Sikandar Mirza GRE & Math Coach with 13+ years of experience
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I have 6+ years of experience helping students score as high as 338 on the GRE - adding up to 37 points - and get acceptance from Harvard, DUKE, Rochester, MIT, etc.
- I deliver lectures using PPTs, starting from scratch and teaching students how to tackle questions from each topic.
- Complete Practice Material is provided (Questions picked from the best sources: ETS, Manhattan, etc.)
- I add students to my alum group, which sits globally in top grad schools. This group also serves as a 24/7 query group.
- My Classes are personalized, and I track student progress through weekly mock exams and their mistake logs

I have also taught Math and Physics for FSc, IB and o levels for 13+ years. After graduating, I pursued my passion as an educationist and won a national education award. I also became part of one of Pakistan's leading EdTechs and structured and cast in their highest-rated courses for FSc math and their most engaging course for the GRE general test. In parallel, I taught O-level math at a local school for three years.

Apart from my proven teaching skills, I also study educational psychology and learning theories to understand better how to help learners of any age optimally; speaking of age, I have helped learners aged 10-34 and helped them ace the subject at hand in each case.

At this point in my career, I excel in teaching and analyzing, designing, developing, and implementing Educational environments - online or offline.
I start by giving students at least 2 hours of free classes before I become a part of their learning journey.

Subjects

  • Math Grade 1-Grade 12

  • GRE

  • Reasoning Beginner-Expert

  • Mathematics Beginner-Expert

  • Functional Analysis Beginner-Expert

  • Mathematics (A level)

  • Math Grade 9

  • PDE (Partial differential equation) Beginner-Expert

  • Mathematics (A levels)

  • GRE Quant and Verbal

  • Math (Matric) Beginner-Expert

  • Math Grade 8

  • Math (11th)

  • Math (12th)

  • Physics (1st year & 2nd year) Intermediate

  • Mathematics (1st year and 2nd year) Intermediate

  • Math (FSc)

  • Reasoning and Arithmetic Beginner-Expert

  • Mathematics (AKUEB) Beginner-Expert

  • Mathematics (12th)

Experience

  • Prep Math Teacher (Aug, 2024–Dec, 2024) at The city school islamabad capital campus
    I started by helping the school's lagging English sections and sprinted them to equalize the 4 weeks lag to match other sections while still maintaining the quality of students' understanding.
    Then, I switched to teaching Math and Islamiat, producing unprecedented student results regarding class average results.
  • Curriculum Designer, Instructor, Course Facilitator, and Distributor (Apr, 2022–Feb, 2024) at out-class.org
    - Designed and Casted in (taught) Pakistan's First Hybrid Subscription Based GRE
    course
    - Put together practice Material for the Subscription based GRE Course
    - Designed and Casted in (taught) Pakistan's First Hybrid Subscription Based FSc
    Math course explaining over 50 Major Concepts in Math
    - Explained and Solved 500+ Math Questions in video format
    - Introduced Out-Class' solutions to Remote Mountainous regions of Pakistan -
    FATA, Gilgit-Baltistan, Quetta - and Partnered with Government of Gilgit-Baltistan
  • Marketing Executive (Mar, 2022–Jun, 2022) at Institute CMS
    - Crafted Product Profile for one of Company's FSM software product
    - Wrote Content for company's Website
    - Generated Leads and developed Lead Generation Channels - LinkedIn, Website,
    etc.
  • Digital Engagement Officer (Sep, 2020–Jun, 2021) at Saving 9
    - Devised a strategy to increase the Reach, Following, Views, Engagement, and following
    of Saving 9's Social media Pages - increasing each metric to at least twice its initial value
    - Produced and directed at least two marketing + public message videos - reaching at
    least 2000 organic views, enhancing the reach approx. 9 times its initial value
    - Logically counseled and critiqued the company, leading to its constructive restructuring
    - Spearheaded a social media Educational Campaign for Pakistan's First Mental Health
    Ambulance
  • Physics & Math Teacher (Mar, 2019–Mar, 2022) at Al-Haytham School of Knowledge
    Taught 12 Physics & Math students and helped two failing students to get B grades in Math!
    The school was a passion project by a close friend of mine.
  • MEL Officer and Project Lead (Apr, 2018–Jul, 2019) at Radec Technologies Pvt ltd.
    - Helped the project win a Pasha Award in the field of Education.
    - Scripted, produced and directed a marketing video that reached 5.5k Facebook
    users and brought in more investment
    - Lead and integrated a Team of NUST Grads to create animated lectures for
    classes 1-5
    - Ideated 50+ Animated Lectures
    - Surveyed small scale private schools; Met students, parents, and teachers to
    bolster Product fit
  • Co-Founder & Lead Instructor (Dec, 2016–Present) at Reformer Prep.
    - Cracked the GRE and helped students jump as much as 45 percentiles on the GRE by
    teaching and connecting with them, restoring their self-confidence and assisting at every
    stage through different ability-related and psychological challenges (limiting believes etc.)
    - Devised and taught Pakistan's second completely online GRE course at the inception of
    COVID
    - Taught 400+ GRE Students - students added 14 points on average to their GRE scores.
    - Amongst other similar outliers, two students achieved one of the Global Highest Verbal
    Scores for 2019
    - Established Social Media presence - brought 14k+ likes to the Facebook Page
    - Brough one of Asia's leading Educationists and former Fulbright Scholar for College and
    Fulbright Consultation
    - Facilitated the admission of students in over 20 universities in Graduate programs -
    including Harvard, DUKE, Rochester, and Johns Hopkins.
    - Established a network of world's top university graduates for student mentoring - career
    counselling, and college counselling
    - Generated an average profit of PKR 1.2 million per year/person
    - Devised and executed Social media Marketing Strategy

Education

  • Bachelor's in Mechanical Engineering (Sep, 2013–Jul, 2017) from NUST, Islamabad

Fee details

    Rs4,000–15,000/hour (US$14.35–53.83/hour)

    Students are required to pay after each class/session via PayPal or Wise.
    The fee is determined after students have taken a few free classes with me.

Courses offered

  • GRE General

    • US$960
    • Duration: 8 Weeks
    • Delivery mode: Online
    • Group size: Individual
    • Instruction language: English
    • Certificate provided: No
    I have helped GRE students achieve some of the global highest GRE Scores & jump as much as 45 percentiles on the GRE!
    My students have added anywhere from 14-33 points to their GRE scores.

    I have 5+ years of experience in teaching the GRE

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