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SAT Prep
Khan Academy
2 recommenders · 2 threads · recommended in 2 years, 2019–2020 · score 1.5
Khan Academy's free SAT preparation course, offering practice lessons and questions for the SAT exam. Commenters describe it as a free, high-quality option for test prep.
Commenters point to it as world-class SAT prep available for free, and as a sensible baseline for the roughly 20 hours of prep that College Board suggests.
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This article does point out a lot of things that have failed this decade - all fair points. But in focusing on failures it fails to capture that casual education (not formal, school education) has fundamentally shifted this decade.
Today, I can learn almost anything I want for free on the internet.
- I can get a world class mathematical education from 3Blue1Brown (seriously this guy's videos are just out of this world good).
- I can get incredible guitar lessons on any song I want from youtube (I've taught myself guitar this year through it!).
- I can find scores of language education podcasts to help me learn Spanish (I use coffee break spanish).
- I can get world class SAT prep from Khan Academy (for free!).
- I can get awesome yoga classes online for free (did this also this year).
Seriously the wealth and quality of information available to us today is insane - it's the Library of Alexandria a search bar away.
As someone who enjoys learning, there's no way I would ever go back 10 years in time.
College Board suggests that going from 0 to “6-8 hours” of prep is good for about 90 points and to 20 hours is good for only an additional 25 points.
It would seem folly to take the test with 0 prep and there’s a Khan Academy free prep course that you could use for the 20 hours of prep.
Given that, I’m not so sure that intensive prep is going to boost someone’s score significantly beyond basic prep.