Private, one-on-one SAT prep coaching built around the digital adaptive test your student will actually face — not the one from five years ago.
Most parents contact me right after a score comes back. And when they do, it's usually one of two situations.
Situation one: Their student is a strong student. Good GPA. Works hard. Never struggled academically. Then the SAT comes back and they're staring at a number that doesn't look anything like who that student is in the classroom. The student is rattled. The parent is confused.
Situation two: They've already been through prep. Worked the practice tests, put in the hours, felt good going into test day. Then the real score came back — sometimes significantly lower than anything they'd seen in practice. Nobody can explain why.
The goal: Perform well enough on Module 1 that Module 2 is the hard version — because that is the path to the higher score range. Getting there requires knowing the test, not just the content.
Day one looks different than what most students expect. Before we ever open a test, I spend time getting to know them.
Their interests. Their sport. Their church life. Their dreams — what they want to study, where they want to go. I ask how they feel about tests in general and how they feel about the SAT 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 when the hard Module 2 shows up.
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. How elite athletes approach high-stakes performance — and how students can build that same mindset going into a standardized test.
After that, we dig into the test itself.
College Board generated over $185 million in profit in 2023 alone — on nonprofit status — while holding more than $2 billion in cash and investments. They are very good at what they do. Knowing who built this test is part of knowing how to beat it.
Get to know the student — their life, their confidence level, their relationship with God. Build the mindset foundation before touching a single test question.
College Board is Goliath — over $185M in annual profit, $2B+ in reserves, thousands of employees. The test is built by professionals. We study it like a film scout before we compete.
Weekly sessions covering Reading & Writing evidence-based reasoning, grammar rules, and Math — including strategies for both the calculator and no-calculator modules.
Students learn how to pace Module 1 intentionally — because getting the harder Module 2 is the goal, not just finishing. That takes strategy, not speed.
Practice under real test conditions. Every wrong answer reviewed until the student understands the exact reasoning error — not just that they got it wrong.
Before the official test, students run a complete full-length SAT under timed conditions. No surprises on test day. No first-time experiences in the actual exam room.
The SAT Reading and Writing section is not a traditional reading comprehension test. Every question has one demonstrably correct answer and three demonstrably wrong ones. Students who learn to prove the right answer from the text — rather than guess based on what sounds right — score significantly higher than students who rely on instinct.
Here is what that looks like in practice:
Every Reading & Writing answer is provable from the passage. Students learn to stop relying on gut feel and start anchoring every answer to specific textual evidence — the way the test is actually scored.
The SAT grammar questions test a specific and learnable set of rules: punctuation, agreement, modifier placement, transitions. Students learn the exact rules that appear on the test and stop guessing.
The SAT Math tests algebraic reasoning, data analysis, and problem-solving — not just arithmetic. Students learn to work efficiently through both modules, including on the no-calculator section, by understanding the math at the conceptual level.
Most students rush Module 1. That's a mistake. Students learn to pace Module 1 so they're positioned to get the harder Module 2 — which is where the higher score range opens up. Intentional strategy, not just speed.
The national SAT average is 1024. There is a lot of room to move from that number with the right preparation and the right mindset going in.
A 1400 puts a student in the top 6% nationally. That changes the scholarship conversation at most schools. A 1500 or higher puts a student in the top 1% — and changes it at nearly every school.
Students who improve the most aren't the ones who practice the most — they're the ones who understand every question they got wrong and why. Practice without review is just repeating errors with confidence.
Starting early matters too. Students who begin prep with more than one test date ahead of them have room to assess, adjust, and come back stronger. Most students in Williamson County take both the ACT and the SAT, then focus their final prep on whichever test produced the higher starting score. A diagnostic session early in the process can tell you which direction to go.
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 won't do the work will improve less than they're capable of — and that's on the table from day one.
I have been teaching the SAT for 17 years. Seven of those years I spent working for one of the top test prep companies in New York — a company that trained me to teach this test at the highest level, not just score well on it.
When I first applied for that position, I told them honestly: there's no way I can teach the SAT math section. 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 he couldn't teach math.
I had scored a 1340 on the SAT in high school — decent, nothing I was proud of. But somewhere between taking the test as a teenager and sitting down with it as an adult, something clicked. I understood it at a completely different level. That moment told me something about what I was built to do.
Look at the scores. Look at what parents say. The results are the resume.
See the ResultsStudents from these schools and more have worked with More Than Standard for SAT prep in Franklin, Brentwood, and across Williamson County, TN.
If your student is willing to do the work, and you start with enough time, there is a real path to a significantly better score. I have seen it happen too many times to doubt it.
What I do not offer is a guarantee based on time and effort I cannot control. What I do offer is instruction at a level that is genuinely different from what most students have access to — specific, precise, built on 17 years of understanding exactly how this test is constructed and what it takes to perform well on it.
I also do my best to help every student encounter God in such a life-changing way that they remember this as more than test prep. A settled confidence. A sense of who they actually are. That is always the real goal — the score is the outcome, the student is the point.
Many families in Williamson County don't know whether to do the SAT or the ACT. I can help you figure that out easily — I'll supply practice tests from each so your student can see where they land without having to burn an official test date. If you're not sure which test to prioritize, let me know, and we'll come up with a plan.
And if at any point you have a concern or a frustration — tell me. I want to hear it. I'd rather you be honest with me than quietly unsatisfied.
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