About us

An AP academy, built around the why.

We teach four AP subjects, 1-on-1 and online: Chemistry, Biology, Physics and Calculus. Nothing else. One program, the A-to-5 Track, from the next test to the May exam.

Tutor standard

The grading test

Every tutor, before they work with a family

What they gradeAP-style written answers
Graded againstThe College Board's official scoring guidelines
To passAt least 90% agreement
Re-takenEvery August
Pass mark90%

Why we built it this way

“A tutor who can identify the learning gap.”What one parent said she was looking for

Before we built this, we read thousands of posts by AP parents. They said the same three things in different words.

Nobody could tell them why. The test came home, and nobody explained where the points went.

Nobody was there when the homework got hard. Help closed before 9pm. The homework didn't.

Nobody showed them it was working. They paid, and they guessed.

So we built the academy around those three: a written diagnosis first, a live tutor at 9pm, and five lines every Sunday.

We sell the standard, not a name.

A red grading pen beside a point marked on a student's AP Biology answer.

Most tutors have never read a scoring guideline. Ours have to pass a test on one.

Before a tutor works with a family, they pass our grading test. Their grading has to match the College Board's official scoring guidelines at least 90% of the time. They take it again every August.

The system is the product, and every tutor is held to it. If the fit ever feels wrong, tell us, and we'll fix it.

How we work

  • Live, 1-on-1, and recorded.Every session, on exam-style problems, with your kid holding the pen. You can watch any of them from your account.
  • One person for every question.Your Family Success Manager handles everything that isn't the teaching. Everything goes through one person, so nothing gets lost.
  • A person grades every written answer.Never software. Point by point, the way the College Board does, with the why next to each point.
  • Real hours, kept.1pm to 10pm ET, Monday to Saturday. Sunday is off for everyone.
  • Every price and every condition, published.The price ladder and all three guarantees are on the program page, word for word.

What we won't do

  • Sell hours, or once-a-week sessions.
  • Do homework for a student. Ever.
  • Promise a 24/7 line. We have hours, and we keep them.
  • Give one family a discount and not another.
  • Invent urgency. No countdown timers. The $697 fall rate is for a set number of families, and any count of spots left on this site is the real one.

A page about your own kid beats any pitch we could write.

Judge us on the page.

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