SAT & LSAT tutor who believes the exam is a puzzle to be solved.

William O.

Hi! I'm Will. I scored a 1560 on the SAT and a 180 on the LSAT (99th percentile), and I tutor the SAT, ACT and LSAT, both for a test prep company and with my own students. I see these tests as puzzles that anyone can solve with the right strategy and enough practice. Each section is built from a small set of question types that keep coming back, and once you learn to recognize them, the test starts to feel far more predictable.

For the SAT and ACT, I usually start with grammar, since that's where scores tend to climb fastest. It's my specialty, and nearly all of it comes back to the clause, so we begin there and build out to punctuation and agreement. Reading is about habits, like reading the question first and predicting an answer before you look at the choices. Math is more about content, so we take it one category at a time, and wherever I can, I tie concepts to simple stories that help them stick. For the LSAT, I teach a handful of strategies that carry across the whole test. In Reading Comprehension, how you read matters most, and in Logical Reasoning, a few tools like elimination and falsification handle the vast majority of questions.

In our first session, we'll go through a recent practice test together to see where your points are going, then build a plan around your goals and schedule. I draw on official practice material, The College Panda's math workbook and Erica Meltzer's grammar books. I graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Virginia Tech. I also speak Spanish, so I'm happy to talk with families in either language.