Your questions, answered.

Every course is fully online and self-paced. You get video lessons, workbook pages or study materials, quizzes, and a full-length practice test, all organized into a clear day-by-day or week-by-week structure depending on the course. Some courses start with a diagnostic test to build your personalized study plan; others are short enough that every lesson matters equally. Either way, you work through the material on your own schedule.

Self-paced. There are no scheduled class times to work around, which means prep fits around school, sports, work, and everything else. The structure keeps you on track; the schedule stays yours.

Every Top Grade Test Prep course is created by an experienced New York educator with years of hands-on experience preparing students for high-stakes tests. Every strategy in every course has been tested with real students.

Our focus is New York's exams: the TACHS, the NYS Learner's Permit test, the SHSAT (coming soon), and coming soon after that, the NYS Grades 3-8 tests and the Regents.

We're also building prep for the U.S. Naturalization test, which is national. And because every course is fully online, you can enroll from anywhere.

It depends on the course. Some tests need weeks of structured prep, while others (like the written driver's license exam) can be covered in just a handful of lessons. Every course breaks the work into short, manageable sessions so it never feels like cramming, and each course page tells you what to expect. If you're starting closer to test day, the study plan shows you exactly what to prioritize.

Earlier is better, but it's rarely too late to start preparing. Each course is built around its own structured timeline, which you'll find on the course page, so work backward from your test date and aim to enroll with at least that much runway. Starting earlier simply means more time to practice and less pressure per week.

Tutors charge by the hour, and quality varies a lot. A Top Grade Test Prep course gives you a complete, structured program: every lesson, every strategy, every practice test, for less than the cost of a few tutoring sessions. And because it's built around a diagnostic and a personalized plan, the time you spend goes exactly where it's needed.

The courses are built so students can work through them independently. That said, many parents like to stay close to the process, and the structure makes it easy to see what's been done and what's next each week.

A device with an internet connection and a notebook. That's it. Everything else is inside the course.

You get lifetime access to each course you purchase, so you can come back to it as often as you need to before your test day.

For most of the courses, yes. The options are listed on each course page.

We want you to feel confident in your enrollment. If a course isn't the right fit, you can request a full refund within 14 days of purchase, as long as you've accessed less than 20% of the course content and haven't downloaded any included materials.

To request a refund, just email us at [email protected]. A few items, such as one-on-one coaching, printed materials, and scheduled exam fees, become non-refundable once they've been delivered or used. The full details are in our Terms & Conditions.