatantly obvious answer to this and I'm going to feel like and idiot once someone answers, but how does a computer grade an essay?</p>
<p>OK: the Online Course provides essay grading for the Blue Book tests by computer; this service is crappy and flawed, since a computer uses parameters such as average length of sentences, vocabulary words used, number of paragraphs, and stuff like that to grade your essay. This part is worthless. </p>
<p>But, the course is TOTALLY WORTH IT for another reason: the answer explanations, provided for all 8 Blue Book tests as well as the 6 extra it provides. Whenever you take a practice test, you should go over your correct AND incorrect answers, reading the explanation to each one, and teaching yourself, in the mind of ETS, why your answer was right or wrong.</p>
<p>Trust me. I wouldn't have got my 2400 without those explanations.</p>
<p>Yes, the LiveGrader tool from PR is definitely worth it. You'll get some very useful feedback.</p>