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[quote=Anonymous]My daughter is an excellent student taking on the most rigorous classes offered at her DMV private . As a junior, she’s already in AP Calculus BC and AP Lang and excelling in both. Based on the honors list numbers at her school , she’s around the top 10-15% of her class. She took 3 AP classes as a sophomore and scored 5’s on all three.

Here’s the issue: she just can’t seem to do well on the SAT in spite of studying hard for it and having excellent tutors. 
She scored a 1460 on the  first benchmark blue book practice test with zero prep back in June , so we thought it would be easy to get past the 1500 with some tutoring. 
Fast forward 6 months, some 20 tutoring sessions, hours of studying on her own and her December SAT came in at 1440.  
Kids at her school who are around her level have mostly scored 1530+.

Granted a 1440 is somewhere around the 96 percentile but it’s not even in the ball park of the schools she was hoping to apply for next year.

She’ll retake the test in the Spring but we are just perplexed at why this is happening. We are also doubtful that her score will go up much in the next 3 months if it hasn’t budged in the last 6 months. How can a student who is clearly capable, prepped so much, not be able to do well on the test?

Has anyone had this experience with their child before ?  Would love to hear your thoughts.

No mean comments please.

TIA [/quote]

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