Academic Success for Middle and High School Students
The Princeton Review's Smart and Smart Start courses address students' needs for focused instruction in reading, writing, math, grammar, and vocabulary, while giving them a head start in preparing for the SAT and ACT.

Courses are customized to meet the scheduling needs of individual districts and schools, and can be offered before, during, or after school, on weekends, or in the summer. Students are given practice tests throughout the course, along with individualized score reports that allow them to identify specific areas in need of improvement. District- and school-level reports enable administrators to monitor students' progress.

Smarts Courses
Smarts courses offer supplemental instruction for high school students that build skills in specific key areas. Reading Smart, Writing Smart, Math Smart, Grammar Smart, and Word Smart courses include 14 hours of instruction and two, 1-hour diagnostic tests.

Smart Start Courses
The Smart Start program addresses the instructional and test preparation needs of both middle and high school students. Courses include 24 hours of instruction and two, 2-hour diagnostic tests. Students who participate in this program are provided with an accelerated review of the major skill areas including reading, writing, math, grammar, and vocabulary.

Academic Success for College Students
The Princeton Review is committed to helping all students achieve success in higher education. We work with administrators and faculty from colleges and universities around the country to implement programs that provide incoming freshman with the fundamental skills they need to master college-level coursework.

Our Academic Success courses help to reinforce students' skills in math, writing, and reading through interactive lessons, in-class quizzes, homework, and diagnostic testing. Integrated into a school's core curriculum, courses are offered as pre-requisites for incoming freshmen who demonstrate a need for additional instruction based on the results of a benchmark diagnostic test.

We offer separate courses for focused instruction in math, writing, and English language arts. Students are placed in courses according to their level of proficiency. Courses are structured to accommodate the learning needs of small groups of students, with a maximum class size of 15. Each of the three courses includes 30 hours of instruction and 3 diagnostic tests, so that students and teachers alike have a means of measuring improvement.

No program is complete without a strong evaluation component. We monitor students' progress and provide monthly reports to teachers and administrators. Score improvements are documented and used to determine program effectiveness. At the end of each course, students complete an evaluation of their overall experience. This information is used to make program enhancements for future users. This evaluative data, along with score improvements for all students, is analyzed and forwarded to the college at the end of each semester.