My child is in the Advanced English program and has done very well. Won’t she do well on the verbal PSAT/SAT?
A student in an advanced English program will likely have an edge over a student who has been taking regular English or a student who had not been doing well in English. The very best advice for the Reading section of the entrance exams, advice that comes from testing researchers, is to take the most demanding English courses possible because that is where students encounter the most challenging literature from various genres. Unfortunately, though, taking an Advanced English course might be as much of a liability as it is an asset. Students in such classes are often taught to be opinionated about what they read in class and to write interpretive essays to questions that have more than one right answer. These students come to us baffled about the reading section of the SAT because the exam asks them to completely disregard their opinions and inclinations about literature, as all of the answers to the reading questions are found directly in the correlating passages. Also, High School En
