I am back in the United States, I work at Children's Defense Fund as the Youth Programs Associate. In my free time, I like to hike with my dog, read, and cook!

Scoring a 1570 SAT means David knows what it takes to move quickly through dense passages and pinpoint the evidence a question is actually asking for. He teaches a deliberate reading strategy for the SAT's passage types — literature, history, science — so students stop rereading and start eliminating wrong answers with confidence. Each session includes timed practice with immediate feedback on reasoning, not just answer choice.

I am a graduate of Stanford University, where I received a BS in Cognitive Science and an MS in Computer Science. After graduation, I spent a summer in Palestine, where I taught web development, app development, and entrepreneurship to a cohort of overenthusiastic high school students; now, I've moved halfway across the country from the Bay Area to the Twin Cities. From volunteering with organizations like Twin Cities Rise and The Mid-Continent Oceanographic Institute to checking out art institutions like the Walker and Mia, it's been such a wonderful time settling into this new place that I call home.

Most students lose SAT Reading points not because they can't read, but because they pick answers that sound right instead of answers supported by the passage. Vania, who earned a 1590 composite, teaches a disciplined evidence-matching approach — pairing every answer choice with a specific line or paragraph. She also tackles the paired-passage and data-interpretation questions that tend to eat up the most time.

The SAT Reading science passages trip up students who try to understand the experiments instead of just tracking the author's argument — Jaya's genetics major means she can teach the difference, showing where to extract what the passage claims versus what the science actually involves. Her 1530 composite and pre-med training in parsing dense research literature make her particularly quick at the paired-evidence questions, where she teaches students to treat each answer like a hypothesis that either matches a specific line or gets eliminated.

Scoring 1560 on the SAT, Abbey knows that the Reading section rewards a very specific skill: finding the one answer choice fully supported by the passage rather than the one that sounds right. She walks students through evidence-pairing strategies and passage annotation techniques that make even dense historical or scientific excerpts manageable under time pressure.

I am a rising senior at Pomona College, a small liberal arts college in California, majoring in Public Policy Analysis with a concentration in Economics and a minor in Mathematics. Born and raised just outside of Minneapolis, I am excited to be tutoring in the area. I've studied a variety of topics over the course of my academic career, but I feel especially confident in my knowledge base and tutoring ability in math, history, and standardized testing (especially the ACT).

Scoring 1500 on the SAT taught Marika that the Reading section rewards a specific kind of discipline: anchoring every answer to textual evidence rather than gut instinct. She breaks passages into argument structure, purpose, and tone, then teaches students to eliminate wrong answers systematically — especially on the paired-passage and evidence-support questions that trip up strong readers.

I'm more likely to give an answer quickly when a teacher asks a question if I have a habit of properly attuned instincts. So, if I want your confidence to grow, I need to redirect the water your instincts flow through to the proper conduits of careful thinking.

The SAT Reading section rewards a specific kind of discipline: answering based on what the passage actually says, not what seems reasonable. Cleo, who scored 1530 on the SAT, walks students through evidence-pairing questions and dual-passage comparisons with a method rooted in close reading and eliminating trap answers systematically.

The SAT Reading section buries answers in passage structure — how an author shifts tone between paragraphs, or where evidence for an inference actually lives. Shrey teaches a deliberate annotation method that keeps students from re-reading the same paragraph three times, a strategy he refined through his own 1530-scoring prep and years of running a tutoring nonprofit.