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Nadine Brooks

Essays, close reading and college applications

Teaches middle school through adults

Online or at your table, from Brooklyn

5.0(121)

From $48/hr

A fifty-minute lesson

First thirty minutes free

Book

In Nadine’s words

Ten years marking essays for a Brooklyn high school.

We cut a draft down before we add anything to it, and most students find their argument in what is left.

  • 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 Nadine

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.

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Photo ID

The person on the call is the person on the profile.

On file
New York license, name matched
Run by
Persona, at application
Method
We match a government photo ID to the legal name on file.

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Subjects and levels

What Nadine teaches, and what a month of it costs

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What it comes to a month

Opens at Nadine’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 Nadine scores, and what the tags keep saying

Only a student who booked and sat the lesson can leave a review. 121 of them have.

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5.0

121 reviews

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Every one of them left after a lesson with Nadine

a week ago

Two of the three schools asked about her essay at interview. We started it in July, which is the part I would tell any other parent.

Danielle W.

Danielle W.

English & Writing

2 weeks ago

My daughter writes fast and edits nothing. She reads a paragraph out loud now before she keeps it, and her grade moved from a C+ to a B+.

Amara O.

Amara O.

English & Writing

4 weeks ago

The timed essay was the part I kept failing. We built one outline I could write in four minutes, and the exam essay came back a 22 out of 24.

Priyanka S.

Priyanka S.

English & Writing

Book a lesson

Nadine’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.

Nadine Brooks

Nadine Brooks

5.0 (121)

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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