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Posted on 22 July 2010

Pi-Plus College Board Prep Course: Essential, Affordable, Convenient – and Effective

 Every parent feels the pressure. Slots in the college of your child’s choice are limited, and everything seems to hang on that college board score. Is your student ready to take these all-important tests?

 It’s true that most college prep work is done in the classroom. If your student has been keeping up with school work over the course of his or her high school career, your student has laid the groundwork for a good PSAT, SAT, ACT, or AP score. However, studies show that high school students who take test prep courses often score significantly higher than those who don’t, and that students who take the PSAT score an average of 150 points higher on the SAT than those who take only the SAT.

 There are many options when searching for help to prepare your student for the college board tests. The library has dozens of books, there are many prep courses available online, and there are companies that offer hands-on test preparation. Considerations include price, convenience, and effectiveness. Often the deciding factor is your student’s style of learning. Sometimes the deciding factor is price: the Princeton Review website charges $1400 for its small group PSAT review per student!

 Private Instruction (Pi) Plus Tutors (“PiPlus”) specializes in teaching and tutoring. Ellen Forster, founder of Pi-Plus, believes that small group settings, individualized attention, and extra help outside the school day are critical to academic success, whether in a general high school setting, or for the focused curriculum of a college board prep course.

 This summer, Pi-Plus is offering test prep courses that cover all the bases. These courses will provide tutoring in any subject and will familiarize your student with test taking procedure: math, vocabulary, and question structure. There will be plenty of practice in different subject areas and plenty of time to ask questions.

 Each session will:

• Provide 16.5 hours of small group and individual tutoring
• Build your student’s confidence in test taking skills
• Identify your student’s strengths and weaknesses
• Develop an individualized improvement plan for your student
• Offer a structured yet flexible curriculum that covers all test subjects
• Provide highly qualified and skilled educators
• Provide two Princeton Review practice tests and scoring

 To insure a low tutor to student ratio, each course limited to an enrollment of 20 students.

 Price: The charge for each Pi-Plus session is $480 plus a $25 registration fee (which is waived for existing Pi Plus or Kennelly Keys Music clients.)

 Location: Roy’s Place Studio & Recital Hall, 4926 196th St. SW, Lynnwood, WA 98036

 Time: Monday through Thursday, 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.

 Dates: Choose from these sessions:

Session 2: Aug 2-5, 9-13

Session 3: Aug 23-26, Aug 30-Sept 2

 Guarantee: Pi Plus guarantees a prorated tuition refund if you’re not satisfied at the end of the first week.

 For more information, go to piplustutors.com or call (425) 315-9850.