Award-Winning ACT English Tutors
serving Olympia, WA

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.

Scoring a 36 ACT composite while juggling a chemical engineering curriculum at Washington and Lee means Alex learned to read and edit fast — a skill that pays off on the English section's 75 questions in 45 minutes, where hesitation on any single punctuation or rhetoric question eats into the clock. His medical school training at Arizona adds another layer: writing and revising under pressure is now second nature, and he teaches the section's recurring patterns (verb-tense shifts, pronoun agreement, passage-level organization) as a systematic checklist rather than a feel-it-out exercise.

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.

Running through the Honors Program in Medical Education at Northwestern meant Anna was writing and editing scientific prose from her first undergraduate year — tightening arguments, cutting redundancy, and enforcing precise punctuation under deadline, which is essentially the ACT English section at higher speed. She scored a 36 ACT composite and teaches the rhetorical strategy questions (paragraph placement, writer's-goal prompts, transition logic) as structured decision trees rather than subjective judgment calls. Rated 5.0 by students.

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 Computational and Applied Mathematics. I've tutored introductory physics students for three years and enjoyed it thoroughly, as a chance to help other students while revisiting fundamental concepts to enhance my own knowledge. I'm eager to continue reaching out and helping students of math and physics to succeed and, furthermore, to appreciate the beauty and power of these subjects.

Punctuation and rhetorical strategy questions on ACT English trip students up for different reasons — one is about rules, the other is about intent. Eileen breaks each passage into those two modes, teaching comma and semicolon conventions alongside paragraph-level decisions like whether a sentence belongs or should be deleted. Her 36 ACT composite came partly from mastering exactly this kind of quick categorization.

The ACT English section looks deceptively easy until students realize it's testing precise grammar rules — comma splices, subject-verb agreement across long clauses, and rhetorical strategy questions that require reading like an editor. Aleeza earned a 36 composite and treats this section as a set of learnable patterns, drilling the specific conventions that appear most frequently so students stop second-guessing their answers.

A Creative Writing degree from Carnegie Mellon and induction into Sigma Tau Delta (the English honors society) meant Sydney spent four years dissecting sentence-level craft — parallelism, punctuation as pacing, cutting every unnecessary word — which is essentially what the ACT English section tests at speed across five passages. She scored a 35 ACT composite and brings a writer's instinct for why concise phrasing beats bloated alternatives, turning the rhetorical strategy questions from guesswork into quick editorial calls. Rated 4.9 by students.

I am a recent graduate of Cornell University, where I received a B.S. in Chemical Engineering and graduated Magna Cum Laude. Over the past several years, I have worked with students from diverse backgrounds and experiences tutoring thermodynamics (my personal favorite), chemistry, and math. I have also tutored in the past for ACT/SAT and other subjects such as history, but I am deeply passionate about science and engineering. I tend to push my students to understand conceptual topics, as opposed to rote or algorithmic learning. In my free time, I love to bake sourdough, learn about history, garden, and recently started biking again.

Comma rules, subject-verb agreement across long clauses, and rhetorical ordering questions make up the bulk of ACT English — and each one has a learnable pattern. Edward scored a 36 composite and approaches this section by drilling the specific grammar conventions that appear most frequently, then layering in the passage-level strategy questions that many students overlook. His background as a writer means he can explain why a rule exists, not just that it does.

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.

I am available to tutor in a broad range of subjects, though I am most passionate about Economics, History, and Civics. Please feel free to contact me and I would be happy to arrange a session.

I am a current sophomore at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where I am majoring in Biology as part of the 7 Year Accelerated Medical Program. I am also minoring in Healthcare Economics and Policy. My favorite subjects in school are Chemistry, Biology, and Math, but I also enjoy the process of writing and editing thought provoking essays. During high school, I spent time tutoring for the National Honor Society. My approach to tutoring is to teach the concepts in a simplistic manner and reinforcing the concepts while adding difficulty through effective practice problems. In my free time, I have recently found myself reading, working out, drawing, and spending time with my siblings.