FAQs
- What should the customer know about your pricing (e.g., discounts, fees)?
Tutoring is offered in ten hour units. Brush ups or meta-test problems are usually handled in ten hours, while more extensive prep generally takes between 20 and 30 hours. We pay our instructors top dollar to attract the best talent, and our experts often have advanced degrees; JDs, MBAs, and others from top schools, meaning that they are seasoned professionals that are in demand across multiple industries. Our live tutoring prices range from $300-325 per hour, and online lessons in our state of the art classroom cost between $225 and $300 per hour.
- What is your typical process for working with a new customer?
Our first step is always to learn about each client: their academic goals, score range, and background. Then we delve deeper into their learning style, cognitive proclivities, preferred solution paths, and their background with tests. We also inquire about timing issues and test/math anxiety, both of which are very common, and also surmountable. Following the initial intake (which is not charged), we will then work with them in the initial session to get to know them more deeply as learners, and from there deliver a personalized assessment and study schedule, which is then reviewed and agreed upon between the client and instructor, and provides a dynamic framework that keeps the client on target and seeing results at scheduled points in the prep process.
- What education and/or training do you have that relates to your work?
Apex has the most stringent hiring requirements in the test prep world. Each has scored in the top half of the top 1% of their respective exams. More importantly, all of Apex's instructors have loads of experience in the classroom and undergo extensive training before working with clients.