Private SAT / PSAT Class

Learn to beat the digital SAT on your schedule.

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SAT Scores up at least 100 points - guaranteed, with no fine print.

What's included

The private class is our full SAT and PSAT curriculum, delivered one-on-one and adapted to your student. In person, virtual, or a mix - you decide.

Seven private sessions of instruction. Not seven blocks of supervised practice. Our instructors teach the strategies, walk students through the material, and target the specific areas where the student needs the most work. Sessions are scheduled around your student's life rather than a fixed class time.
Practice tests. A baseline before the class begins, and another during the program to measure progress. More are available if you want them.
A focused homework plan. Quality prep that respects your student's time, not rote repetition designed to fill hours.
Our own curriculum. Not a workbook licensed from another company or College Board. Every lesson, drill, and explanation in the binder was written by our instructors based on what we've seen actually increase scores over twenty years of teaching the SAT and PSAT.
The full MTAT guarantee: SAT scores up at least 100 points, with no fine print. One of the few prep program guarantees that doesn't bury the conditions in an asterisk.
Lifetime perks. Free weekend tutorials, unlimited refresher sessions, and discounted private tutoring for any future one-on-one help, all on the same terms as our group class students.

We generally recommend building the seven sessions around a specific test date a couple of months out, so the work compounds toward a real, measurable score. That said, the schedule is yours. Sessions happen when your student is available, not when a group class is meeting.

Before you decide

Do you need a private class?

Often, a group class is better.

For most families, a group class is the better starting point. Really.

The class pace works for most students, the social dynamic helps, and the price is lower. We say this on the assumption that you might be considering both options, and we'd rather point you toward the one that actually fits than the one we make more money on.

A private class is worth the premium when one of three things is true:

Your student's schedule won't fit a fixed group class time.
You want the material tailored to your student's specific strengths and weaknesses, rather than calibrated for a typical class mix.
You want one dedicated instructor who learns how your student thinks over the course of the program.

If one of those describes your situation, the private class is built for it. If none of them does, our group classes are an excellent choice and a better value.

The Instructors

In a private class, the instructor is the class.

Most prep companies hire based on test scores. It's not enough.

We hire high-scorers, too, but that's just the start. A great test-taker isn't automatically a great teacher, so we also look for communication skills, patience, and the ability to explain a problem clearly from more than one direction. And it's not enough to just have been a former student of ours or to have attended a great college. Every instructor goes through weeks of training and mock classes before they ever teach a paying student, whether they attended Harvard, another one of the Ivies, or a top public flagship. It matters.

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Real results

What sort of increase can we expect?

Honest answer? It depends on the student. But we've served families across DFW since 2007, and in that time, our students' score gains have run roughly 50% higher than the industry-typical score increase. Schools we partner with have higher average scores. We've taught thousands of students. We've had dozens earn perfect scores. Our former students have gone on to Stanford, Yale, and the public Ivies, among others.

We guarantee a 100-point increase or better on the SAT/PSAT, but many of our students see significantly higher increases. Have questions? Reach out - we'd be happy to answer them.

We don't do inflated score gain numbers.

We measure improvement against the student's actual official baseline score, not against a "diagnostic" we engineered to be harder than the real test or a test someone took freshman year. Early or deflated baselines produce inflated gains, and the industry has used this trick for decades to manufacture impressive-looking results. Our increases show up where it matters: on college applications.

No Predatory Prep

Here's what we don't do.

Phony waitlists, "limited" slots, or other FOMO marketing. Parents need the best prep for their student, not a used car sales pitch.
Long term contracts. If a prep company was effective, they wouldn't need you to pre-commit before you see results.
Hundreds of hours of unneeded prep. If we thought more was more, we'd offer it. It doesn't, and it wastes time better spent elsewhere.
A too-early start. Early prep makes prep increases look larger, but it doesn't actually change the final result.
Inflated score gains. We measure against a real, official test. No way-too-early or too-difficult "diagnostic" tests.
Fine print guarantees. If you don't go up, you don't pay.

Do we need more prep? An early start?

Nope. Seriously.

We're a test prep company: if we genuinely thought that students need more test prep or an early start, we'd sell it to you. It doesn't, and so we don't. Here's the timeline we recommend.

There's a lot of misinformation and FOMO marketing out there in the test prep industry, and we put together a long guide about the research and red flags to watch for. The short version, though, is that students typically see swiftly diminishing returns with test prep, and prep is most effective when it leads directly into a real, official test. That's why our classes are built around students registered for a specific test date.

Taking another test and want to try to improve your score more? Refresher sessions and tutorials are free.

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