Hire the Best Executive Assessment Tutors
(If you’re just looking for current Executive Assessment tutoring rates, you’re welcome to click here, but we strongly encourage you to read the rest of this page before you think about hiring us. Your call, though.)
This is the page where we’re supposed to tell you that we’re magical tutors who can teach you a bunch of “tips and tricks” to raise your EA score to a 174 in, like, three weeks -- GUARANTEED!
Sorry, but we don’t do any of that. We really do have outstanding track records as tutors for the EA (and the GMAT, which is basically the EA’s beefier twin): we’ve helped countless students achieve dramatic score improvements, and our EA students have been admitted to several top MBA and EMBA programs, including Columbia, Wharton, and Stern, among many others.
If you want proof, you’re always welcome to ask for references, or you can click here for piles of reviews of our tutoring. We’re relentlessly honest people, and we won’t feed you a line of crap about massive, easy score improvements, since improving your EA score is rarely easy.
We’ll make you work hard – and work efficiently – to achieve your EA goals. Think of tutoring as a partnership: we’ll provide structure, passion, and expert guidance, but we’ll expect you to provide a whole lot of time, energy, and introspection, too.
What is the Executive Assessment, anyway?
The Executive Assessment is designed and administered by GMAC, the same organization that has brought us the joys of the GMAT since the 1950s. You can think of the Executive Assessment as a miniaturized version of the GMAT: both exams include sections on Integrated Reasoning, Verbal Reasoning, and Quantitative Reasoning, and the question types within each of these sections are nearly identical across the two exams.
The big difference is that the EA is designed with busy Executive MBA applicants in mind, and is much shorter than the GMAT: each of the three EA sections (quant, verbal, and IR) is just 30 minutes long, and the EA does not include a writing section. As a result, the EA is just 90 minutes long in total, while the GMAT clocks in at well over three hours of testing time.
So if you’re interested in an EMBA or a part-time MBA program -- or you happen to be applying to one of the handful of full-time MBA programs that accepts the EA (Fuqua, Stern, or Columbia, for example) -- the EA’s brevity might make it an appealing option.
Warning: the Executive Assessment isn’t really much “shorter” than the GMAT
There’s just one problem: while the GMAT includes more questions than the EA, the two exams are strikingly similar in their breadth.
The verbal sections of both exams feature Reading Comprehension, Critical Reasoning, and Sentence Correction questions -- it’s just that the EA includes just 14 verbal questions, while the GMAT torments you with 36 of them. The Integrated Reasoning section is essentially identical on the two exams. And the quant sections cover nearly the same domain of topics, except that the EA doesn’t include geometry, and the EA quant section (14 questions) is shorter than its GMAT counterpart (31 questions).
The upshot: because the EA includes almost the same topics and question types as the GMAT -- with only geometry “taken off the table” -- it can take nearly as long to improve your EA score as it would to improve your GMAT score. It’s just that you’ll spend significantly less time taking the exam itself.
A brutally honest approach to EA tutoring
As Executive Assessment tutors, our job is to figure out what, exactly, holds you back from your score goals – especially if it’s not what you ever would have expected. We never spend our tutoring sessions simply going through random EA problems. Instead, we uncover the fundamental causes of your underperformance on the EA.
Often, we discover that a student’s real problems on the EA aren’t quite what they want to hear. Almost every test-taker would love to believe that they just need to learn a few more math formulas or time management tricks, and their EA problems will be solved.
But reality is far more complicated than that, unfortunately. Sure, sometimes the problem is something simple and fixable, such as rusty quant foundations or a bad approach to EA Critical Reasoning questions. More often, the problems are more subtle: you’re sloppy and rush through easy questions, or you’re stubborn on the harder questions, or you’ve never really learned how to understand the author’s purpose when you read an RC passage, or you don’t know how to stop “using your ear” on Sentence Correction.
Or maybe the core problem isn’t specific to the EA at all. Maybe you’re suffering from test anxiety, or your unstable diet leads to an unstable performance, or you don’t sleep enough, or you simply need to get better at eliminating distracting thoughts on test day.
We could go on. The bottom line is that we’ll help you build a deeper understanding of what REALLY holds you back -- even if it’s not something you ever would have expected. Our most significant breakthroughs come from digging inside our students’ minds, and discovering the habits and processes that lead to unnecessary errors — and then figuring out how to change those behaviors.
We succeed with the toughest EA cases because we’re not afraid to be unorthodox. If you’ve already taken every EA test-prep course in existence, we’re probably the tutors who can figure out exactly why those courses haven’t helped you achieve your goals.
Optimize your study time via online EA tutoring
Even though the EA covers more ground than it might seem, a great EA tutor can still help you choose your battles wisely and optimize your EA study time.
Like any other standardized exam, the EA emphasizes certain topics and question styles, and de-emphasizes others. Our job as EA tutors is to make sure that you’re focusing your energy in areas that will deliver the most efficient gains to your score, with the goal of guiding you to a competitive result in the shortest time possible.
The good news is that we’ve been teaching the EA since it was born. The EA was launched in 2016, and we’ve tutored a healthy trickle of EA students since the beginning. And more importantly, because the exam is so similar to the GMAT, most of the lessons we’ve learned in our decades of GMAT tutoring transfer seamlessly to the EA.
