Word: preps
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...both tests, students say prep courses help them hunker down and study in the face of other distractions...
...heard people say that sitting with a bunch of tense test-takers makes them very tense," says Dena O. Rakoff, director of pre-law advising for the Office of Career Services. "I've heard people say they've lost the intuitive approach they came to the test prep program with...and now they can't get back to their own. The experiences are not always panaceas...
Those "outrageous" prices are a sticking point for many critics of the prep courses. According to the website of Princeton Review, a leading test prep company, an LSAT review class costs $995, an MCAT...
...With a thousand dollar price tag, commercial test prep is a way of saying to people who already have an advantage in society, 'this is a way to buy even more of an advantage,' and to those who can't, 'take a hike,'" he says...
...representatives of Kaplan and Princeton Review, the two largest test prep companies, point to their scholarship programs, which provide discounts for students who cannot afford full price...