To follow is a wonderful (though long) article from the New Yorker on the life of Stanley Kaplan and his career tutoring students for the SAT. Particularly fun are answers alternatives from SAT test without questions and you will see you are able to answer them!? http://www.gladwell.com/2001/2001_12_17_a_kaplan.htm

Kaplan has also written a memoir. Test Pilot: How I Broke Testing Barriers for Millions of Students and Caused a Sonic Boom in Business of Education. I haven’t read this but plan to get a copy.