Over 20 Years of Tutoring Experience

Higher Grades, Top 1% SAT Scores, and Ivy Admissions

At Vohra Method, we help students of all ages and skill levels build subject mastery, get higher grades, get higher SAT scores, and get into their first choice colleges or combined medical programs. We offer two services:

1. Private tutoring in all subjects (other than foreign languages)

2. Group classes with a 1500+ SAT score guarantee

Private Tutoring with Arvin Vohra ($300/hour, ages 8-18)

Private tutoring with Arvin Vohra is Vohra Method’s flagship service. Arvin Vohra brings over 20 years of full-time, professional tutoring experience, giving his students an unparalleled competitive advantage while building the real confidence that comes from competence. He works with students at all starting levels, ranging in age from 8-18. He also works with adult students on various subjects, most commonly the LSAT, GRE, and GMAT (he has earned perfect scores on both the GRE and the GMAT).

Arvin Vohnra is an internationally published educational author and a frequent guest on both national media and niche podcasts about education.

Here are some of the subjects that Arvin Vohra tutors in:

• SAT/ACT/PSAT training, designed to help students get 1500+ SAT scores (33+ ACT scores).

• Math, from adding fractions to BC calculus

• Writing, including school essays, admissions essays, essays for writing competitions, poetry, short fiction, and long fiction. Arvin Vohra’s past students have won scholarship contests, novel writing contests, and essay contests. He has also helped students who really struggle with writing improve their writing skills and build confidence.

• Ivy Admissions strategy and Combined Medical Program admissions strategy. For a high chance of success, starting in grades 8-10 is recommended (earlier is better). If you are in 11th or 12th grade, Arvin can help you with essays and interviews, but it may be too late to incorporate other parts of a complete strategy.

• Science classes and tests, including biology, chemistry, and physics through the AP or IB level.

• AP History and English

• Private and Magnet School admissions, including SSAT, ISEE, or HSPT training.

• Interdisciplinary courses.

• Most other subjects, with the exception of foreign languages.

Fees: $300/hour

To learn more about private tutoring with Arvin Vohra, please book a free consultation here.

SAT & PSAT Group Classes: 1500+ SAT Score, Guaranteed. (Ages 12-17. $35-$55 per hour, depending on the bundle you choose. Your first session is free.)

In our group classes, students:

1. Fill in every underlying gap.

2. Learn advanced techniques in math and reading that are not taught in any high school.

3. Gain 1500+ SAT scores.

Our classes come with a 1500+ SAT score guarantee. Here’s how that works: You complete the required SAT training. The training time varies based on your starting level, but 6-18 months is the usual range (assuming that you attend 2 class sessions per week). However, there is no upper or lower limit for how long the program will take any individual student. Attending more sessions per week makes the program go faster. For example, if you do four sessions per week, the program will take 3-9 months.

Then, you take an official SAT. If your score is below 1500, you get up to one additional year of group class SAT training for free.

How Vohra Method Group Classes Work:

Vohra Method group classes go far beyond what average, mass-market SAT programs offer. Unlike most programs, we don’t focus on inefficient workarounds or silly gimmicks. Instead, we teach direct, fast, reliable solutions. In our program students learn direct, reliable algebraic solutions to the hardest math questions. They learn how to logically analyze the toughest reading questions. We build real grammar fundamentals, and students learn to use them to solve challenging grammar questions with confidence.

There is no other group class quite like Vohra Method group classes, so they can be hard to describe. That’s why every new student gets a free group class session to try out. You can see the kind of exceptional, individualized education that 20 years of constant innovation can create.

The next sections attempt to describe our exceptional group classes.

Individualization, Not One-Size-Fits-All

Individualized education rarely happens outside of tutoring. Most group classes involve giving each student the same lecture, the same problems, and the same quizzes. Most classes are like restaurants in which everyone gets the same food, hospitals in which everyone gets the same medicine, or stores in which everyone gets the same clothes.

Vohra Method’s first and most important innovation was creating individualization inside of group classes. In our program, each student works on an individualized program. At the end of each problem, the instructor checks the student’s work, and decides what to do next. For example, if a student makes a mistake in factoring, that student will then work on factoring. If a different student makes a mistake with multiplying monomials, then that student will work on multiplying monomials. Each student works on his own problem areas, fixing underlying gaps while learning advanced skills.

Our proprietary curriculum, entirely built in-house, allows this process to happen efficiently and quickly. Our group classes are individualized like tutoring, but much more affordable.

Active Learning, not Passive Lecture

There is no form of education better than active, Socratic-style learning in which students engage with and overcome challenges. However, this style of education is usually impractical outside of private tutoring. Active learning demands a lot from the teacher. While most teachers recognize that active, engaged learning is more effective than lectures, the idea of attempting active learning in a group setting may seem ridiculous.

Vohra Method group classes use active learning. Students engage with challenge problems, and build both confidence and problems solving skills as they figure them out.

