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[quote=Anonymous]Does your kid need to improve in a few areas of the test, or overall?  Some test prep companies do "diagnostic" SAT tests that try to figure out where your kid is weak (geometry vs. algebra? grammar vs. vocabulary?). Then they focus on those particular areas, either in a small group setting or through one-on-one tutoring, with the price varying accordingly.

DC used a well-known company that promised to do this. While I like the concept, frankly, DC thought it was a bit of a scam because they focused on what the whole class needed anyway, even though the class was small. Your experience may vary with another company, of course. If money is an issue, the Princeton test prep folks have an on-line course that starts out with one of these "diagnostic" tests and then is mostly online with maybe a few mandatory in-person classes (as I recall, when we looked at it, there were 2-3 in-person classes at UMD the student needed to attend).

Another thing I've read is that some test prep companies have been accused of administering super-hard tests at the start of the class/tutoring, so that the results by the end are naturally 100s of points higher. (I don't think this was in the context of diagnostic tests, either.)  If you have results from an actual SAT test, of course, you have a reliable baseline.[/quote]

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