“I hate the Writing section of the SAT! I want to study engineering. Why should I study Writing? I wouldn’t even need SAT prep if I did not have to take the Writing part of the Standardized Tests!” shouted Akshay*.
Akshay’s parents were at their wits’ end. He was doing well at school and wanted to apply to a university abroad. They supported his decision completely, and everything looked favorable for their plan to fructify. But they had not factored in the Writing section of the SAT, which now threatened to derail Akshay’s entire study abroad program.
They had enrolled him in Collegify, a premium education services company specializing in SAT prep and ACT coaching, confident that they had done what was needed to facilitate their son’s getting an undergraduate degree in the US.
But Akshay presented them with a long list of why it was not working for him:
- Coaching timings were not always convenient. They clashed with his tuitions and other co-curricular activities.
- He enjoyed the coaching and was benefitting from the individual attention, but he needed much more time than he’d thought to get to an acceptable level in the Writing section.
- He needed more practice in the specific types of Writing section errors he made, but taking a test meant going over even those areas where he did not need practice. Hard-pressed for time, he did not appreciate the time he had to ‘waste’ on practicing skills he already had.
- He was disheartened because he didn’t know whether he getting better at Writing. Some days he got 24 answers correct, other days he got 31 answers correct, but that didn’t mean he was improving, because the test with more correct answers might have been a very easy test.
- It was hard to deal with the vagaries of traffic and the weather, which sapped his energy and enthusiasm to attend the coaching.
- Waiting for the test results was difficult. If he could have the test results sooner after he’d taken the test, he would be more motivated.
Akshay’s discouraged parents went back to Collegify with the list, thinking they were losing the only shot he had of making his study abroad dream come true.
To their surprise, instead of disagreeing with them, the counselor was nodding agreement. The counselor said, “So many students face these problems that Collegify decided to come up with a solution. And we’re delighted to share that after more than 18 months of design and testing, it has been launched!”
Akshay’s parents learned that Collegify that launched a revolutionary E-learning platform for SAT prep and ACT coaching. They came back home to Akshay with their own list – of solutions!
- The E-learning platform meant Akshay could learn at times that were convenient to him.