PROFESSIONAL SAT PREP

 

ONE-ON-ONE, PERSONALIZED, ONLINE TUTORING TO IMPROVE SAT SCORES

With most SAT prep companies, your student will work with a part-time tutor (often a college student) trained to teach an inflexible system designed by the parent company. At Nick Floyd Test Prep, there is only one tutor your student will work with: Nick Floyd. Nick got a perfect 1600 on his SAT in high school and has been doing one-on-one test prep tutoring full-time for over a decade. Nick has an encyclopedic knowledge of the SAT, and he prides himself on working with a wide variety of learning strengths and weaknesses. Nick maintains ample communication with parents during the tutoring process, ensuring that everyone is on the same page and oriented as efficiently as possible towards achieving specific score goals. If you know what score you’re looking for, give Nick a call or fill out the form below and he will work with you to come up with a precise plan to get your student to where they want to be.

COMMON QUESTIONS:

  • After receiving a perfect 1600 score on his SAT in high school, Nick worked for 2 years at Orlando-based tutoring company Wise Owl Tutoring. In 2012, he began working independently as a full-time freelance test prep tutor. Nick has over 10,000 hours of one-on-one test prep experience and has extensively analyzed both the test itself and didactic methods for a variety of learning styles. His students regularly achieve scores of 1500+ (SAT) and 33+ (ACT) and almost always surpass their score goals.

  • The average increase for students with a minimum of 20 hours of tutoring is 236 points. However, a student starting with a lower score tends to have a larger increase, and a student with a higher starting score tends to meet whatever goal we target. (ie. If you have a 1380 and you want a 1550, we’ll get you there.) If you’re looking for a very large increase (380+ points) then call Nick and he will be as clear as possible with what it will take to achieve your lofty goal.

  • Yes, if after our consultation we agree that the ACT is the better test to work on. I am an excellent ACT tutor (avg. increase in 2021 was 6 points!), but I think ACT is only best for a certain profile of student. All else being equal, I find the SAT a much more straightforward test to prepare for. Its time allotment is more generous on each section, and more importantly it sticks to the same patterns, required knowledge, and question types much more consistently than the ACT. Theoretically, any student with unlimited time to prepare for the SAT can get a perfect score eventually. I personally don’t think this is the case for the ACT without repeating all of grade school. For these reasons, about 90% of my students are preparing for the SAT.

  • Effective and Comprehensive Tutoring


  • Personalized, Live 1-on-1 SAT Prep


  • Affordable and Responsive

OFFERING REMOTE 1-ON-1 SAT prep

The student will need a computer with Skype, Zoom or Teams installed and a working webcam. We will focus on:

  • Reviewing recent homework from workbooks of which we each have a copy.

  • Working on fresh SAT questions together, focusing on mindset, keyword identification, time management, and problem-solving tactics.

  • Learning important concepts in math and grammar using screen-sharing and a shared online whiteboard space in which we can both type or “write” our work freely using a mouse (or finger or stylus, if the student has a tablet available).

Because the SAT is such a predictable test and technology today is so wonderful, the remote format is not a hindrance when it comes to having clear, specific, and effective instruction, assignments, and feedback.