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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"Highly paid tutors make bold claims about how much they can raise SAT scores (“my students routinely improve their scores by more than 400 points”), but there is no peer-reviewed scientific evidence that coaching can reliably provide more than a modest boost — especially once simple practice effects and other expected improvements from retaking a test are accounted for."

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Yes.  And a lot of tutoring companies will give brutally hard "placement" tests and then easier tests later to show how much they've "helped".  Most of the research I've seen shows that a modest gain (~30-60 points) can be expected with prep.  Some people have large gains; I think that's usually because a very capable kid had a very bad day and the next time they take the test they score what they're capable of.  [/quote]

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