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...What did you do this summer?" I try to cram down the rest of my tostada as the question sweeps along the table like a prairie fire. "Oh, I cured cancer. What about...
...your article on LSAT preparation (April 14, 1986), Harvard Law School Director of Admissions Molly Geraghty is quoted as saying, "There's no evidence whatsoever that a cram course does any good...
...Stanley H. Kaplan Educational Center concur totally and wholeheartedly. That is why Kaplan has never offered, and will never offer, a "cram course" of the kind with which our programs are occasionally confused. Thirty-plus hours of live instruction spread across eight weeks, another 30 or so hours of suggested home study, and an available library of over 200 hours of practice and review material written by a research staff of qualifications similar to those of the actual test writers--all this cannot possibly constitute "cramming" by any reasonable definition...
While actual cram courses are indeed ineffectual at best, there is irrefutable evidence that the Kaplan program is much more than an "expensive confidence booster." No less an authority than the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection, in a 1979 study on standardized-test prep courses, wrote, "though it cannot be concluded that coaching [in general] will work for everyone, the results of the study do show that coaching can be effective for those who do not score well on standardized tests." Much more significantly, they added, "coaching at School A [Kaplan] can be effective for all students, not just...
...glut. The nine-day marathon session degenerated into what one delegate called "a state of unprecedented disarray." Even the meeting quarters seemed a mockery of the group's onetime ability to intimidate the industrial powers. Because most of the Hotel Inter-Continental was already booked, the ministers had to cram into a tiny conference room for their meeting...