ACT points are usually lost to the clock and to unfamiliar formats, both fixable.
What it looks like: Your student knows the material but cannot finish sections. Reading has always been the crunch, four passages against the clock, and rushing the last passage costs a predictable cluster of points.
How our tutors help: Tutors build passage-order strategy, per-passage time budgets, and the skill of letting one question go. The redesign adds breathing room per question, and we retrain pacing to exploit it instead of racing old habits.
What it looks like: Students who write well still miss comma splices, misplaced modifiers, and redundancy questions because they answer by what sounds right instead of by rule.
How our tutors help: We teach the finite rule set the ACT actually tests, roughly a dozen grammar and rhetoric patterns, until recognition is automatic. It is the fastest score movement on the whole test.
What it looks like: Science is becoming optional on the redesigned ACT, and families are unsure whether to take it. Meanwhile the section itself was never really science: it is speed-reading charts under extreme time pressure.
How our tutors help: Your tutor helps you decide based on target colleges and your student's data-reading speed, then trains the section if you keep it: find the variable, trace the trend, ignore the jargon. Most students improve fast once they stop reading every word.
What it looks like: ACT math reaches back to content juniors have not touched in two years, circle theorems, trig ratios, logarithms, and there is no formula sheet provided.
How our tutors help: We audit the backlist topics against your student's diagnostic, rebuild the rusty ones, and drill the formulas the ACT expects from memory. Targeted review beats re-teaching all of high school math.
SAT & ACT Prep Schedule
2026-2027 · Teacher Tutors Academy
Days
Tuesdays & Thursdays
Time
6:00 to 8:00 PM
Duration
3 weeks
| Week | Dates | Focus |
|---|---|---|
| Week 1 | Sept 15 & 17 | Reading/Writing strategies & advanced math |
| Week 2 | Sept 22 & 24 | Advanced math & timing techniques |
| Week 3 | Sept 29 & Oct 1 | College Board Bluebook strategies & final review |
Days
Mondays & Wednesdays
Time
6:00 to 8:00 PM
Duration
3 weeks
| Week | Dates | Focus |
|---|---|---|
| Week 1 | Sept 14 & 16 | English grammar & science strategies |
| Week 2 | Sept 21 & 23 | Reading, math & timing |
| Week 3 | Sept 28 & 30 | Full test strategies & final review |
Days
Tuesdays & Thursdays
Time
6:00 to 8:00 PM
Duration
8 weeks
| Week | Dates | Focus |
|---|---|---|
| Week 1 | Jan 5 & 7 | SAT overview, diagnostic review, reading/writing foundations |
| Week 2 | Jan 12 & 14 | Reading strategies + grammar skills |
| Week 3 | Jan 19 & 21 | Advanced math concepts |
| Week 4 | Jan 26 & 28 | Advanced math + graphing calculator strategies |
| Practice #1 | Sat, Jan 30, 2027 | Full digital SAT practice exam |
| Week 5 | Feb 2 & 4 | Timing strategies + targeted practice |
| Week 6 | Feb 9 & 11 | Weak area review + practice modules |
| Practice #2 | Sat, Feb 13, 2027 | Full digital SAT practice exam |
| No class | Feb 16 & 18 | February break |
| Week 7 | Feb 23 & 25 | College Board Bluebook practice + test strategies |
| Practice #3 | Sat, Feb 27, 2027 | Final full-length practice exam |
| Week 8 | Mar 2 & 4 | Final review + personalized strategies |
Days
Mondays & Wednesdays
Time
6:00 to 8:00 PM
Duration
8 weeks
| Week | Dates | Focus |
|---|---|---|
| Week 1 | Feb 1 & 3 | ACT overview, diagnostic review, English foundations |
| Week 2 | Feb 8 & 10 | English grammar + reading strategies |
| No class | Feb 15 & 17 | February break |
| Week 3 | Feb 22 & 24 | Math strategies + timing |
| Practice #1 | Sat, Feb 27, 2027 | Full ACT practice exam |
| Week 4 | Mar 1 & 3 | Science reasoning strategies |
| Week 5 | Mar 8 & 10 | Advanced math + problem solving |
| Practice #2 | Sat, Mar 13, 2027 | Full ACT practice exam |
| Week 6 | Mar 15 & 17 | Reading + science timing strategies |
| Week 7 | Mar 22 & 24 | Individualized review & weak areas |
| No class | Mar 29 & 31 | Spring break |
| Practice #3 | Sat, Apr 3, 2027 | Final full ACT practice exam |
| Week 8 | Apr 5 & 7 | Final review + test day strategies |
The computer-based ACT gives you an on-screen graphing calculator on the math test. Learn the moves now so it is already familiar in the room.
Your tutor reviews recent work and watches your child think aloud, tracing each struggle back to the earlier skill it really comes from.
Sessions step back to the specific skill the gap depends on and rebuild it patiently, with concrete methods, before returning to grade-level work.
Your child practices the way New Jersey classes and assessments actually ask, so schoolwork and test day both start to feel familiar.
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Most New Jersey students default to the SAT, but plenty score better on the ACT, and NJ colleges weigh them equally. A timed practice test of each, compared percentile to percentile, settles the question in one weekend.