Aurora｜GMAT/SAT Verbal Tutor

Tutoring achievements:

In the 10+ years of teaching experience I have helped many students achieve their goals. I have had more than 60 SAT students and over 25 GMAT students. My students have increased their scores by a range of 50 to 150 points in each section. Some of the biggest increased scores this 2025 were achieved by Emma, who went from 540 Verbal in March to 690 Verbal in June, and Sebastian, who went from 600 Verbal in December 2024 to 700 Verbal/in May 2025.

Who is Aurora?

I started teaching fresh out of high school when I was 15. From then on, I continued teaching (mostly as a side job) until I graduated from college. After college, I worked in my field for some time, but then, after travelling for a while, started tutoring for the GMAT exam in 2013, and for the SAT in 2014. I also worked for some language institutions as an ESL teacher, but then went back to tutoring for exams, which is what I like the most. I’ve worked in many academies and with many different methods, and finally decided to put a name to my own method (which is a combination of the many different things I’ve learnt and others that I “found out” myself).

What can Aurora offer?

I don’t waste class time with activities my students could just do by themselves (reading long passages, taking practice tests), and I actually encourage my students to do most of the work at home. I think most students don’t really need to spend many hours with a tutor, and a tutor should be there just to guide and solve specific issues a student may come up with.

My approach to the Verbal section is to help students understand that there are always objective reasons why the answer is the answer and why the other alternatives are not. We work on both learning the correct strategy and getting rid of the wrong strategies and misconceptions about this section.

I understand the needs of my students and, most importantly, understand that they need to reach their goal and are in a rush, so we focus on that. The idea is to study for the specific test that they need, and to understand the way of the test, and follow it.