EA tutoring, because you’re too busy to study like you’re 20.

Nearly everybody asks this question, and our answer is always the same: it depends. For example, if you’ve never touched an EA prep book but dream of admission to Wharton or Booth’s EMBA program, then you might need more tutoring than somebody who is just fine-tuning her approach after months of self-study. If you’ve taken only a single practice test and your score was significantly lower than your goal, then you might need a whole lot of time with a tutor. Everybody learns at their own pace, some people are better about doing homework than others, and some people have set more challenging goals than others. So we know that the answer is unsatisfying, but until we know a lot more about you and what you’re trying to achieve, we can’t predict how much tutoring you’ll need. Sorry.

Yes, we do! Again, it wouldn’t be awesome to call ourselves “GMAT/GRE/EA Ninja,” but we do in fact offer tutoring for the EA, and we have since the test was created about a decade ago.

For more information, check out how we approach EA tutoring, our GMAT Ninja tutors, or the other FAQs on this page. The fundamental approach to tutoring is consistent across the GMAT, GRE, and EA.

As a starting point, we expect our EA students to complete about 15 hours of homework per week: roughly two hours per weekday and three or four hours per weekend day, depending on your exact situation. More hours than that can easily lead to careless errors and bad habits, and fewer hours might prevent you from making progress as quickly as you’d like. Ultimately, it’s your call — but if you decide to work with us, be prepared for somewhere in the neighborhood of 15 hours per week of heavy lifting, ideally spread somewhat evenly through the week. If you’re not prepared to work hard toward your goals, then we probably aren’t the right tutors for you.

We offer dozens of sets of practice questions that we’ve developed over the years, but these sets are only designed as supplements for students who need extra work on certain question types. All of these exams have their own unique question styles, and there’s absolutely no substitute for using official materials.

So the answer is yes, we do provide our own practice materials to our students. But we would be crappy tutors if we pretended that our materials were somehow better than the materials developed by the people who actually write each of the exams.

The structure of tutoring depends entirely on each student’s strengths, weaknesses, interests, and needs. Keep in mind that the EA is extremely nuanced. We’ll look for the most efficient ways to help you gain points, and that inevitably means different things for different people.

We require two-hour tutoring sessions in most cases, simply because most students need a little bit of time to get fully “warmed up” for learning, and we always have tons of ground to cover. Sessions longer than two hours usually suffer from diminishing returns, though we have tutored a few intense students who manage to survive three or four hours of non-stop tutoring fun. In very rare cases, we’re willing to consider longer or shorter session lengths, but it’s safest to assume that two-hour sessions will be the best way to move forward efficiently.

In most cases, we strongly recommend regular, weekly tutoring sessions. If you’re doing the required 15 hours per week of homework, a two-hour tutoring session is going to fly by really, really quickly — and anything less than weekly sessions is unlikely to give us enough time to address the weaknesses that we see in your homework results. For students who are open to doing extra homework, we’re happy to meet more frequently, but we definitely don’t recommend anything less than weekly sessions if you’re serious about making progress quickly.

In many ways, the heart of our tutoring is always the same: we look deeply into our students’ minds, and figure out what’s REALLY holding them back from their target scores — even if it’s not something that you might expect. When they study on their own, test-takers tend to focus on concrete issues such as math formulas, but in many cases, their struggles come from more subtle behaviors, such as rushing through easy questions, getting stubborn on harder questions, failing to focus on the author’s purpose in an RC passage, or struggling to eliminate distracting thoughts during an exam. In other words, we pride ourselves on making deep diagnoses of our students’ strengths, weaknesses, and mindsets, regardless of which exam they’re taking.

That said, the tests are obviously very different from each other in key ways, so we can’t reasonably approach them in exactly the same ways. For example, GMAT and EA quant questions often require deeper layers of reasoning than GRE questions, so we emphasize different approaches when we’re tutoring those exams. You’ll have to be great at solving “quant puzzles” if you want an elite GMAT or EA score, but fundamental quant content will usually get you a bit farther on the GRE. Again, everybody is different, and we could go on and on with examples. The bottom line: our tutoring approach is inevitably different for each exam, but we always fight to understand our students deeply, and seek personalized solutions to their struggles — even if their struggles aren’t necessarily what they expected.

Yes, but please be aware that there is much higher demand for tutoring during evenings and weekends, so you might need to schedule sessions well ahead of time, especially during the peak of MBA admissions season. We often have a lengthy waiting list for evening and weekend tutoring sessions, so please plan ahead if you possibly can.

Of course! Mention it in your intake form and we’ll arrange it. If you want some instant references from people who have worked with us, feel free to check out our reviews on Trustpilot and Yelp (including many reviews that have been cruelly and inexplicably suppressed). We have hundreds of five-star reviews across the internet, and we’re happy to provide you with each one.

Nearly all of our students meet with us online, usually via Skype, Zoom, or Google Meet. We’ve offered online tutoring since 2009, and by 2019, roughly 99% of our tutoring was conducted online. During an online tutoring session, you’ll be able to see a (virtual or physical) dry-erase board and anything we type on our computer screen, so the experience is a pretty solid replacement for a live, one-on-one tutoring session. The only things you need are a good internet connection, a webcam, and free video conferencing software (Skype, Google Meet, Zoom, or whatever you and your tutor prefer to use). We also recommend a decent headset, to minimize audio interference during our session. A few nuances are inevitably lost via the internet — for example, we can’t always read your reactions, and we generally can’t see what you’re writing down in your notes — but we’re very accustomed to tutoring students online, and it works really, really well. We have worked remotely with applicants in dozens of countries worldwide, as well as locations throughout the United States.

Life gets tricky sometimes, and we do everything we can to accommodate reasonable schedule changes. But the reality is that our lives get much harder when students cancel a few hours before a tutoring session: it means that we’re able to accommodate far fewer students in any given week, and that’s bad for everybody. The bottom line is that we’re much happier if everybody just shows up to their appointments as scheduled. If your life is suddenly interrupted by a terrible act of nature (swine flu, subway fires, blizzards, capybara attacks, internet outages), we’ll cut you some slack. Otherwise, we ask that you pay for your session if you cancel with less than 48 hours’ notice, since 48 hours usually doesn’t give us enough time to offer that slot to anybody else. Sound reasonable?