Princeton Review ACT Course

Pros: practice, teachers
Cons: poor material

While I believe that Princeton Review offers strong study aids for standardized exams, when I took their ACT review course three years ago, I was not very impressed. In fact, it did not help me improve my score at all. A caveat before reading this, my...

Pros: Small class size, lots of personal attention, guaranteed results
Cons: VERY expensive, classes fill FAST

The Princeton Review helped me raise my score -- by an unusual 300 points. But I also made an EFFORT to learn the techniques, do the homework and go to ALL the classes and lab sessions and ALL the practice tests.

You see, the Princeton Review...

Pros: helped raise score
Cons: doesn't help motivate

If you aren't motivated internally, this course won't really help. This means that all you parents reading this need to evaluate how well your kid would do without this before they actually take this course. It isn't for slackers and it isn't for...

Pros: none
Cons: boring, expensive, time-consuming

I took this in order to try and boost my ACT score in order to get into the USAF Academy. I had taken the test multiple times only to get the same score and I admitted that I needed help. This course was boring and the entire thing dragged the entire way...