<p>Dontno: No, because some people are better at picking up and retaining this information; at mastering these strategies. </p>
<p>I, for example, never took a prep class or practiced or anything but happened to be good at the skills tested on the SAT.</p>
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Exactly. The key part of this is “if both of the kids started out at around the same level.” Why else would people’s scores generally go up after prep courses? … Even if the ONLY benefit of a prep course is practice, that’s still increasing one’s knowledge/ability of the skills tested.</p>