Advantage Testing of Silicon Valley

Specialties

We regard standardized tests as opportunities for students to learn important skills both for the tests themselves and for life. If students prepare properly, their tutoring and testing experiences foster quantifiable results and spur academic achievement. Our long-​term, rigorous, and carefully designed approach to learning seeks to go this far, and further.

Tutoring, test preparation, academic instruction, college counseling, application consulting, interview training, law school instruction, etc. Standardized test preparation includes the SAT, ACT, SAT Subject Tests in Math, Literature, US History, World History, Biology, Physics, Chemistry, French, Spanish, Latin, Chinese, & Italian, LSAT, MCAT, GMAT, GRE, SSAT, and ISEE.

History

Established in 1986.

Advantage Testing is widely regarded as America’s preeminent private tutorial and test preparation service.

We believe that well constructed tests are powerful vehicles for learning and growth. They can provide opportunities for students to enhance important skills both for the tests themselves and for all life’s undertakings. Our approach to learning is rigorous, carefully tailored to each student’s individual goals, and designed to impart long-​term benefits. We seek to instill education’s most enduring and profound rewards: self-​confidence, progress, intellectual curiosity, and joy in learning.

Students consistently praise Advantage Testing’s highly qualified instructors. On student evaluations, Advantage Testing tutors average above a 9.6 out of 10 rating for overall quality, concern for students, instructor’s encouragement, and clarity of presentation. 94% of our students say that Advantage Testing tutors are better or much better than most teachers they have encountered.

Meet the Manager

Gus M.

Manager

Gus Mattammal received his MBA in International Strategy & Finance from the Yale School of Management, and his BA in Physics Mathematics from Pomona College. He has been tutoring math almost without interruption since he was 13 years old, both as a volunteer and as a professional tutor. Currently, he tutors the SAT; ACT; SAT Subject Tests in Physics, Math, & Literature; SSAT/​ISEE; GMAT; GRE; LSAT; MCAT Verbal Reasoning; and academic Physics, Math, Economics, Accounting, & writing.

Prior to joining Advantage, Gus worked as a Sales Executive for Katz Communications, as a consultant for the Mitchell Madison Group, and as an internal consultant in both finance & operations roles for Capital One. When not tutoring, Gus pursues his many other passions, including dancing. He was once a competitive ballroom dancer, placing as high as 6^th at the national amateur level. He also loves traveling, any ball sport that isn’t golf or tennis, hiking, reading, gardening, and gourmet cooking.