test prep that really works?
A Maryland girl
turned herself in for cheating on the SAT II, after too many questions looked like ones she'd seen in her test prep class:
Company staff members had written down questions after taking an SAT II math exam in January and used them to prepare Rubin and the other student for the test.
When I took the GRE last fall I had to click some sort of promise not to repeat the questions. It's not clear in what sense this click-through promise is legally binding, though if I found out I'm sure I'd think it objectionable. It didn't really matter -- I have a terrible memory and wouldn't have been able to repeat questions even if I'd wanted to.
Incidentally, the article quotes Seppy Basili, who used to be one of the bigwigs at Ronkin (where I used to work in high school) until company founders Janet and D. George
went criminal and absconded with all the money (or something like that).
[It's a gorgeous weekend, and I've got a
weeding and
parade to attend, so no more posting for a while. Hopefully one of my compatriots will pick up the slack.]