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I studied harder for the LSAT than anything in my life. I reviewed every question, I put in the hours, and my score stayed flat. The problem was blind spots I could not see on my own. If you are doing the work and not moving, that is usually why.

I'm Tanner. I went from a 151 to a 177, and I have spent the three years since coaching privately through my practice, Tailored LSAT Coaching, over 1,000 hours one-on-one. I also went through most of college not knowing I had ADHD, so I spent years assuming I was lazy when I just learned differently than I was being taught. That is the whole basis of how I coach. Most students do not need to grind harder. They need to find the one thing holding them back.

Before every session I pull up your 7Sage analytics so we start with the diagnosis already done. One student came in convinced she was weak at LR across the board. Her data said something far more specific: 0 for 6 on a single question pattern, solid on nearly everything else. Three weeks of targeted work and she was hitting 168s. Another student was spending close to two minutes on the questions she got wrong and fifteen seconds on the ones she got right. She thought she had a speed problem. She had a process problem: rushing the front end of a question and then burning ninety seconds untangling the confusion that caused. Once she slowed down where it counted, the same questions took her forty-five seconds.

What you get:

  • Your analytics reviewed before every session, so no time is spent figuring out what is wrong

  • Custom drill sets for your specific gaps, with difficulty levels, set sizes, and clear benchmarks for moving up

  • A written diagnostic after every session naming the one thing costing you the most points and exactly what to do about it that week

  • My handout library, built over three years, with a skill-specific guide for whatever we are working on

  • Every session recorded, so you can rewatch any explanation

  • The habit of diagnosing your own mistakes, so the twenty-plus hours you study without me actually count

As one student put it: "He is the best kind of teacher, someone who teaches you how to fish."

Good fit if you:

  • Feel like your score does not reflect the work you are putting in

  • Understand explanations afterward but keep making the same mistakes

  • Want real structure, not "take more practice tests"

  • Want help with how to study, not just what to study

How it works:

  • Free consultation call, 20 to 30 minutes, so I can learn where you are at

  • Diagnostic session: $150 flat, fully refundable

  • Ongoing sessions: $180/hour, 90 minutes over Zoom

100% refund guarantee. Finding the right coach matters. If the diagnostic session is not the right fit, I refund it in full, no questions asked.

Getting started: I have room for a handful of new students right now. Text or email gets the fastest response, DMs work too.

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    MickeyClaffey Independent Tutor
    Tuesday, Sep 1

    Purely out of curiosity (I seriously don't mean this to come off as cynicism, I'm genuinely curious and I am sorry in advance as it may sound that way), but what is your value proposition at $180/hour? I am not at all questioning your merits, but at such a price I would want to know more about your track record as a teacher. Is the price just the result of the inelastic demand for LSAT tutoring? I am just wondering because I started tutoring recently and have heard of prices much higher than yours and I am curious how they are justified considering the fact that the LSAT score you got might be something necessary for charging such a price but not sufficient by itself, because how can you guarantee that you can teach someone how to get that same score? Thank you in advance for taking the time to reply, I am just trying to spark discussion and transparency. To reiterate I am not questioning your credentials but rather how the difference in price compared to cheaper tutors guarantees a reflection in the difference in quality.

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    TannerCall Independent Tutor OP
    5 days ago

    @MickeyClaffey Haha you're good, it's a fair question.

    On how I got to the number: I started at $60/hr. Every time I filled up, usually around 20-plus students, I'd raise rates $20 to $30. That's the entire pricing model. Demand is the only outside check I have on whether the coaching actually works, so I let it set the price instead of picking one.

    What justifies the rate is what happens around the session: analytics reviewed before every meeting so we don't spend paid time diagnosing, drill sets built for that student's specific gaps with set sizes and accuracy benchmarks, and a written diagnostic afterward naming the one thing costing them the most points that week. I spend at least three hours a week building teaching resources, and I'm around 1,000 hours of one-on-one at this point.

    For price context, I used to teach at an LSAT company that billed students $180/hr. I was one of their stronger tutors then and I'm significantly better now. So I'm expensive for this marketplace specifically, not for the broader tutoring market.

    And if I'm wrong about any of that for a given student, they find out for free. If the diagnostic isn't the right fit, I refund it in full. Some students will have better chemistry with another coach, and I'd rather they figure that out on my dime than stay six months out of politeness.

    P.S. I drafted a reply but than had AI edit it for efficiency sake.

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