Test Preparation & Admissions Essay Guidance

Gain admission to your dream school with brain-based learning strategies and expert writing support.

College Admissions Tests: PSAT, SAT, and ACT

Whether you are aiming for a perfect score or trying to reach a score requirement for a scholarship, we can help you reach your goal. 

From the early 8th grade PSAT to your final SAT/ACT exam senior year, we’ll be with you every step of the way to help you reach your potential.

Our unique focus on psychology research-based study skills allows students to learn more in less time. Students take ownership of their learning process, leading to success in high school, college, and beyond.

Brain-based tutoring

Brain-based teaching

We offer intensive one-on-one and small group skill-building courses for students who want to work hard to get results. Students will learn new techniques, new ways of thinking, and new, cutting-edge research-based study techniques.

Three ways to learn online

1-on-1 tutoring

Small-group tutoring pods

Group classes

Online tutoring

College & High School Application Essay Guidance

From brainstorming essay topics to providing detailed feedback on drafts, we help students discover their own stories and learn to craft personal narratives that showcase their values, growth, and personality.

High School Admissions Tests

Mind the Test offers one-on-one tutoring for students who want to work hard to get into their dream school. The most common tests we cover are SSAT, ISEE, and HSPT. Need to prepare for a different test? Just ask.

AP Tests

We currently offer tutoring for AP Language & Composition, AP Literature & Composition, and AP Psychology. Develop strong test-taking skills and master college-level coursework with our one-on-one and group classes.

AP Language

Graduate School Test: GRE

Our one-on-one GRE Verbal and Writing tutoring teaches test-taking strategies and uses cutting-edge research-based study techniques to help students learn more in less time.

Standardized test preparation. Anything but standard.

We hold the controversial belief that test prep can and should teach real academic skills. Rather than emphasizing “beating the test,” we take a holistic approach: as students take practice tests and improve test-taking skills, they also learn what academic areas the test assesses and then build those skills, leading to success on the test—and in high school, college, and beyond, too.

SAT tutor

Serious study for serious improvements. (But a little fun, too.)

We listen to and respect each student as an individual, and lessons will be engaging, unique, and adapted to each student's needs. In exchange, students are expected to dedicate serious time and energy to their studies. Our highest-scoring students have two tutoring sessions each week and spend between three and eight hours on homework.

About Us

Anna Moss tutor

Anna Moss

MPhil Psychology & Education, University of Cambridge
BA (Honors) Linguistics, University of Chicago

SAT: 99+ percentile
ACT: 99+ percentile
GRE Verbal: 99+ percentile

Anna founded Mind the Test to empower students by teaching them how to learn, pairing test preparation and academic tutoring with lifelong research-based study skills.

After years of teaching test prep and English all around the world, she followed her passion for the science of learning to the University of Cambridge, where she researched how to improve educational equity via linguistic dialect-sensitivity on the SAT.

5/5

Testimonials

The explanations and lessons are very comprehensive, breaking everything down so that one can learn the most efficient methods for each type of question.

Intensive SAT boot camp student in anonymous post-class survey

My kid really likes her classes and looks forward to them each week.

X. J., parent of student in SAT Reading/Writing learning pod

I had a lot of fun, and it was really nice coming here every day.

SAT summer camp student in anonymous post-class survey

The teacher is amazing and will understand problems that need to be resolved.

Intensive SAT boot camp student in anonymous post-class survey

Mrs. Moss has her unique way to teach English….Her class is mind-blowing and highly effective, and my kid loves her teaching style.

Z. T., parent of student in  Reading/Writing learning pod