I'm not tutoring, I love walking through New York for design inspiration and taking carpentry, metalworking, and illustration classes.

Reading four dense passages in 35 minutes requires a method, not just strong reading skills. Dana's policy studies trained her to extract arguments and evidence from complex texts fast — exactly the skill the ACT Reading section rewards, especially on the social science and humanities passages. Her 36 ACT composite came from treating each passage like a briefing document: identify the claim, locate the support, move on.

I'm Solange - a recent graduate from Harvard where I studied Sociology & Women's Studies. I've been tutoring for eight years now, and have worked with a wide range of ages and in a wide range of subjects. Some of my specialties are college prep/test taking II worked in the admissions office on campus); social sciences; and literature/writing.

I am currently interviewing for medical school for matriculation in August 2017.

Reading comprehension on the ACT isn't really about understanding — it's about retrieving specific evidence under a brutal time constraint of roughly 8.5 minutes per passage. Carmen, who earned a 35 composite and holds a degree in literature, teaches students to adjust their reading speed by passage type, skimming natural science differently than they'd read prose fiction. That strategic flexibility is what turns a good reader into a high scorer.

The ACT Reading section isn't really about reading — it's about quickly identifying what each question is actually asking and locating evidence under time pressure. Philip scored a 34 ACT composite and teaches a passage-mapping strategy that cuts down on re-reading and keeps students moving through all four passages with time to spare. His background in writing and linguistics sharpens his ability to break down the inference and tone questions that trip most students up.

The ACT Reading section gives students 35 minutes for four dense passages, so speed and strategy matter as much as comprehension. Laura, who scored a 35 composite, teaches a passage-mapping technique that lets students locate answers quickly without rereading entire paragraphs. Her literature and French language studies sharpen the close-reading instincts she brings to every practice set.

I am a current undergraduate student at the Macaulay Honors College at Hunter College, where I received a full tuition merit scholarship. I am pursuing a Bachelor of Arts in Biochemistry, as well as minoring in English. For years, I have tutored high school students in preparation for New York State Regents Exams, as well as elementary school and middle school students, mainly in English, Mathematics, and Biology. I enjoy exposing students to different learning techniques to allow them to discover their unique learning style. I find that this is especially important for younger students, who benefit from visuals, hands-on interaction, and interesting analogies. Thus, I customize my teaching methods to each individual student.

The ACT Reading section gives you roughly 8 minutes per passage, which means raw reading speed matters less than knowing what to look for before you start. Sonali teaches a passage-mapping technique that lets students locate evidence for inference and tone questions without rereading entire paragraphs. Her 35 composite and 5.0 client rating speak to how well the approach translates to real score gains.

Most ACT Reading struggles come down to time — students understand the passages but can't answer 40 questions in 35 minutes without rushing. Andrew, who earned a 35 ACT and studied English at Amherst College, teaches a passage-mapping technique that cuts down on re-reading and makes inference questions less ambiguous. He also digs into the differences between the prose fiction, social science, humanities, and natural science passages so students know what each one demands.

Sociology trained Reid to read like a researcher — pulling an author's thesis out of layered evidence and distinguishing what's explicitly argued from what's merely suggested, which is precisely what the ACT Reading section's inference and purpose questions demand. His 32 ACT composite and PhD-level academic reading habits mean he can show students how to quickly map the argument structure of social science and humanities passages before touching a single question. That structural approach turns time-consuming re-reads into efficient, targeted evidence hunts.

Reading comprehension on the ACT isn't about being a fast reader — it's about knowing what the questions are actually asking and where to find the evidence. Rachel's training in history and comparative literature means she's spent years pulling arguments out of dense texts under time pressure. She teaches students to attack each passage type differently, from the prose fiction opener to the natural science closer.

Reading comprehension on the ACT is really about speed and strategy — deciding how much of each passage to read closely versus skim, and learning to match answer choices back to specific lines. Maya scored a 34 composite and brings a Yale literature background to the dual-passage and prose fiction sections that tend to eat up students' time.

Reading comprehension is Sara's specialty. She earned a perfect score on the MCAT CARS section, which demands the same close-reading and inference skills the ACT Reading tests — just at a higher level. She teaches students to identify an author's argument structure quickly so they can answer questions in under a minute each without second-guessing.

