

Talha
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- Preparation for business school
- French Exam Preparation
Experienced tutor in Act prep in New York, Talha offers private lessons tailored to your needs.
- Preparation for business school
- French Exam Preparation
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Talha is a respected tutor in our community. He is highly recommended for his commitment and the quality of his lessons. A trusted partner on your learning journey.
About Talha
Having taught at Tutor Plus for many years as a founder and lead teacher, I have come to learn what works the best for my students and what doesn't. This is how through many years of experience, I have distilled and found the best ways to prepare my students for any sort of standardized tests.
A) EXPERIENCE
I have a total teaching experience of 12 years. I have prepared students for SAT, ACT, SAT 2 LEVEL 1 MATHS, SAT 2 LEVEL 2 MATHS, GMAT, GRE for 6 years. Through my experience, I have learned the strategies that work for the vast majority of students and strategies that do not work. In my teaching, over the years I have taken into account the gap between conventional school teaching and the skills that a certain student is required to have to ace any of the standardized tests. That is why my students have scored amazingly well in any of the standardized tests.
B) CUSTOMIZED APPROACH FOR EVERY STUDENT
I also understand and make my students understand how significant university admission can be for them. For any of my classes, I start with a diagnostic test and from there onwards I discuss a comprehensive plan with both students and parents outlining the areas students need to improve on. This helps me and my students identify the right amount of time and approach to take a particular exam. The subjects and tests that I prepare for are SAT, ACT, SAT 2 LEVEL 1 MATHS, SAT 2 LEVEL 2 MATHS, GMAT, GRE, Algebra 1, Algebra 2.
C) HOW DO I TEACH? WHAT MEDIUM DO I USE TO TEACH?
I conduct my sessions live with students at the Zoom meeting. I share the screen of an Ipad Pro with the students. That is why it is easy for all my students to understand what I am teaching them. I make all my lectures so interesting that students don’t even feel that they are sitting at home while taking the lectures. That is how students stay interested and are always looking forward to the next session.
D) HOW ARE MY RESULTS SO GOOD? WHAT APPROACH DO I FOLLOW?
Over the years, I have invested a lot of time in preparing and writing the questions that I use to teach different courses. After I have taught a certain topic, I make students do multiple examples related to the same topic in our class. After that, each of my students has to complete multiple exercises at home that has many questions from the same topic. Through this, my students get to revise the same topic on the same day at home. All my students are supposed to achieve a mastery level in every topic. I keep assigning them new questions on every topic unless they have achieved mastery level in each of the topics related to the test that they are taking.
To understand this better, let’s say if I am teaching a topic from SAT Math called factorization, I start it from the very basic. I teach my students what factorization is. I start from the very basic examples of factorization then transition towards difficult examples and then eventually the questions that are based on real SATs. Then I make my students do more practice problems on factorization based on real SATs. Then I assign my students more practice problems on factorization for home and keep assigning more practice problems until my students have achieved mastery level in factorization. This is how I go on to make sure that my students are not simply taking the classes but are building the skills needed to ace their tests. I do the same for every test I prepare my students for be it SAT, ACT, GMAT, or any other standardized tests.
This is done to make sure that my students leave no stone unturned when it comes to any sort of question that they may come across in the test that they are preparing for. The questions that they are not able to do from the assigned homework are all discussed in the next session to reinforce the concepts even further.
This is the same methodology that I use for SAT, ACT, SAT 2 LEVEL 1 MATHS, SAT 2 LEVEL 2 MATHS, GMAT, GRE, Algebra 1, Algebra 2.
E) IMPORTANCE OF FULL-LENGTH TESTS
Once my students have mastered all the skills needed to ace the test, I take their multiple Full-Length Tests till the day they have their actual test for SAT, ACT, GMAT, GRE, etc. This helps me and my students in making sure that we haven’t left a stone unturned in all our practice. Full-Length tests are also taken throughout the preparation session to make sure that students get to see how far they have come from the point where they started their preparation.
F) FREQUENT UPDATES FROM STUDENTS ON THEIR PREPARATION
Besides the regular classes, I also stay in touch with all my students and stay informed on their daily progress through WhatsApp. My students must write me on WhatsApp every day and inform me what they have studied in the previous 24 hours related to the exam that they are taking. It helps me in eliminating any sort of communication gap between me and my student. Through this, I also stay informed on the daily progress of all my students. In addition to that, my students can also always reach out with a problem that they are facing.
Using all of these strategies besides other strategies that I can’t disclose here for obvious reasons has helped me in making sure that my students achieve the best score in SAT, ACT, SAT 2 Level 1 Math, SAT 2 Level 2 Math, GMAT, GRE, etc.
My students have left amazing reviews for me over the years. The reviews can be further read here.
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What I like most about the work I do is connecting with my students personally and being able to understand their issues on a level that brings the best out in them.
One of the aspects that I really like about my job is that not all students are the same. Therefore as a teacher, in the very first class I make sure to analyze what my students are good at and what they are not so good at. And from there onwards I design a customized plan for them focusing more on their weak areas.
I have always had a knack for teaching. Teaching is what keeps me going. It is one of those things that I am really looking forward to every day.
I started off teaching when I was in high school and was looking forward to make some extra money and tutored some middle school kids. From there it evolved into a passion and passion later on evolved into a profession and there has been no looking back ever since.
I have prepared myself for various aptitude tests when I was a student and prepared more than a 1000 students so far for various aptitude tests including SATs, GMAT and GRE. Through my years of experience, I have only refined the way I teach and have gotten only better at it.
