Test Prep Companies Editing and Proofreading Services

"Average score increase: 320 points" runs across the top of the brochure, and the number is real in the narrow sense that somebody achieved it. The comparison behind it sets a diagnostic taken cold in September against a final score in June. Between those two dates sit nine months of school, a year of growing up, and a second sitting of the same test. The course is credited with all of it, and the brochure never describes the comparison at all.

The documents we edit for Test Prep Companies

Score improvement claims and the methodology that supports them are the documents we are asked about most. Course descriptions, program information, diagnostic assessment material, and the reports that go to families follow closely. We also edit practice test material and answer explanations, student and parent progress reporting, study plans and pacing guidance, and tutor guidance and standardization material. Admissions and enrollment documentation, refund and guarantee terms, marketing copy, testimonial and case study material, and content written for the specific tests a company prepares for round out the list. Our editors check that a claim about improvement can be traced back to the comparison it came from.

What the editing involves

The score improvement claim is the industry's central document, and an honest version of it is still commercially survivable. The full comparison fits in about the space a headline takes: what was compared with what, over what interval, for how many students, and how many who started are left out of the figure. A company that enrolled 400 students and reports on the 260 who finished has told a family something the average by itself conceals. We do not judge whether a figure is sound; the psychometricians and the people who ran the testing do that, and the numbers reach us with their working attached.

The baseline deserves as much description as the gain. A methodology note should name the test that produced the first number, the conditions under which the student took it, and the date. Expected improvement reads more honestly as a range with the proportion of students who reached it than as a single headline maximum. If 18 percent of students gained 300 points or more, the sentence can say exactly that.

Guarantees take the same treatment. What triggers the guarantee, what the remedy is, and what a family must have done to qualify all belong where the guarantee is advertised, rather than in terms attached to the enrollment form. A guarantee offering "your money back" beside a term requiring 90 percent attendance at every session is two promises, and a family reads only the first. Where a company's own published research addresses the effect of taking a test a second time, naming that effect is the company's decision, and we hold the wording to whatever the company decides.

Confidentiality and the limits of our role

Everything you send us is treated in confidence, including student data, results, and material still in draft. We are editors, not psychometricians, admissions advisors, or advertising regulators, and we offer no opinion on test content, on the validity of any claim, or on advertising rules in your jurisdiction. What we can do is make the claims traceable and the material a family reads clear.