Who teaches you
Two medical students at Sapienza. We both sat the IMAT and finished 20th and 37th in Europe.
Aleksander Schön (Alex)
How I got here
I finished school in Poland and wanted to study medicine. About the IMAT I knew that it was in English and happened once a year. Everything else I had to work out on my own.
That the Physics looks nothing like what school prepares you for. That a wrong answer costs you marks. That there's a logic section nobody has ever taught you. That the order you rank universities in can decide everything, even with a good score.
I finished 20th in Europe out of more than 10,000 candidates and got into Sapienza, where I've been ever since. I'm now in my fourth year of Medicine and Surgery, among the best in my year, with a grade average above 99%.
I started teaching because I kept meeting people losing marks in exactly the places I had, and nobody was telling them. Since 2023, more than 100 students have prepared for the IMAT with us.
Before university I started StudySmart, a project on how to study effectively, and I spent four years as a counsellor at summer camps. That's where I learned to read what one particular person needs. You don't learn that at a whiteboard. I teach in English, the language of the exam.
Juliette Touati
From the Sorbonne to Sapienza
Juliette finished 37th in Europe on IMAT 2023, the same year as Alex. Before Sapienza she spent a year studying at the Sorbonne in Paris, so she has already moved university once, from Paris to Rome, and knows what starting over in a new place takes.
She prepared for the IMAT largely on her own and, like most candidates, lost her first marks in Physics and Logic, not Biology. That’s why she spends so much time on how a question is built: what it’s really asking, which options you can cross out straight away and when to let it go and move on.
Today she studies Medicine and Surgery at Sapienza, where she’s also among the best in her year.
She teaches 1-on-1 students with the same method, in English. She’s calm and very precise, and she’d rather go back over a step three times than let you just nod along. We teach the group course together.
How we teach
You try it first
We don't lecture. It doesn't work. A few days later there's nothing left.
You try the question first. Then we take it apart: why that answer, why not the other one and what was put in there to catch you. Lots of comparisons and analogies, because there's a lot of material and it needs something to stick to.
We go back over old topics. If something hasn't stuck, it comes back and we do it again. We're consistent about that, because it's the difference between having lessons and being ready.
We're not teachers you need to be nervous around. We'd rather these hours were useful than formal.
What we won't promise
A place
Nobody honest will promise you one. Your ranking depends partly on how many people happen to write a better paper than you that year.
What we will do is tell you the truth about where you are and how much work is in front of you, even when that means you don't buy anything from us.