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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Private SAT prep is a billion dollar business. What do you think?[/quote]

That they are preying on fears and providing little benefit.

It's worth studying for a bit, but the best prep for verbal is reading two hours a day for ten years, and the best prep for math is good math classes for 10 years. There's some benefit from studying online or from books yourself. The extra benefit from classes is for kids who won't do it themselves. Maybe, maybe, there's a tiny bit of benefit from classes for kids who are self-motivated enough to study themselves, but it's going to be rare and small.

Yes, there will be times where score will jump after classes but that's because scores will bounce around from test to test even for the same student, and no one talks about the times scores decline after classes.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/no-one-likes-the-sat-its-still-the-fairest-thing-about-admissions/2019/03/22/5fa67a16-4c00-11e9-b79a-961983b7e0cd_story.html

"What about coaching and other forms of test preparation? 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. For the typical rich kid, a more realistic gain of 50 points would represent the difference between the average students at Syracuse and No. 197 University of Colorado at Boulder — significant, perhaps, but not dramatic."

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