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The Perfect Score Project is an indispensable guide to acing the SAT - as well as the affecting story of a single mom?s quest to light a fire under her teenage son.
It all began as an attempt by Debbie Stier to help her high-school age son, Ethan, who would shortly be studying for the SAT. Aware that Ethan was a typical teenager (i.e., completely uninterested in any test) and that a mind-boggling menu of test-prep options existed, she decided - on his behalf - to sample as many as she could to create the perfect SAT test-prep recipe.
Debbie?s quest turned out to be an exercise in both hilarity and heartbreak as she took the SAT seven times in one year and in-between ?went to school? on standardized testing. Here, she reveals why the SAT has become so important, the cottage industries it has spawned, what really works in preparing for the test and what is a waste of time.
Both a toolbox of fresh tips and an amusing snapshot of parental love and wisdom colliding with teenage apathy, The Perfect Score Project rivets. In the audiobook, Debbie does it all: wrestles with Kaplan and Princeton Review, enrolls in Kumon, navigates khanacademy.org, meets regularly with a premier grammar coach, takes a battery of intelligence tests, and even cadges free lessons from the world?s most prestigious (and expensive) test prep company.
Along the way she answers the questions that plague every test-prep rookie, including: "When do I start?"..."Do the brand-name test prep services really deliver?"..."Which should I go with: a tutor, an SAT class, or self study?"..."Does test location really matter?" ? "How do I find the right tutor?"? "How do SAT scores affect merit aid?"... and "What?s the one thing I need to know?"
The Perfect Score Project's combination of charm, authority, and unexpected poignancy makes it one of the most compulsively listenable guides to SAT test prep ever - and an audiobook that will mak...
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- Audible Audio Edition
- Listening Length: 9 hours and 7 minutes
- Program Type: Audiobook
- Version: Unabridged
- Publisher: Random House Audio
- Audible.com Release Date: February 25, 2014
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00HYIVNOI
Debbie Stier took the dreaded SAT as an adult. Not once, not twice -- but seven times! Debbie's teens were hurtling toward their date with this fearsome test when she embarked on a quest to uncover the most effective ways to study for it. What better way than to be your own guinea pig!
Debbie's enthusiasm will have you rooting for her and her kids all the way. She's a cheerful test taker and a creative student. At one point, she makes her kitchen into a "wall sheet" of SAT scribbles, actually writing in a rainbow of brightly colored markers on her cabinet doors. One of her chapters is titled, "An Absolutely Fabulous Month of Math." I'd never be able to put the words "fabulous" and "math" together!
The author makes a great guide for those of us in her shoes. She dives into the SAT test prep industry, sampling everything from homemade flash cards to an elite (and expensive) tutor. She tells us which books and methods to ditch, and which to sink our money into. I used an entire pad of sticky notes marking pages with advice I intend to follow!
How does all of Debbie's hard work pay off? Read the book to find out. Regardless of the actual outcome, Debbie was delighted to discover that studying together with her children, her son Ethan in particular, brought them closer together as a family. "In the end, what the project brought to my life was... happy bonding with my children," she says. (Although, lest you think her endeavor was continually blessed with big, yellow smiley faces, she admits her children weren't always as enthused as she was.)
Having just read Malcolm Gladwell's
Question 1. A mother who takes the SAT seven times and does exhaustive research into which test-taking strategies work in order to help her two children perform their best on their own SATs, then writes a book could be best described as:
a) A helicopter parent whose kids may need therapy in the future
b) Someone with a lot of intellectual curiosity
c) Someone who is performing an invaluable service to other parents facing the same situation
d) Someone who wants to go back and redo her youth.
e) All of the above
Unlike the real SAT, there is no one right answer to that question, but by the time you finish reading Debbie Stier's "The Perfect Score Project," you may have a different opinion than the one you originally had. Yes, Stier did indeed embark on an in-depth exploration of the SAT programs available (as did her friend Catherine who also had a teenage son, and whose story is included) and did take the SAT multiple times at different schools under widely varying conditions. The result is this book.
She begins with a question that must plague parents of all kinds of kids: why are they so hard to motivate when it comes to this test? My guess is that, regardless of how bright they are, they've just spent the entire day at school, followed by perhaps a part-time job, sports and other extracurriculars, then with more homework waiting in the wings, studying for the SAT is not a welcome priority. And who, teen or adult, really has four spare consecutive hours to devote to taking a practice test, which is the only way you can really mimic the actual SATs? Also, unless they're homeschooled, they've likely taken other standardized tests before and may have aced those without studying. So how much harder can the SAT be?
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