My instructor was Ilia Kolmagorov, and he was a really good teacher these past 8 weeks! He was able to engage the class very well despite the lack of interaction with students over the Zoom webinar. Although the classes are pretty long (3 hours two days a week!), Ilia was able to keep the class interesting with his fun humor. Apart from this, he was great at explaining all the SAT content, from Math to English. His process of working through every question was so helpful and definitely helped all of us to understand better.
I enrolled in Prep Expert's All-Access Plan because I needed help to improve my SAT score. Since I aspire to attend one of the prestigious United States Service Academies, I will need a very competitive SAT score. My first score was a 1340 on the paper SAT last year but on my first Digital SAT, I got a 1420! The next one after that...I got the exact same score, 1420, even after studying on my own for weeks. That's when I realized I needed professional tutoring, and my parents signed me up for Prep Expert. On all my SATs, my English score was in the mid-700s, but my Math score was much worse. No matter what I tried, I could not get past 700 on the Math section, even on Bluebook practice tests. My biggest problem was the hard math questions at the end of Module 2. That's why when I started this program 8 weeks ago, my focus was more on my Math, not really on my English.
However, in the past 8 weeks, my total score has improved significantly, both in the Math and English sections! One of the most helpful parts of the Prep Expert strategy is the repetition of many, many practice problems. This made me much better on the practice tests. As part of the homework every week, I had to take a full-length SAT practice test. Because of everything I had cumulatively learned from my classes and homework, my scores on the practice tests went up every week. I even got a 1590 on one of them!!! As I said before, my main focus was to improve Math, but through the program, my English score automatically went up too! Lately, I've been consistently getting perfect scores on the Math section on the practice tests. I think the biggest reason for this improvement was completing Prep Expert's Hard Math Quizzes for homework before every class. These are compilations of the hardest SAT Math questions, and they really helped me get better at the hard questions that I struggled with.
I will be taking the SAT later this month and due to the help from Prep Expert, I hope that it will be my last time taking it, hopefully scoring at least a 1550! Thank you to all the people behind this program and a BIG BIG thank you to my amazing instructor Ilia!!!