ACE the NEW DIGITAL SAT: Advanced Tutoring for 1500+ Scores
A Comprehensive, Personalized Step-by-Step Program to get you Really Good at the SAT Really Fast! -Initial consultation where we discuss YOUR goals and challenges so I can create a personized plan of attack to get you your score. - A rigorous, thorough and proven SATS curriculum customized for your strengths and challenges. - Step by step lessons, and practice sets we don't move on until you've mastered the concepts needed. - 25 hours of one on one coaching. - 100s of proprietary and customized 1500+ level practice questions with written step-by-step explanations. - Question by question breakdown of practice tests. - Advanced strategies for nailing the hardest questions. - Personalized test and timing strategy to make you bullet-proof on test day. We not only focus on a rigorous review of all the reading and math skills that you need to know, but equally importantly, we focus on how the test questions actually work. You'll learn how to read the markers in any question that tell you immediately: 1) What you've just been asked to do (not always obvious), and 2) Exactly which steps the SAT expects you to take to get to right answer - FAST (definitely not obvious). Quant and verbal questions all have these markers and understanding how to read them is perhaps the most critical skill for unlocking the test and getting your best score. After you understand how to read the markers and break down the questions, the SAT gets A LOT easier. All those reading and math skills you spent hours building and will suddenly translate into actual points and you'll start getting questions right quickly, easily and with confidence. Heck, you might even start to have FUN studying. Okay, maybe not fun - but definitely feeling like everyday you're getting better and better and your goals are getting closer and closer.
What's included
I take the test very seriously and the lessons and homework are very rigorous. But I take myself lightly and I promise we'll always find ways to have fun as we study and I'll make the prep as painless as possible. I am also extremely patient and supportive - I'll be your biggest fan throughout the process. We'll do this thing together!
- You'll rigorously review all of the math, English and reading concepts that appear on the test.
- You'll learn how to read the markers in every question that tell you exactly how the SAT wants approach each question to get the right answer - FAST!
- We'll build a customized test strategy for you so you'll always feel in control of the test. You'll know when to guess, when to dig in and spend time answer a question and exactly how many questions you can get right and wrong on each section.
Meet your expert
Bruce H.
I've been coaching the GRE, GMAT, ACT and SAT for 15 years - both as the founder of First Choice Admissions and at UCLA. I specialize in getting clients top scores and getting them into top schools. I was rated the #1 GRE and GMAT tutor on the Leland platform. I also developed and teach Leland's GRE and GMAT bootcamps. ETS recommends and directly links to the Leland GRE bootcamp I created on their website. ETS has also hired me to create instructional materials for the GRE. I trained as a teacher at Grinnell College and graduated with my high school teaching certificate. So naturally after college I became a professional musician. Yeah, my folks had the same reaction. So while my band racked up some college radio hits and I got to tour the country playing music, it became pretty clear that spending the rest of my life with four sweaty guys in a touring van was an idea that only looked good on paper. I needed to make a change. So I taught myself how to do really, really well on the GMAT so that business schools would take me seriously (did I mention the professional musician part?). I was accepted to Wharton and two years later I started a pretty conventional post MBA career. I worked as a marketer for General Mills, did strategy and financial consulting in Silicon Valley and I helped my friends launch (sometimes) successful start-ups. I was also was the founding partner in a company that ran live music venues in San Francisco and Oakland. And while all of those ventures were fun (and some even lucrative) my passion had always been teaching. So started a test prep company, First Choice Admissions, in a garage in Palo Alto (cliche I know) and began tutoring the GMAT, GRE, ACT and SAT. After a couple of years I move down to LA (I'd like to say it was for savvy business reasons - but really it was for a girl). Soon after I moved, UCLA hired me to develop test prep curriculum and teach the GMAT, GRE, ACT and SAT. After working with them for several years, I turned my attention full-time to First Choice Admissions. I've been running First Choice for the last 10 years and everyday I love coaching these tests and helping my clients get into their dream schools.