Stephen-- There was a good article in the New Yorker about a year ago about Stanley Kaplan (founder of the program) that might give you the kind of information you're looking for, or at least an idea of where to go for more. In addition to practice, I think Kaplan teaches you how to reason out a best guess, how to think like the testmakers, and that sort of thing.
Of course, if you're quite bright, this is the kind of thing that you'll get from individual practice. But apparently for lots of people it does help make certain things explicit. Oh, here, I've found it--it's by Malcolm Gladwell, of course, online here: http://www.gladwell.com/2001/2001_12_17_a_kaplan.htm. Robin P.S. An anecdote of my own. When I was applying to grad school, I felt it of particular importance to do well on the GRE subject test, as my undergraduate major wasn't psychology (it was theater). So I got a test book and practiced like mad. Every time I took a practice test my score was, according to the book, slightly below the 75th *percentile*. It wasn't until I got the official book from ETS that I discovered that the practice book I'd got was wrong--I'd been scoring about 75% correct, which puts you at about the 97th percentile. So not only did I practice much harder than I would have otherwise, with an intensity born of terror, but despite being only a mediocre statistician I will never, never mistake percentAGE with percentILE. ********************** Robin Pearce Abrahams Boston University [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
