Success Story Board

My score improvement:

120

My official score after The Princeton Review:

1200

How the Princeton Review helped me achieve my score goal:

All of them. The teaching helped me figure out how to master the test and the testing helped me apply those teachings. It also helped me have a time to study and learn, rather than by myself pretending to study.

My personal study tips:

I just studied 15 minutes a day as instructed by my teacher. It honestly helped in the long run and I'm glad I did it. Mixing it up and studying different things each day helped me learn as much as I could.

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:

6

My official score after The Princeton Review:

31

How the Princeton Review helped me achieve my score goal:

Every trick specific to each test and what the questions mean

My personal study tips:

I did every assigned homework questions which helped, I also asked a lot of questions in class, it’s not going to help if you just attend, you have to be engaged in the class and ask for Clarification

My score improvement:

8

My official score after The Princeton Review:

156

How the Princeton Review helped me achieve my score goal:

Shaina's enthusiasm for the material coupled with her knowledge really helped me! When I didn't understand something, she was always able to explain it in a different way to ensure I understood the material. She truly went above and beyond teaching and I credit a lot of my improvement to her

My personal study tips:

I followed Shaina's instruction to a "T" and had such an incredible support system in my family and friends.

My score improvement:

190

My official score after The Princeton Review:

690

How the Princeton Review helped me achieve my score goal:

The strategies and time management tips were very helpful. In addition, the practice exams and questions were harder than the actual exam which was helpful.

My personal study tips:

Doing the practice exams and going over weakness. The Princeton Review Adaptive Drills were particularly helpful. Getting one-on-one help in addition to the 27-hour course was also helpful.

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:

I moved up 60 points with Princeton Review, from a 1370.

My official score after The Princeton Review:

1430

How the Princeton Review helped me achieve my score goal:

Specifically, the homework assignments were very useful in improving my skills in more challenging topics of the test, and the test-taking strategies that the instructor shared were very useful in helping me both achieve proper time management and avoid test-taking exhaustion.

My personal study tips:

I mostly studied on the weekends by participating in the lessons and then going on to do the homework as soon as possible.

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:

3

My official score after The Princeton Review:

35

How the Princeton Review helped me achieve my score goal:

There were so many helpful resources. There was always practice sections or practice problems for me to do on the website or in the books the program had sent me

My personal study tips:

I did practice questions everyday. The two weeks before my test I would do a half hour practice section, for reading or science, everyday.

My score improvement:

200

My official score after The Princeton Review:

1440

How the Princeton Review helped me achieve my score goal:

Practice tests

My personal study tips:

Empty Response

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:

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.