Schoolhouse-Certified SAT R&W Tutor, 760 SAT R&W, UC Berkeley

Ibrahim W.

I'm currently an undergraduate at UC Berkeley majoring in Cognitive Science, and I graduated from Harvard-Westlake School. I scored a 760 on the SAT Reading & Writing section, and I self-studied for both AP English Language and AP English Literature during my junior year of high school, earning 4s on both exams.
In summer 2024 I co-designed and led a seven-session Reading & Writing bootcamp for the August SAT. Sessions were online and small-group, with high school students joining from across the world. Many were preparing in their second language, which meant working through passages at a different pace and being more deliberate about vocabulary and sentence structure than a native speaker would need. Students left 25 ratings across the series, 16 Helpful and 9 Super Helpful, with no negative reviews. I've also worked one-on-one with students on Reading & Writing prep.

Most of my work is diagnosis. Students rarely miss questions for the reason they think they do, and the fix is usually narrower than expected: one recurring trap, over-reading, or rushed elimination. Sessions are student-driven. You do the work, I ask why, and if you can't explain your reasoning back to me, we're not done with it. It's slower than simply giving you the answer, but it's the kind of learning that sticks when you're taking the exam. Finding where the gap actually is and building the scaffolding around it is most of what I'm good at.

Whether you're aiming to break 700 or build a stronger foundation, we'll identify the habits holding you back and replace them with ones that hold up on test day.