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COLLEGE PREPARATION SAT COURSES

"Prep" courses to help your child take their SAT's may not be as valuable as advertisements and the salespeople selling these courses would like you to think. They claim your child's SAT score is guaranteed to increase upon completion of the "prep" course, yet studies indicate that most SAT scores tend to increase anyway each and every time the test is taken no matter if a "prep" course is ever taken or not.

The "prep" course may help discipline your child forcing him to study but getting your child to study on their own consistently over time may be more effective than the short term "cramming" in a SAT "prep" course.

SUPPLEMENTAL SOURCE: CNN-TV HEADLINE NEWS 8/6/97

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