SAT Questions

I need help on deciding where to go for SAT prep classes. I am currently a junior in High School and when I took the SAT in December I scored a 1570 on it. After seeing this I realized that I couldn’t study alone and that I need help.

My original plan was to attend Elite’s summer boot camp which is ,200 (which is overpriced IMO). Friends tell me that all they do there is give you a crap load of work and test and expect you to do good on the SAT after that. My friend has the same GPA as me and got the same exact score on the SAT and after taking this course he achieved over 2000.

On the other hand I’ve heard things about Revolution Prep. They are much cheaper and they don’t give you a lot of stuff to do, but rather techniques and strategies to beat the SAT. I’ve only heard from one person that he was able to get 1900 after taking a 6 week course.

I need your suggestions on which of these I should go to, or any other test prep classes for the summer. Please don’t give me links to goggle searching "SAT Prep Classes" I can do that myself. Also please do not say "SAT Prep Courses are a waste of money, don’t do them" because your not contributing to my question.

I live in Southern California, and have seen many different prep courses like Kaplan, Elite, Revolution, Princeton Review and am wondering which one of these or another program would be best? Also, what course should I take, private tutoring, classroom, small group? All of this is very confusing. Finance is also a problem because I have a twin and we both need to take a course. So please let me know what is best!
Thankyou!!!

There’s an SAT test prep company in the bay area called University Test Prep, and I want to know if it is any good. There are many test prep companies in the silicon valley, like Flex, Elite, Vanteus, Princeton Review, etc, so I want to know if UTP is like these or not. It doesn’t do a lot of advertising, which may mean that it doesn’t need to because their classes are always full.. or maybe not.
I read the testimonials online, and they seem to be pretty good, but who knows.

Anyone have any experience with this company?

I’m going to be a junior next year, and I’ve been trying to get my score up to at least the 2000 range. I’ve made a litle bit of progress, going from a 1440 to a 1770 this summer, but I’ve had some big problems I don’t know how to fix.

For the math section, I always struggle with the last five problems, which are the most advanced. I just don’t understand how you make up your own equations and see it from a different point of view. It really frustrates me when I don’t know what to do or how to even start it. I look in the back of the book on how they solved the problems, but I always end up feeling stupid after seeing the strange techniques they used… although somehow they make it work. Most of the time I end up leaving these advanced problems blank. How can I get better at this?

By the way, I’m taking the SAT early senior year I think.. and my parents are considering sending me to an SAT prep class for this upcoming year. Has anyone heard of ELITE, or has anyone taken a Princeton Review Class? Any suggestions would be highly appreciated.

I have two boxes of ELITE (SAT program) flash cards, each containing 1000 words of vocab. I was wondering if I study all 2000, would this be enough for my preparation for the SAT reading section?