Has anyone seen 0% improvement (or score decline) after extensive prep course?

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<p>On the contrary, I had a tutor for my SAT preparation and my scores did nothing but improve on my first practice test I got a 490 in math and a 510 in critical reading, and after my last SAT I got my scores all the way up to 700 math and 630 critical reading. So a tutor vastly improved my scores.</p>

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<p>I meant to write earlier: Some people might feel that the book (“Bleak House”) is not enjoyable reading material. </p>

<p>The book has more than 800 pages. I read the book soon after reading “Great Expectations” which is also by Charles Dickens. As soon as I began reading “Bleak House”, I noticed that the book contained many of the vocabulary words that were in my SAT Verbal test preparation book. It’s a laborious book to read. It’s very important to keep notes while reading “Bleak House” in order to keep track of what’s happening in the book.</p>

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<p>Sat courses help some students. There could be a few reasons:</p>

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<li><p>That course is lame. 60 hours? What do they spend their time doing?</p></li>
<li><p>Your son pays attention but doesn’t do homework. Learning how to get a 6 pack and getting a 6 pack are different.</p></li>
<li><p>Your son started at the top. Sometimes students intuitively get the strategy and have knowledge issues they can’t work through. If his cr is down it sounds like he is trying the sat techniques in an ineffective way. Tell him to stop trying to hack the cr and instead read like before, try to understand, and leave obvious extreme elimination for next year.</p></li>
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<p>Craig</p>

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<p>“SAT Coaching Found to Boost Scores – Barely”
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