Brian McElroy's Tutoring Blog

The Good News Keeps Rolling In - McElroy Tutoring's first Harvard Admit, Highest SAT Scorer

Posted 2024-01-25

In the last two weeks McElroy Tutoring has had one student admitted to Harvard, and another scored 2370 on the SAT. Keep Reading

SAT Math - Page 412 Number 18

Posted 2021-07-11

Here is an example of the future of tutoring — real-time SAT preparation over the internet! The following image was taken from one of my online SAT tutoring sessions using a virtual chalkboard. Did you get this problem right? It’s the hardest one on this entire section…so don’t feel bad if you missed it!
p.s. For extra credit, tell me what the grammatical error in my 2nd sentence is…... Keep Reading

May SAT scores now available online / Summer is Almost Upon Us

Posted 2021-07-11

Hello everyone, Wow, it’s been a long, eventful and exhilarating school year! When I first started tutoring the SAT 10 years ago, people thought of tutoring as a job for college kids looking for some extra pizza money, something you did to help your kid get his or her homework done more quickly. But over time, the tutoring profession is quickly becoming more and more respected as someting much more than that; it is now an essential part of the college-prep process. Parents finally seem to ... Keep Reading

More Free SAT Notes 9/11/07

Posted 2021-07-11

I’ve been receiving very positive feedback from those of you who are downloading and studying my free SAT notes…thanks for the encouragement. It makes me want to keep giving them away!
As always, all explanations correspond to problems from the Official Guide to the SAT.
-Brian
mcelroytutoring_satnotes_091107.pdf... Keep Reading

SAT Math - Page 463 number 17

Posted 2021-07-11

Another function problem (funny symbols like this are nothing but disguised functions). As you should with any function problem, remember to take this ONE STEP AT A TIME, to RE-WRITE THE DEFINITION OF THE FUNCTION and to STACK THE ACTUAL VALUES UNDERNEATH ON THE LEFT SIDE OF THE EQUATION, following the model on the right side.
The goal of any “funny symbol problem” is to get rid of the funny symbols, ONE AT A TIME, so don’t set “1 arrow 2” equal to &l... Keep Reading

SAT Question of the Day - June 25, 2008

Posted 2021-07-11

FREE SAT PREP VIDEO : Brian McElroy conveys some good news about the SAT's score reporting policy, then explains how to solve an SAT Writing Question. Keep Reading