Jessica Wynn

Yeah, sorry.

Unless you throw one of them in this conversation naturally and correctly, it was wasted effort.

There are real differences between brands, but the marketing makes it sound like choosing between them is a life or death situation, which really it's more like choosing between a Fuji or a Gala Apple.

Yeah, pretty much.

Princeton Review is known for being strategy focused.

They're all about test taking techniques, not knowledge.

And Barron's is known for making practice questions way harder than the test.

So the test will feel easy.

So some students lose confidence studying with Barron's.

Unintentionally, I hope.

But then there's Kaplan, which is the middle ground.

And the book is really just an introduction to their online courses and tutoring.

And then there's new players like PrepExpert, which was founded by a guy who got a perfect SAT score, which his material mentions constantly.

Don't date.

But yeah, none of that would work for me.

But all the prep offers strategy and some of it is useful, but some of it seems to be just motivational speaking disguised as prep.

Believe in yourself and you'll score high.

My favorite strategy tip from a real prep book I saw is try not to cry during the math section.

It smudges the Scantron.

Sorry.