The active learning process also helps reveal underlying knowledge gaps. Anyone can pretend to understand a lecture; thus, many students go for years with undiagnosed knowledge gaps. In fact, many people live their entire lives with undiagnosed gaps that are completely fixable. Active learning, in which students engage with challenge problems, quickly reveals those gaps. Fixing them not only improves academic skills; it lowers anxiety and builds confidence.

The combination of individualization and active learning makes our group classes more effective than most tutoring programs.

Solving, not Skipping

You can’t get a perfect score if you skip questions. And our programs are designed to help students get perfect scores. We guarantee 1500+ scores, but we aim for 1600.

The idea of not skipping problems wasn’t merely innovative when we introduced it in 2001. It was downright heretical. Most average, mass-market courses focused heavily on what questions to skip. At Vohra Method, students don’t skip questions. Instead, they learn to solve them.

This can be shocking to students who come to our program after doing several mass-market SAT courses. But the fact is that you will learn the most from the problems others tell you to skip.

You don’t become a better person by avoiding dealing with your problems. Similarly, you don’t become better at the SAT by avoiding the tough problems. You will learn the most from the problems you struggle with the most. Every problem you get stuck on is a gift: it is the thing that will make you better at math or reading. As you work through it, you will also build your grit and perseverance.

In Vohra Method classes, you won’t skip a singe problem. Instead, you will solve every problem, building your skills.

Challenging Problems, not Busywork

A thousand fools don’t make a wise man, and a thousand easy problems don’t equal a hard problem. At Vohra Method, you won’t do thousands of easy problems. Instead, you’ll work through carefully curated challenge problems that are specifically designed to build your skills and expose underlying gaps.

We focus on the hardest problems on the SAT, as well as problems slightly more advanced. We overbuild your skills, helping you demolish the test with confidence.

Build Skills; Don’t Erode Them

Mass market SAT companies teach workaround and gimmicks that erode math and reading skills. For example, inefficient gimmicks like “backsolve” erode algebra skills. At Vohra Method, you build real math and reading skills. Students who do our SAT program often see major improvements in their school grades.

We don’t teach silly gimmicks. We teach real skills that will help you in school and college.

Immersive Online Rooms, Not Covid-Era Incompetence

During Covid, online education got a bad reputation. People blamed Zoom. But the technology wasn’t at fault; the utter incompetence of teachers and schools was. Students “attended” online classes with cameras and microphones off, and then completely checked out. Teachers had awful audio and grainy video, which encouraged students to further tune out. That wasn’t Zoom’s fault; that was staggering user incompetence.

At Vohra Method, our Zoom rooms look the way CNN wishes it looked; they sound like recording studios. Our instructors (including Arvin Vohra) use DSLR cameras and studio mics. Students have cameras and mics on at all times, creating a real “you are there” experience.

Just as Netflix is more engaging than plays, online education can be more engaging than offline. But you have to do it well. Vohra Method started doing online education a decade before Covid. (Initially, we did both in-person and online. Soon, we realized that the students online learned faster than the in-person students, so we went 100% online.)

You’ll Never Feel Rushed or Bored

In most classes, about half the students feel rushed because the class is too fast for them, and the other half are bored because the class is too slow for them. In Vohra Method classes, every student works at his or her own pace. The instructor checks the student’s work at the end of every single question, so students are constantly engaged.

Logistics, Fees, Total Cost, Etc.

1. The first step is to schedule a free consultation here.

2. Group class rates vary based on the bundle you get. The usual range is $35-55 per hour. Very large bundles have a slightly lower rate.

3. As with tutoring, different students need different amounts of time to complete the program. If you’re coming in twice a week, 6-18 months is the usual range. If you come in more often, it will take less time.

   If you are under very heavy time pressure (e.g. less than 2 months), tutoring is a better option than group class.

4. The guarantee: once you complete the training checklist, you take the official SAT. If your score is not above 1500, you get an additional year of group class SAT training for free.

Other Vohra Method Group Class Subjects

In addition to our exceptional SAT program with a 1500+ score guarantee, we have other group class programs. Those include the following:

AP Integrated Humanities

AP Integrated Humanities is a single course that prepares students for a whopping 8 AP exams! Specifically, this year-long course prepares students to take all 6 AP History Exams and both AP English exams.

This is possible because the same skills are tested on multiple exams. These skills include writing document-based essay questions, critical reading of primary sources, understanding political cartoons, understanding poetry, and understanding subtext.

AP History and English exams involve much less memorization and much less information recall than most people think. There is actually very little memorization needed for today’s AP History exams.

By mastering critical reading and writing skills, students can simultaneously prepare for multiple AP History and English Exams. AP Integrated Humanities is one of the toughest programs at Vohra Method, and is appropriate for highly motivated and ambitious students.

Prerequisites: Vohra Method SAT Verbal training, or equivalent. The reading portion of AP Integrated Humanities is incredibly demanding. With rare exceptions, this should not be your first Vohra Method course.

Get Ahead in Algebra or Prealgebra

This program is ideal for students in grades 5-8, and is designed to help you get years ahead in math. Through this program, students have jumped into honors tracks in math, skipped grades in math, and dramatically improved math performance.

This is a course you take to get ahead. You should take it before algebra at school. If you are currently in an algebra course and need help with daily assignments, this is not the right program. If you need help with current topics, please consider our excellent tutoring program.

