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Most ACT English questions test the same handful of grammar rules disguised in different contexts — comma splices, pronoun agreement, parallel structure, and rhetorical effectiveness. With a 35 ACT composite and a degree in English, Grant can pinpoint exactly which rules a student keeps missing and drill those patterns until the corrections feel automatic.

Punctuation rules, subject-verb agreement, and rhetorical strategy questions make up the bulk of ACT English, and Angela tackles each category with targeted practice sets that expose the patterns the test reuses. She scored a 33 ACT composite and brings a sharp editorial eye from years of personal writing and substitute teaching across grade levels. Students walk away knowing not just which answer is correct, but why the other three fail.

I am a professional scientist with multiple years of experience in the biopharmaceutical field. I have spent time in the classroom with elementary aged students and am comfortable with this age group. I am also familiar with AP classes and ACT/SAT preparation. I look forward to sharing my love of learning with students and helping them achieve academic goals!

Running a dual-language tutoring program in Mandarin and English gave Antonia an unusually concrete grasp of how grammar rules operate beneath the surface — the kind of structural awareness that makes the ACT English section's punctuation, transition, and conciseness questions feel like pattern matching rather than guesswork. She teaches across all levels of English and writing, so she can quickly pinpoint whether a student's errors stem from shaky fundamentals or just unfamiliarity with how the test frames its questions.

Zhenrui earned a perfect 36 ACT composite, which means the English section's trickiest question types — sentence placement, redundancy traps, and transition logic — are territory he's already mapped out cold. His engineering training at Columbia reinforces a rule-first approach: instead of debating what sounds natural, he teaches the specific punctuation and rhetoric patterns the test reuses so students can move through all 75 questions with a clear decision framework.

Medical school trains you to read dense passages fast and extract exactly what matters — Jiatian applies that same triage instinct to the ACT English section, where 75 questions in 45 minutes rewards quick, decisive editing over deliberation. As a Rice AB graduate now finishing med school, she treats each underlined portion as a rule-based decision point, drilling students on the specific punctuation and rhetorical patterns the test repeats until choosing the right fix becomes automatic.

A magna cum laude Duke graduate with professional writing experience, Frances knows how to dissect a sentence quickly — which is exactly what the ACT English section demands across its 75 questions on punctuation, rhetorical strategy, and passage organization. She zeroes in on the redundancy and transition questions that trip up students who otherwise know their grammar, teaching them to edit like a writer tightening a draft rather than a test-taker second-guessing by ear. Her 35 ACT composite and 4.6 rating back up the approach.

Public policy writing at the college level is essentially an exercise in tight, rule-governed prose — every sentence has to be clear, concise, and structurally sound, which is exactly what the ACT English section tests at speed. Dana applies that editorial training to the rhetorical strategy and conciseness questions where students tend to lose the most points, teaching them to treat each passage as a draft that needs trimming rather than a puzzle to decode. Her perfect 36 ACT composite confirms the approach holds up under test conditions.

Punctuation rules, subject-verb agreement across long modifying phrases, and rhetorical strategy questions each require a different kind of attention on ACT English. Rhea tackles these by teaching students to read the surrounding sentences — not just the underlined portion — which is where most careless errors originate. Her 36 ACT composite means she's mastered the pacing and pattern recognition this section demands.

Scoring a perfect 36 ACT composite means Max didn't just survive the English section — he mastered its rhythm of rapid grammar decisions and rhetorical judgment calls under tight time pressure. His biology background might seem unrelated, but years of writing and editing research papers (including one headed for publication) built the kind of sentence-level precision that makes spotting redundancy, faulty transitions, and punctuation errors almost automatic. Rated 5.0 by students.

I am currently a resident physician at Northwestern Hospital.

The IB program drills a particular kind of writing discipline — structured arguments, precise language, relentless editing — and Vansh carried that training straight into his aerospace engineering work at Georgia Tech, where technical writing leaves zero room for ambiguity. That combination makes him especially sharp on the ACT English questions testing conciseness and sentence placement, where students need to cut wordiness and reorganize logic under time pressure rather than just fix punctuation. His 36 ACT composite and 5.0 rating back it up.

Most ACT English mistakes come down to three things: comma rules, pronoun agreement, and rhetorical ordering — and Emily zeroes in on whichever of those is costing a student the most points. Her 36 ACT composite came partly from understanding the test's patterns, like how "DELETE the underlined portion" is correct more often than students expect. She also draws on her experience facilitating English language discussion sessions to make grammar intuitions stick.

I am a 2023 graduate of the University of Notre Dame with a Finance/Economics major and a minor in Innovation and Entrepreneurship. I am a passionate student in the math and business realms, as I enjoy the intuitiveness of the former and the real-world potential of the latter. During classes in middle and high school, I developed a reputation of being a good source of help within my classes in a non-tutor capacity, and grew that into a peer tutor role a couple times a week during lunch my senior year of high school. What I hope to accomplish with my tutoring is ensure that you not only achieve your desired grade/score, but see how the different concepts relate to each other in the bigger picture. The more important part is to critically think about the subject matter in other, more unfamiliar contexts. Also, in my math subjects, I seek to provide personal secrets in realms including quicker computation strategies, unique acronyms for certain rules, and other intuitive shortcuts.

I am an undergraduate at Washington University in St. Louis majoring in Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology on the Premed track. I have two years worth of experience peer tutoring. I feel the most confident tutoring ACT preparation. During my time as a high school student, I worked from an ACT score of 25 to a 36 and developed many effective strategies that I will tailor to the students I tutor and understand the ins and outs of the test. In addition to working with high school peers, I have also enjoyed teaching private piano and violin lessons for elementary students. Helping people knock down their roadblocks is a passion of mine. Standardized tests and basic education may feel removed from our passions, but developing those foundations are essential for opening up opportunities and becoming capable of taking on our pursuits.

I'm Lizz, a middle school math teacher working in Chicago Public Schools. I love to see students go from describing themselves as "not a math person" to feeling like they meet exciting challenges in math and other parts of their lives. Even though I love working in the classroom, I feel like tutoring allows me to make more of an impact and connect with students.