Questions
The ones I am actually asked, answered as I would answer them on a call.
Your fees are well above a tutor's rate. Why?
Because this is not tutoring. You are buying a defined outcome from a specific and fairly rare background, delivered personally, with a scope rather than a clock. If what you need is hourly help with GMAT quant, there are excellent people charging a fifth of this and I would rather you used one of them.
Do you guarantee an offer or an admission?
No, and treat anyone who does with suspicion. Admissions committees and trading desks make their own decisions on their own criteria. What I can affect is how well prepared you are and how clearly your case is made. That is what the fee buys.
Will I work with you, or with an associate?
With me. The strategy hour is one to one, and every practice question and solution on the site is written by me.
What if we begin and it is not working?
Say so early and we change the plan.
Do you teach the mathematics yourself, or subcontract it?
Myself, every session. MAT, STEP, TMUA, stochastic calculus, probability. Most consultancies subcontract the technical preparation to a tutor you never meet at the point of sale, and it is the part that decides the result.
How far in advance should I come to you?
For Oxbridge, the spring before the October UCAS deadline, the strong candidates have been working for months by the summer. For MBA round one, eight to twelve weeks before the September deadline. For a live quant process, six weeks is workable and four is tight but not hopeless.
Where do you work, and in which time zones?
Everything is remote and always has been. Mornings suit Asia, afternoons the Gulf and Europe, evenings the United States.
How does payment work?
Quoted and charged in pounds, by card or bank transfer.
Will you write my essays or personal statement?
No. I edit hard, sometimes brutally, and I will make you rewrite something ten times if it needs it. But the words stay yours. Committees can tell the difference, and submitting work that is not substantially your own breaches the rules of every institution named on this site.
Something else
If your question is not here, the free practice and the reports cover the preparation, and anything about your own case is what the strategy hour is for.