– Jed gives his background: how he went from consulting with McKinsey to starting a national test prep company that has over 200 tutors.
– Jed spent 7 years working on his PhD, where he looked at 2,500 kids who did test prep, and he shares the results of his research.
– We have a discussion on which family Jed has seen that has the highest test score — the high-education/low-income family vs. the lower-education/high-income family.
– Jed talks about the executive functioning work that he personally does.
– Jed gives us a very detailed overview of who is the best kid for self-prep, group prep vs. one-on-one test prep.
– Jed continues with what he started in Part 1, giving us a broad overview of self-prep, group prep, and one-on-one, and various hybrid models.
– Jed talks about helping kids with negative self-talk. We talk about what a tutor can do to help kids who have test anxiety.
– Jed talks about the biggest value that the one-on-one tutor brings.
– Jed answers the question: if a student wants to do self-prep, is this best done at the start or at the end of a student’s self-prep?
– Jed talks about what his research shows on whether the size of the group makes a difference in score gains.
– Jed talks about whether in-person or Zoom makes a difference.
– Jed talks about whether it makes a difference if kids are at different levels.
– Jed talks about how much of a score gain someone can expect.
– Jed talks about whether tutor level matters.
– Jed talks about the range of factors that impact score gains.