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[quote=Anonymous]Hi.  I'm going to be sympathetic to you because I had some mediocre math scores as a kid (high school and college age).  These scores cost me scholarship money.  I fixed it before grad school apps and got a great scholarship.  So I believe extraordinary motivation  can help.

First, you need to know if that 1180 is on the PSAT or SAT.  Big difference.  The PSAT is not "out of 1600".  The scores are numerically lower.  If PSAT, what percentile was the score.  Sounds like a 97% or so is needed.

1180 on SAT might actually be too hard to get to 1400 on SATs.  It suggests that your kid does not read/have a ear for advanced language of the type that will be common among Ivy undergrads.  They will struggle to get good grades in classes that require writing at a college level. It also suggests that your kid has not been on the advanced math track OR doesn't retain the basic info from Algebra and Geometry.

The easiest part to fix is math.  Have your kid cram on Khan Academy and work on weak areas.  Then take official SAT materials, keep identifying areas of weakness, and training to overcome them. If you made it through high school math, you can help by being a grader and classifier of which types of problems to study.

For verbal, concentrate on understanding where your student makes mistakes.  If it's reading passages...that can be hard to fix.  But maybe your kid always picks the second-best answer? If so, they need training in how distractor answers are developed.

The biggest factors in success will be your child's commitment to the prepping process and finding an effective means of addressing their knowledge gaps.  It starts with good diagnostics.

I have found that IXL.com can diagnose the same math knowledge deficits as the Mathnasium franchise's assessments.  It's cheap to subscribe to IXL.[/quote]

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