There is another option low-testing students can take, and
that is to become an avid reader—of anything!—at least a year before taking the
SAT.
As a high school English teacher for 37 years, I saw again
and again that the high-scoring students were the avid readers. The kids who thought they were “poor testers”
were almost always students who worked hard and were bright, but read only what
they had to for class.
A remember one year a parent asked me to coach her daughter
so she could get into Stanford with mediocre SAT scores. It was a boarding school, and I simply got
her daughter reading—bodice-ripper romances as I remember. She read all the time. Within a year her
verbal score had risen a hundred points, and she was admitted.
I don’t think many people understand that sophisticated
reading skills are a result of falling in love with books, and forming a habit
of reading
That method worked for my brother. My scores were high; his PSAT scores were not high; he read for a year, and his scores went way up.
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