Multiple Choice of Prepping for the SAT

New York Times
October 3, 2004

Ann Steckmeyer of Bethesda, Md., remembers vividly the night last spring when her son, Joe, then a high school junior, went online to learn his SAT scores. ''There was this blood-curdling scream,'' she said, that propelled her and her husband upstairs to see the numbers.

Numbers mean a lot to Ms. Steckmeyer, an accountant and partner at Kaiser, Scherer & Schlegel in McLean, Va. And her son's increase in score - - from the equivalent of a 1080 on his first PSAT, to a 1300 on second one, to the scream-eliciting 1410 on his initial SAT -- gave him an excellent shot at some of the top colleges to which he applied.

"Ned said Joe was going to get 1400," Ms. Steckmeyer said, referring to Ned Johnson, her son's tutor and the founder and owner of PrepMatters, a company in Bethesda that offers one-on-one help in test preparation. "The key absolutely, was Ned taking a true interest, believing there was potential and figuring out what happened to Joe when he took a test."... A full copy of this article is available at the PrepMatters office.

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