I would say the environment, social/parental expectations, exemplars within family/friends, peers ect matter more than a book.
Talented poor kids acing SAT by reading a cheap book is stuff from the movies.
what motivated you to do this at the time ?
Also, I never said its not possible to do it with practice books.
> I would say the environment, social/parental expectations, exemplars within family/friends, peers ect matter more than a book.
my point was the word "more" in that sentence.
[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=poor+family+child+tops+exam+...
> "I could not study because of financial problems, so I thought I must send my children to school and wipe out the darkness from their lives,"
> "I got tremendous support from my school teachers," he said.
This is exactly what i said. Environment of achievement is more important. "poor" doesn't mean just lack of financial resources. you cannot simply overcome lack of parental and social investment and care by reading a SAT book.
> I would say the environment, social expectations, exemplars within family/friends, peers ect matter more than a book.
Unfortunately they often tend to be introverts which colleges want less than overachievers in other areas. Except for the science/technology departments, who were probably overruled by other departments if decisions like abandoning test scores are made.
The fact is a standardized test is far less biased than the metrics they will use to replace them. That's the reason they were created in the first place