We make it a point to be available to students and parents as we work together to achieve the student’s goals. Full communication enables Access Test Prep to design customized programs based on each student’s abilities in order to reach a successful outcome.

Focus on Each Individual Student
Access Test Prep focuses on individual needs. We partner one-on-one with each student to accomplish his or her personal best on standardized tests and in school. We motivate and challenge students at all levels and abilities, including gifted and learning disabled students. We provide an individualized approach that enables the student to master concepts at a pace most helpful to him or her.

A Higher Standard
The proprietary Access Test Prep one-on-one tutoring model, developed by its founder and Head Tutor, Charles Mendels, Esq., is based on Charles’s extensive teaching experience at all levels, including grades 7-12 and law school, as well as four years of one-on-one standardized test and academic tutoring in New York City. Charles holds himself to the highest standard: he tutors only for standardized tests on which he himself has scored in the 99th percentile.

Charles’s extensive experience has provided him with a love of teaching and a unique ability to demystify standardized tests as well as various academic subjects, including math, history, economics, and law school classes. The confidence he instills in students, along with his supportive, calm, and straight-forward approach, leads to uniformly positive feedback from his students and their families.

Commitment and Value
Access Test Prep has found that personalized tutoring over an extended period of time, rather than the typical “crash course,” is the ideal test preparation method and the key to accomplishing optimal test performance and academic goals. This model requires a commitment on the part of the student to our proven system of preparation. In turn, we are committed to helping students develop an approach to learning and critical thinking that enables them to achieve their academic goals and further their long-term education.

True improvement on standardized tests comes from developing the underlying skill set that is measured on a particular test, not through generic quick-fixes and tricks. A strong grounding in these skills and repeated practice tests under simulated testing conditions develop student familiarity and confidence. Over time, familiarity and confidence motivate students and positively impact test scores and academic grades. In fact, many of the students whom Charles has tutored for standardized tests have attained significant test score increases and also overall academic grade improvement.