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[quote=Anonymous]My question to you is, do you think better ACT prep would help her?  My sister used to do LSAT prep--she was a top scorer (eventually she went to Law School herself, but not after running a test prep business for several years).  She said she found that sometimes people perform poorly because they don't know the material.  In that case, prep is tailored to  teach the content they do not know.

In other cases, people do not have efficient test taking strategies.  For these people, she tailored prep to help them get their strategies down: the test isn't the time for "creative thinking"--it's time for strategic, efficient approaches to each question, including the essay.  She could narrow down response approaches to a handful of general strategies (I can't remember now what they were) and asked her students to practice, practice, practice each one so they became more automatic.  She asked students to do a lot of "talk aloud" with her, so that they would articulate the thought process that went into each response they gave.  [/quote]

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