Thinking through the SAT, admissions, and college.
Strategy, tactics, and analysis from 15 years of tutoring college admissions tests and seeing how admissions actually work. Read what’s useful, ignore what isn’t.
It’s the clearest picture of how I think about the SAT and how I work with students. If it resonates, you’ll find the rest worth your time.
Considering tutoring?
If you’re new here and trying to figure out whether this is the right fit for your student, start with these.
The SAT isn’t a school test. It’s a game with rules and patterns you can exploit. Here’s how I teach students to work smarter, not harder.
For nearly every student, the SAT is the better choice. Here’s what’s new on each test and why the SAT comes out ahead.
A second test date increases your odds, protects against bad luck, and reduces pressure. Also, there’s a +34 point statistical bonus you’d be foolish to skip.
Here’s what the program actually looks like laid out session to session.
SAT Strategy
How the test actually works, what most students get wrong about it, and how to study for it.
An 80th percentile SAT score is achievable while essentially ignoring the hardest problems. Here’s the data and here’s how to beat the SAT at its own game.
The strategies I teach my students aren’t secret. Here’s what I’d do if I were studying on my own, with the resources to use and the ones to skip.
For Current Students
Useful articles for students already enrolled.
How we’ll work together: scheduling, homework, packages, payment, and what happens when life gets in the way.
What to do before and after you take a practice test. The routine that makes practice tests actually useful.
Bluebook only works on specific macOS versions. A fresh upgrade can break things on test day. Here are the settings to change on your Mac ahead of any fall tests.