<p>Sup CC. Got a q. for all of you who have taken the PR Classroom course or any other course by PR. Was your last diagnostic test much higher than your first 3 scores? I wrote my last one today and scored my highest score ever...by a large margin too.</p>
<p>The test seemed easier than the first 3 tests..but I also felt really calm and relaxed which was not the case on the first 3 tests (anxiety and stress took over and I didn't finish some sections, etc.).</p>
<p>On this test, I finished all sections with time to spare. I scored my highest ever in all 3 sections.</p>
<p>So, what do you guys/girls think and have any of you taken the course before? What's your take? And also, is the last test the most realistic one? (the one that they use to compare your improvement when you write the real thing....like the one that they say the score should be most similar to? if so. i am so pumped!).</p>
<p>PR suppresses your score. It was really obvious to me because I had a messed up class schedule which resulted in me taking both the 3rd and 4th test consecutively. I literally had a 2000ish on the 3rd test and a 2200+ the next week on the fourth test. My instructor also admitted that PR manipulates scores.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t say this test was easier than the rest, but rather that PR curved your score more realistically. This last test should be a much more accurate prediction of your real score.</p>
<p>Hope this helps!</p>
<p>P.S I thought that the PR class was a complete waste of time.</p>
<p>I’ve heard rumors that PR gives an overly difficult diagnostic test and an incredibly easy final “practice” test to support its claims of a guaranteed 100 pt increase or whatever they promise.</p>
<p>yeah, i felt that the last test was muuch easier than the first three…</p>
<p>i got 300 points higher on the last one than my initial diagnostic test, with a 200 point increase from test 3 to test 4…although a messed up schedule due to a lot of snow may have had something to do with the progress in my scores.</p>
<p>that being said, i got 100 points higher on my actual SAT than my final practice test at PR</p>
<p>part of that was probably my focus because it was a real test and i really “pumped up the volume,” if you will…</p>
<p>also, i feel that PR grades essays much harsher than on the real test…i consistently got 10s (and one 11) on my practice exams…but got a 12 on the real one by essentially writing the same exact essay every time</p>
<p>I went to my local PR office and took their diagnostic test - it’s the one with the Essay about not valuing an asset until you’ve lost it, and with the CR passage about some brain anatomy that totally confused me. There was also another passage about how how a piece of writing gives clues about the identity of the author.</p>
<p>Is this the global PR Diagnostic test? I got a 2080, PR told me not to take the class (that’s strange, really, from a testing company not to recommend their class though) I said I’ll come back if my scores aren’t 2100+ on this May 1st SAT :D</p>
<p>I probably wont… their prices are actually ridiculous</p>
<p>I think so too, I’m finding it really hard to fight my way through the last few 100 points, it’s really the fine small detail that NOT A SINGLE prep book really teaches you.</p>
<p>I mean most prep books like PR or Kaplan, etc. teaches the mid 1000ers to boost their scores, but if you’re already in the 2000+ there’s no such thing as the SAT prep book that is aimed at getting your last 100 something points.</p>
<p>Gap in the market? Probably not many people would actually buy it though :P</p>
<p>I did the same exact thing with my Princeton Review tests, so I don’t know. But I also took Kaplan at the same time, and my final Kaplan test sort of matched my Princeton Review.</p>
<p>PR-
690- M
590- CR
590- W</p>
<p>Kaplan-
680- M
550- CR
550- W</p>
<p>In all the other ones I had below 500 in CR and below 600 in Math.
I wouldve had over a 700, had I not added 10+13=26…or thought there were 360 degrees in a triangle…<em>sigh</em></p>
<p>@corc, my initial test score was 1980, my second was 2020, third was 2030, last one was 2330. . Did you have such improvements?</p>
<p>So, can I expect such a score in a week on my May SAT? I just wanna know if everyone that took such courses got similar scores on test day as the final diagnostic test score they received.</p>
<p>@Drelnis: there’s a Barron’s book named “SAT 2400: aiming for the perfect score”, wich is directed to…well, people aiming for the perfect score =)</p>
<p>so that means…i need to practice from the blue book and that is what i will be facing? will it be alrite if i just practice the blue books(edition 1 and 2)??</p>
<p>Or maybe you just paid attention, did your work and actually improved at taking SATs. Its been a while since I took that course. Do they feed you over there as well? I remember they’d give us pizza or jack in the box tacos. lol.</p>
<p>viggy–yeah, same thing happened for me. slow, small improvements from the first three tests, and then a big jump on the 4th. i was worried that my score would jump back down on the real sat, but actually did better than any previous scores.</p>
<p>maybe it was the pressure of the test that helped me? idk…</p>
Its been a while since I took that course. Do they feed you over there as well? I remember they’d give us pizza or jack in the box tacos. lol.</p>