Achieve Your Best SAT Score With Personalized Expert Support
Your SAT preparation should be built around you—not a generic curriculum. Our three programs provide a personalized plan, expert guidance, and the level of accountability and support you need to make meaningful progress.
Private SAT Tutoring Programs
Personalized SAT preparation built around your student’s goals, timeline, and preferred level of support.
Guided Independent Study
Starting at
$1,195
- Turn your practice-exam results into a focused study strategy with a private review.
- Start each month with clear direction through a personalized four-week study plan.
- Build skills on your own schedule with full Academy access.
- Get unstuck and stay accountable through weekly small-group office hours with your tutor.
MOST POPULAR
ONGOING PRIVATE TUTORING
Starting at
$2,995
Everything included in Guided Independent Study, plus:
- Stay accountable and retain key strategies over eight personalized tutoring sessions.
- Focus your energy where it matters most with targeted assignments.
- Avoid wasted study time with ongoing plan adjustments.
PREMIUM HIGH-TOUCH TUTORING
Starting at
$3,795
Everything included in Ongoing Private Tutoring, plus:
- Get expert guidance between meetings through ongoing chat support.
- Stay motivated, maintain momentum, and follow through on your plan with four private check-ins.
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Meet the Team
Robert Brundage
Robert Brundage is the founder of Penguin Test Prep and an SAT educator with more than a decade of experience working one-on-one with students. He holds a master’s degree in education and has spent his career helping students build stronger academic skills, improve standardized test performance, and approach difficult material with greater confidence and clarity.
Robert is also the creator of the Penguin Test Prep YouTube channel, which has grown to more than 50,000 subscribers. Through his videos, courses, and teaching resources, he has helped hundreds of thousands of students prepare for the SAT and better understand the strategies, concepts, and patterns that drive success on the exam.
His teaching combines deep content knowledge with practical test-taking strategy and a strong focus on efficiency. Whether working on Math or Reading and Writing, Robert helps students identify exactly what is holding them back and develop the skills and habits needed to make meaningful score gains.
Jessica Peterson
Jessica Peterson is an experienced SAT tutor with nine years of experience helping students improve their academic performance and standardized test scores. With a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering, she brings a strong analytical background and particular expertise in SAT Math and test-taking strategy.
Jessica has worked independently and with leading tutoring agencies, helping students earn competitive SAT scores and gain admission to schools including Georgetown, Duke, and Northwestern. Her teaching is highly individualized, adapting to each student’s strengths, learning style, and goals.
She also has extensive experience supporting neurodivergent students, including those with ADHD, dyslexia, dyscalculia, and Auditory Processing Disorder. Jessica focuses on building strong problem-solving skills, effective study habits, confidence, and consistency so students can perform at their best on test day.
A Closer Look at Each Program
During your consultation, we’ll help you choose a program based on your student’s goals, timeline, preferred schedule, and level of support. We can adjust meeting frequency and between-session support, whether your student needs short-term intensive preparation or a longer plan spanning multiple SAT dates.
Starting prices cover four weeks. Final pricing reflects your customized plan. All programs include weekly small-group office hours with your student’s tutor.
Guided Independent Study
For students who will complete most of their preparation independently, with expert direction and support.
Includes one 60-minute private practice-exam review every four weeks, with a 90-minute option available.
Ongoing Private Tutoring
Includes eight 60-minute private tutoring sessions over four weeks, focused on the concepts, strategies, and question types most relevant to your student’s goals. Sessions may be extended to 90 minutes.
Premium High-Touch Tutoring
Includes eight 60-minute tutoring sessions and four 30-minute private check-ins over four weeks. Check-ins provide time to review progress, work through problems, and adjust the plan between full sessions.
Students can submit SAT questions throughout the week and receive a comprehensive response within one business day, including written explanations, annotated solutions, or personalized video walkthroughs as needed. Premium also includes priority scheduling and communication, plus Penguin Test Prep Academy Plus access.
Primary tutoring sessions may be extended to 90 minutes. Check-ins remain 30 minutes.
Step One: Book a Consultation
We’ll discuss your student’s needs, answer your questions, and recommend a program and schedule. You don’t need to choose a program before we meet.
FAQ's
No. Each student’s preparation is built around their current scores, strengths, weaknesses, goals, and upcoming test date. Lessons, assignments, and study plans are continually adjusted based on the student’s performance and progress.
Penguin Test Prep Academy provides comprehensive instruction for every domain and skill tested on the SAT, original practice exams, and more than 2,000 original practice questions students won’t find anywhere else. Students can learn and practice between meetings, reserving tutoring time for the areas where personalized instruction will make the greatest difference.
Office hours are small-group sessions where students can ask their tutor questions, review difficult problems, and receive additional help outside their private meetings. Each tutor sets their own office-hour schedule, and sessions are limited to six students so everyone has time to get the help they need. All three programs include weekly office hours.
All students receive targeted assignments and continued guidance through their scheduled sessions and office hours. Premium students may also submit SAT questions throughout the week and receive a comprehensive response within one business day. Depending on the question, that response may include a written explanation, annotated solution, or personalized video walkthrough.
Premium includes everything in Ongoing Private Tutoring, plus four additional 30-minute private check-ins, priority communication and scheduling, Academy Plus access, and ongoing chat support. It is designed for families who want closer accountability and more frequent access to their tutor throughout the week.
Each student works with a dedicated expert Penguin Test Prep SAT tutor with at least five years of SAT tutoring experience and a thorough understanding of Penguin Test Prep’s unique strategies and approaches. Placement depends on tutor availability, which is limited.
Achieve Your Best SAT Score With Personalized Expert Support
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