Askerra exists for one kind of student: the one aiming for a top score and admission to the Ivy League or another highly selective university, where the targets are unforgiving and the difference between a 750 and an 800 can matter. We don’t try to be everything to everyone. We work on the points that are hardest to win.
Here’s what 13 years of SAT prep taught Will: even at the top of the range, the points you’re missing usually aren’t exotic. They’re a handful of specific gaps — often fundamentals that never fully stuck — hiding underneath advanced-looking mistakes. Most high-scoring students aren’t working too little. They’ve been practicing the wrong things, at the wrong level, for months, and still hitting the same ceiling.
The fix is almost always the same: slow down, find the exact gap, close it — one thing at a time, not twelve topics in parallel. It sounds too simple to matter, but at the 750-plus level it’s precisely what turns a plateau into an 800. Not more material. Not harder material. Just knowing what’s missing and dealing with it.
Will has logged thousands of hours with students across the US, Europe, and Asia — a large share of them aiming at highly selective universities, where there’s no margin for inefficient prep. Askerra’s method is built around what he kept seeing work with exactly those students, across both SAT Math and SAT Reading & Writing. In both, the starting point is the same: find what’s actually missing before adding anything new.
Tanya runs the business side — content, strategy, and direction as Askerra grows. Together we’ve built our own guides and webinars, each focused on one specific, high-value part of the test. The goal has always been to take what works in elite private tutoring and make it accessible, without the private-tutoring price tag or schedule.
Students already scoring well who want the last, hardest points — and the parents supporting a highly selective application. If you need broad, from-scratch prep, we’re honestly not the best fit.
The range we’re built for — the last, hardest points.
Tutoring students into highly selective universities.
At a time — how a plateau becomes a perfect score.
Each worked in full — the same method we use with students aiming at the most selective schools.