Who gets in
Five checks, none of them optional.
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4.821,504 reviews, each from a paying student
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2,180 tutors, each one cleared five checks before their profile went live. Online or at your own table, in 340 US cities.
First 30 minutes free
VerifiedAll five checks cleared
Nora Haddad
Chemistry, honors through college general
Chicago · Online or in person
- Typical reply
- 1 hr
- Next open slot
- Today, 6:00 PM
- Lesson rate
- $46/hr
In their words
4.8
“Nadine cut my first draft in half and the essay that came out sounded more like me, not less. Two of the three schools asked about it at interview.”
Amara O. on Nadine Brooks, College essays
How much they’ve taught
Drag the marker to set a floor.
970
2902,110 lessons
50%of the roster
Nobody starts at zero. The lightest file here is 290 lessons.
The house rules
Four numbers, and the rule that makes each one true
The rules are what a marketplace decides once. The numbers are what they add up to this morning.
Nothing to cancel
No membership and no minimum. Book a lesson when you want one, and nothing renews after it.
A review costs a lesson
Only a student who booked, paid for and turned up can leave one. Nothing else opens the form.
The rate is the rate
The tutor sets it and keeps all of it. No service fee, no cut, nothing added at checkout.
Live profiles this morning, across twelve US metros and online.
2,180 tutors
The weighted mean of 21,504 ratings, five stars down to one.
4.8 out of 5
The middle of the roster's rates, for a fifty-minute lesson.
$48/lesson
The median wait on a first message. Nine in ten come the same day.
2 hours to a reply
Pick a subject
Twelve subjects, priced and counted
Each tile carries the number of tutors teaching that subject and the lowest rate any of them charges. Filter by the level you are buying for.
Algebra
412 tutors · from $28/hr
Geometry
268 tutors · from $28/hr
Pre-calculus
231 tutors · from $34/hr
Calculus
197 tutors · from $38/hr
Statistics
164 tutors · from $36/hr
Biology
221 tutors · from $32/hr
Chemistry
186 tutors · from $34/hr
Physics
143 tutors · from $38/hr
English & Writing
356 tutors · from $26/hr
Reading
240 tutors · from $24/hr
Spanish
178 tutors · from $26/hr
French
124 tutors · from $30/hr
Test prep
Priced by the test, not by the level
How it works
Three steps, and the first one costs nothing
3 shortlisted
Tue · 5:00 PMHeld weekly
Shortlist a few tutors
Filter by subject, level, rate and the hours you can actually meet. Save the ones worth a look and put up to three side by side.
Everything on a profile is free to read
Credentials, what each check proved, every review.
Three tutors, one table
Rate, rating, next free slot, first-lesson terms.
The shortlist survives a closed tab
Saved in your browser, not an account.
Search the roster
Judge a tutor before you message them
Narrow the list to the people who teach your subject at your level, in the hours you can meet. Every card carries the rate, the rating and the checks that were run.
What verified means
Five gates, and the file says what each one found
Every tutor on this site cleared all five before their profile went live. Most people who apply never clear them all.
89
Of every 100 who apply, stopped at one of the five gates. The 11 left are the ones you can book.
How each gate is runMateo Solano, who cleared all five. Every tutor records an intro before the profile opens.
Photo IDThe person on the call is the person on the profile.Under an hour
We match a government photo ID to the legal name on file. Run by Persona, at application.
Degree or transcriptThey hold a degree in the subject they charge to teach.Three to ten days
The awarding institution confirms it to us in writing. Run by National Student Clearinghouse.
Criminal background checkNo county, state or federal record bars this work.Two to five days
A national search, re-run every twelve months. Run by Checkr, yearly.
Subject testThey can work the problems a student will bring them.Ninety minutes, timed
A timed test in the subject, scored by a senior tutor. Run by Saal senior tutors.
First three lessonsThe teaching holds up with a real student in the room.Three weeks
We record them, watch them and sign them off before it goes live. Run by Saal review team.
In the lesson
An hour on the board, and everything it sends home
A board you both write on
The room opens 15 minutes early, and whatever either of you puts on the board stays on it. A lesson here is a page you can go back to, not a call that ends.
A write-up by the evening
Nobody takes minutes. The board, the marked work and the tutor’s notes come back as one page — what you covered, what went wrong, what to practise.
Then the week does the rest
Practice set — Six questions the same shape as the ones that went wrong, and nothing else in the set — no revision sheet, no filler.
Book a first lesson
Pick a time with Nora and pay nothing for it
This is the real booking flow, running on Nora Haddad’s open hours. Choose a slot, say what the lesson is for, and confirm.
Nora Haddad
4.9 (138)
- Time
- June 8, 4:30 PM
- Length
- 30 minutes
- Goal
- Catch up
- First thirty minutes
- Free
- Any lesson after that
- $46/hr
- Charged today
- $0
- No card is asked for until you book a paid lesson.
- A paid lesson is refundable for 24 hours after it ends.
June 8 – 14
Rates by level
What a tutor costs, by the year you are in
Every band is what the whole marketplace charges today, per fifty-minute lesson. Nothing is added on top, so the figure on a profile is the figure you pay.
The full price pagetwelve weeks later
Three numbers, each with the students it came from
Saal students only — not a national average, and not a study we commissioned. We measure the twelve weeks after a first paid lesson.
Grade levels moved in twelve weeks, from 3,180 students at one lesson a week.
1.4 levels
SAT points, from 1,024 students who sat the official test before and after.
+120 points
Course grades up a whole letter in one term, from 4,610 students, graded by their school.
78%
Saal students · twelve weeks · updated each term
What students wrote
21,504 reviews, and every one came after a paid lesson
A student who booked and turned up can leave one. Nobody else can, and nothing is taken down for being unkind.
4.8
21,504 reviews
- 518,100
- 42,700
- 3480
- 2130
- 194
Left by students who paid for the lesson
- a week ago
My son went in at a D and finished the semester at a B minus. Marisol never once made him feel behind, which is the part I had given up on.
Danielle W.
Algebra II · Marisol Reyes
- 2 weeks ago
Went 1280 to 1440 over eleven weeks. Theo made me redo the same four question types until I stopped guessing, and I got back forty minutes of the test.
Marcus T.
SAT · Theo Alvarez
- 3 weeks ago
Mateo graded my free-response the way a reader would and showed me where the points actually sit. I lost eight marks on my mock to notation alone.
Hannah K.
AP Physics C · Mateo Solano
FAQ
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