SAT prep shouldn't depend on
what your family can afford.

The problem we saw

Private SAT tutoring commonly costs well over $100 an hour — and premium tutors and full prep programs from big-name companies charge far more. There's a well-documented correlation between family income and SAT scores — not because wealthier students are smarter, but because they can buy structure, guidance, and feedback.

Here's the part that bothered us most: almost everything you need to prepare well is already free. Official practice tests. A question bank of real SAT questions filterable by skill. Complete video courses. Excellent teachers giving away their best lessons on YouTube. The raw material is out there.

What money actually buys is organization — someone telling you which resources to trust, in what order, for your specific weaknesses. That's the gap between free and expensive prep. And organization is something students can give each other for nothing.

What we built

So that's what Mass Tutoring is: the free SAT Guide — the best videos, practice sources, official tools, books, plans, and strategies, tested by students, explained honestly, and organized so you always know your next step. And for students who need more than self-study, free one-on-one tutoring from volunteers who recently earned strong scores on the same digital test you're taking.

We started as a tutoring project with our own practice-question tool. We've since refocused on what students told us they actually needed: not another question bank — College Board already gives away the real thing — but a trustworthy map of everything that exists. Tutoring remains, as support rather than centerpiece.

What we believe

• Free means free. No paid tier, no locked content, no affiliate links, no selling your information. Ever.
• Honesty over hype. We don't promise score increases, and we tell you a resource's limitations along with its strengths. When a book isn't worth buying, we say "use the library."
• Official material first. Real questions from the test-maker beat imitations, and they're free.
• The SAT is a skill, not an identity. It's one improvable number — not a measure of intelligence or worth.

Meet the founders

Ethan Moran and Albert Wen, students at Buckingham Browne & Nichols School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, founded Mass Tutoring. Both prepared for the digital SAT through self-study — no paid tutoring, no prep course — using exactly the kinds of free resources this guide organizes, and scored 1550 and 1560. That experience is why this site exists: they know firsthand that free preparation works, and firsthand how confusing it is to figure out on your own.

To be clear about what that does and doesn't mean: their scores show what's possible with free resources, not what's promised. Every student starts from a different place, and no honest program guarantees results. What we can guarantee is that money won't be the thing standing between you and good preparation.

Help the mission

• Students: use the guide, and tell a friend who's paying for something they don't need. Start here.
• High scorers (1530+): volunteer as a tutor.
• Teachers, counselors, and librarians: share the guide with your students — and email us resources you think we should review.