<p>Can someone give me advice on which to choose? Which choice would best prepare me for the SAT, ACT, SAT Subject test, etc.? Which is best for me in order to earn a score of 2100 or more?</p>
<p>What are you scoring now? It depends on the range you are scoring in.</p>
<p>Elite really doesn’t do much; they just give practice tests for you to do and babysits you and is strict.</p>
<p>Doesn’t matter; the teachers can only help you so much. What matters is how much effort you put into it.</p>
<p>I’m currently a sophomore. My English Honors teacher recommended me take the SAT sophomore year but I felt I wasn’t ready. But I did take the PSAT which I scored a 202.</p>
<p>to be honest, I don’t think you need a prep course if you want to save some $$$. That score can be brought up to whatever score you desire, but you just have to keep practicing by doing practice tests. (I came from a 197 soph to 2370 by doing practice).</p>
<p>dblazer,</p>
<p>Congrats! What kinds of practice tests books have you used? How many tests in total have you done?</p>
<p>SAT Prep courses are NOT worth the money. Your money and time would be better spent reviewing on your own and taking practice tests. Honestly, I’d go for 10ish practice tests and would use the Blue Book. If the SAT Prep Course is free… you might want to check it out. If it’s horrible you don’t go back. However, since the SAT (like everything else, it seems) is a scheme to get money, you’ll probably be fine with just a book.</p>
<p>Elite would be the best…however its not that hard to buy your own books and study lol…</p>
<p>WoW! that means you have to increase 40 points for each practice test you have done to go from a 197 soph to 2370. That is better than any Prep courses in the world.</p>
<p>I’m going to go into Elite, what do you guys mean by “strict?”</p>
<p>^ they have a quiz everyday for the content you learn from the previous day and if you don’t meet the minimum amount of points on the quiz you will receive detention and extra work</p>
<p>schieffenplan, what are your thoughts on elite in terms of effectiveness and what they do well / poorly?</p>
<p>also, how much did you pay?</p>
<p>paid around $1.5K though my dad was able to get a discount down to $1.2K because he said my bro would be taking other classes there (which hewill this summer)</p>
<p>i guess it’s effective…it’ll raise your score by at least 150 points for sure (if you are scoring under 2000)…however it’s really up to you. I studied on my own too using SAT books like PR and stuff…I think if I just stuck to Elite, I wouldn’t have hit in the 2200 and 2300 range. WHen you study on your own, you find your own pace and can really internalize your strengths and weaknesses. Some of the content Elite teaches is sometimes out of the box and has nothing to do with the SAT content. The practice tests are a lot harder than the real SAT test so I guess they overprepare you but this can sometimes be in a wrong sense since all their tests are custom made and not as standardized as the SAT, so the format may jump you off a bit if you don’t take any real SAT tests…personally though, just save the $1.5K and study on your own. However, the practice tests and critical reading passages that Elite provides are definitely exploitable for your own use IMO</p>
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<p>You must be kidding me…detention and extra work? f**k that! lol
whats the minimum amount of points you have to get? Are the quizzes easy?</p>
<p>Wow, I really need to talk to the director to know what I’m signing up for.</p>
<p>I was going to pay the $$$$ and have my dtr take the SAT Prep course in my area… but being on the site I found folks talking about the “Xiggi” method… which I thought was a set of books/website/brick and morter SAT prep school… LOL silly me… I googled it and went to B&N/Amazon and came up with nada… which was very frustrating! I then discovered that Xiggi is a living, breathing, human being with all of this great SAT prep knowledge… he(or she) I am not too sure at this point is a poster here on CC… I even pm’d Xiggi and was given some wonderful advice on self study… do yourself a favor and look Xiggi up here on CC… and save yourself(lol your parents) a few bucks…</p>
<p>Xiggi is like 30 something years old now and has a PhD from Harvard rofl</p>
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<p>11/14, 7/10 sorta stuff…never below 70%…you also have to write an essay every week. Hoenstly though its not that bad because its during the summer and you have free time. I would put the amount of work as equivalent to 2 classes in school, maybe even 1 since its just SAT content which is easy as hell already. The quizzes being easy…well thats up to how you are.</p>
<p>@Schieffenplan… I know!! ROFL… silly me… I guess I get points taken off for being so dumb… but add a few for my quest to help my dtr14’ get ahead/do her best to defeat that SAT! LOLOL Not sure if the points evens it out… but oh’ well… thats ok! And thanks for letting me know about the age, I had no clue! PHd from Harvard?.. wow… impressive!</p>
<p>$1,500? Has anyone heard of pay for results SAT Prep? It looks like you pay $1,500 only if you get 2400, but if you don’t, you only pay a percentage of $1,500 depending on how close your score is to 2400.</p>