Improving SAT scores. The National Education Longitudinal Survey (NELS) tracks a nat...

Improving SAT scores. The National Education Longitudinal Survey (NELS) tracks a nationally representative sample of U.S. students from eighth grade through high school and college. Research published in Chance (Winter 2001) examined the SAT scores of 265 NELS students who paid a private tutor to help them improve their scores. The table summarizes the changes in both the SATMathematics and SAT-Verbal scores for these students.