SAT Tutoring, One Student at a Time

Tutoring is sold in packages rather than by the hour. Most families start with a ten-hour package, paid half at the start and half halfway through. There is a separate four-hour crash course for a test date one to three weeks out, and reduced rates for small groups of two to four students. There are no registration, materials or card fees, and no contract. We quote the figures on the intro call, before anyone has committed to anything, and again after the free sessions if you want them, when you will know what your child actually needs.

Yes. After a short call, your child takes a full official practice test at home in their own time, and then we spend two full one-hour sessions on what it showed. No card and no deposit for any of it. If you decide it is not the right fit, you tell us and that is the end of it.

Your child gets one tutor and keeps that tutor. No assistants, no rotating roster, and nobody they have not already met. The person who teaches the two free sessions is the person who teaches every week after. Every tutor is on this page with their name and face before they teach anybody, and you meet yours in the first free session.

No. We have only been tracking results formally since this year, and we would rather not advertise an average score gain we cannot properly back up yet. During the free sessions we can walk you through the tracking for a current student, with the name left off, so you can see what progress has actually looked like.

A laptop or tablet with Bluebook installed, which is free from College Board, and about two and a quarter hours in one sitting. No printing, no proctor, and no cost. We will send the instructions and tell you which form to take, so nobody has to work out which of them is the right one.

Sightline Prep is based in Cleveland and teaches online, so we work with students anywhere in Ohio and across the country. Current students are in Minnesota, Massachusetts and Texas. Sessions run on Google Meet, so your time zone is the only thing we need to work around and nobody has to drive.

Evenings and weekends, mostly. Most students do two to three hours a week, split however suits them, and if there is a long run-up to the test date, an hour a week can be enough. We build the schedule around school, sports and everything else on the calendar rather than the other way around.

Yes. The adaptive two-module format in Bluebook, including how to use Desmos on the math sections. It is the only version of the SAT we teach.

Yes, though the SAT is the focus and where the tracking runs deepest. If your child took the ACT at school, as most Ohio districts give it, that sitting is a useful baseline, and the intro call is the place to talk through which test suits them. We can work on either.

Official College Board forms for anything we score. Third-party tests are scored on curves that can be off by 50 to 200 points, so a single score from one does not tell you much. We do use third-party questions, but for topic drills rather than for measuring where a student is.

Every question your child attempts, in a session or in homework, is recorded with what it tested, how long it took and whether they felt sure. That builds into the record we plan from: which misses were careless and which were confident, where pace is off the official target, and which skills are mastered or still fragile. Session recordings and written summaries sit alongside it. You see the same record on a parent progress page, and the platform section above shows what the tutor sees.

No, but it changes what is worth buying. A full package would not finish in time, so for a test one to three weeks out we offer a four-hour crash course: one-on-one, built around the student's latest practice score report, covering every skill on the test in a set order, with the platform and a direct line to their tutor until test day. It works for the PSAT/NMSQT too.

No. Homework opens from a private link, the parent progress page is a private link, and neither needs a password. The only accounts are on the tutor side. It also means there is nothing for a student to lose or forget.

Give us 24 hours notice and we will move the session at no charge. Inside 24 hours, it comes out of the package.

You get written updates through the package, covering the trajectory so far and what has improved and what has not, and you can see the tracking yourself any time on the parent progress page. Whether the score itself has moved depends on where your child started, how close the test date is, and how much of the homework gets done.

Use the Get started form, or email us. We will set up a short call to hear what is going on and answer your questions, including what it costs. After that your child takes a full official practice test at home, and we spend two free hours going through what it showed. You decide from there, and nothing is owed unless you choose to carry on.