Our students regularly improve their test scores in excess of 4 to 6 times the national average.

SAT and ACT Prep That's Different From Head to Toe:

1. Free, Personalized Diagnostics

Our diagnostic reports don't come from a computer print-out and they don’t have to be from a test you took with us.

• Diagnostics are meant to help students and parents make a plan: they're for you to learn more about yourself, not for us to sell you something.

• Our reports will clarify not only the topics you need to review but also the test-taking approaches you might use that may not be working.

• We build a plan from diagnostics for further investigation during our preliminary sessions—because some things can’t be pinpointed without face-to-face time and problem-solving together in real-time.

• We don’t charge for this.

2. Our approach is grounded in metacognition

Our test prep approach is centered around 4 central tenets: 

• Know what’s on the test: review and revise topical fundamentals for comprehension and application.

• Know how they ask you about it: develop nuanced connoisseurship of question styles on the test you’re taking.

• Recognize that you’re human: learn ways to mitigate your varieties of human error.

• Get it done: practice elegant critical thinking and pattern recognition to save time and beat the clock.

In short, we teach students what they need to know and how to execute for excellence. After it’s all said and done, students and parents regularly thank us for improving students’ in-school performance, too.

3. The Anxiety Antidote

When tests are demystified, they become places to play and show off rather than arenas for struggle and frustration.

• We jettison the tacitly terrifying “strategy” language that has become synonymous with test prep since the early ‘80s.

• Our sessions are focused but relaxed and based on building confidence.

4. A Customized Test Prep Guide Based on YOUR Needs

Don't just "take notes;" learn how to study and prep for tests like you’ll need to in college.

• You’ll work out of a test prep study guide we build in real time just for you.

• You’ll understand the difference between record-keeping and notes that teach you when the sessions are over (and how to use the same skills in college.

• We’ll stay organized so your brain stays organized.

5. "Nutrient-Dense" Teaching

Our lessons are completely tailored to each student: there is no set program, so there’s no wasted time.

• We continually reinforce patterns of fundamentals and their related iterations.

• We articulate the dynamics of errors so you don’t make that same mistake in the future.

• We highlight the kernels of questions so you recognize them next time.

• We ensure you know why you get things right so you can keep up the pattern of success.

6. Academic Coaching to Support Your Whole High School Experience

• It’s typical for our students to uncover a whole new world of studying and learning. We incorporate academic coaching all the time.

7. We Enjoy The Freedom to Evolve

• Big test prep strategy hasn’t changed substantially in 50 years, but we can change everything, from test to test and student to student, any day of the week.

8. Score Improvements That Open Doors

• Watch your SAT and ACT scores improve four to six times the national average. Create application essays that capture your voice and what makes you most special. Read the testimonials.

Real Talk About Results

1. We'll Forego Making Our Data Look Good

We tailor everything to the individual student, including managing test anxiety and expectations. Every good coach knows how to handle special cases, and that means we aren't afraid to not take a baseline score if the score is so low that it will overwhelm and defeat a student out of the gate. There's no benefit to having a 16 out of 36 section score on record if a student is going to perceive that score as the death knell of potential and capability. Even if we know we can pop that score 10 points--and we have--we won't do so just to have it for our data and at the expense of student confidence.

Also, please note that other companies' score increases often measure from a sophomore score. We show outcomes from a junior year score only.

2. Timing Is Everything--and it Varies

There is no recipe for success here beyond

1. learning for thorough understanding of everything that might be on the test

2. understanding the applications of those topics in a standardized format and

3. minimizing human error and careless mistakes.

Those three things in a positive, encouraging setting also serve as the best antidote that we have found for test anxiety. Reaching a goal score takes some students 6 hours of prep. Most take somewhere in the neighborhood of 20 to 40 hours. It takes others 100+.

3. Goals Affect Investment--and Investment can Affect Outcomes

Some people come to us wanting to pull an ACT 27 up to a 29, or they want their SAT score to break 1400 when they're already at a 1340. While many people think "Let's blow this thing out of the water as much as we can," others just need a number for a particular in-state scholarship benchmark, like Florida Bright Futures, or to be in the ballpark for a school they've always had their hearts set on--which isn't always necessarily in the Ivy League (which is fine!). Sometimes more is more is more is more. Sometimes, not so much.

4. Not All Budgets or Tutoring Sessions are Created Equal

Sometimes a student with a goal score that would most easily be reached with 40+ hours of tutoring with us only has a budget for 10 hours with us. That can obviously affect outcomes, and we make every reasonable effort we can to accommodate constraints. However, it’s important to recognize that 10 hours with us yields better results than 40 less expensive hours with a usually inexperienced tutor at a prep company that touts guessing strategies and plugging in as methods of bumping scores.