SAT Tutorathon Gives Students Tips and Tools Before the January 23rd SAT
SAN FRANCISCO – Jan. 18, 2010 – Grockit (www.grockit.com), an online educational company that leverages the Web to deliver real-time and adaptive social learning games, announced today the beginning of Grockit’s SAT Tutorathon, a week of free test prep, including unlimited access to Grockit’s stellar roster of tutors, leading up to the January 23rd SAT exam. The SAT Tutorathon also allows students to evaluate their skill level, tailor a personalized study plan to eliminate weaknesses and enhance strengths, and study individualized practice questions and tutor guided games free-of-charge from Monday, January 18th to Friday, January 22nd.
“We want to help students everywhere raise their SAT scores and with the next SAT just around the corner, we wanted to give students the tools they need to de-stress and boost their confidence going into the exam,” said Farb Nivi, CEO, Grockit. “The most important factor in success on a standardized test, or any test for that matter, is a student’s mental state and stress level going into the exam. Our goal in creating the SAT Tutorathon was to help alleviate the increased pressure surrounding students so that they can reach their highest potential.”
Grockit offers unprecedented transparency into the performance of its tutors, many who have achieved the 99th percentile in the exams they specialize in. Students can access Grockit tutor statistics, detailed analytics, biographies, testimonials, and select the tutor they want to work with. Using Grockit, students collect badges, points and rewards for both learning and teaching, and are ranked on the Grockit leaderboard, which illustrates test scores, areas of proficiency, testimonials and star ratings. Grockit highlights the way students study naturally – whether studying alone, with peers or with experts. Since launching nine months ago, Grockit has already helped more than 50,000 students prepare for standardized tests including the SAT, ACT, GRE and GMAT.
Students can access the Grockit SAT Tutorathon here: www.grockit.com/tutorathon.
About Grockit
Grockit was created to leverage the best of the Web and offer students a real-time, on-demand, adaptive, global and social way of learning. Grockit offers test prep and learning games that optimize how students study. Led by an innovative and expert management team, Grockit is poised to change the status quo in test prep and the educational process. Headquartered in San Francisco, Grockit is funded by Benchmark Capital and Integral Capital Partners and angel investors including Reid Hoffman (founder, LinkedIn) and Mark Pincus (founder and CEO, Zynga).
