| What you're actually getting |
Humans who care deeply about helping you succeed and curated resources to back that up. |
"Over 2000 videos" |
| Explained in cooking terms |
You work with an expert chef in a small group, making practice meals every week — with real-time feedback, critique, and someone who can celebrate when you make something great and help out when you're struggling to pull something off. |
They give you access to a grocery store and say: every ingredient you need to cater a wedding is in there. If you have questions about any of them, there's a link on the back to more videos. |
| Response when you're struggling or frustrated |
A real instructor who works with you to understand the root of the issue and helps you navigate around it. |
"I understand this can be frustrating..."
"I can see why that would be confusing..."
"You're absolutely right to push back..."
(Chatbot attempts to show empathy.) |
| Who is this system designed for |
Students who learn by doing |
Students who learn by seeing |
| Vibe |
We're a small business owned by our teachers, and we do this because we love teaching. That shows. |
I don't know, YouTube? They call it a "video-based approach" |
| Priorities / What Drives Decisions |
(1) What is best for our students. (2) What is best for our teachers. (3) Making the whole thing as enjoyable as possible. |
Scale? Month on Month Growth? Subscription retention rates? |
| Means of Recruiting Students |
Word of mouth and reviews. The only way we grow is by making sure every student has a genuinely good experience — so that is where our energy goes. |
Sales are almost entirely driven by advertising (a big chunk of your money goes to ads, so that they can do things like buying our name on Google so that they're the first thing that comes up when you search for TestCrackers!) |
| Philosophy on Face to Face, Live Interactive Time with Other Humans |
Get as much of it as possible. Spending time working through hard things with good people is the best part of this whole process. |
"thousands of on-demand, pre-recorded lessons" |
| Which direction does the learning travel? |
Every direction: you ask questions, your peers model different approaches, your instructor gives real answers, your own practice reveals what's actually working — and SGT gives you a weekly session to work through whatever still isn't sitting right. |
One direction: from the video toward you. Everything depends on the video having exactly what you need and you absorbing all of it. Good luck. |
| Importance Given to the Sections |
Roughly equally. You get significant time with a section expert in each of the three sections. Though if we're completely honest, we do offer 12 hours each of classroom instruction for verbal and quant and only 9 hours for Data Insights, so you could argue that we give DI slightly less importance. |
Pretty focused on Quant; notably lower quality materials and strategies for everything outside of quant. |
| If you had to choose: quantity or quality? |
Quality. Hands down. Though we push for as much quantity as we can without sacrificing it. That's why we keep class sizes small instead of running bigger groups. That's why we offer live homework help instead of pre-recorded explanations. And that's why we have so many 5-star reviews: our goal is to give you the best experience we can. |
Quantity. Pretty clearly. Everything they write is like "45,000 hours of on-demand, pre-recorded lessons" or something. |
