This is an essential question to ask yourself before you spend thousands of dollars on a GMAT tutor. Generally, GMAT tutoring is most beneficial for students who:

• Need to maximize the return on their study time. If you’re in a time-crunch with applications around the corner, or if you have a demanding job that limits your available study time, then hiring a GMAT tutor would probably be a good decision for you.
• Benefit from structure and accountability. The amount of GMAT resources out there can be overwhelming. Hiring a good GMAT tutor will save you the headache of separating the good from the bad and will let you spend that precious time doing targeted, effective studying. A good GMAT tutor will structure your preparation to ensure that you have both an overall study plan governing your preparation and a structured homework plan for each week (and, ideally, each day!) of your preparation.
• Are aiming for 730+. The dirty secret of most GMAT prep courses is that they target the median student. Because of this, the difficulty level of the classes and homework assignments rarely exceeds the 700-level. Working with a GMAT tutor who themselves have scored in the 99th-percentile and who have a documented track record of helping students achieve similar success is a high-probability way to position yourself to achieve a stellar score. 

Probably. About half of our clients come to us having already taken the exam, so we’re intimately familiar with the pitfalls that re-takers sometimes confront and the shortcomings of the courses and other study materials that they used in their prior preparation. Indeed, we pride ourselves on getting into the minds of our students and truly examining what has been holding them back. Over the years, we’ve worked with students who have taken the exam numerous times and felt that the GMAT was an impossible feat, but we’ve usually been able to identify concrete issues in their strategies— be it conceptual, time management, or reasoning-related— that helped make what they thought was impossible into a reality.

We’ve developed a best-in-industry suite of official materials that we’re able to tailor to the individual needs of all of our clients. If you hire us as your GMAT tutor, you’ll get:

• Over 5,000 official GMAT questions customized by topic and level of difficulty
• Access to over 70 GMAT videos made by our head tutor, Erfun Geula
• A detailed, streamlined error log that will help you easily track and review your performance across your preparation
• Day-by-day homework assignments pointing you to important official GMAT questions that reinforce what we cover at our lessons
• “Refresher” PDFs covering all the major rules and formulas you need to know for the exam
• For online sessions, we give GMAT tutoring students the ability to record our sessions for review later in the day

Yup. We meet most of our students online (even our New York City GMAT clients) and we’ve developed our system to work best for online tutoring. We have all necessary resources in PDF form, and we show our math on an online whiteboard that you can view in real-time through the Zoom platform. Better yet, online tutoring gives you the opportunity to screenshot questions we do together for later review and to record our meetings (this is something many companies don’t do, but we know how beneficial this is for our clients and are happy to do what we need to help them maximize their scores!).