Test-Taking Strategy Yields Major Gains
Students at a high school in rural North Carolina who once would not have considered college are posting strong SAT scores and getting financial-aid offers from competitive schools, thanks to free and abundant help provided by their school district in preparing for the exam.
Two years ago, many high school seniors in Kings Mountain, N.C., would have given as much thought to decoding the secrets of the SAT as they would have to becoming the next Indiana Jones. For students without the academic and financial tools to crack the college- admissions test, success on the exam seemed about as likely as navigating a stream stocked with hungry alligators.
So in 1998, the Kings Mountain school district moved to level the playing field for poor and well-to-do students. Administrators spent $7,000 on an intensive, computer-based SAT-preparation program that provided remedial help and test-taking strategies to all 10th, 11th, and 12th graders at the 1,150-student Kings Mountain High School—and at no...
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