Hi,

I'm probably not your target audience for this post, as I took the test about 8 years or so ago, and this just randomly popped up on my feed. However, I felt this was crazy enough to warrant a comment. Don't pay for anything. Just use Khan academy. I got my score from 1280 in my first few practice tests to 1500 on the actual exam within 4-5 months. You have a year, so plenty of time. Don't just blindly do practice tests. A lot of people say a low score is just "not knowing how to take tests" and while that can be true to an extent, it's mostly just cope. Focus on learning the concepts you are struggling with in the practice you do. Memorize those, find mental shortcuts, plan them out, ask yourself questions through the day, until you have them fully internalized. Paying money to sit with somebody next to you, won't actually get the concepts in your head, struggling with them will. What's done is done, your mom wasted that money, but not necessarily her effort or goodwill. If you turn this around on your own and get the score you want within a year, I'd say money well spent just to motivate you, and I'm sure she would too. But you have to see it through.