Episode 296 | Harley Kinberg | HARLEY KINBERG TUTORING | The EdisonOS Podcast

In this episode, Harley Kinberg, New York City-based tutor working with 20-30 students annually over 15+ years, reveals her initial nervousness about SAT going digital—worrying "how am I going to recreate that realism?"—and explains why she analyzes not just wrong answers but correct ones taking over two minutes, since "we need a new strategy for that question" to address timing issues.She discusses her philosophy that standardized tests aren't intelligence problems but "performance problems" that are trainable, and shares her approach of offering free 30-minute meet-and-greets where she asks zero academic questions, just builds connection—comparing finding the right tutor to finding the right therapist. Harley explains why she won't fight students who prefer one test despite scoring better on another, believing "they will fight against the process" otherwise, and stays intentionally small rather than scaling because she's a "control freak" who prefers intimate relationships.