SAT

“Our first cohorts were the year before, and the average student increased 148 points, and that's about, like.75 standard deviations above their expected growth for our engaged students.”

“So I think beyond that, the other scary thing in the field is the number of canonical gold standard benchmarks is low. And we really are kind of in an evals crisis, right? Where all the really great evals that we all know, like growing up, like taking the SAT …”

“If you're on our honor, our high school program, non-honors is 13 50 minimum. Honors is 1550. And the difference is, it's three hours a day to do honors, which is 15 50 plus fives on your APs. 13 50 and a four or five on your AP, that only takes two hours.”

“I mean, we're 20 hours, not 200. Right? We're 10 times faster.”

“We have one student who was, you know, and this is sort of a unique, an extreme example, and I hesitate to say it, but, you know, we had a student who was 7:40 on the math SAT. And in looking, right they were making careless errors, right? They were basically,…”

“It used to be like, 30 years ago is, oh, the SAT is kind of unfair if you're poor because you can't get as good of like a study tutor, but like now there's things to study online that are free that I think it's, I think there's almost no excuse, not just to ha…”

“Given who our customer was, you know, like a high performing student with, you know, parents that they want to figure out a way to get their students to get great scores. They didn't want to just pay for software. They wanted to look a, so a kid who got 2400 o…”

“1600 on his SATs, you know, studied astrophysics went off to a, one of the best schools,”

“The SAT is a game. It can be beaten. It's not about how smart you are. It's about how smart you get at that test.”

“It's capped at 800 because there's just constant pressure on the SAT to equalize itself by demographic group. And so the overwhelming priority at the company that does the SAT is to actually try to reduce group distinctiveness, right? As opposed to unearth tal…”

“The SAT was invented because it used to be only like nobles, you know, the elite, the aristocrats, people from rich families got to go to college.”

“Those tests from a, just a clinical standpoint, like those in sort of clinical psychology psychometrics, those tests are all proxies for an IQ test. Those are all sort of, those are all sort of roughly equivalent to just a straight IQ test. Highly correlated t…”

“And the University of California system has now abandoned the SAT and ACT. So they temporarily got rid of those requirements during the pandemic, but now they've used it as an excuse. They've never wasted a crisis. And now they say they're not bringing back th…”

“I had actually made some SAT videos for Navia and my cousins. I actually went through the SAT practice book, and I did every problem in the book on video for my cousins, so that it was a 400 something problems, and I was afraid that the college board was going…”

“Over time, the relationship has evolved where they actually pay us resources to create free test prep which is, you know, that's the type of revenue I love because it's, it helps sustain us, but it's free to the student.”

“I really thought that was horrible. I still think that's horrible. My mom thinks that's horrible. It's horrible. You can't judge people by that kind of stuff. It's just not right.”