11-03-2014, 10:14 PM
btw, I'm not pushing tutoring. I never had a tutor and I never took one of those expensive prep courses where you attend sessions. I prepared the cheap way with the practice workbooks, and did the same later for the GRE.
It is crucial to prepare. I know the practice made a big difference to my scores.
I'm a cheerleader for high schoolers getting the very best SAT scores they can. It was due to twenty year old SAT scores that I finally was able to attend a university in my mid-thirties, after decades of raising kids and cobbling together quite the mongrel transcript for my lower division credits. They let me in primarily because of my SAT scores from high school (they told me so).
I was at the point in life where I was coming up against all the ways I had not done "the right things" to succeed, and all of a sudden, these old SAT scores were like the ruby slippers I had all along that would take me where I wanted to go.
Thanks always to my parents who insisted that I should work hard for both the PSATs and the SATs. [
] Best of luck to all of you who are guiding your students through. []
Kathy
It is crucial to prepare. I know the practice made a big difference to my scores.
I'm a cheerleader for high schoolers getting the very best SAT scores they can. It was due to twenty year old SAT scores that I finally was able to attend a university in my mid-thirties, after decades of raising kids and cobbling together quite the mongrel transcript for my lower division credits. They let me in primarily because of my SAT scores from high school (they told me so).
I was at the point in life where I was coming up against all the ways I had not done "the right things" to succeed, and all of a sudden, these old SAT scores were like the ruby slippers I had all along that would take me where I wanted to go.
Thanks always to my parents who insisted that I should work hard for both the PSATs and the SATs. [
] Best of luck to all of you who are guiding your students through. []Kathy