How to Get the Most Out of Working With Me: Your Guide to Everything on This Site
Read time: 5 min · Last updated: May 1, 2026
One of the first things I want every parent to know when we start working together is this: our sessions are only part of what I offer. Everything I teach is also written out on this website — every rule, every strategy, every topic that appears on the ACT® Test. It is all free and it is all available to your son or daughter any time, day or night.
This is not an accident. I built the site this way on purpose.
Why the Website Exists
The honest reality of tutoring is that an hour or two a week is not enough time on its own to move a score significantly. What happens between sessions matters just as much as the sessions themselves. Students who review what we covered, go back and re-read a topic they are still fuzzy on, and come to the next session with their questions ready make dramatically faster progress than students who treat each session as a standalone event.
For that to be possible, students need somewhere to go between sessions. That is why I wrote everything out. If your child leaves a session and realizes three days later that they do not quite remember how the comma rule works, they do not need to wait until we meet again. The answer is on the site. If they want to get ahead and preview something we have not covered yet, they can do that too.
The content is not generic ACT® advice pulled from the internet. It is the exact curriculum I use in sessions — written the same way I would explain it in person, covering only what actually appears on the test, with nothing padded in to make it look more comprehensive than it is.
What Is on the Site
Every section of the ACT® has its own set of guides.
For the English Test, there is a dedicated article on every tested grammar and rhetoric topic: punctuation between clauses, comma rules, apostrophes, who vs. whom, prepositions, participles and modifiers, word choice, superlatives, and more. There are also articles on the rhetoric questions — kept-or-deleted, main idea, sentence order and placement — which are the ones most students either ignore or find confusing. These are not short overviews. They are complete explanations of the rule, how the ACT® asks about it, and what gets students wrong.
For the Math Test, there are individual guides on every topic that appears with real frequency: fractions, percentages, ratios, exponents, inequalities, absolute value, slope and linear equations, systems of equations, quadratics, triangles, circles, trigonometry, functions, probability, statistics, matrices, vectors, sequences, and more. The guides also cover the strategies that matter specifically for ACT® Math — things like how to read a question before jumping to the math, and how to use the answer choices strategically on certain problem types.
For the Reading Test, the guides cover each major question type and the strategies that work specifically for the way the ACT® Reading section is structured. This includes how to handle main idea questions, how to approach passage order, and how to manage the dual passage comparison questions that trip up a lot of students.
For the Science Test, there are guides on data analysis, interpolation and extrapolation, experiment design, and competing hypotheses — the three categories of questions that make up the bulk of the section. There is also an explanation of what outside science knowledge is actually required (not much) and how to think about it.
Beyond the content guides, the site has practical resources: a guide to taking a free official practice test online, a score report grader that generates a specific study plan from a student's results, and an explanation of how to read and use ACT® score reports effectively.
How I Suggest Using It
After each session, I will usually tell your child which topic or topics to review on the site before we meet again. That review is part of the work — it is how the material moves from something we discussed once into something that sticks.
If your child is the kind of student who likes to get ahead, they are welcome to read ahead on topics we have not covered yet. Coming to a session having already read the relevant guide often means we can go deeper and faster than we would from a cold start.
If there is ever a topic where the written explanation is not clicking, bring it to the next session. Some concepts land differently on the page than they do in conversation, and that is exactly what sessions are for.
The site, the sessions, and the practice tests are all designed to work together. Students who use all three consistently are the ones who make the biggest gains — and the most satisfying ones to work with.