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For guide industry veteran Debbie Stier a marketer, publicist, editor and publisher, of late at HarperStudio and HarperCollins her book, The Perfect Score Project: Uncovering the Secrets associated with the SAT, which Harmony Books will publish in February, isn’t only about her experience taking the SAT seven times in one single year or about the vast quantity of SAT information she presents that will be great for students, their parents and guidance counselors. The guide is at heart about ‘the secret of studying with my son,’ as it was put by her.

The Perfect Score Project started when Stier contemplated her son’s college options partway through senior high school. ‘He had trouble focusing,’ she said. ‘He was into having enjoyable and doing activities. He also had a large amount of bad fortune in senior school: he had mono and had multiple concussions. He had B grades but no honor classes and not numerous extracurricular activities. We knew he was smart, and I also thought the SAT will make him stand down a bit.’

The two had currently worked closely together if they both read every book ‘thousands of pages, including the Odyssey and Mark Twain,’ she said that her son was assigned the summer before he transferred to Fordham Prep, Bronx, N.Y. ‘At the dining room table at the end associated with day speaking about the publications she said with him was magic.

In the way that is same Stier decided to help her son with the SAT process but for her, there were no half measures. She took the test seven times that year. (It’s offered seven times annually.) By having a bit of understatement, she stated, ‘ a bit was got by me possessed.’ However it was a happy possession.

Studying for and taking the SAT and trying to enhance her scores had been enjoyable, she said, ‘like doing a crossword.’ Soon she made it fun on her behalf son, too. (‘They resist at first, but they do like it.’) Her son was also helped by a competition that is buddyly a friend and did a practice test every weekend in addition to studying with Stier. The result: he raised his score 540 points. Stier noted this with some pride, however emphasized the miracle for the effort. ‘My son and I talked about politics and literary works, and I learned so much reading their essays,’ she stated. Furthermore, ‘he reached his potential and grew into a driven young man.’

As for her scores that are own, she was counting during her seven tests in 2011, Stier raised her score 301 points over the results when she first took the SAT in 1982. In one for the seven times, she was very happy to acquire a perfect 800 on the writing section; she additionally scored a 760 in critical reading. The math section had been a various story. ‘I virtually got the score that is same math,’ she said, the lesson of which is that ‘no level of test prep will help if you do not have solid skills.’

Through the process, she accidentally became an SAT expert, studying the history of the SAT (which, until the ’70s, the College Board reported was an IQ test for which no studying was useful), the various prep companies, including Kaplan and Princeton, tutoring issues and much more.

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Through her web log, perfectscoreproject.com, and some appearances, Stier quickly became a resource for students, moms and dads and guidance counselors, a job she has embraced. ‘I like speaking about the SAT and helping people through a time that is stressful’ she stated. She had expected parents to be the audience that is biggest, but ‘a good part of those on the website and who write me are kids.’ She’s also discovered that among parents, more frequently fathers get the message of learning intensely for the SATs with their children. ‘It is time intensive, but it’s incredibly rewarding and gratifying,’ she said. ‘Parents who do not study making use of their kiddies are missing all of the good stuff.’

Like anyone with book business experience whom becomes an author, Stier has seen a different aspect that seemed so simple before. One example: blogging. ‘ I would like to apologize to most of the authors I have actually told to blog she said with a laugh while they write. Because it was such an effective distraction from writing although she blogged every day the year she took the SATs, she found it impossible to blog during the year and a half she was writing the book. (She wound up ‘turning off the phone, locking myself into the basement, blocking off the globe,’ in order to complete the guide.)

‘A marketer at heart,’ Stier has also discovered it ‘hard become on the other part and never micromanage. I reside three obstructs away from my publisher; I’ll try my best perhaps not to bug them.’ (Also, she said that she’s all too aware that things have changed dramatically in marketing since she left Harper this season.) She stated she’s blessed by the team at Harmony Books, many of whom she’s worked with prior to or knows through the industry, including v-p and publisher Tina Constable, who was president associated with the PPA into the early ’90s when Stier was v-p for the company, and her editor, Rick Horgan, with whom she worked in the belated ’80s at Warner Books. ‘they are loved by me,’ she stated. ‘God is on my side. How lucky am I?’

Stier is also stoked up about another aspect of the book: the audiobook, which she will narrate. ‘ I like audio, and I especially love audio that’s read by the author.’ The narration can make her ‘relive the 12 months,’ she said. ‘It was a hard year, but a great year. I’ll remember it, and my son will not either.’

Ever the publisher, Stier stated her guide in regards to the SATs could score high for Harmony. ‘Three million kids per year are using the SAT,’ she said. ‘It’s a group that keeps regenerating. It is an evergreen market of people I can help.’

In a bookend that is nice Stier’s tale, her son just began college at Loyola University Maryland, which both mother and son say is a wonderful fit for him an 800 out of a feasible 800.