I am currently a fourth year medical student at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and graduated Suma Cum Laude from Yeshiva College with a BA in Biology and Music. As a Writing Center tutor, I worked with undergraduate and graduate students looking to improve their writing, and have also tuto...

ACT English questions test grammar and rhetorical strategy in rapid succession, and Deanna tackles both by teaching students to hear the logic of a sentence — where a comma disrupts flow, why a transition word changes meaning, how concision improves clarity. Her 33 ACT composite and experience teach...

Scoring a 33 ACT composite gave Gabriela firsthand insight into the English section's emphasis on rhetorical strategy and punctuation rules — especially comma splices, apostrophe usage, and transition logic that trip up even strong readers. She breaks each passage into a system of quick decisions so...

I am a Neuroscience and Behavior major at Columbia University. Although my major is centered in the STEM field, I am also passionate about human rights work, global engagement, and local outreach. While my future plans are subject to change, I see myself continuing in academia, going to medical scho...

Punctuation rules and rhetorical effectiveness questions trip up different types of students on ACT English, and Richard diagnoses which category is costing points before drilling the fixes. His 36 ACT composite means he's navigated every question type — comma splices, dangling modifiers, transition...

I'm not tutoring, I love walking through New York for design inspiration and taking carpentry, metalworking, and illustration classes.

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 con...

I am an aspiring applied mathematician, with particular interest in image processing and climate science. I graduated in May 2017 from Washington University in St. Louis with a bachelor's in physics and mathematics, and am beginning a PhD program in September 2017 at the University of Chicago in Com...

After earning a perfect 36 on the ACT, Vivian developed a systematic method for the English section that sorts its 75 questions into a handful of recurring patterns: punctuation rules, pronoun agreement, sentence placement, and rhetorical strategy. She drills students on recognizing each pattern ins...

Scoring a perfect 36 ACT composite means Sharan didn't just survive the English section — she mastered the specific rhythm of its 75 questions in 45 minutes, where hesitating on even a few rhetorical strategy questions can tank your pacing. Her premed coursework at Cornell keeps her writing tight an...

Running a tutoring program at a Boston charter school meant Liz spent years watching middle schoolers make the exact same grammar mistakes the ACT English section exploits — subject-verb disagreement buried inside long sentences, comma splices connecting independent clauses, and transitions that don...

Michelle's background spans religious studies, literature, and college essay coaching — years of reading arguments closely and editing for clarity, which is the exact muscle the ACT English section tests under a 45-minute clock. She zeroes in on the rhetorical strategy questions (paragraph placement...

Scoring a 36 ACT composite means Robert didn't just survive the English section's 45-minute sprint — he mastered the pacing and rule-application that turn it into one of the easiest places to gain points. He zeroes in on the verb tense and pronoun agreement questions that students often overthink, t...

I'm Solange - a recent graduate from Harvard where I studied Sociology & Women's Studies. I've been tutoring for eight years now, and have worked with a wide range of ages and in a wide range of subjects. Some of my specialties are college prep/test taking II worked in the admissions office on campu...

The ACT English section moves fast — 75 questions in 45 minutes — so recognizing punctuation errors, redundancy, and sentence-level organization has to become almost automatic. Nicholas treats each grammar rule as a small logical system, drawing on his linguistics training to show students the patte...