As much as anything, we ensure that our students take a consistent, efficient approach to EA questions, and we provide detailed weekly homework lists, featuring the materials that are ideal for your needs at any given point in the process. You can also leave the analysis of homework results to us, and all you need to focus on is completing your assignments with focus, energy, and determination.
How Online EA Tutoring Works
The whole point of one-on-one tutoring is that we don’t follow a rigid curriculum, and everything we do is based on each student’s unique situation. We rely heavily on data from your EA score reports, practice exams, and homework, along with proprietary assessments to help diagnose test-day performance issues as needed.
When you sign up for EA tutoring, our first goal is to understand your mind better than you understand it yourself. We’ll take a deep dive through your previous EA results, we’ll assign some carefully chosen diagnostic homework, and then we’ll watch you in real-time to see how your brain works.
Once we understand exactly what’s driving your EA results, we’ll create a plan to address your weaknesses. After each session, we’ll assign a personalized homework list and meticulously track your results, with the goal of helping you build new habits that will get you to your target score. Every step of the way, we’ll adjust our improvement plan based on your progress.
In other words, everything we do is customized to address the quirks of your individual brain, and no two students ever have the same experience with our tutors.
Because everybody faces their own unique challenges, we don’t generally expect – or even want – students to commit to a certain number of sessions before they start tutoring. Unless our Test Anxiety Program is a perfect fit for you, we won’t offer you an Executive Assessment tutoring “package” in advance, since most students have no idea how much tutoring they’ll really need when they first start the process. Most of our students just pay for one EA tutoring session at a time.
So you’re welcome to fire us anytime if you’re not making progress after you start tutoring with us, and we won’t sell you anything that you don’t actually need.
About Our Executive Assessment Tutors
Because we understand that a rigid, pre-written curriculum won’t do much for most of our students, we only hire tutors with the skills to deeply understand students’ minds and find unique solutions to their Executive Assessment struggles.
We’re successful only because our tutors are broad-minded, flexible, emotionally intelligent, and creative, in addition to being great at taking standardized exams themselves.
As a result, we end up hiring interesting people. Our team includes a novelist with more than 15 years of test-prep tutoring experience, another novelist who narrowly avoided becoming a doctor instead, an accomplished surfer with a 790 GMAT score, a former Army captain and West Point graduate, a Hebrew- and Arabic-speaking pastor, a former semi-pro rugby player, and an ex-professional dancer with perfect scores on the GRE and GMAT (and an impressive track record as an eater).
We hire fewer than 2% of applicants who want to work with us, and we inflict a cruel audition process on potential tutors. Our founder painstakingly trains our tutors personally, and we all collaborate frequently to make sure that we continuously improve as teachers. We all use the same materials and employ the same philosophies, and we’ve all trained — hard — to become nimble in our approach to tutoring.
Sure, we all have different personalities, but we work tirelessly to be similarly great at our craft, and we’re as unified as a collection of EA and GMAT tutors possibly can be.
For more on the unique personalities on our team, check out our tutor bios.
No salespeople or “academic advisors” -- we’re just tutors
When you contact us for tutoring, you’ll never hear from a salesperson. The only people who will ever see your intake form are EA tutors, starting with our founder, who is the only person who ever answers tutoring or MBA admissions consulting inquiries.
We’ll be 100% honest from the start if we don’t think we can help, or if we don’t think that your goals are realistic. That may or may not be what you want to hear -- but we really don’t want your money unless we’re confident that we can help you achieve your EA and MBA goals.
So from the very start, be prepared for plenty of honesty, with no hollow guarantees or other sales-y silliness.
Be ready to study HARD with us
We’re flexible in our approach to tutoring, but we’re fairly inflexible about one thing: we expect our students to do a ton of homework every week if they want to achieve real results. For the EA, we generally assign roughly 15 hours of homework each week, with the idea that you’ll complete about two hours on weekdays, and a bit more on the weekend. This level of immersion generally gives our students the quickest path to a competitive EA score.
So if you want a painfully honest (but usually very polite) EA tutor who will kick you to the curb if you don’t do your homework, give us a shout. We’re all nice people in real life and we rarely enjoy kicking anybody to the curb, but it’s not fun for us to sit around and babble about the Executive Assessment while you waste your money on us.
So we’ll be completely straight about what we can do for you, and about what YOU need to do to achieve your EA and MBA goals.
Again, there’s no magic to any of this. Hiring an EA tutor is like hiring a personal trainer: if you want your EA brain to get big and buff, you need to pump some serious (quantitative and verbal) iron outside of our tutoring sessions. If any tutor tells you that a 20-point score increase is easy, he or she is lying through their teeth.
It certainly may be possible to raise your EA score by 10 points or 20 points or more, but it will require hours and hours of carefully focused practice on an almost-daily basis — and a willingness to change the fundamental ways you read, react, and think on a standardized exam.
Our tutors are currently located in Colorado, California, New York, Florida, Massachusetts, and Scotland. Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020, 100% of our students have chosen online tutoring, but if you’re interested in in-person EA tutoring in any of our locations, just let us know when you contact us.
If you’re ready to get rolling, please tell us your story here, and we’ll give you a 100% honest assessment of what we think we can do to help. And if we think your goals aren’t realistic, we’ll be honest about that, too.
Thank you for reading this far, and good luck with your EA and grad school ambitions!