There are lots and lots of prep books out there for the SAT, for high school. That is why there are so many perfect SAT scores today. That is why Mensa doesn't accept the SAT score anymore.
I used to teach Kaplan courses many years ago for SAT, ACT, and later MCAT. My experience was that you could increase your scores 100-200 (or perhaps more), on a total of 1600, by taking a prep course.
I remember one time, a student chatted with me at the break. "The math is so hard!" she said to me. "yes, I said, but you can study and get better." "I've never had geometry and it's hard," she told me.
I thought, what kind of high school are you going to where you haven't had geometry by 11th grade? "Oh," she said, "I'm only ten!" I looked closely at her and realized she did look very young and she had a Hello Kitty pencil box! I guess she was prepping for the SAT for the Hopkins program or something.
Now THAT I thought wasn't appropriate.

Last edited by jack'smom; 07/10/11 06:58 AM.