Karman

Real tutors teach it. Daily practice makes it stick.

Live SAT classes of six and private one-on-one tutoring, taught by PhD students, quants and university professors. Between sessions, ten minutes of research-backed practice a day, and a tutor who sees every answer.

Take the free practice testSee pricingFree. Saturday, December 12, live on Zoom.

Karman's 1:1 students gained 285 points on average. Karman 1:1 tutoring, median 16 weeks.

Our tutors

Tutors you would hire for something harder than the SAT.

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  • PhD studentsDoing research at university level
  • QuantsBuilding mathematical models for a living
  • Market analystsReading data against a deadline, every day
  • Published researchersPeer-reviewed work in their own fields
  • University professorsTeaching is already their profession
  • Certified tutorsCertified by the Association of Test Preparation, Admissions, and Private Tutoring

The Karman guarantee

If your student does the work and the score doesn't rise, we pay you back.

You may have paid for SAT prep before and watched the score sit still. Then the refund turned out to hang on a rule nobody mentioned. It happens a lot in this industry. Here is our whole deal, on one line.

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Starting score

Nine weeks of work

The official SAT

+100 points or a 1450

+100 points or a 1450

Measured from an official SAT or PSAT from the last 6 months, or from a week-1 Bluebook test we proctor live.

Our side

  • Two live classes a week, in a group of up to six
  • Five full-length practice tests
  • A 60-minute one-on-one after every full-length
  • A weekly live session
  • The Daily 10 and our own practice questions
  • Live progress for parents, and a weekly summary

Your student's side

  • Attend at least 15 of the 18 live classes, live
  • Take all five full-length tests, each in one timed sitting
  • Complete all five one-on-one reviews (rescheduling with 24 hours' notice is fine)
  • Do at least 90% of the weekly practice, tracked on the dashboard
  • Sit the official SAT within 60 days of the last class
  • A student's first Karman program, once per student
  • Not for students starting at 1450 or above
  • Paid in full, or every installment paid on time

Within 30 days of scores coming out, email us the official College Board score report. One email. Nothing is taken out of a refund.

The guarantee, with worked examples
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Your Daily 104 of 10

Last time: missed

The museum's new wing opened in its first exhibit drew more visitors in one week than the old galleries had in a month.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

Ten questions a day, picked from what your student gets wrong.

The Daily 10. Every day, ten questions chosen from the skills your student finds hardest. Miss one, and it comes back a few days later to try again.

Explore the research behind our design

Your tutor starts every session already knowing what went wrong.

Every answer your student gives, on homework, the Daily 10 and every full-length test, reaches the tutor the moment it's given: the choice they picked, how long it took, and which of the eight SAT domains is slipping. No session opens with "so, what was hard this week?" Parents see the same progress on their phone.

The next session, what's due and how every skill is moving, on one screen.

MondayFebruary 1Today

  • Quadratics, 15 questionsHomework due, 9:00 p.m.

Small games between sets, built to make it stick.

  • WordlineToday's SAT word in six tries.
  • FlashcardsRoots, prefixes and suffixes, so a new word can be worked out on test day.
  • Word LabOne SAT word a day, used in a sentence of your own.
  • Daily ChallengeOne hard question a day, with the full method after.

What the nine weeks are for.

See their score range before you spend a dollar.

December 12 at 10:00 a.m. ET, live on Zoom with a proctor. About 75 minutes, 49 of our own questions, then an estimated score range, a breakdown by domain and a 20-minute call to go through it.

Already scoring 1500, or under four weeks from the test? We'll tell you a program probably isn't worth your money.

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