Anonymous wrote:Ideal is to finish testing the summer before senior year but many take early Fall tests too.

Junior summer is reserved for ECs. Over-emphasis on test score often sacrifices other parts of the application, which are more important than the test score.

PR was good for getting from mid 1300s to mid 1400s. Lots of materials available and 1v1 tutor loaded up the work. DC then moved to Compass to crack 1500. Compass took a more philosophical approach and less grinding away at problems. More focus on strategy, mindset, managing test day nerves and not overthinking a basic multiple choice question. DS got to 1500s with that approach which is what was needed at that point vs more problem set grind. I’m guessing Compass tailored the approach to the student and where he was. The whole process to move up 150 points took a full year and four cracks at it.

Do people have recommendations for test prep in Silver Spring MD or in NW DC?

Ideal is to finish testing the summer before senior year but many take early Fall tests too.

Here is one talking about c2
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1282343.page

Anonymous wrote:Princeton Review has some excellent single subject AP tutors. My kids went from Whitman to an inner city LA public where the teaching was sometimes good and other times, non-existent. We used PR and they not only got A+ grades in those classes, but entirely 5's on their AP tests which was what they needed to get into European colleges.

The SAT tutor at PR we used was less effective, great at verbal, terrible at Math

+1. Maybe it was the same teacher. Students had to correct the teacher a few times on what should have been commn knowledge. How is that okay

Princeton Review has some excellent single subject AP tutors. My kids went from Whitman to an inner city LA public where the teaching was sometimes good and other times, non-existent. We used PR and they not only got A+ grades in those classes, but entirely 5's on their AP tests which was what they needed to get into European colleges.

The SAT tutor at PR we used was less effective, great at verbal, terrible at Math

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Anonymous wrote:Everyone is prepping now. Test centers are all full till December.

Do testing centers double book their tutors?

Testing centers don't have any tutors.
Kids may double, triple book on several different dates. Some may cancel the later dates if they did well on an early try.
Refresh the screen often to check if any seat opens up.

We’re using Compass and impressed thus far

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Everyone is prepping now. Test centers are all full till December.

Do testing centers double book their tutors?

Double book? As in schedule two people for same time slot? How does that work?

Anonymous wrote:Everyone is prepping now. Test centers are all full till December.

Do testing centers double book their tutors?

Everyone is prepping now. Test centers are all full till December.

Do the test prep companies in Montgomery County and NW DC have enough tutors ? Who are tutoring at these places?

C2 has location in Northern Virginia

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Anonymous wrote:Great experience with Prep Matters

For how many hours did your kid(s) go there? Is this the place where the sessions are one hour at a time?

An hour a week for six or seven weeks leading up to the ACT