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For any of my students, I start with a diagnostic test and from there onwards I discuss a comprehensive plan with both students and parents outlining the areas students need to improve on. This helps me and my students identify the right amount of time and approach to take a particular exam. The subjects and tests that I prepare for are SAT, ACT, SAT 2 LEVEL 1 MATHS, SAT 2 LEVEL 2 MATHS, GMAT, GRE, Algebra 1, Algebra 2.
I have worked with various students hailing from different backgrounds.
I have taughts kids who are dyslexic. I have taught students who almost had no foundation when it comes to Maths. I have taught students who had very little and no English speaking background and they wanted to apply to mulitple good universities.
So far it has been a mix of all sorts of students.
If I were you and hiring a teacher for SAT, ACT, GMAT, GRE so I would really ask teacher about his own scores for the said tests. Moreover I would ask teacher for his or her own relevant experience with these tests. Also I would like ask teacher that how many students he or she has prepared over the years and what their results have been and what kind of universities those students went to after taking the tests. These are some of the basic questions that I would ask if I were you.
I think one of the events that I am really excited to share hear was when I was attending a wedding and I ran into a student of mine and that student of mine literally introduced me to everyone by saying that "I am the reason that he got into a university of his choice" and honestly it was one of the most overwhelming thing to hear from a student that too in a wedding among too many people.
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Scoring impressively on the SAT and getting accepted into a prestigious university is what every student wants, as did I. I was a mediocre student in my high school, and consequently didn’t have much idea about which tutor would prepare me better for SAT. Then a friend suggested Tutor Plus to me, on the basis that it has satisfactory course coverage. Hence I decided to enroll with Tutor Plus at the end of July for SAT October.
I had a little over two months for preparation. The course was covered in a month, while the rest of the time was allotted to query sessions and full-length tests. Every section of the SAT was given ample time, and we were made to solve practice tasks in timed conditions, with discussions about the questions later on.
As for the full-length tests, they were difficult and extensive enough to gear us up for unprecedented questions and situations. About 8 tests were conducted, scored, and discussed to give us an idea of the different tests we could face. I remember Mr. Talha telling me to keep a wrist watch with me during all my practice tests that I was even doing at home.
This too alludes that Tutor Plus takes every student seriously, and goes the extra mile to hone its students’ preparatory skills. Alongside these tests, we were given seventeen SAT practice tests as homework. Their scores were also checked and discussed by the teacher, and we received guidance correspondingly on how to improve further. A separate class was conducted after the tests were over in order to revise all the strategies and tips that we’d learnt.
At Tutor Plus, the course is designed to prepare students for various kinds of questions, covering all difficulty levels. The course books are quite user friendly, with numerous examples and methods explaining every topic, followed by practice questions. To help them get a good grip on reading and analysis, which is crucial for the Reading portion, the students are provided with magazines and novels to read, which prepare them for all sorts of passages, whether they’re on history or space science, economic crises or literature.
Grammatical rules are taught in detail, with precise focus on revision. The essay portion is given particular attention too, with emphasis on the general layout, assignments and sample essays, and in-depth coverage of literary devices.
But of course, no course or subject is good enough, unless it’s taught by a dedicated teacher. Mr Talha would always be willing to put in extra time for me if I had unresolved queries or unsolved questions, apart from the regular classes, even if it meant taking an extra classes for which he would not even charge me.
He gave detailed explanations on how to tackle every section, suggesting strategies to maximize our score in the allotted time. He’d motivate me when he could see the morale getting low due to the toughness of the tests, and counsel me when I didn’t take the preparation seriously.
He also required of me to submit a daily schedule on WhatsApp of what I had studied and for how long, so that he could keep track of my efforts and guide me specifically. I believe his priority is explicit: getting each and every student to nail the SAT.
You never have to worry about finding extra practice material, or finding score-maximization hacks (that actually work), because they’re all covered in the lectures. So if you’re looking for a teacher who looks beyond lucrative interests, and focuses on the students’ betterment, giving them a sense that it is working for them, and not just for itself, then Tutor Plus is the one to choose.
Simply put, I’ll say that this is an investment you can safely make without worrying too much about the risk.If someone is serious for test preparation then i would highly recommend TUTOR PLUS.
I went to Tutor Plus for SAT preparation and on the first day Sir Talha gave us an outline that he said was to be followed. I initially didn’t think that we would be able to do the whole course AND around 26 full length test but somehow with Sir Talha’s dedication and endless persistence to spend more time on both Math and English, we did it.
He explained everything in great detail and made sure that each and every one of us had understood the concept before moving on to the next. In English, he went through the long, winding passages with us to make sure that we understood what was happening and that helped a great deal in the SAT, he also checked our essays and had a one on one conversation with each one of us on what was lacking and explained in great detail on how to correct it.
During my paper, there were very few questions that I had to think twice about since we were prepped to tackle the hardest questions that College board could throw at us.
I would recommend Tutor Plus to everyone appearing for SAT because without Sir Talha and his endless hard work, I would not have gotten my desired SAT score.
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No, the pricing is variable and it depends on the course that the students will be studying and how long the student would like to study the course for. So the higher the number of hours, the fewer I charge student for the course.
My charges background is as follows.
$40 per hour if a students wishes to study a course for 5 hours or fewer.
$35 per hour if a students wishes to study a course for 6 - 10 hours.
$30 per hour if a students wishes to study a course for 10 - 20 hours.
$25 per hour if a students wishes to study a course for more than 20 hours.
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