Originally Posted by Val
A lot of kids end up in remedial math during their first year of college. IMO, part of the problem is that they got As and Bs in marshmallow math courses starting way back in grade school, and reasonably believe that they can do math. Yet colleges are still unforgiving this regard, and I suspect that the students are at a loss to understand how they could bomb a placement test when they did so well for all those years.
This is precisely what I hope to avoid. That is, of course, assuming he does well enough on his SAT math section to get into college!

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