Episode 293 | Daniel Benton | Benton Tutoring | The EdisonOS Podcast

Episode Description

In this episode, Daniel Benton, Johns Hopkins student and founder of Benton Tutoring who achieved a perfect 1600 SAT score, reveals how he took one test weekly for two months then doubled to twice weekly before his exam—calling much of it "overkill" but necessary for the consistency stamina requires at that level, even running out of College Board's practice tests and resorting to "black market" questions. He discusses why he got nationally certified by the National Tutoring Association at age 15 for confidence and learning how to teach diverse learners, and shares his diagnostic philosophy: wrong answers aren't Boolean—some students get questions "way more wrong" than others, distinguishing between misadding versus fundamental misconceptions. Daniel explains his fatalistic anxiety cure: telling stressed students "what is done is done, you have made your bed," while balancing Hopkins rigor with tutoring by rigidly blocking schedules.