Jake A.
Private tutor in Santa Monica, CA
Education
International Business and Marketing major, Pepperdine University, 2010
Experience
I began tutoring in 2007 in my sophomore year of college to pay my way through college at Pepperdine University. I had quite a bit of free time since I was slated to finish my degree in 2 years due to the number of credits I had accumulated through AP credits and the college courses I had been taking at UC, Riverside starting my 8th grade summer. I began tutoring specifically for the SAT / ACT back in 2012 and partnered / trained with a Princeton Review Master Trainer of 15 years who had previously trained most of the Princeton Review’s Southern California team and had run his own prep business in Newport for 8 years. We were in business together for about 1.5 years before he decided to pursue a separate career in Hollywood as a screenwriter. Just to ballpark students who just show up to tutoring, but aren’t very engaged with the process can expect an average improvement of around 3-4 points on the ACT and 150-200 points on the SAT. However, in students who have been diligent in working on the customized prep assignments I give outside of tutoring have been able to achieve pretty outstanding results, 5+ points on the ACT and 200+ on the SAT. The largest improvement I’ve been able to help a student achieve has been 11 points on the ACT and 400 points on the New SAT.
Availability
Any day at any time
Can Meet
Up to 30 minutes away for no additional charge
Hobbies
In my free time I love to read, hike, cook and go on long bike rides.
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