I think there are hidden meanings in ‘earlier test’ – a huge run-up from the PSAT will catch their attention, too. Test scores are pretty hard to move, even a whole lot of work at Kaplan rarely pushes the needle more than 1/2 of a standard deviation. So a whole standard deviation (100 points on one test) is huge, very rare to be legit.
September 29th, 2011 at 8:55AM
I think there are hidden meanings in ‘earlier test’ – a huge run-up from the PSAT will catch their attention, too. Test scores are pretty hard to move, even a whole lot of work at Kaplan rarely pushes the needle more than 1/2 of a standard deviation. So a whole standard deviation (100 points on one test) is huge, very rare to be legit.