Tigerway
SAT coaching that works from the marks you are actually losing.
Most preparation is a syllabus with a student attached to it. This is the other way round: the paper is fixed, every topic on it is worth a knowable number of marks, and the only question worth asking each week is which of them is costing this student the most right now.
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Measure before deciding anything
Every topic on the Digital SAT is ranked by what it is costing: how many questions the exam actually asks of it, times how often this student is missing them. That product is marks, and marks are what the plan is sorted by — not difficulty, not what is next in a textbook, not what she finds unpleasant.
Below a floor of answered questions a topic is not ranked at all. The page says it cannot tell yet, and says how many more questions it needs.
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One topic a week, named everywhere
The lesson, the homework and the calendar name the same topic for the same week. Nothing is taught a second time while a heavyweight part of the paper is still uncovered — and one teaching week in three goes back to the biggest measured hole, so a ninety-mark weakness cannot wait out a term behind topics nobody has measured yet.
Each week on the plan carries the arithmetic that put it there, so a coach who disagrees can argue with the numbers rather than with the software.
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Write the one-line rule
After a set, for anything she got wrong, she writes one sentence: what the question was really testing and what to do next time. It is twenty minutes, it is the part of this programme that moves scores, and it is the part every other product leaves to chance.
The sentences accumulate into one page in her own words, grouped by the mistake that produced them — and the product puts that page back in front of her in the last days before the exam, when there is nothing left to learn and everything to remember.
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Nothing is claimed that cannot be checked
Every figure on a student's page carries the count behind it — "5 of 10 right", not "53%" on a ten-question set. A projection is drawn as a range with the sittings it was built from named underneath. Where there is not enough evidence, the product prints nothing rather than something.
A fifteen-year-old who divides a number and gets nonsense stops believing every other number on the page, not just that one.
What it is not
Everything here is about a fifteen-to-seventeen-year-old. The difference between a programme a family recommends and one they warn people about is whether the answer to “who can see this” was designed or accumulated.
No leaderboards, ever.
No student in this product can see another student's name, score or work. There is no ranking, no cohort table, no comparison to a classmate.
Nothing is unlocked by sharing.
No feature is gated behind a share, nothing is counted, and no page opens because a link was sent.
Nothing about a student is public unless she switches it on.
There is no default-on setting anywhere. Switching a page off kills the link itself, so a URL she takes back never works again.
Her name is a separate decision from her result.
Anonymous is the default even once a page is public — "1180 to 1400 in eleven weeks" is the part worth reading and her name is the part worth protecting.
No streaks, no badges, no nagging.
The dashboard asks for one thing at a time and goes quiet when there is nothing to ask for. After her exam it stops issuing work altogether.
If you were sent a link
Somebody on the programme made that page public themselves, and can take it down again whenever they like. It is not listed anywhere and search engines are asked not to index it.
Accounts here are set up by Tigerway for students on the programme — there is no sign-up form, by design. If you want to know more, the person who sent you the link can pass your name on.
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