Prep for the SAT on your Ipod!

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Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions today announced the availability of three interactive SAT* prep programs that students can purchase and download from iTunes® (<a href="http://www.itunes.com)%5B/url%5D"&gt;www.itunes.com)&lt;/a>, enabling them to practice for the college entrance exam on a fifth generation iPod®**. Among the key features of the programs: students receive detailed analyses of each completed quiz they take, as well as feedback and an option for tracking quiz score progress. The $4.99 programs focus on the exam’s three graded sections: Critical Reading, Mathematics and Writing.

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<p>Have fun :)</p>

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<p>seems pretty cool. If i wanted to buy a new ipod (I have a third gen) and if I wanted to take the sat's again I would definitely purchase them.</p>

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<p>I wouldn't. Why would you study for the SATs on a music-listening device instead of in a quiet room with a book, paper, and pencils?</p>

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<p>kaplan on ipod? thats a plain stupid idea. you need practice, not that stuff.. kaplan is pretty unreliable, so dont go there :D</p>

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<p>yes go there.....soooo cooooooolllll...even though i don't care....</p>

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<p>I suppose it is good for car and plane rides???? Even then you could easily pull out a prep book... then again they are a bit thick. It really just enables you to prep when you are bored on the bus or some other place where you would not normally have a prep book but might have an ipod.</p>

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<p>Imagine how consuming the programs would be for the battery. And also, I'm pretty sure that they just copied most of the questions on the programs from their books.</p>

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<p>If a company that produced quality SAT review guides did this (Kaplan is not one of them; CB would be much better), I would go along with it, presuming I was in grade 10 or 11. Not now, however.</p>

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<p>This is for those who can't be bothered to study traditionally.</p>

<p>I can't see this working effectively but nonetheless there will be purchases I'm sure.</p>

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<p>i agree with kman. If it was collegeboard's program, I'd get it, but not Kaplan.</p>

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<p>I have it, its pretty useful.</p>

<p>u dont have to be a nerd and carry books around with you everywhere and you dont have to lock urself in the house to study.</p>

<p>Its an excellent idea, the vocab memorization tools alone are worth it not to mention writing sections.</p>

<p>So this is more for people who have things going on and dont want to carry books everywhere and dont want to spend a chunk of their summer inside studying.</p>

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<p>I wish the collegeboard made a few programs, then I'd actually buy them. </p>

<p>I doubt they'll provide anything new which I haven't already read in their books.
So it's most likely only for those who are just studying for the SAT, and don't actually have any books yet.</p>

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<p>iTunes also has this new program called iTunes U... all the tracks are free, and they're basically recordings of college seminars. I find it really interesting, but only a handful of colleges are participating right now. It's like a preview to what classes at those colleges would sound like, and the talks are actually worth listening to if you're interested in the subject matter.</p>

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<p>the SAT is the root of all evil</p>

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<p>This sounds like an awesome idea. I'm with Tyler on this, I'd rather just listen to it on my iPod rather than look like a nerd carrying around a ton of SAT Prep books. Like he said, good for people with things going on, like a life :P</p>

<p>I'm gonna try it out later.</p>

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<p>Lame. This is as stupid as those rap CDs with prep. My parents bought me those and they were downright awful. All this gimmicky stuff is made by 60 year old people who have no idea what teenagers are like. They think that if they put up a silly myspace page and put their boring stuff on an ipod that we'll care? This is treating us like we're 5 years old.</p>

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<p>does anyone wanna send the file to me please?</p>

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<p>janjones - I think that you're misunderstanding the program, it's just SAT prep on an ipod for portability, it doesn't have any "gimmicks", it's probably just like a prep book transfered to an ipod.</p>

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<p>I just bought the program. I have the math and critical reading ones. Based from an hour of trying it out it is "ok" at best. The program mostly focuses on the quizes. It has decent explanations to all the answers just like in Kaplans prep books. The only downside is that the program may be too easy for high scorers (such as me). In the math strategy portion, it is still explaining what a pythagorean theorem is.</p>

<p>I can certainly imagine myself studying on my iPod while taking long road trips or if my study materials aren't avaliable to me. In my opinion, people need to treat this as a suppliment to your regular prep book. It is good review material.</p>