Word: katzman
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...ensure that those who lock themselves up in their little libraries or laboratories and eventually do make a contribution to mankind through a lifetime of uninterrupted self-application can make all of us at Harvard look good, just as a Harvard championship team makes even senior Jay D. Katzman of Lowell House look good. Baltasar D. Cruz...
...most interesting chapters, however, detail Owen's charge that the SAT measures "primarily the ability to take E.T.S. tests." He contends that this ability can be cram-coached by methods having little to do with scholastic aptitude. As principal evidence, he offers the work of Testing Coach John Katzman, 25, whose four-year-old Princeton Review tutoring service has headquarters in New York City and branch offices in four other cities. Owen recounts that the Princeton Review and a few similar services, working from computer analysis of existing SATs, can boost students' SAT scores an average of 185 points...
...Princeton Review, which provides 20 lessons for $495, reveals that E.T.S. puts certain easy problems in identical places on successive tests; Katzman's graduates know those locations, with the answers. They also learn a "hit parade" of the 100 most commonly tested word definitions (among them: enigma, indifferent, apathy...
...Owen now teaches). Says Hargadon of None of the Above: "It wouldn't pass as a graduate paper." E.T.S. President Gregory Anrig particularly disputes the test-score gains reported in the book, saying that coaching usually produces increases of only 14 to 26 points. Many of the "tricks" that Katzman's Review claims to impart, says Anrig, are explained in a free E.T.S. booklet distributed in advance of the SAT. College administrators view the quarrel with general calm, noting that the SATs, however feared or valid, are just one element in admissions decisions. A few educators have suggested replacing...
...cost of the camps ranges between $300 and $400 per week. Though these campers may be more computer-wise than their peers, they have not entirely abandoned tradition. Epidemics of short-sheeting coexist with robotics and PASCAL. And, like campers everywhere, eleven-year-old Evan Katzman of Homestead, Fla., is quick to give a visitor the classic rating of camp food. Says he: "It's the pits...