a week ago
Four practice papers, each one scored and walked through inside the same week. My daughter came out of the last one in the top 10%.
Danielle W.
SAT
Marcus Bell
SAT reading and writing, 600s to 700s
Teaches high school
Online or at your table, from Philadelphia
Re-run open4.7(118)
From $48/hr
A fifty-minute lesson
First thirty minutes free
Ways to book Marcus Bell
A first lesson
The first half hour of any lesson is free. No card to hold it.
Free · 30 min
One lesson
Booked around the week. Nothing repeats, nothing renews.
$48 · 50 min
A weekly slot
The same hour every week, held until you give it up. Skip any week.
$48 · 50 min, weekly
A 10-lesson pack
Paid once, used whenever. 10 lessons for the price of 9.
$432 · 10 lessons
In Marcus’s words
A student stuck in the 600s is usually losing the same eight questions every time.
We mark them by type for two tests before we change anything about how they read.
10min
Bring last week's quiz, the homework that stalled or the syllabus. It gets read before anything else.
15min
You pick a question out of that pile and the two of you finish it together, out loud.
5min
A plan with the number of lessons written down, and no card asked for to hear it.
Who checked Marcus
Five checks, and the file says what each one found
About 11 applicants in a hundred clear all five. Open any of them to read what was actually on the paperwork.
Run on Marcus
Cleared
Photo ID
The person on the call is the person on the profile.
- On file
- Pennsylvania license, name matched
- Run by
- Persona, at application
- Method
- We match a government photo ID to the legal name on file.
Marcus’s background check is inside its yearly re-run. The one it replaces still stands, and the badge returns the day the new search lands. A check that lapses takes the profile down that day.
Subjects and levels
What Marcus teaches, and what a month of it costs
Every rate on Saal is the tutor’s own and the site adds nothing to it. Move the sliders to the shape your week actually has.
Subjects
- SATFull-length practice, timed, reviewed question by question.
- English & WritingEssays, close reading and a college application that sounds human.
Levels
What it comes to a month
Opens at Marcus’s own rate, and a pack is 10 lessons for the price of 9.
Lessons a week
Lesson length
Your tutor’s rate
$48/hr
$464/mo
8 lessons a month, at $58 each — a 60-minute lesson against a rate quoted for 50. A ten-lesson pack takes $58 off that.
Reviews
How Marcus scores, and what the tags keep saying
Only a student who booked and sat the lesson can leave a review. 118 of them have.
3 of 118 shown
4.7
118 reviews
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- 422
- 33
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- 11
Every one of them left after a lesson with Marcus
2 weeks ago
My son shuts down the moment he is timed. Starting untimed and adding the clock back one section at a time is what got him through a full paper.
Hannah K.
SAT
4 weeks ago
We graded my own answers against the rubric until I could see where the points sit. I lost eight marks to notation in February and none in May.
Sofia M.
SAT
Book a lesson
Marcus’s open hours for the next three weeks
Pick a slot, say what the lesson is for, and confirm. The first thirty minutes cost nothing and no card is asked for to hold them.
Marcus Bell
4.7 (118)
- Time
- June 8, 4:30 PM
- Length
- 30 minutes
- Goal
- Catch up
- First thirty minutes
- Free
- Any lesson after that
- $48/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
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Who students book when Marcus is full
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Nadine Brooks
Brooklyn· Online or in person
$48/hr
Essays, close reading and college applications
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