Priya B.

Background

Priya Bhatia helped write the test. As an editor of the Official Guide for GMAC and Wiley, she shaped the material that millions of MBA applicants study from — and as a full-time GMAT, GRE, and EA tutor for over a decade, she has spent the years since then teaching students how to think their way through it.

Her route into test prep started in a high school physics and math classroom, where she learned something most tutors never do: the difference between a student who doesn’t know the content and a student whose process is breaking down under pressure. A chemical physics degree from Rice’s Honors Scholar Program, national awards from the Intel Science Talent Search and Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, and years of one-on-one tutoring sharpened that instinct into a diagnostic method. Priya doesn’t teach to a formula. She watches how a student works a problem, identifies where the reasoning fractures, and rebuilds the approach from that specific fault line.

The results follow the method. Students come to Priya stuck at score plateaus they’ve been grinding against for months — sometimes with anxiety layered on top of the content gap — and leave with twenty-, thirty-, forty-point jumps that land above thresholds they had quietly written off. Her coverage runs across the full standardized-test landscape: GMAT, GRE, Executive Assessment, SAT, and PSAT, with a worldwide client base that spans working professionals, international applicants, and younger students preparing for undergraduate admissions.

Priya is especially effective with the applicant who has already tried the self-study playbook, already sat through a prep course, and is still staring at a score that doesn’t reflect what they actually know. The student who freezes mid-section. The professional who can do the math at work but loses fifteen minutes to second-guessing under timed conditions. The international candidate working in a second language who needs someone who will meet their preparation where it actually is, not where a curriculum assumes it should be.

She works one-on-one, session by session, building from diagnosis rather than syllabus. If the score is there and the process is sound, she will tell you. If it is not, she will show you exactly where it breaks and how to fix it — and then push for the next threshold before the relief settles in.