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...worst of all, Mary Ellen Fischer, an SATadvisor for Stanley Kaplan Educational Services inNewton, predicted that most students won't improvetheir scores on the retest. She likened the retestto an extension on a paper: "When you get anextension, do you go right home and start writing,or do you let it wait for two weeks and then cramthe night before...
...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...
Pleasant as this official validation is for us, far more important are the accolades of hundreds of thousands of Kaplan "alums" like Harvard's Benjamin Reder, who said in your article, "I really do think [the Kaplan course] helps... but some people can't afford it." To correct the record on this issue as well, it should be emphasized that Kaplan does offer "scholarships" to qualified students. We do not anyone to be denied the competitive edge the Kaplan courses confer. Susan B. Kaplan New England Regional Administrator Stanley H. Kaplan Educational Center
...England regional head of the Stanley Kaplan Education Center, Susan B. Kaplan, said she does not think the new question will affect the demand for prep courses. The Kaplan course costs $400 and runs for eight weeks, with one four-to-five-hour class per week...