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Cairene · Joined: 05 Mar 2006 Posts: 3 Location: UAE

Hello All,

If anyone out there has any experience with this organization

The Princeton Review - Score Plus

(both good and bad) re TOEFL iBT training prep courses for students I'd appreciate hearing from you. They've got offices in Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Al Ain, and Sharjah - so if any local institutions have used, or are planning to use their services - I'd appreciate feedback. Thanks.............

Bindair Dundat · Joined: 04 Feb 2003 Posts: 1123

Cairene · Joined: 05 Mar 2006 Posts: 3 Location: UAE

for the information. students here have been asking if I know anything about them.

stoth1972 · Posted: Fri Sep 15, 2006 3:30 pm Post subject:

Hmmmmmmmmmmm........... Rolling Eyes

The Princeton Review is a franchised organisation with many good centres all over the world. Trainers from other locations have previously been brought to the Princeton Review to train the staff (most of whom worked for TPR in the US) for a variety of exam prep courses (TOEFL, GMAT, GRE, etc.). The trainers they brought while I was there seemed to hold the staff they were training to a high level of standards. I taught ESL and pre-TOEFL, and was not typically on-site, so I can't speak 1st hand on the actual courses-only offer the feedback my colleagues shared.

So, if your question is about the quality of the teachers there, then it's quite good. Administration? That's another story. All I can say is if the promise for results seems too good to be true (far above what other institutes are promising) then it's probably too good to be true.

Bindair Dundat · Joined: 04 Feb 2003 Posts: 1123

stoth1972 · Posted: Fri Sep 15, 2006 4:02 pm Post subject:

What a great business venture education is, Bindair!!! The owner is a self-proclaimed industrialist. Bottom line is about money. I certainly heard disgruntled students while I was there, but their issues varied. One thing that stuck out in my mind was a Ramadan issue. The class schedule didn't change. At all. I was contracted to a local university, so my hours were shortened by them, however the actual institute classes went full-steam ahead. Teachers who taught academy classes that ran through iftar were concerned about their students, who would presumably want to break the fast. The office manager suggested giving them some 'dates and water' and getting on with the class. It was not until a parent called in and complained that it changed.