<p>What did you think of the course? Did you think the course diagnostics they used were comparable in difficulty to today's exam? More difficult? Less difficult? Same questions go for the 11 Practice Tests book. Thanks.</p>
<p>The course sucked because it doesn't show how to tackle the hard ones (15-20). It's decent. Everything I taught myself helped me more.</p>
<p>The test today was brutal compared to theirs, although they had a similar essay...which I screwed up. What can I say? 30 days till results. Mark the calender, we'll all know then!</p>
<p>I was ready to crush the Math section. However, the practice book that I used was completely different from the actual test. How would you feel if you studied forever with a book that was nothing like the actual test. That is how I feel, and it sucks really really bad. </p>
<p>If you used the official Cambridge test prep book, do you think its practice tests reflected what was on the SAT today? (look closely at Math). I want to burn mine so bad.</p>
<p>ok, listen. </p>
<p>here are my scores from princeton review's diagnostic tests in the chronological order I took them: (seriously)</p>
<p>1st: 690v, 510m, 740w 10E
2nd: 650v, 490m, 700w 8E
3rd: still awaiting scores
4th: 600v, 490m, 690w 6E </p>
<p>I missed one test and that was it, which I did not recieve my scores back from yet. The course was helpful..the diagnostic tests were brutal. This was much easier. I think I actually get my money back or something. Its crazy. A lot of the people in my class didn't improve either or went down. Some people did go up but not by a lot.</p>
<p>oh and ps: I did all my class homework...et cetera..I was not a class slacker since I had to pay for the class with my own money.</p>
<p>I have several books I studied from, and Princeton Review proved the least helpful for this test..</p>
<p>11 Practice Tests has the format almost down pat. That number of sections. However, questions numbers are a bit off. If I recall correctly math sections went 18 questions (gridin section), 20, 16. Writing has a 35 then a 14 as opposed to that book's 33 and 14. The book's not bad, but its best quality is that its focus is not that. Its focus is quantity.</p>
<p>If you want quality focus on CR, go for Kaplan's CR book, do every exercise, check the roots and vocab. I found it useful.</p>
<p>kittie_rocks,</p>
<p>Wow. I used the Official Study Guide for the diagnostics in my SAT course, and my students improved by an average of 220 points. I doubt that PR would actually make every subsequent diagnostic more difficult (you would expect the opposite), so the course sounds very suspect right now.</p>
<p>GODOT, </p>
<p>It really upsets me too because it was so much money, money my parents did not have so I used a combination of my christmas/birthday/summer job money to pay for this course..and those were my diagnostic tests.</p>
<p>I think I did around the range of my first test on the actual sat today, hopefully, but I am still upset because I really wanted to improve my math.</p>
<p>The teacher was nice and helpful, so I don't blame him but...</p>
<p>would you mind telling me the policies about a refund or whatever because my teacher had no information for me and kind of discouraged my question.</p>
<p>kittie_rocks,</p>
<p>They do not have a money-back guarantee. The guarantee allows a student to take a "refresher course" within a year. And the score improvement is measured from the previous PSAT or SAT to the official SAT that you take immediately after the completion of the course (the one you took today). So you might still improve by 200 points, but I highly doubt it, based on the results you are quoting me. Additionally, the center might be d**ks and inform that you that since you missed one scheduled exam, you are not eligible for the guarantee. I'm sorry.</p>
<p>Yeah i thought i was ready to crush the math too...and i didn't...then again i think i had some sort of experimental thing.</p>
<p>Verbal was easier than PR</p>
<p>writing was about equal.</p>
<p>The Math was rediculous to me => Like, I looked at the problems and saw "Oh s<strong><em>, these are going to take like 4-5 minutes EACH!" Some of them were very involved; If I had unlimited time, I would do pretty well. *</em></strong>ing time limits.</p>