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Testive develops the world’s most adaptive testing and test preparation products. Over 10K students have used its test preparation and score prediction tools to help them on their preparation journey. Testive’s core TurboTest™ platform was developed at MIT by Tom Rose and delivers highly customized testing and test-prep experiences such as SAT Habit. Testive is based in Cambridge, MA with offices in Durham, NC and is an alumnus of the TechStars Boston accelerator program.
HIRED GUNS
Lee Accomando
Product Developer
Arjun Balaji
Handyman
David Chippendale
Product Developer
Janet Helperson
Customer Service Representative
Miro Kazakoff
Chief Executive Officer
Tom Rose
Chief Product Officer
HIGH SCHOOL AMBASSADORS
Testive is incredibly lucky to have a set of 11 brilliant, thoughtful, and driven High School Ambassadors. Our ambassadors keep our high-trafficked SAT Blog running, post memes that garner thousands of notes on Tumblr, write SAT prep and strategy guides, and help us design our SATHabit product. They're an awesome group of people from all around the US. While the program is highly selective, feel free to drop us a line and let us know how you want to be involved.
AMBASSADOR BIOS
Violet Sinnarkar
Violet is a freshmen at Evergreen Valley High School. She loves reading, thinking, and learning- and spreading her love through the Habit's fantastic blog. You might catch her at the local bookstore or next weekend's debate tournament- but she typically hangs out with Willy Wonka, who's apologized for the whole blueberry incident.
Nancy Liu
Nancy is a junior at Marriotts Ridge High School. She is... a blogger, a student, a new driver, a dreamer, a volunteer, a socializer, a learner, a smiler, a swimmer, a failed jogger, a directioner, an online shopper, a daydreamer, a non-procrastinator, a believer, a sleeper, and of course, an SAT studier.
Dan Qiu
Daniel Qiu is a Junior at Boston Latin School. His favorite subjects in school are math and chemistry and he hopes to get a job in the medical field in the future. He loves being active and in between my SAT study sessions, he's either playing basketball or practicing swimming. Besides his obsession with sports, his second favorite hobby would be studying… Yes, seriously…
Nisha Nadkarni
Nisha is a junior at Lynbrook High School. She's interested in a variety of things from financial/managerial accounting to Bollywood movies. When she's not studying for her second SAT or trying to catch up on homework, she is either exploring photography, participating in volunteering events, or reading dystopian novels.
Mirza Uddin
Mirza is a Junior at Brooklyn Technical High School. He's a very involved student who takes part in the National Honor Society, Science Bowl, Student Government, and various volunteer organizations, having founded some or the organizations himself. When he finally gets home (after many, many hours at school), he's usually engrossed in developing new test prep strategies or his science textbooks. When he finally gets some precious free time, he can usually be found traveling with his family or jogging in the park. He has just went though the grueling testing experience and hopes to make the "testing time", as he calls it, much easier for his fellow peers.
Kristen Wong
Kristen is a junior at San Marino High School. She is an active Key Club member and enjoys competing in indoor drumline competitions. Outside of school, she loves to explore her mind and create different kinds of artwork. Although she has only taken the SAT once, she has done well and will join members on the journey for the best possible score.
Omkar Bhat
Omkar is a junior at Chelmsford High School. He is involved in DECA, the school's business club, National Honors Society and Science Team. He also tutors many people, in various different subjects, hoping to make their testing lives easier. After school, he studies for numerous AP and SAT tests. In his free time, he enjoys meeting new people and hanging out with his friends.
Samantha Morris
Samantha is a homeschooled rising junior in high school. She is zealous about writing, olympic-style test prepping, dancing, reading great books, and helping others through tutoring and mentoring. She spends her (little) additional time writing for wonderful online publications and working as the CEO for a global literacy non-profit.
Abhilasha Boruah
Abhilasha is currently a junior at Franklin High School. She is super awesome at procrastinating and stressing out. She likes to play violin, run her school's Science Olympiad team and Literary guild, be a lawyer in her Mock Trial team, volunteer around the community, and sleep (sleep is good, very very good). Biology and philosophy are her passions. One can commonly see her freaking out over grades/SAT scores/AP exams/One direction/Grey's anatomy/EVERYTHING. But right now she's just trying to work hard, have as much fun as she can, and most importantly, keep her sanity.
Myles Parker
Myles Parker is currently a junior at Brookline High School in MA. In school, he participates on the Cross Country and Track & Field teams while also being a part of his highschool's American Red Cross Club.
Jessica Lu
Jessica is currently a junior in Los Angeles. Besides being an ambassador for SATHabit, she plays lacrosse, writes for the newspaper, participates in Model UN and volunteers at the hospital. Her favorite free time activities include going to Santa Monica Pier with friends, eating at Urth Caffe and visiting new places, whether around the U.S. or internationally.
Annie Prusky
Annie is currently a junior at Barrack Hebrew Academy in PA. She rocks at writing and critical reading, playing with her dogs instead of doing her homework, and somehow always being in the middle of a book. At school, she’s involved in the school newspaper and literary magazine. Outside of those walls, she’s a tutor, an assistant teacher, and a big sister.
PRESS
Press Releases
4/10/13
The average student who uses SAT Habit for at least Seven days sees a 100-point improvement
12/10/12
TechStars alum has helped over 10K+ students on their test preparation journey
In The News
4/26/13
...the goal of Cambridge-based Testive, which launched its test prep software SAT Habit last summer, is to help each student achieve their best score...
4/2/13
...Miro Kazakoff, MIT Sloan Class of 2011, co-founder of the hit "webshow" The MBA Show, discusses Testive, a developer of adaptive testing and test preparation products....
12/12/12
...the startup is focused on the test prep space, and claims that its TurboTest platform, developed at MIT, can accurately predict scores on SATs and other standardized tests in under an hour, or about three times faster than traditional practice tests....
12/10/12
...by adapting question difficulty to the students, the startup can accurately predict your SAT score in a third of the time it would take a full-length test to do the same...
12/10/12
...“I loved using SAT Habit because it’s personalized for me. I can move at my own pace, only get problems that help me improve, and I don’t have to waste my time on areas I’m already good at.”...
5/2/12
...its adaptive algorithm offers tougher questions when they're doing well, and easier questions when they're struggling...
2/9/12
...“Getting students a reliable score assessment in less than half the time of traditional tests helps them identify and focus on areas of study opportunity more quickly.”...