The Best SAT Writing Tutors in Burbank, CA

I hold active, clear, teaching credentials issued by the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing in the English language arts, social sciences, and the "Diamond" in Mathematics. I successfully taught over 25 years in public schools, both middle schools and high schools, inclusive of every subject offered in the... read more

In 2006, I began my teaching career as an art teacher and administrator at an arts program for adults with developmental disabilities. After many years in this field I went back to school for my Master's with an eye on teaching art at the college level. I started tutoring with Wyzant at the beginning of grad school and... read more

First, my credentials: I have a BA, MA and PhD in Classical Studies. I have over ten years' worth of experience teaching Latin and Greek at the collegiate and middle school levels. I have also taught numerous Classics courses in translation, such as Classical mythology and Greek & Roman epic. I also have experience with... read more

I got my start at Huntington Learning Center and Perfect Score Academy. I taught on the floor, in a classroom and one-on-one. I break down the question types and how to tailor the best strategies to each student. I then learned the Tier One curriculum on how to find similar examples to each question type. I also have a... read more

I was an SAT essay writing rater for the College Board. read more

For the past six years, I've scored a perfect 800 on SAT verbal and helped my high-scoring students finally reach the 99th percentile to be competitive at top colleges. You will struggle to break 750 verbal if you approach SAT Writing & Language by only trusting "what sounds right" or "what... read more

History is fun! I didn't think so when I was a kid. But I learned the secret in college and now I'm hooked -- and I promise, you will be too. After receiving a BA, MA and doing work towards a Phd in history at UCLA, I started writing history books (the "Nutshell Notes" series), taught American history in... read more

The SAT has changed a good deal since the revised exam came out in 2016. It's a bit more analytically-focused, and it requires you to really dig deep into the argumentative and rhetorical elements of a passage and how it's put together--in that way it's a preparation for the kind of reading you'd expect to do in... read more

Hi, I’m Alyssa! I have extensive experience teaching and writing at the Ivy League level. I started peer-tutoring writing as a sophomore at Columbia—in fact, I loved teaching so much that I went on to pursue my doctorate with the aim of becoming a professor of Art History. As a PhD student/Teaching Assistant at the... read more

...tutoring sessions. Drawing on my own experience and the work of other test prep experts, I've put together a simple but powerful system for quickly increasing SAT Writing & Language scores.... read more