Test Prep Companies Editing and Proofreading Services

Test preparation is sold to anxious families on the strength of a number. Score improvements are advertised in points, percentiles and percentages, and the numbers are frequently real in the sense that somebody achieved them and misleading in every sense that matters. A company comparing a diagnostic taken cold in September against a final score in June is measuring the effect of six months of school, growing up, and taking the test a second time — and attributing all of it to the course.

We edit what test preparation companies and tutoring organisations produce — score improvement claims and their supporting methodology, course descriptions and programme information, diagnostic assessment material and reports to families, practice test material and answer explanations, student and parent progress reporting, study plans and pacing guidance, tutor guidance and standardisation material, admissions and enrolment documentation, refund and guarantee terms, marketing and advertising copy, testimonial and case study material, and content for the specific tests you prepare for. Our editors check that a claim about improvement can be traced to a defensible comparison.

The score improvement claim is the industry's central document, and making it honest is both possible and commercially survivable. We write these so the comparison is stated in full — what was compared with what, over what interval, for how many students, and how many students who started the course are excluded from the figure, since dropouts are where most inflated averages come from; so the baseline is a real test rather than a cold diagnostic designed to be discouraging, because a low first number is the oldest device in the sector and families increasingly recognise it; so the expected improvement is given as a range with the proportion who achieved it rather than as a headline maximum; and so the effect of simply retaking the test is acknowledged, because it is well documented and a company that names it is demonstrably not relying on it. Guarantees get the same treatment: what triggers them, what the remedy actually is, and what a family has to have done to qualify, stated where the guarantee is advertised rather than in terms attached to the enrolment form.

Everything you send is treated in confidence, including student data, results and material in draft. We are editors rather than psychometricians, admissions advisers or advertising regulators, and we offer no view 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 family-facing material clear.