<p>Is it merely forgotten? I see that many CC'ers who adhere to TPR, Barron's and Kaplan, even, need to go through a process of disillusionment. Xiggi says that the practice tests from third party prep companies or their practice tests cannot help, and I have to agree. A few years ago, when I was prepping for the SAT, TPR cost me 50 points. Barron's, too, cost me 50-100 points because the difficulty didn't represent the real deal AT ALL. I cannot truly emphasize the importance of CB's Blue book and other exams offered by the College Board.</p>
<p>It’s pinned in this very forum.</p>
<p>benhpark, not everyone agrees with the idea that third party prep companies practice tests cannot help. I went from scoring 1740 to scoring 2350+ consistently with Kaplan, Barron, Princeton Review tests. I think I even took a McGraw one.</p>
<p>^ Do you mean 2350+ on the Kaplan/Barron/PR/McGraw tests or actual CB tests?</p>
<p>^</p>
<p>Actual CB tests.</p>
<p>^ That’s very impressive for a rising Sophomore (sorry I went through your posts, haha). :)</p>
<p>I use PR (and of course Elite counts technically as a third-party does it not? Which you of course attend right?) and score 2100-2200 on CB tests</p>
<p>^ I haven’t seen much improvement from Elite, either.</p>
<p>Well that, my friend, proves that no one method works for the entirety of the human population.
With both Elite and PR, I rose from 1800/1900 to 2100/2200. That’s nearly more than a 300 point increase.
Elite works for some people, Elite doesn’t work for some people.
TPR, Kaplan’s, and Barron’s works for some people as well, but not for others.
Needless to say, Xiggi’s method doesn’t work for everyone although it may for others. Even if it works for you or you perceive it to, it doesn’t account for everyone else.
It’s completely subjective and unique with everyone and anyone as an individual.</p>