<p>From experience, does anyone know which one is better? Can you guys please list why you prefer it, or if you have just heard which is better.</p>
<p>I don’t have exp. in either test prep company- but from what I’ve heard neither really helps you that much. On CC, there’s usually a consensus concerning SAT prep- (self-study using the Blue book and some other test prep books if desired(barrons, grubers, etc.)) So IMO, if you are going to prep for the SAT, my recommendation is self-study (you can actually improve dramatically by doing so.)</p>
<p>Use blue book for practice tests, barrons and official collegeboard practice tests: they really help.</p>
<p>SAT prep programs do nothing that you can’t do yourself. Just do practice problems from SAT/ACT books and you’ll be fine.</p>
<p>Which brand of sat book do you guys recomend? There are so many out there.</p>
<p>the Blue book is the best (College Board). if you had to pick one definitely go with that one.</p>
<p>I agree. The Prep programs were useless to me except for the practice SATs they had us take. Just work out of the blue book and you’ll be fine.</p>
<p>I took Kaplan prep course and studied from the Collegeboard blue book and Princeton Review Cracking the SAT prep book.</p>
<p>The Kaplan course was really expensive but only helpful because the timed tests were proctored like the real SATs (I took 4 of these tests). The class work, I think you can do on your own from a book.</p>
<p>Princeton Review book is really thorough with strategies. I liked it more than the blue book.</p>
<p>Buy practice book tests and keep answering questions until you answer faster and more accurately.</p>
<p>I completely agree with everyone above. The person who taught me at Sylvan wasn’t even that smart herself and offered no knowledge that was useful. I only learned via the practice tests.</p>
<p>Blue book! Just take as many actual tests as you can. (in this case, 10)</p>
<p>Okay, I registered purely to answer this question.</p>
<p>The notion that an SAT prep course won’t help is ludicrous. Furthermore, to think that one can use purely self-study to handle this test is delusional at best. I have worked with students for approximately 15 years in assisting them to be prepared to take the SAT exam. Even the most inspired students lack the self-discipline to maintain “self-study”. To think that the average high school student is going to take it upon themselves to work on SAT strategies on their own on top of the homework they already have is absolutely crazy. </p>
<p>Another theory that must be dispelled, “take the SAT as often as possible.” This has been proven to be wrong time and time again. There is no correlation between repeated exam exposure and increased scores. There is a correlation between learning SAT strategies, studying vocabulary, applying strategies to practice problems and an increase in scores. In our SAT program, we typically see an average increase of 160+ points per student. All of the SAT providers have similar strategies. You should look for a program that uses real teachers(certified licensed educators not college students) and limits its class size to a maximum of 10 students. Without that approach, kids quickly become lost. Good luck.</p>
<p>while this may be true for many un-motivated students, there are (most of them are) many motivated students here on CC… if someone is genuinly motivated, then he or she will be able to improve on his/her own.</p>
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<p>D1, self studied, 2370 first sitting. Some kids can do it on their own, others can’t. </p>
<p>Agree that multiple sittings are a poor methodology for increasing scores, prep increases scores, not throwing money at the CB.</p>