Geometry Summer Preview

Geometry is the great reset. It’s a whole new math program, with completely new concepts and approaches. Because of this, for many students, geometry is the first math course they do well in. For others, it’s the first math course they do poorly in.

Whether you’re currently doing well or poorly in math, Vohra Method’s geometry summer preview can help ensure you do well in geometry. You’ll learn, in advance, the topics most students struggle with. That includes, Euclidean proofs, truth tables, and mathematical logic.

Get Ahead in Calculus

One of our most popular courses, our Get Ahead in Calculus course is usually taken over the summer before you start calculus. This course covers the BC calculus curriculum. However, if you are doing AB calculus, you can still use this program. Just do the first part. (There are three semesters of calculus, labeled A, B, and C. AB covers the first two, and BC covers the second two.)

As a nice bonus, we incorporate challenge problems from the tests and exams from schools across the United States. Every time one of our students’ teachers puts a clever problem on a BC calculus test, we add it to our curriculum. Thus, our curriculum incorporates tough problems from hundreds of teachers. During the year, when your BC calculus teacher puts a clever challenge problem on a test, chances are that you’ll have already seen something similar at Vohra Method.

In other words, we prepare you for the BC calculus AP exam as well as challenging BC calculus tests at school.

This course can also be done far in advance. For example, it can be used by 9th graders to take the AP BC Calculus exam without taking a course at school.

Physics Summer Preview

In the summer before you start physics at school, you can get ahead during the summer at Vohra Method. If you’re taking physics, honors physics, AP Physics, or AP Physics C, this program, this program will give you an advantage.

The first part of the program is a non-calculus overview of mechanics. If you’re doing non-calculus physics, you stop there. If you’re doing calculus-based physics, you continue.

You don’t need to know calculus before doing the calculus-based physics program. If you don’t already know calculus, you’ll learn it in the program. Our individualized, non-linear approach allows us to fill in any gaps; that can involve teaching the parts of calculus needed for the mechanics portion of physics.

Chemistry Summer Preview

If you’re taking a chemistry course in the fall, you might consider Vohra Method’s Chemistry Preview in the summer. Whether you’re taking regular chemistry, honors chemistry, or AP chemistry, this course builds the fundamentals to help you thrive in your chemistry class.

The big advantage of this course is that it focuses on concepts that most students struggle with. You get to learn these concepts in advance. While everyone else struggles, you’ll easily rise to the top.

AP Analytical Biology

This course is rigorous preparation for the AP Biology Exam. It can also be used as a preview course for an AP or IB Biology course at school.

A tough, rigorous approach to biology, AP Analytical Biology focuses on the toughest parts of biology. That includes the mathematical parts of AP bio that most people never understand. It also includes directly reading important scientific writing, including Darwin’s On Origin of Species. Through this program, students develop math, reading, and analytical skills, while learning the AP biology exam material.

About Arvin Vohra

Arvin Vohra has had a passion for individualized education since he was 10 years old, helping classmates understand math problems. Today, he’s even more passionate about individualized education.

Arvin had his first tutoring internship when he was 13, and by the time he was 22, tutoring was his full time job. He has helped students with nearly every type of course and standardized test. 

Arvin understands the mindset of highly competitive students. In high school, he was a National Merit Finalist, with the highest SAT and PSAT scores in his graduating class (790 M, 790 V). He also got scores of 5 on ten different AP exams. For six of those exams, he didn’t even take the corresponding AP course, and instead relied on intensive independent study. 

He learned algebra in a few weeks to skip a grade in math and took his first college course at age 13. After he graduated from Brown University with a B.Sc. in Math (at the normal age), he earned perfect scores on both the GRE and the GMAT, finishing each test will well over an hour to spare. He also passed two actuarial exams in the same week-long testing period.

But Arvin also know what it feels like to struggle. For years, he struggled with public speaking and interviews. He eventually overcame that hurdle, and now help students with public speaking, college interviews, and job interviews. In fact, he’s even struggled with math; when he was getting my math degree from Brown, the classes eventually got so hard that he was bewildered more often than not. He can empathize completely with students who have no idea what’s happening in their math classes, and he can help guide them to real understanding and mastery. 

He’s also found other ways to share his passion for education. His first book, The Equation for Excellence, was published in the U.S. and China, and even featured on Channel 9 (CBS) News. His most recent book, Invitation to the Ivies, has been featured on major morning shows, national news shows, education blogs, radio shows, and various news aggregators including Yahoo! News. He has also spoken around the country about education, including at conventions run by (friendly) competitors.

But for Arvin, nothing beats tutoring. There’s nothing quite like helping an individual student start to see patterns, make connections, finally understand a topic that used to terrify them, develop confidence that they never dreamed of having, and fall in love with excellence. 

Arvin loves discussing Ivy admissions or SAT strategy on national TV, and delving into subtle ideas about education on longer podcasts. But none of that compares to the humbling magic of one-on-one education, in which students discover the greatness within themselves and learn that they can excel on their own terms.

Rates: $300 per hour