My company, 800score (a free site similar to Khan Academy), has helped millions of students prepare for the SAT, GMAT, GRE, and LSAT since 1999. My GMAT and GRE simulation software has been licensed to test prep companies and universities, worldwide.

I studied neurobiology at Cornell and English at Oxford. I got the equivalent of a perfect score on today’s SAT math at age 13 and ended up with a 99.98 percentile, cumulative. The median SAT score of my 250+ in-person students is 1480 (on par with Johns Hopkins and Cornell) with a score increase of +120 on Verbal. I do not know of any program that can match my track record. My specialty is the Reading section.

I've been to ETS and GMAC headquarters (where the SAT/GRE and GMAT are designed, respectively) and have consulted with their psychometricians. I worked with Ron Purewal (who holds the world record for most perfect scores on standardized tests) and a former Chairman of the College Board. Kaplan wanted to hire me for their R&D department, and McGraw Hill offered me a publishing deal.

The SAT is used by admissions officers because it strongly correlates with undergraduate GPA. This suggests that ramping up college readiness will “ping” the SAT’s sophisticated psychometrics, resulting in a higher score with the added benefit of improved college performance. Simply put: If the SAT wants to measure college readiness, why not give the SAT what it wants?

To prep students for SAT reading, I teach a crash course in college-level reasoning: economics, literature, philosophy, science, and logic. I teach students “how to think” and not “what to think.” My classes are fun and engaging to make intellectual development simplified using the Socratic method and the Feynman technique. This ideal, that highly-complex intellectual concepts should be streamlined and made accessible, is what has driven 800score for 24 years. SAT prep, done properly, should help you get into your ideal school and succeed thereafter.