Success Story Board

My score improvement:

2

My official score after The Princeton Review:

171

How the Princeton Review helped me achieve my score goal:

Access to so many practice tests

My personal study tips:

Take as many practice tests as possible. The 6 you do during the course are fine but doing as many real questions as possible under timed conditions is the best way to prepare in my opinion.

My score improvement:

230

My official score after The Princeton Review:

1500

How the Princeton Review helped me achieve my score goal:

Constant drilling on the writing and math sections familiarized me with the types of problems that would appear on the SAT.

My personal study tips:

Math: Constant drilling, 20-30 minutes a day. EBRW: Reading 1-2 passages a day

My score improvement:

11

My official score after The Princeton Review:

168

How the Princeton Review helped me achieve my score goal:

Jacob Schiff was an amazing teacher— very engaging and supportive and great at explaining things.

My personal study tips:

I mostly just did the assigned homework, went to class, and took a lot of practice tests! I think it’s really important to review all the questions you get wrong on practice tests and go over the ones you don’t understand with your instructor. Understanding WHY something is wrong is the most important. Jake spent a lot of time going over why wrong answer choices are wrong, which is very helpful on the test.

My score improvement:

50 points

My official score after The Princeton Review:

1560 770 EBRW 790 Math

How the Princeton Review helped me achieve my score goal:

Online classes, review books, use of college board materials, proficiency of instructors

My personal study tips:

Tried to understand each question for all sections, for writing and math, it was more formulaic, for reading, all answers must be backed up. by evidence in passage

My score improvement:

8

My official score after The Princeton Review:

143

How the Princeton Review helped me achieve my score goal:

Problem set up and having someone walk you through each type of question.

My personal study tips:

Yes

My score improvement:

6

My official score after The Princeton Review:

167

How the Princeton Review helped me achieve my score goal:

The teacher was interactive with the class.

My personal study tips:

Empty Response

My score improvement:

6

My official score after The Princeton Review:

31

How the Princeton Review helped me achieve my score goal:

Janet was the absolute best! She truly is amazing!

My personal study tips:

I would set personal deadlines for myself that I followed.

My score improvement:

13

My official score after The Princeton Review:

314

How the Princeton Review helped me achieve my score goal:

I really liked the methods to approach a problem which helped save a significant amount of time

My personal study tips:

I gave equal importance to all topics especially the fundamentals such as word problems, ratios, percentages and learning new words everyday

My score improvement:

9

My official score after The Princeton Review:

160

How the Princeton Review helped me achieve my score goal:

Everything!

My personal study tips:

Empty Response

My score improvement:

over 100

My official score after The Princeton Review:

1560

How the Princeton Review helped me achieve my score goal:

the homework

My personal study tips:

take a test every saturday morning for the two months leading up to the test

My score improvement:

This was my first time taking it but between my diagnostic and actual test I saw a 16 point improvement.

My official score after The Princeton Review:

524

How the Princeton Review helped me achieve my score goal:

I really liked how often the class met and the breakdowns between content review and practice. Additionally all the homework that we were given really reinforced the skills and content to succeed on the test. I thought my biology teacher (Michelle) was especially helpful and a really great teacher!!!

My personal study tips:

Yes

My score improvement:

40

My official score after The Princeton Review:

720

How the Princeton Review helped me achieve my score goal:

High fidelity practice questions and practice exams to become comfortable with the pacing and testing environment of the real exam. The online classes were also interactive and effective at teaching test taking techniques, grammar rules, and math principles.

My personal study tips:

Practice practice practice. Establish your fundamentals, then do as many practice problems at possible on the clock to get comfortable answering questions under pressure.