Raise Your GMAT, GRE, CBEST, SAT Test Scores
With Norman Prince

It's fall, and prospective college and graduate students are trying to ensure being virtually certain of admission to the schools of their choice. Norman Prince, featured in the SF Chronicle Sunday magazine and an adjunct professor of English at Skyline College, has successfully tutored individuals for almost two decades on the GMAT, GRE, CBEST, MCAT, SAT-I, ACT, PSAT and SSAT.

Tucked away in a bright, sunny flat in Noe Valley, San Francisco, Norman's home office features a variety of artwork including some images from his previous career as a photographer. Here, Norman has coached many people to substantially increase their scores.

Norman enjoys aiding people in overcoming their difficulties with high-stakes, 'high anxiety,' highly unfair and highly coachable tests. "I enjoy helping clients overcome anxiety, or lack of confidence, of strategies, or even of nutritional preparation," he enthuses.

Norman believes that standardized tests are coachable and that most improvement isn't from spending huge amounts of time learning much more subject matter. He further believes that the tests largely measure "how good you were at taking that test on that day."

"I tailor the work to each individual by determining that person's strongest learning styles, to be used in our work and in the future. We then work on anxiety-reduction and nutritional preparation, followed by strategies, and by setting and working to achieve specific and overall goals." He writes his own materials, saving clients note-taking time, and works with official test materials.

Clients' successes include a woman whose 380-point improvement on the (2400-point scale) GRE, after no improvement from a GRE course at a major test-prep company, enabled her to gain admission to a Master's program at Harvard. Recently, Norman tutored a student on the MCAT; she scored so well that she was offered admission by all schools she had applied to, including Stanford. Harvard then contacted her, requesting that she apply for admission there.

Six of Norman's recent tutees, with a basis for comparison, increased their scores between 160 and 250 points on the 1600-point version of the SAT-1. Three past tutees increased 400+.

In Norman's decades of experience as an educator, his greatest satisfaction comes from the successes of the people he has worked with. He offers, "I feel fortunate and grateful that I can assist people in achieving their positive life-changing results."