no effort is ever wasted.

strategizing our sat/act 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 test prep philosophY:

I’m near-obsessively driven to “game” these tests, 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 here, 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 SAT/ACT 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 is about getting to know them—and ourselves!—a little better by recognizing stable patterns and exploiting convenient loopholes.

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

sat/act 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

SAT/ACT MATH

Tried-and-true best practices for each Math “flavor,” from the foundational to the advanced, to clinch a 700-800 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: Scan Charts and Tables with greater ease, trust steadfast organizational best practices, and begin to enjoy SAT/ACT Data Analysis from a robust theoretical standpoint!

sat/act VERBAL

Taking the guessing game out of Verbal, one tactical cue at a time, to clinch a 700-800 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

  • GRAMMAR: Robust approach offered for all standard English conventions tested, from punctuation to misplaced modifiers and transitions

  • ARGUMENTS (SAT Only): Structure and answer choices, demystified

  • VOCABULARY (SAT Only): 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 700+ competitive SAT Verbal score!

  • ACT Science (ACT Only): Time-effective approaches offered to meet this section’s true objective

no effort is ever wasted.