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[quote=Anonymous]"FYI, my son had a score not far from there in 10th and ended up in the 1400s after test prep. He worked hard to make that happen, though."

"You can't have "we are going to lose, why bother playing the game" attitude. If she wants to try, let her try. Driven kids can improve 200 pts without much difficulties. "

Our DC is far from driven.  That doesn't mean DC doesn't care just that self motivation for anything without an instructor is hard to come by.

Since DC had taken several PSAT and ACT practice tests and never done better than 1110ish or the equivalent, we felt if the first SAT didn't result in a score equivalent to his grades we would end up in the "if you are going to lose, why bother playing the game?" pile.

We also had more to gain in math than English.  We did Kaplan, we got our 200 or so points from 11th PSAT using the 8 classes over 9 weeks plan with less than an hour of studying per week.  I'm sure DC worked really hard DURING the 8 classes but that was about it.

Now DC's grades and scores match on most Naviance plots and it feels a lot easier to figure if a school is a Reach, Match or Safety.  Maybe more importantly, DC seems to feel more confident in being able to handle whatever college dishes out than when it seemed DC's test scores were lacking.

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