SAT prep should start anywhere from 6 months to 3 months before the SAT. Normally, a student will have a lesson every week.

Students who begin lessons closer to the test typically have 2 lessons/week, instead of 1. 

However, even three lessons in the month before the test can help improve a student's score. These lessons are mostly structured around test-taking and creating tools to increase speed and efficiency during the test.

 Group courses are structured towards a wide array of abilities, aptitude levels, and even ages. This means that they are very general, and will never address the specific elements that prevent or aid an individual child in test-taking and in succeeding in certain subjects.

The attention and care of a private tutor, in addition to the accountability that she sets up for the student by assigning homework on a weekly basis, promotes drastic and rapid academic improvement.

This depends on one crucial element: whether your child does his assignments every week! But with a good tutor, this shouldn't be an issue. SAT students can expect their scores to raise at least 100 points from the PSAT.

 50 minutes verbal and written/40 minutes math

 Just like regular tutoring! It is just over the computer instead of in-person. I see and speak with the student and he sees and speaks to me. 

For Test Prep, both student and teacher have the same book, which makes it easy to refer to assignments and material.

In addition, Skype lessons are facilitated by email, where students can scan in and send assignments that they are having trouble with or essay assignments, so we both have the same thing to refer to. 

Skype lessons actually work surprisingly well and make scheduling, or squeezing in that extra lesson, very easy. 

 I spent six months working with the NGO Soliya, which works on fostering understanding between students in the Middle East and the US.

As the facilitator of a group from all over the world, each week I conducted weekly sessions over the web focusing on current events and culturally relevant topics. 

I have been trained in how to keep students' attention over the web, how to communicate effectively, how to detect despondency, frustration, and boredom from a student, and how to reengage them if that happens. 

I was also hired to teach for a company that conducts group SAT classes over the web.