<p>If a student is going to do a prep course, when is the best time to do it?</p>
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<p>In relation to what? She's a sophomore, by the way. Would the summer before junior year be good?</p>
<p>Summer before junior year is when I've heard is the best time. That prep helps with both the PSAT and SAT.</p>
<p>I'm not going to have my son do a prep course but self-study, instead. What made you decide to go the prep course route?</p>
<p>"I'm not going to have my son do a prep course but self-study, instead. What made you decide to go the prep course route?"</p>
<p>My daughter, whom I love with my entire soul, is the laziest, most undisciplined person I know. She did well on the sophomore PSAT (730 CR, 690 W, 570 M), but the math is problematic because she's in a track that will not allow her to have completed the math needed to be fully prepared for the SAT until too late. (She came out of a tiny parochial school that couldn't offer accelerated math.) So we're deciding between a test prep course or a math tutor to give her the material she won't have covered yet. If she doesn't have something scheduled in, she will absolutely never give the test any consideration.</p>
<p>Judging from my son's waning interest in academics, maybe I should reconsider! Math is his strength, but I have considered figuring out something for his CR. He just didn't answer so many questions toward the end because he's such a slow reader. I wonder about speed-reading classes ...</p>
<p>My D is a junior and taking a course that began around xmas for the March SAT. I didn't have her prep earlier because I wanted her to focus on schoolwork and activities/sports and she had a job most of the summer. I feel really sorry for the high school kids now; when I was in hs I wasn't spending hours on SAT prep.</p>
<p>I did a prep course before Junior year. Because of that I got a good PSAT score.</p>