no effort is ever wasted.

strategizing our gre plan:

In my test prep capacity, I specialize in empowering students of all backgrounds and baselines to take their numbers to the next level for competitive admission.

Through our working sessions, I’ve seen time and time again how—armed with incisive strategies, patient dedication, and unflinching curiosity—my mentees successfully develop genuinely creative processes that actively work for them on test day.

I am equally proud of not only my students’ significant score improvements but also the increased confidence they carry with them after test day—results that make this mentorship role a distinct privilege.

my gre philosophY:

I’m near-obsessively driven to “game” this test, exploiting inherent structural weaknesses, experimenting with multiple approaches to each question, and balancing an unimpeachable grasp of content against an extensive tactical arsenal. Content is just one element in play on the GRE, and though we’ll cover any gaps that we identify along the way, I'm always more inspired to invest in developing our strategic muscles to their fullest.

When we have multiple approaches, we minimize our chance of “getting stuck.” The GRE rewards us for our flexibility, our creativity, and our organizational skills.

Believe it or not, these test writers are trying to help us, even as they attempt to obscure information or make a question more challenging. Our prep about getting to know them—and ourselves!—a little better by recognizing stable patterns and exploiting convenient loopholes.

Each question stem in both GRE Verbal & GRE Quant features its particular best practices, linguistic cues, and common traps; together, we’ll experiment to find your tailored approach to guarantee test-day success.

tactics & strategy

  • Navigate full-length sections fluidly, productively, and time-sensitively

  • Creative problem-solving prioritized and encouraged alongside purer math and verbal support

  • Internalize your timing & accuracy game plan to ensure test-day success

  • Set (and meet!) progressive qualitative and quantitative goal benchmarks

  • Remain accountable to your personal prep timeline

gre quant

Tried-and-true best practices for each Quant “flavor,” from the foundational to the advanced, to clinch a 160-165+ score:

  • ALGEBRA: Efficient hacks to grasp needed foundations while subverting the need for complex Algebraic skills. (High-level Algebra also prioritized for advanced students!)

  • ARITHMETIC: Organizational apparatuses offered, formulas banked, and linguistic cues decoded

  • PLANE & COORDINATE GEOMETRY: Tactical practices balance comprehensive content and formula review

  • DATA ANALYSIS & SET MEMBERS: Scan Charts and Tables with greater ease, trust steadfast organizational best practices, and begin to enjoy harder GRE Math from a robust theoretical standpoint!

issue essay (aw)

  • Minimize test-day stress and begin your GRE auspiciously by writing a strong, easeful Issue Essay

  • Concrete support for achieving your score goal, guaranteed

  • Understand how the Analytical Writing task is scored (and exactly what your graders need to see)

  • Workshop paragraphs and full-length essays together; review high-scoring essays to distill best practices

gre VERBAL

Taking the guessing game out of Verbal, one tactical cue at a time, to clinch a 160-165+ score:

  • READING COMPREHENSION: Unlock what works for you via a robust, 2-pronged approach that flexibly scales: test-writer linguistic cues and developing your own genre-independent approaches

  • ARGUMENTS: Structure and answer choices, demystified

  • VOCABULARY: Memorization strategies explored alongside strategic work within test writers’ chosen answers. No one knows every word on their test, and you don’t need to to clinch a 162+ competitive Verbal score!

no effort is ever wasted.