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Ace the GRE — Complete Package
Starting at $4,781.2525h+ of coaching
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Nail the GRE Quant Section
Starting at $1,068.755h+ of coaching
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Crush the GRE Verbal Section
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About
Traditional academic coaching often misdiagnoses why high-potential students and executive candidates plateau. It is rarely a lack of content knowledge; it is almost always a breakdown in cognitive load management, pacing execution, and structural processing under tight constraints. As an interdisciplinary cognitive strategist with over two decades of tenure, my approach is built on mapping each learner's unique processing signature. Instead of relying on rote memorization or surface-level tricks, I design custom cognitive architectures, curate active testing toolkits, and provide systematic executive functioning mirroring. This targeted framework shifts a student's relationship with high-stakes workloads—transforming sheer effort into precise, unshakeable efficacy.
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Fletcher’s GRE Qualifications
Coaches professionally
100+ GRE clients
For working professionals and transitioning academics, mastering the GRE is rarely a matter of raw intelligence—it is a challenge of cognitive load, time scarcity, and decision fatigue under pressure. Over my many years of interdisciplinary coaching across major domestic and international populations, I have focused on helping bright, highly capable individuals dismantle the structural anxiety of high-stakes testing to realize their potential by way of successfully achieving competitive scores for their graduate school applications. My approach relies on the establishment of an individualized plan for each student that is framework-driven and refined as necessary through the studying process. Instead of relying on standardized test-prep study templates and strategies, we deconstruct the analytical logic and quantitative reasoning patterns of the exam to build custom pacing mechanics and test navigation. Together, we employ each test-taker's unique executive-functioning strengths, while identifying and targeting challenging aspects or hidden bottlenecks; the goal is to systematically build mental consistency and confidence through a personalized approach to each section of the GRE. Actively taking control of how the test is taken is critical in procuring competitive scores, especially while managing an intensive professional or academic schedule.
Fletcher can help with:
Analytical Writing
General Exploration
Quantitative Reasoning
Score Improvement
Tailored Study Plan
Test Prep Strategy
Test Taking Strategy
Verbal Reasoning
Why do I coach?
In over twenty years of practice, I have learned how often capable learners are systematically underestimated by educational structures that reward rigid conformity over true understanding. Standardized tests and demanding academic transitions frequently create immense psychological friction, causing brilliant students to plateau, due to pacing anxiety, avoidance, and decision fatigue. My goal is to restore true learner agency. I step into the role of a strategic coach to help clients build their own cognitive blueprints, master life-long executive functioning skills, and condition the mental resilience required to perform at their absolute peak under high-pressure constraints.
Work Experience

Founder
1st Principles Learning (MYLDT LLC)
January 2024 - Present
Hiring Manager
1st Principles learning is the continuation and next evolutionary step in Fletcher Poret's elite private tutoring, educational consultation, academic advising and learning specialty company that serves students from middle school through graduate school and all learning profiles in general academic support, specialized curriculum development and homeschooling, as well as collaborating with local nonprofit organizations and other like-minded people and educational institutions who are dedicating to preparing future generations in rebuilding agency, learning to be self -sufficient and self-directed learners, promoting self-advocacy, critical thinking and efficacious executive functioning skills to get the most out of learning, preparing for standardized tests, navigating life and preserving a sense of wonder and creativity throughout.

Master Tutor
Sentia Education
February 2019 - Present
I was recruited as a seasoned tutor by Sentia Education, where I have supported the the most advanced and ambitious students in high-level GRE and GMAT preparation, as well as serving as an admissions consultant for competitive undergraduate and graduate programs. My role involved advising students across the full application process, while maintaining active professional relationships with a broad network of admissions officers and educators. Through ongoing communication and continued professional development, I remain current with evolving admissions trends, evaluation criteria, and institutional priorities, allowing me to offer informed, realistic guidance tailored to each student’s academic profile and goals.

Founder
myldtutor
September 2011 - Present
Hiring Manager
I am the founder and have remained the hiring manager & lead tutor of this NYC based independent educational consulting and private tutoring company for the past 15 years. We focus on higher education, graduate admissions, and advanced test preparation, including the GRE, GMAT, and SAT/ACT, AP and IB exams. Our team has successfully supported a wide-range of students, families and professionals across the United States and Europe in academic tutoring, executive function support, and high-stakes writing. My experience includes contributions to test preparation and college application publications & resources, extensive professional writing and editing in both fiction and non-fiction, as well as coaching dozens of students through thesis and dissertation research, structure, and revision. My approach emphasizes strategy, clarity of thinking, and sustainable skill development rather than short-term fixes.

Learning and Development Specialist
EBL Coaching
January 2009 - September 2012
• Home schooled students with customized curriculum & executive functioning development, employing strategies to scaffold, engage & empower the learner. • Specialized in ADHD, dyslexia, dysgraphia and other learning differences or at- risk dynamics. • Collaborated with the NYC DOE, adhering to all oversight and home schooling requirements. • Trained in Orton Gillingham and Wilson language programs.

University Writing Center Tutor - Manager
The New School
September 2003 - June 2006
• Tutored students across divisions of The New School, including Parsons School of Design, Actor’s Studio, Eugene Lang, & Milano. • Developed workshops, advised faculty, and led writing support services. • Provided advanced writing instruction and editorial services for university students. • Support students writing, researching and editing graduate theses and PhD dissertations
Education

Eugene Lang College of New School University
B.A.. Non-Fiction Writing, Writing
2004 - 2006

Brooklyn College
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Education, Education
2003 - 2004
Career Development, Teacher Training and +24 skills

Tulane University
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Education, Education
1999 - 2002
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Ace the GRE — Complete Package
Starting at $4,781.2525h+ of coaching
Save up to $1,687.50
Nail the GRE Quant Section
Starting at $1,068.755h+ of coaching
Save up to $225
Crush the GRE Verbal Section
Starting at $1,068.755h+ of coaching
Save up to $225
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