Pay by the hour
Roughly AED 670 · SAR 690 · S$230 · HK$1,430 at mid-2026 exchange rates. Billed in pounds sterling.
Lessons are one-to-one and typically an hour long, invoiced on the day each one takes place. Nothing to commit to: take a lesson a week in the run-up to a sitting, or a handful of sessions on the questions that are still costing you points. You are only ever invoiced for lessons that have happened. Longer sessions are billed pro rata at the same rate. The intro call and trial lesson are free, and there is nothing to pay before them.
An hour of tuition is not an hour of work. Alongside the lesson itself, the rate covers the homework set afterwards and marked before the next session, the work packs assigned between lessons, full-length mocks set, marked and reviewed, the whiteboard notes shared as revision material, and the progress updates sent to parents after every mock. None of that is billed separately.
That is worth checking against any other quote, because the headline hourly figure is the wrong thing to compare. A lower rate that includes none of the work between lessons is frequently the more expensive route to the same score. The point is set out in more detail in choosing a one-to-one SAT tutor.
It depends on the starting score, the target and the date. The most common pattern is one lesson a week through a term, alongside school, aiming at a sitting twelve to sixteen weeks out, long enough to close content gaps, sit two or three full mocks and review them properly. A student who only needs one section, or who is close to their target and wants specific questions worked through, may take a handful of sessions instead. Because lessons are invoiced on the day they happen and nothing is prepaid, the number does not have to be decided in advance.
Where the target is near the top of the scale, the honest answer is longer: the 1400 to 1600 guide sets out why that climb takes months rather than weeks, and what the work consists of.
The intro call and the trial lesson are both free and nothing is payable before them. The trial lesson is a full lesson rather than a sales call: it is spent teaching real questions the student has recently got wrong, which is the fastest honest way to find out whether the teaching suits them. Plan the timing around a sitting using the SAT test dates page.
Ask before you commit to anything. There is no obligation and no call unless you want one. The intro call and the trial lesson are both free.
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