PART A: Summarize the experiment mentioned regarding the free SAT prep course, and the results of said experiment.

This question refers to the article "Students’ Work Ethic Affected by Peer Groups, Desire to Be Popular" by Shankar Vedantam.

In this text, we are told about an experiment designed to test the effects of peer pressure on academic success. We are told that researchers Leonardo Bursztyn at UCLA and Robert Jensen at the Wharton School went into four low-income LA schools and offered 11th grade students access to free SAT prep courses. They found that students sitting in honors classes were more likely to sign up for the SAT prep course. Moreover, they also found that students were 11% less likely to sign up for classes if they believed that their peers were going to find out about their choice. This shows that students are heavily influenced by the opinions of their peers, and that they are more likely to worry about the impression they make than about the outcome of their studies.

Answer and Explanation:

This question is about "Students’ Work Ethic Affected by Peer Groups, Desire to Be Popular. "

The experiment was designed to understand how adolescents' academic performance is affected by the pressure they receive from their friends. In this case, they selected 11 students who were studying at different schools in Los Angeles and who were members of social classes. The students had access to the free Prep courses and it was through this access that the researchers were able to evaluate the objective of the research. By analyzing the survey data, it was possible to see that students were 11% less interested in courses that they believed to be "shameful" and that they were afraid that their friends would discover that they were taking this type of course. In this case, the researchers concluded that peer pressure has a strong impact not only on academic life, but also on students' ability to choose.