Private, one-on-one ACT prep coaching from a coach with 17 years and 200+ families behind him. Real strategies. Real test materials. Real results.
Most parents call me right after a score comes back. And when they do, it's usually one of two situations.
Situation one: Their student is a great student. 4.0 GPA. Hard worker. Never had to struggle academically. Then the ACT lands and they're staring at a 17, a 19, or a 22 — and nobody saw it coming. The student is rattled. The parent is confused. How does a kid this sharp score that low?
Situation two: They've already tried prep. Went through a tutoring company, did the workbooks, worked the online practice portals. Practice scores were climbing. They felt good going into test day. Then the real score came back — sometimes 8 to 10 points lower than anything they'd seen in practice.
Most programs have the same four problems. And most students run into at least one of them.
That last piece is almost entirely missing from every other program out there. And it's often the difference between a student performing at their actual ability level and one who collapses under pressure.
Day one looks different than what most students expect. Before we ever open a test booklet, I spend time getting to know them.
Their interests. Their sport. Their church life. Their dreams — what they want to study, what college looks like in their head. I ask how school goes for them, how they feel about tests in general, and how they feel about the ACT specifically.
I ask them to rate their confidence on a scale of 1 to 10. And I ask how important God is to them, and whether they believe he actually cares about something like a test score.
Then we work on the foundation before we touch the test. I teach them how to defeat anxiety and build real confidence — not the fake pump-up kind, but the kind that holds up under pressure.
We talk about the power of their words. How as a man thinks in his heart, that's who he becomes. How the tongue is like the rudder of a ship and steers the course of a life. How Jesus said they could move a mountain by speaking to it.
I take them through scientific studies that confirm the words-thoughts-performance connection. We look at how elite athletes think — and I show them how to build that same mindset going into a standardized test.
After that, we dig into the test itself.
Get to know the student — their life, their confidence level, their relationship with God. Build the mindset foundation before touching a single test question.
ACT, Inc. is Goliath — nearly 6,000 employees, now a for-profit company, built around selling student data to colleges. The test is deliberately designed to keep students average. We study the opponent before we fight it.
Weekly 90-minute sessions. Counterintuitive, highly effective strategies for all four sections — including a reading method that frees students from reading the passages, and a science method that requires almost no content knowledge.
Students always practice from official ACT tests — never third-party materials. Accuracy first, then speed. Pacing and timing introduced once the strategies are solid.
After every session, parents receive written notes: practice scores, what we covered, and the plan going forward. No guessing about how it's going.
Before the official test, every student runs a full ACT in one sitting under real time conditions. No surprises on test day.
I teach students to think of ACT, Inc. like Goliath — and here's why that framing matters.
That's Goliath. The good news is — David won.
Every student I've worked with has improved. The typical range is somewhere between 5 and 10 points on the ACT composite score.
The biggest single jump I've seen: a student who came in at a 19 and finished with a 30. That kind of leap doesn't happen by accident — it takes work, consistency, and a willingness to trust the process even when it feels uncomfortable.
Some students work hard and still progress more slowly than others. That happens. When it does, mindset becomes even more important. We keep climbing the mountain one step at a time. A slower road doesn't mean a failed one.
What every student has to own — regardless of where they're starting — is their practice and their commitment to using the strategies I teach instead of defaulting back to old habits.
Students who see the biggest gains do their homework, run real test materials, and apply the methods. The ones who go back to doing it the way school taught them leave points on the table. Every time.
The good news: most students don't need much convincing. They come in skeptical sometimes. They usually leave that first session ready to work.
Not every student is ready for this, and that's worth saying plainly. Here's how to know.
I'll work with any student who shows up. But a student who isn't willing to put in real practice will improve less than they're capable of — and that's on the table upfront.
I've been coaching students on the ACT and SAT since 2009. Seventeen years. That kind of experience has a way of speaking for itself.
My official credentials are not my strongest qualification. I have a B.A. in Communication and a partial seminary education. Neither of those is what you're hiring me for.
When I first got into this work, I was applying for a position at a tutoring company in New York. They told me I'd need to teach the SAT. I was honest — I wasn't sure I could. Math especially. I told them flat out: there's no way I can teach that.
They handed me a diagnostic test anyway.
I scored an 800 on math. Which, for the record, was better than my 750 on English — and I was the guy who said there was no way he could teach math.
I had scored a 1340 on the SAT in high school — decent, nothing I was bragging about. But somewhere between taking the test as a teenager and sitting down with it as an adult, something clicked. I understood it at a different level. That moment told me something important about what I was built to do.
Look at the scores. Look at what parents say. Look at the students who came in at a 19 and left with a 30, or who walked out of test day with a perfect 36. The results are the resume.
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I'm not going to try to convince you. That's not how I operate.
If you've been through another program, if you're skeptical, if you've watched your student work hard and still walk out of test day disappointed — I understand why you'd be cautious. That caution is reasonable.
If you give me a try, you get my best. Not a curriculum. Not a college kid running through a workbook. Me — fully present, fully invested in your student.
I'll mentor them, coach them, build them up, and work on how they see themselves — not just how they take a test. Most of my students look forward to our sessions. I've had more than a few who dreaded finishing our work together. Students who invite me to graduation parties. Students who reach back out years later when life gets complicated.
I do my best to help them encounter God in such a life-changing way that they remember me as way more than a test prep coach. And in the process, I'll get their scores to the best they can be. The results speak for themselves.
If at any point you have a concern, a question, a frustration — tell me. I want to hear it. Your opinion matters to me. I want you to feel good about what we're doing together.
And if you don't? End it. No hard feelings. I'd rather you be honest with me than quietly unsatisfied.
This works when it's the right fit. I believe it can be the right fit for your student. But you get to decide that.
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