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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We should encourage all people to prep as much as possible for anything and everything they do. That's where excellence comes from.
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Ahhhh, but what happens to the kids who can’t afford fancy prep courses and whose parents have lives of their own?[/quote]

Who said you have to have fancy prep? There are many free resources available for the prep. All you need is just the willingness to put in some time. 
It's like you don't have to wear fancy shoes to practice basketball. For someone who can pay, sure they can have whatever fancy. Don't claim they played better ball because they practiced in a fancy court.
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You can’t compare test prep to sneakers, and you know it. You can only get so much on free prep alone, as opposed to having money to hire private tutors, private centers, have a stay at home parent, etc. Don’t forget the kids would need a way to get to the free test prep and that’s not possible if there no one available to shuttle them back and forth.

Besides all those factors,[b] why should any child have to do test prep?[/b] It’s absurd that’s what we expect of CHILDREN.[/quote]

Says the person who will spend $400/hr on SAT prep!  [/quote]
Ha! I am not PP but I had ZERO SAT test prep, zero, not even a book. I scored average. Friends of mine, many dull and of mediocre intelligence, had some money and paid for expensive prep courses, and like magic, they scored high and got into their first choices. Does it matter now many years later, I don’t know? I went to a state school and worked my butt off, while almost of of my old friends went to elite privates and are now attorneys. These were average, basic kids. Weird how one silly prep course can shape one’s life path, but I believe it did for these people. Amazing actually. All it proves is the rich get richer.[/quote]

I also did zero SAT prep. First time I took it I got a relatively high score, but not as high as I wanted due to fatigue.

Second time, with no additional prep, I scored 100 points higher. At that point I was happy so I moved on.[/quote]
Yes, there are definitely bright kids who score very high with no prep whatsoever. However, what the prep courses do is falsely bring those mediocre kids up to a level where they don’t really belong. It masks their true intelligence or lack thereof.[/quote]

PP - agree completely![/quote]

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