Testimonials

My name is Meghan Perez and I’m a senior at Coral Reef Senior High School. I wanted to raise my SAT math score so I could improve my score in general. I was doing a lot of self-studying through Khan Academy, but it didn’t really seem to be helping me. Although they had videos, I wasn’t really understanding those videos and there weren’t any additional resources. It would only raise me 10 points or so. I was trying to find something that I knew would guarantee raising my points for math. I had taken two SAT’s and I was scoring a 1290. I wanted to get 100% Bright Futures and that wouldn’t have been possible with my score at the time.

I found out about Peace of Pi through my sister’s friend. She actually took the course and I saw on Instagram how she did really well. I was reading the details that she gave about the course and she only had good things to say, so then that’s when we got in contact.

I was a little bit unsure of how it was going to work out at first because I knew that it would be group tutoring on Zoom. I wasn’t sure how the dynamic of that would work, but I actually ended up really liking how it was because the groups weren’t too big that you weren’t able to learn one on one with the tutor yourself, it was a good size. You’re able to learn from others’ mistakes or if they had questions that you might have not known to ask that helped also. I was able to gain information not just from the tutor but from the other students as well.

Sometimes it could be a lot, but I feel you just have to really manage your time and it’ll pay off at the end. I felt doing the assignments, practice tests, watching the videos or doing any extra help, at the end, really benefited me because when I was doing the test I was actually able to answer every question for the first time. And I felt I actually got them right, I didn’t feel uneasy about any of them. So that was the first time I actually finished with time, so I felt very confident. I feel it was just because I practiced a lot from the assignments and the homework given.

I think that if others do the course, they have to be willing to put in the work and it will pay off at the end. I ended up raising my score by about 80 points. I had a 650 in math and then I got a 730, but overall my score went from a 1290 to a 1410. Reading is actually my strength but now math ended up being my highest score on the SAT part. So I was very happy with the results.

I was worried at first because I know most of the colleges are looking for higher scores and even though I had a 1290, which wasn’t bad, I knew I wanted a higher score to make me look better within the applicants. So getting a 1410 really just made the stress go down and helped me feel more secure, knowing that my grades and my tests now would be good enough for the colleges I was applying to. I felt really good about that. And I also ended up being able to secure 100% Bright Futures.

To any student on their SAT journey, I would say to not slack off and really just do your work and practice because it does help. If you have a lot at once you might just brush it off and say ‘I’ll just do this stuff next week’, but the stuff that you miss will matter and it does really help if you do it all. For me doing it during school and having to manage school and the SAT prep at the same time, it could be a lot sometimes but I really learned to manage my time, so I could do both. I think just do your assignments and really take the time and effort to put into the course if you want to see improvements.