Hongze has an intense passion for tutoring.
He has a demonstrated ability to raise a student’s test scores. What’s more, he desperately wants to share that ability with you. He’ll teach you terrific strategies to keep your end goal uppermost in your mind, so your motivation remains sky-high. This involves helping you to see the bigger picture so that it’s more than just about doing incredibly well on one test. It’s about how your efforts fit into the glorious future you’re building for yourself.
With Hong, you won’t be trudging towards the testing center with grim determination chiseled on your face. There will be moments of delightful levity when both of you will momentarily set aside the textbook learning so that two teenagers can enjoy a laugh together.
This makes your educational experience so much more fun, which reduces stress. The less anxiety there is, the better you’ll be able to learn!
Hongze knows that students are smarter than they think. The SAT isn’t filled with terrible questions that nobody can answer; it’s filled with tricky ones designed to trip up a student. He’ll help you steer clear of these deliberately laid traps so you can get a test score you’ll be proud of.
He never tells a student that their process is wrong—he tells them how it can be improved. This is an important distinction that keeps the student from feeling bad about their flawed methodology.
He knows that a great student-teacher relationship is built on trust, so he’ll share great stories of how he learned something. This helps to build rapport. He’ll also ask a student for input, which is a terrific way to let the student know that they’re both in this together and can trust each other.
He’s more than just someone who gets your mind in the best shape of its life so you can ace the SATs—he’s also an empathic peer coach. He can teach you the same test-taking strategies that allowed him to get an exceptional score.
One of the first things that Hongze does is to see what your test-taking methodology is. The way he sees it, a lack of a methodology is why many students fail to get SAT scores they’re happy with.
Scores improve when the methodology does.
His favorite thing about tutoring students is when a light bulb goes off in a student’s head. This happens when a learner finally grasps something he tried to understand for so long. For Hongze, this incredibly rewarding experience is what makes tutoring so worthwhile.
For Hongze, it’s cool to see how he can have that kind of positive influence on someone’s mindset!
Hongze knows that there are only so many types of questions on the test. Therefore, he’ll go over every kind of question he ever encountered on either the practice or actual test.
And speaking of practice tests, you’ll do lots of them. After each one, Hongze will dissect precisely where you went astray. That way, you’ll be armed with the knowledge you’ll need to ace the test next time. You’ll soon be filled with an unshakable conviction that a successful outcome is well within your reach.
Hongze has an incredible ability to reframe a test question for you, so you think about the process and not a specific problem. This provides you with a powerful tool for your test-taking toolbox. Because once you understand the underlying similarities of the problems, taking tests just got so much easier.
Want to get matched with a talented and experienced tutor like Hongze? Then call us today. At Smart Minds Tutoring, we’ll provide you with an unsurpassed educational experience that goes way beyond test-taking!