The ACT Reading section isn't really about reading — it's about locating evidence under pressure across four dense passages in 35 minutes. Dustin's background in classical texts and his MFA fiction training mean he reads analytically by instinct, and he teaches students to identify author purpose, tone shifts, and inference traps without re-reading entire paragraphs. His 34 ACT composite confirms he practices what he teaches.

I'm a chemical engineering PhD student at NYU. I love to help people learn and hope to be a professor one day!

Most ACT Reading struggles come down to time, not comprehension — students understand the passages but can't answer 40 questions in 35 minutes. Elena teaches a passage-mapping technique that captures main idea, tone, and key details in a single read-through, cutting down on the back-and-forth that eats the clock. With a 35 ACT composite and a deep background in literature and comparative reading, she brings both strategy and subject knowledge to each session.

Most ACT Reading struggles come down to time, not comprehension — students understand the passages but can't answer 40 questions in 35 minutes. Savannah teaches a passage-mapping technique that cuts re-reading time dramatically, letting students locate evidence for inference and detail questions without scanning the entire text again. Her own 34 ACT composite backs up the approach.

I am also an actor and musician, most recently having performed in Much Ado About Nothing at The Public Theater's Shakespeare in the Park.

Most ACT Reading mistakes happen not because students can't comprehend the passages but because they run out of time or second-guess themselves between two close answer choices. Hudson teaches a passage-mapping technique — skimming for structure and tone before diving into questions — that keeps pacing tight across all four passages. His own 34 ACT composite came partly from mastering exactly this kind of strategic reading under pressure.

The ACT Reading section isn't really a reading test — it's a speed test that rewards knowing where to look and how to eliminate wrong answers fast. Liz scored a 33 ACT composite and breaks each passage type (prose fiction, social science, humanities, natural science) into a repeatable strategy so students stop second-guessing themselves. Rated 4.9 by students.

I'm interested in one day becoming a doctor, but much of my work experience thus far has led me to education: working as a Spanish teaching assistant while at Bowdoin, as Education Coordinator for a middle school healthy dating curriculum in an office of the Puerto Rico Department of Health, and as a community health worker providing health education Spanish-speaking migrant farm workers, among others. I've found that effective, individual-focused education is an important component of overall health, and I hope my continued teaching experience will better inform my practice as a future physician.

I'm a recent Northwestern grad and NYC transplant, with a passion for reading, fashion, and social media. In addition to tutoring, I've spent multiple years interning in the literary world and working at my university's fashion magazine; I have both a diverse range of experiences and an eye for detail. I don't believe in giving anything less than 110% of my time and effort, especially when understanding the needs of my students.

Reading comprehension at speed is the real challenge of ACT Reading — four passages in 35 minutes leaves almost no room for re-reading. Miranda, an English teacher and 34 ACT scorer, teaches students to annotate strategically and distinguish between what a passage states directly and what it merely implies, which is where most wrong-answer traps live.

I am passionate about tutoring the ACT, high school math, biology, and English. My greatest ACT tutoring success story was increasing a student's overall score from a 23 to a 28 in a matter of 8 weeks during the summer of 2015. Ideally, I would like to tutor students preparing for the ACT and advise them as they prepare to apply to college.

I'm Rob! I graduated from Duke University in 2016 with a double major in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Economics. I've been a math teacher in the DOE for the last 2 years and have a Master's of Arts in Teaching. I specialize in high school math and test prep for the ACT, SAT, and GRE.

I am a rising junior at Brown University pursuing a Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Studies with a focus on Sustainability in Development. I graduated from West Islip High School as class valedictorian in 2013. My tutoring career began on a mission trip to El Salvador in which I tutored children from different villages in English and Math. Since then I have been a peer tutor for all four years of my high school career, tutoring all subjects. I went on to do a community outreach tutoring program for children in the community of Providence, Rhode Island near my university. While I tutor a broad range of subjects, my favorite subjects to tutor are Math, Spanish, Environmental and Earth Science, and Biology. I'm passionate about helping students because I've seen many have that "a-ha moment" while tutoring, and I know how important those moments are to their understanding and learning. I want to help more students find those moments of clarity in whatever subject they are struggling in so that they can have more confidence in their abilities and succeed. My tutoring philosophy is to give students the skills and tools they need to understand and learn without telling them how to do everything. I teach students to practice to perfection, which involves re-doing problems until they get it right the first time, which demonstrates complete understanding. My tutoring style is characterized by patience and I'm very attentive, making sure they are truly understanding when I ask the question, "does that make sense?"

