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At Applerouth, we believe that when you change a student’s self-beliefs, you change their lives. For over 20 years, we’ve been on a mission to give students the skills to achieve with confidence. Founded by licensed counselor and educational psychologist Dr. Jed Applerouth, we offer in-person and online Test Prep, AP & Academic Tutoring, and Executive Function Coaching throughout greater Washington.

Compass provides comprehensive test preparation and academic tutoring. Students engage with Compass through personalized 1-1 tutoring programs or online group classes. Visit the Compass Education Group website for more information.

In order to learn and progress, you must properly frame your relationship with failure. In non-academic facets of our lives, we understand that failure, analysis, and incremental improvement are the stones that pave the path to mastery.

Want to master a sport? An instrument? Want to accomplish anything truly difficult and worthwhile? Then you are going to fail; over, and over, and over again. The same is true in academics.

Failure is not your judge; it is your surest and truest teacher. If your goal is mastery, then your aim is simple: to fail better than you failed before.

Our test prep program is designed from the ground up for neurodiverse learners: we serve high schoolers with autism, ADHD, dyslexia, dyscalculia, and other learning differences and help them reach their full potential on the SAT and the ACT.

In our decade of experience in working with LD students, we’ve learned that teaching kids that they’re capable of learning something and that it’s worth learning are the most important parts of the job. Our all-inclusive test prep is unique in the industry: pay a one-time fee for unlimited one-on-one sessions until your student hits the goal score we set together.

Founded in NYC, Onsen Education is a boutique tutoring firm dedicated to private, personalized test prep with master tutors for the U.S. admissions tests and academic support—primarily SAT/ACT, GMAT/GRE, MCAT, LSAT, and APs.

Onsen tutors have at least five years’ teaching experience, have graduated from top-25 universities, and scored in the 99th percentile of the tests they teach. We take a unique approach to test prep, using mindfulness techniques to alleviate test stress/anxiety paired with personalized curricula fully customized to our students’ in-lesson needs.

Parlance Educators offers academic tutoring, test preparation, and project consultation with the student as an individual at the center of our focus. We aim to sincerely connect and understand the vantage of the student, and – equipped with expertise and approaches based on cognitive science and experienced pedagogy – we tailor our techniques to where the student is, where we want to get, and the most readily adoptable path that will get us there.

When students don’t know what is in the way of their academic goals, they often use self-defeating strategies—from hyper-vigilance to avoidance—to insulate themselves from uncertainty. In so doing, they can insulate themselves from learning, which demands tolerating precisely this uncertainty. Beyond sharing academic content and testing strategies with students, I work with them to develop comfort and curiosity with the errors and confusion at the horizon of our understanding. Over 20 years, I’ve been fortunate to guide many students through confusion to success on their math and writing courses, LSATs, GREs, GMATs; ACTs, and SATs. I’m particularly fond of helping highly competitive, neurodiverse, exceptionally anxious (or just generally misunderstood!) students find solutions to their academic and testing problems.

We teach study skills and time management that help students earn better grades in less time. We specialize in students whose grades don’t reflect how smart they are, athletes, and STEM enthusiasts. Our mission is to motivate students to do more than they think is possible, teach them how to accomplish it, and push them to achieve their greatest goals. Paul Rivas is the author of This Book Will Not Be on the Test and the creator of the study skills course Better Grades in Less Time®. Check out all the free stuff he has on smithrivas.com.

When students don’t know what is in the way of their academic goals, they often use self-defeating strategies—from hyper-vigilance to avoidance—to insulate themselves from uncertainty. In so doing, they can insulate themselves from learning, which demands tolerating precisely this uncertainty. Beyond sharing academic content and testing strategies with students, I work with them to develop comfort and curiosity with the errors and confusion at the horizon of our understanding. We specialize in academic tutoring and exam prep for most AP/IB subjects.

We help students who have plenty of “smarts” but struggle with starting, planning or managing work. We work with students in-person or remotely and coach 1:1, provide EF & study skills courses, and also have a homework center to reduce the barriers of getting work done. Visit our website at www.thestudypro.com.

Tungsten Prep is a local, woman-owned Washington, DC business that provides academic tutoring and standardized test prep to elementary, middle, and high school students. Our personalized approach helps students build the study habits and subject matter expertise to graduate from tutoring. We believe students thrive when they find that just-right tutor who understands their individual learning style, inspires them to work harder, and, hopefully, makes them laugh.