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How successful will I or my child be, if I employ you as a tutor?
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This is a good question. It's your money, and you want to be sure your money is well-spent. You want results. You have a dream to get into medical school, dental school or a top notch business school. You want your child to have the best chance possible to get into their #1 university choice, to get a full ride or even a half-ride, or to win as many academic scholarships as possible.
Yes, your child can win a significant amount of scholarship money just based off high ACT, HSPT or SAT scores! Depending upon the college of choice, the tuition money saved can amount to $50,000 or $100,000 plus. The higher the score, the more scholarship money available to you.
Maybe I can answer your question by providing some statistics I have on students I've prepared for the ACT test.
I've been tutoring students in ACT prep for the last 12 years. Unfortunately, I didn't keep track of their point improvement along the way. Truthfully, when students met their ACT composite score goal, we all would say "Yay!" and called it a wrap. I realize that it's necessary for me to answer that common question:
How successful will I or my child be?
I've tutored many, many students over this 12 year period and was able to track down 44 students who were willing to provide the hard data I needed to answer this important question. There are some important observations I've made you need to consider. The first is that the academic disposition of students differs according to specific ACT composite ranges of their original scores. Students in the lower ranges tend to have academic holes or deficiencies that need to be addressed. Yet, they make the greater point gains because there's so much opportunity for them to increase their score versus a student who already has a 32 composite score and they need a 35 composite score.
It's easier for me to take a student from a composite of 19 to a 30 than for me to take a student from a 32 to a 35 composite. In the later case, there are fewer questions available to increase the number of correct answers simply because they've already answered most of them correctly anyway! So, when you look at the data below, you will see greater point increases in the lower composite ranges than in the higher composite ranges simply because there is more opportunity to improve, more questions to answer correctly.
I grouped the students into six (6) categories that do not have a uniform range - those of you fond of histograms will understand that dilemma. The reason for this is I saw similar academic abilities and cognition problems with students who scored in these ranges. For me, it is a natural grouping of abilities within these ranges.
Here's the Data:
Original Score Final Score
19 33
19 25
19 23
19 28
17 19
18 23
17 24
17 21
18 24
18 23
17 22
17 21
19 23
19 33
19 25
19 23
19 28
17 19
18 23
17 24
17 21
18 24
18 23
17 22
17 21
19 23
Original Score Final Score
23 27
21 26
21 27
21 24
22 25
21 22
21 31
21 27
22 30
20 23
23 31
23 28
21 25
23 26
21 25
23 27
21 26
21 27
21 24
22 25
21 22
21 31
21 27
22 30
20 23
23 31
23 28
21 25
23 26
21 25
Original Score Final Score
26 28
25 29
25 29
26 28
24 27
27 33
26 29
24 28
Original Score Final Score
30 36
29 33
28 30
28 34
Original Score Final Score
33 35
33 34
32 35
Original Score Final Score
35 36