What are your favorite online SAT prep programs? Khan academy? UWorld? Kaplain? I’d like to know!
Me and my friends used Khan Academy and we really liked it. We all heavily improved our scores and think it’s really good practice. Personally, I’ve raised my score 60-110 points on practice tests just from doing lots of questions on there.
Khan academy is kind of difficult to understand for me. The questions make sense, the website itself is difficult to understand what it’s showing (progress/areas of trouble?). UWorld is much easier to navigate than Khan Academy, in my opinion.
I’m really, really not a fan of Khan Academy. Sol Khan is a brilliant man, but he’s not a high school math teacher. He’ll spend 5 minutes explaining how to multiply 2 binomials, instead of saying “FOIL, or Double Distributive” or some other phrase that kids will understand.
I’m actually a big fan of the Barrons SAT books. I like that, after you finish a test, you can chart the types of problems that are giving you trouble. After a few exams, you have a roadmap of where your weaknesses are.
I also like the book “Up your Score, the Insider’s Guide to the SAT.” It’s full of basic testing strategies, written by a group of kids who did well on their SATs.
My son has used a few different study sources and found Khan Academy to be the best. That being said, I think Khan is geared toward an already high performing student, especially in math. His strength is math so he can sort of teach himself what he doesnt know using the Khan videos or other online sources. I think “best” can mean very different things: pure content, strategy for high performers and strategy for lower performers.