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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You can prep the heck out of these test and score well.  Any parent with multiple kids knows which ones are academically inclined and which are more challenged.   Yet my own were all able to score well on these standardized tests.  One without much prep at all and others after prep and multiple tries.

On paper from the scores...they look identical but I know quite well that they are not.  This test can be gamed so what good is it?[/quote]

Why not ask MIT?  You can't really game your way into a truly superior SAT score.  [/quote]

"Another popular misconception is that one can “buy” a better SAT score through costly test prep. Yet research has consistently demonstrated that it is remarkably difficult to increase an individual’s SAT score, and the commercial test prep industry capitalizes on, at best, modest changes [13,17]. Short of outright cheating on the test, an expensive and complex undertaking that may carry unpleasant legal consequences, high SAT scores are generally difficult to acquire by any means other than high ability."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6963451/[/quote]

Whatever this study concluded, and to add to what other parents have already mentioned on this thread about their kids increasing their scores, my DC raised their ACT score NINE points after expensive tutoring in math.  DC scored very high on the other sections on the first try, but bombed the math. DC always hated math and had a lot of math anxiety.  We hired an ACT tutor focusing only on math for the  test and it worked.  DC also attended a private school that did not have standardized testing at all and the ACT was one of the first multiple choice tests DC  had ever taken!  So DC had to get used to that type of test, which the tutoring helped a lot with as well. [/quote]

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