I am incredibly patient, and can adapt to any learning style. My energy as both a teacher and learner is infectious, and I try to convey that passion for learning to all of my students.

Every ACT Reading passage is a timed exercise in finding what the text actually says versus what a student assumes it says — a distinction Tracy sharpened through years of analytical writing in political science and literary criticism. She teaches students to map each passage's structure in the first 30 seconds, which makes answering detail and inference questions faster and more accurate. Her 34 ACT composite backs up the approach.

I am passionate about languages, and know that learning a language is most effective when it is fun and engaging.  I have spent almost a year traveling internationally and have tutored in both English and French along the way. I believe that the most critical aspect of teaching a foreign language is getting a student interested and excited to practice it, and I have developed many successful strategies to do this, through tutoring and through studying languages myself.

The ACT Reading section rewards a very specific skill: extracting an author's argument or purpose under tight time constraints, not savoring the prose. Aidan's English degree gives him the literary analysis chops to teach passage mapping and evidence-based elimination quickly and precisely. His 33 ACT composite backs up an approach that balances speed with genuine comprehension.

I'm an upcoming sophomore at Columbia University, planning to major in computer science. I am a part of the Columbia University Lion Dance and I am currently creating a website and looking into Android Development while learning HTML, CSS, and Javascript.

I am a 2016 alumna of Cornell University, graduating summa cum laude in Anthropology with a minor in Global Health. I also participated in the pre-med curriculum, taking courses in Physics, Biology, Chemistry, and Math. During my senior year, I tutored students from the Department of Athletics and the Office of Academic and Diversity Initiatives in Calculus I. I am passionate about helping others gain the skills, confidence, and understanding to achieve academic success.

Most students lose points on ACT Reading not because they can't read, but because they spend too long on passages and second-guess their answers. Devin, who earned a 34 composite and honed close-reading skills through a Yale philosophy degree, teaches a passage-mapping technique that cuts through dense prose and locks down the evidence for each answer choice quickly.

Years of reading dense genetics papers in the lab trained Deanna to do something most students haven't practiced: quickly distinguishing what a text actually states from what it merely suggests — the exact skill that separates right from wrong on ACT Reading inference questions. She teaches students to annotate passage structure on the first read so they can locate evidence for detail questions without burning time re-reading entire paragraphs. Her 33 ACT composite and 5.0 student rating back up the method.

The ACT Reading section isn't really about reading carefully — it's about reading strategically, extracting answers from dense passages in under nine minutes each. Jackson's creative writing training at NYU sharpened his ability to identify an author's argument and tone quickly, and he passes those same annotation and skimming techniques on to his students. He scored a 32 ACT composite.

Speed is the real obstacle on ACT Reading: four passages in 35 minutes leaves almost no room for re-reading. Lia teaches a strategic approach to passage markup and question triage that keeps students from getting stuck on inference questions when detail questions are faster points. Her own 32 ACT composite came partly from mastering exactly this kind of pacing discipline.

I have always been a highly ambitious student and strive to learn in everything I do. In high school I became enthralled with my ACT exams, embracing the challenge and being reinvigorated with each improvement I could make; over the course of a year, I self-studied from a 21 to a 34 and even had fun doing it! With that score I was able to attend Columbia University where I received two BAs: one in Archaeology and the other in Classics with a focus on Latin. In each step of my educational journey, I have been interested in accessibility and have been passionate about spreading information as widely as I can. I am now pursuing an MA at Columbia's Teacher's College in Anthropology and Education, specializing in the experiences of Neurodivergent learners.

I am an aspiring actress with a love of learning. I hope to share this love with every student I encounter. I attended Ouachita Baptist University where I worked towards a degree in theater. I have experience tutoring a fifth grade girl, and I've always been helping my friends with their homework and helping them study for tests. I tutor English, History, Geography, ACT Prep, and Math. I enjoy all the subjects I tutor. I teach with love and encouragement, helping the student to see and realize their potential. My hobbies include acting, reading, taking walks, and spending time with my friends and family.

Belle earned a 32 ACT composite and knows the Reading section inside out — it's less about literary interpretation and more about efficiently locating evidence and matching it to answer choices. She teaches a pacing strategy that prevents students from getting stuck on dense social science or humanities passages, which are often the ones that eat up the most time.