I’ve been helping clients achieve their GRE goal scores since 2015, when I was hired by Manhattan Prep, an elite test prep company that required a 99th-percentile GRE score, over forty hours of rigorous training, and multiple professional assessments before I could even teach my first class. Although I’d already been teaching and tutoring for years, Manhattan Prep is where I truly began to master the challenging and joyful craft of teaching. I’ve since taught the GRE to hundreds of students, many of whom have gone on to top-tier graduate and MBA programs, including Dartmouth, UPenn, Stanford, UVA, and Harvard. I’ve trained dozens of other elite GRE instructors and have planned and run three professional development conferences for GMAT, GRE, and LSAT instructors from around the world. I’ve helped to write TOEFL and GRE books and curricula and have built an interactive online GRE course. I’ve also co-written and performed in a GRE vocabulary YouTube series with over 1 million views. I did my first graduate degree in Cape Town, South Africa, which is also where I started teaching standardized tests. I’ve since worked with students from more than twenty countries on every continent except Antarctica (if you are on an Antarctic research station and want to take the GRE please hit me up). Getting to know and work with talented people from all over the world is one of the best parts of my job. I firmly believe that anyone can improve their GRE score with time and effort. As a GRE coach, I can help ensure you use that time and effort as efficiently and effectively as possible. I get to know each of my clients as a complete individual and create tailored plans for their particular needs. Sometimes my job is about finding the best way to help a client understand the applications of a geometry rule, and sometimes it’s about encouraging someone to change deeply held narratives about their relationship to math (or tests in general). I am also a published fiction writer, so I know what it is like to pursue a long, difficult task that no one is paying you for! Procrastination, limiting self-talk, and anxiety are issues I’ve grappled deeply with in my own life and work as well as in my coaching, and I love helping clients conquer these challenges. My primary goal is to help you get an excellent GRE score; my secondary goal is to help you build habits and skills that will serve you in graduate school and beyond. I strive to provide coaching that is compassionate, calm, personalized, and, wherever possible, fun.