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“Practice has been done question by question and never against a clock.”
A timed diagnostic
A full practice test under real conditions before anything is taught, because a plan built on a guess about weaknesses is a wasted month.
SAT tutors
204
SAT tutors on Saal
$45/hr
Lowest rate anyone charges
Scored 400 to 1600. Next national date March 14.
A test of a narrow set of skills under time pressure, which is good news: it is more coachable than school, and the score moves for almost everyone who does the work.
High
What you’ll work on
Five things people say before they book.
One of them is usually the reason. The topic underneath is what a tutor would put the first month into.
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“The first passages are careful and the last one is guessed.”
Reading and writing
Evidence questions, the grammar rules the test actually repeats, and the pacing that leaves time for the last passage.
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“Every question gets the calculator, including the ones that are faster by hand.”
The math module
Algebra and data analysis at the test's own pace, plus the calculator decisions that save thirty seconds a question.
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“The two modules are prepared for as if they were the same test.”
The adaptive second module
How the digital test decides what to show you next, and what that means for how the first module is paced.
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“Practice tests get scored and never get reviewed.”
Reviewing a practice test
The part that produces the score. Every wrong answer categorised — content, careless, or ran out of time — because those need three different fixes.
None of them quite it?
Bring the syllabus, the textbook or the last score report to a first lesson. Every SAT tutor here plans against what you actually have, not against a standard course.
How a first lesson is runWho teaches it
SAT, taught by 3 of these 204.
In whichever order you find useful. Thirty minutes with any of them is free, so meeting two before you choose costs nothing but the evening.
What it costs
Priced by level, not by subject.
Tutors set their own rate and Saal adds nothing on top of it. These are the bands they set it inside, the same in every subject, and the lowest anyone charges to teach SAT is $45/hr.
Move or cancel any lesson up to twelve hours ahead at no charge, and the card is charged the morning after a lesson happens. Packages and refunds.
Test prep
$62/hr
what most tutors charge here
Timed practice, review sessions and the pacing work, priced as test prep rather than as a weekly lesson.
Lessons a week
Lesson length
Your tutor’s rate
$62/hr
$592/mo
8 lessons a month, at $74 each — a 60-minute lesson against a rate quoted for 50. A ten-lesson pack takes $74 off that.
Your first thirty minutes
Thirty free minutes, and this is what they are for.
01
Bring a practice score
Any full test, even an old one. Without a baseline the first session is a conversation rather than a plan.
The terms, in full
- Free
- 30 minutes
- No card asked for
02
Review five wrong answers
Sorted into content, careless and timing. The proportions decide what the whole program looks like.
It will be one of these five
- A timed diagnostic
- Reading and writing
- The math module
- The adaptive second module
- Reviewing a practice test
Questions
What people ask before they book.
Nearby
Where people go next.
The rest of Test prep first, then whatever else is taught at the same levels.
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