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Kiersten
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Kiersten
BA University
1+ Years Tutoring

The SAT Reading section isn't really about reading — it's about quickly identifying what the passage is doing and finding the one answer choice supported by specific lines of text. As a screenwriting major at USC who dissects written arguments daily, Kiersten teaches students to read for structure and evidence rather than getting lost in dense historical or scientific passages. Her 1550 SAT score speaks to how well that approach works in practice.

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Zhenrui
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Zhenrui
BA Columbia University in the City of New York
1+ Years Tutoring

I am a BS/MS student at Columbia University studying Electrical engineering and also following the premed curriculum. After my undergraduate, I hope to pursue an MD-PhD and work in a teaching/research hospital as a physician-engineer.

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Brian
PhD University of California-Santa Cruz • BA California Institute of Technology
9+ Years Tutoring

I'm a recent graduate of the California Institute of Technology in Economics and Computer Science. I was also accepted at Harvard, Princeton, MIT, and Stanford. I have a broad range of interests spanning science, math, engineering, social science, the humanities, the arts, and athletics (I also played on the Caltech basketball team). My background allows me to tutor general college prep, especially the SAT, ACT and the GRE. I love to teach analytical thinking, ranging from advanced Math and Physics to strategies for understanding literature and developing arguments.

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Gray
BA University of Virginia-Main Campus
9+ Years Tutoring

I am a recent graduate of the University of Virginia living in Los Angeles. While at UVA, I earned a 3.95 GPA and graduated my major program with Highest Distinction. I have eight years of tutoring experience (including starting my own tutoring program) and have worked with students of all ages. I'm looking forward to helping people with their studies in any way I can.

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Ari
BA Wesleyan University
9+ Years Tutoring

Writing a 50-page epic poem for a senior thesis at Wesleyan meant Ari had to read deeply across genres — geobiology papers, family archives, literary canon — and synthesize them into a single coherent argument, which is essentially what the SAT Reading section tests in miniature on every passage. That cross-disciplinary close reading, paired with a 1590 composite, makes him particularly sharp on the science and history-document passages where students struggle to track an author's reasoning through unfamiliar subject matter. Rated 4.9 by students.

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Naama
BA New York University
14+ Years Tutoring

A self-described linguistics nerd with studies at NYU and a 1570 SAT composite, Naama approaches the Reading section the way a linguist dissects language — tracking how word choice, sentence structure, and rhetorical moves signal an author's real argument. She's especially sharp on the history-document passages where archaic phrasing throws students off, teaching them to decode unfamiliar prose by anchoring to context clues rather than modern assumptions. Her background in multiple languages — Russian, Hebrew, and Spanish — gives her an unusual sensitivity to how meaning shifts with connotation.

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Jack
Current Undergrad, Double in Integrative Biology and Anthropology University of California-Berkeley
10+ Years Tutoring

I'm an undergraduate at UC Berkeley with two years currently under my belt and the intention to double major in anthropology and biology. My focus is on understanding human biological and social origins through analysis of human artifacts, biological remains, and environmental reconstruction, with a parallel interest in preservation strategies. Outside of academics, I'm passionate about all manner of developing sciences and technologies as well as current events and the history behind them.

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Michael
BA New York University
1+ Years Tutoring

Training as an actor at NYU's Atlantic Acting School means Michael spent years doing script analysis — breaking down a writer's intent, subtext, and rhetorical shifts passage by passage, which maps directly onto what the SAT Reading section actually tests. With a 1500 composite, he teaches students to read for an author's purpose and tone the way an actor reads for motivation, making the inference and "main idea" questions feel less like guesswork. Rated 4.8 by students.

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Sarah
BA New York University
9+ Years Tutoring

Journalism training at NYU teaches you to read like a fact-checker — verifying claims against evidence, catching when a source hedges versus commits, and distinguishing what's stated from what's implied — which is essentially what every SAT Reading question asks. Sarah brings that editorial instinct to the paired-evidence questions and science passages, where students lose points by answering from memory of the passage instead of anchoring to specific lines. Her 1600 SAT composite and 4.9 student rating back up the approach.

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Jerome
BA University of California-Berkeley
9+ Years Tutoring

I'm Jerome and I hope I can help in your academic journey. As someone who's received tutoring before, I hope I can help students, not only learn the subject matter, but the study and thinking skills to succeed academically. By learning the skills, you can gain the confidence to pursue other endeavors. Don't give up. Ask for help. We'll succeed together.

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Alexander
MS The Juilliard School • BA La Sierra University
1+ Years Tutoring

The SAT Reading section rewards a specific kind of discipline: tracking how authors build arguments across paired passages, identifying evidence that actually supports a claim, and resisting the pull of answer choices that sound right but don't hold up. Alexander scored a 1570 SAT and brings the same precision he developed through dual degrees in mathematics and music — both fields where careful, close reading of complex material is non-negotiable.

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Neunika
BA University of California-Davis
9+ Years Tutoring

I am passionate about living life to the fullest and making a difference in the lives of others.

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