Author Archive: James Maroney

For most students, the first few weeks back at school in the fall are always rough. It can take a bit for your brain to switch back to “school mode”. Things that you knew so well at the end of the year are harder because you’re rusty. With COVID-19 forcing students and teachers to adapt to distance learning, we can expect the summer slump to be worse than usual this year. Many students have struggled with the transition and taking a few months off in the summer won’t help the problem.

This is particularly concerning for high school students who are planning to apply to college in the future. Why? Because schools across the country consistently hold up grades as the single most important element of a student’s application. That’s why it’s incredibly important for students to take the hardest curriculum that they [...]

• Private Tutoring
• Live online group classes for the SAT or ACT
• Self-Guided SAT and ACT Courses
• SAT and ACT Text Books

Take our proprietary one-hour SAT diagnostic test, and in just one hour have an estimate of your SAT score, that our studies have shown is over 90% accurate.  Not only will you know your score, but you will have a road map that shows you how to improve your score.  You can use this to set up a self-study program, to utilize our self-guided program, or to determine if a class or private tutoring might be right for you.  All of the problems come with video explanations to help you learn new strategies for approaching the test.

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First Choice Re-Opening Procedures:

We have given careful thought to our reopening procedures, in order to keep both our students and tutors safe. We will likely need to update this as we learn more. We plan on resuming private tutoring in the office on June 29. We do not feel that we will be able to provide adequate social distancing for the group classes, so the group classes will remain online via zoom for the summer of 2020. Below are some of the steps we plan on taking to ensure safety:

• Students who would like private tutoring, have the option of either online tutoring or coming to the office.  There will be a plexi-glass barrier between the student and the tutor.  Tutors and students are required to wear Facemasks in the office.  
• The desk, plex-glass shield, and contact surfaces (door knobs) will be cleaned with either Lysol Wipes or Clorox wipes (or a similar [...]