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...College Board says the average SAT taker spends only 11 hours preparing - and that coaching on average adds fewer than 40 points to a score. But test prep has become a big part of teen culture in most suburbs. Even the College Board sells its own test-prep material. The Princeton Review's $799-to-$899 SAT classes typically meet weekly for six weeks, and students are expected to practice analogies and memorize vocabulary at home. "There has been a kind of testing mania that's hit us at all levels," says Sylvia Manning, a chancellor of the University...
...their name too was sanitized of meaning - they used to be Achievement Tests) have also spawned prep courses and racial score gaps. SAT II prep is actually more expensive than SAT I coaching, because most students take three separate SAT II exams, chosen from 22 subject areas. "(The SAT II) doesn't begin to approach a kind of equity solution," says University of Chicago dean Ted O'Neill...
...measure? The original exam, developed in the 1920s, was designed to predict how well students would do in college. The Educational Testing Service, which develops the test, insists it still does. But Atkinson, 71, is worried about the growing number of parents pouring thousands of dollars into SAT-prep programs (last year an estimated 150,000 students paid more than $100 million for coaching) and even shopping around for psychologists to certify that their kids are disabled so that they get extra test-taking time. He was horrified by a visit to his granddaughters' prep school. The 12-year-olds...
...measure? The original exam, developed in the 1920s, was designed to predict how well students would do in college. The Educational Testing Service, which develops the test, insists it still does. But Atkinson, 71, is worried about the growing number of parents pouring thousands of dollars into SAT-prep programs (last year an estimated 150,000 students paid more than $100 million for coaching) and even shopping around for psychologists to certify that their kids are disabled so that they get extra test-taking time. He was horrified by a visit to his granddaughters' prep school. The 12-year-olds...
Karlen and his family moved to Connecticut when he was 11, but his squash career continued to move forward and he was eventually named captain of his prep school team at Andover. After garnering second team All-American honors and a No. 19 ranking last season in his sophomore season in Cambridge, Karlen spent this past summer in England training with several of the world's top players under the guidance of Coach John Milton...