Online College Prep at Http://www.onlinecollegeprep.com/ : Not Worth the Price

Online College Prep http://www.onlinecollegeprep.com/ is a site that promises a great increase in standardized scores if only the visitor will subscribe to this $50 course!

Having a friend who in fact has subscribed to this service, I asked if I might peek over her shoulder and see for myself if online college prep.com http://www.onlinecollegeprep.com/ was what it claimed to be. As I tried out the site and observed the process of preparing a child for college, I must be honest and report that this paid service in my opinion is of the same quality as many of the other college prep courses offered online for free.

Although in it's favor, online college prep.com does offer sample pages of courses for the visitor to peruse before signing up. The arithmetic sample alone http://www.onlinecollegeprep.com/math/arithmetic.lasso seems to be basic enough but to me that is the problem. This is supposed to be a "college prep" course and the examples given in this section are not of the difficulty I would expect for such a course. I would be concerned that the difficulty would not stand up to true college prep expectations.

In fact with the simplicity of the questions offered and the self of accomplishment one is expected to obtain from the course, I seriously am concerned that this course will offer the user not a particularly varied and definitely skewed self confidence that might very well be the downfall when test time appears.

In my experience, testing is much harder than the examples shown on this site and for the amount paid, students can easily get the same results by reviewing class notes from several years ago. Simply said, this area in my opinion is far below the standard needed for proper college prep.

That said, other samples certainly redeem themselves and promise to be of much more difficult material and are in fact, also offered such as beginning algebra http://www.onlinecollegeprep.com/math/beginning.lasso , Trigonometry http://www.onlinecollegeprep.com/math/trig.lasso and pre-calculus http://www.onlinecollegeprep.com/math/precalculus.lasso as well.

At this time, I don't feel as if this program would fulfill the needs of my son or any other semi bright student for that matter. For although the material offered here is on a higher level than he is ready for at this time by the time he is ready for a real college prep course, it will be far below his and many other students needs.

I do suggest that if you are in the market for such a program, that you check out this site and see for yourself, what all it offers the casual visitor and the subscriber as well. BUT...that said, I would also encourage the reader to check out the free sites before committing to a paid site....for many free sites are of similar quality as this one and as I said...are free.