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The philosophy of the company is that it is possible to raise one's score drastically on the standardized tests offered by the ETS by "studying smarter, not harder." In particular, TPR promotes the somewhat lighthearted notion that ETS really stands for the "Evil Testing Service", out to reduce everyone's score to the median if possible, and that the tests ETS offers can be beaten by understanding how ETS thinks and operates.
The company offers courses world-wide through company-owned and third-party franchises. A typical instructional course on beating the SAT lasts for six weeks and costs approximately 1000 USD. Certified TPR instructors lead students through workbooks designed to illustrate strategies and tactics for raising one's score. Courses typically offer a money-back guarantee if the student who finishes the course and implements the techniques does not raise his or her score by a certain amount. The company also offers private tutoring for a variable fee depending on the experience of the instructor and market demand. In some markets, such as New York City, the company also offers instruction on local standardized admission tests. Countries outside of the U.S. where the company offers courses in EnglandEngland is the largest, the most populous, and the most densely populated of the four " Home Nations" which make up the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UK). Occupying the south-eastern portion of the island of Great Britain, England, IndiaThe Republic of India is a large multicultural country in South Asia, with a population of over one billion. The Indian economy is the fourth largest in the world, in terms of purchasing power parity, and is the world's second-fastest growing economy., ChinaThis article is on the geographic and cultural entity. For other meanings, see China (disambiguation). China ( Traditional Chinese: , Simplified Chinese: , Hanyu Pinyin: Zhongguo, Wade-Giles: Chung-kuo) is a country in continental East Asia with some oute, and Saudi ArabiaThe Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is a country on the Arabian Peninsula. It borders Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Yemen, with the Persian Gulf to its north-east and the Red Sea to its west. Al-Mamlakah al-'Arabiyah as-Sa'udiyah.
TPR hires its own test-takers to take the SAT and other exams to keep abreast of changes. In its courses, it uses its own diagnostic tests which are mock versions of the ETS exams designed to be as close as possible to the real thing. In a typical SAT course, students are tested four separate times throughout the course to monitor their progress in learning the course techniques. Despite the company's assertion that ETS is somewhat "evil", TPR has an overall cordial relationship with ETS, which shares advance material about its exams with TPR and other testing services.
The course techniques in the instruction workbooks vary depending on the particular test. In general, the company philosophy is that ETS is quite predictable and uses the same types of questions repeatedly.
In the case of the SAT, the company's largest market, the techniques are based on the idea that ETS prefers that all students score as closely as possible to 500 (the median) on both the mathMathematics is commonly defined as the study of patterns of structure, change, and space; more informally, one might say it is the study of "figures and numbers". In the formalist view, it is the investigation of axiomatically defined abstract structures and verbal sections, each of which has a score range of 200 to 800. (As of March 20052005 is a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). It has been designated: The World Year of Physics The International Year of Microcredit The International Year for Sport and Physical Education The United States Year of Foreign, the SAT will include a third 200-800 point section on writing).
Because of this, TPR counsels students to identify the difficulty level of questions (easy, medium, or hard) based on the numbering patterns used by ETS. On easy questions, ETS attempts to make the correct answer obvious in order to push lower scoring students upwards towards the median. On difficult questions, ETS tends to include an obvious answer that is always incorrect in order to pull higher scoring students downwards towards the median.
TRP instruction invokes the idea of "Joe Bloggs",a typical median-scoring student who is fooled by the obvious answer choices. Part of the core instruction method of the company is to learn "what Joe Bloggs will pick" and to know when to choose the same answer and when to avoid it.
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