Built by Someone Who Earned a Perfect 36 on the ACT
Prepmedians exists because test prep was boring. We fixed that.
Meet the Founder: Kalyan Ray-Mazumder
Kalyan earned a perfect 36 on the ACT, with a 36 on every section, and scored 2320 out of 2400 on the SAT (99th percentile), about 1570 on today's 1600 scale. He posted 99th-percentile results on the GMAT too, with a perfect score in three of its four sections. His academic record matches: valedictorian of his 634-student class at Ward Melville High School, a Yale degree in theatre and psychology (magna cum laude, with distinction in both majors and a spot in the top 10% of his class), and an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, where he was a Wallman Scholar in the top 5% of his class.
From $500-an-Hour Tutoring to a Platform Built for Everyone
After Yale, Kalyan worked as a professional actor in New York City while tutoring the SAT and ACT for more than 5,000 hours. He eventually became the #1 tutor in a company of more than 250 expert tutors and charged $500 per hour. That experience also made the inequity in test prep impossible to ignore: families who could afford $10,000 or more for private tutoring had access to a level of instruction that most students never could. Kalyan built Prepmedians to bring high-level test strategy to students across the socioeconomic spectrum at a fraction of the cost of elite private tutoring.
He also kept meeting students who could not memorize the quadratic formula but could effortlessly remember every word of a Drake song. So he combined the two, teaching the quadratic formula to the tune of Drake's “Hotline Bling”. Students retained the material, their scores rose, and they actually enjoyed learning. That insight became the foundation of Prepmedians: “All students deserve to laugh and learn.”
That mix is the whole idea behind Prepmedians. The theatre training is why the lessons are genuinely funny, and the psychology background is why they are built around how students actually learn and where they get stuck. Prepmedians turns the strategies Kalyan once taught at $500 per hour into engaging lessons that far more families can access.
Every instructional video is written and taught by Kalyan, not outsourced to a rotating cast of tutors or generated by AI. Students get the person who earned the scores and built the methodology, explaining the thinking that gets results. Read Kalyan's full founder letter.
Our Philosophy
Comedy Works
You remember jokes. We teach test strategies wrapped in humor so they stick.
AI Tutors Don't Replace People
The AI tutor answers questions instantly, 24/7, but it never replaces access to real people. Whenever students want human help, they can use the Contact Us button to request email or chat assistance from an expert 99th-percentile tutor. The video lessons themselves also come from a human who earned a perfect 36 on the ACT.
Real Results Matter
We measure success by how much students improve, not by marketing claims.
Price Shouldn't Be Predatory
$99/month full course. No surprise upsells. No "premium" tiers. That's it.
What Results Look Like
With consistent practice, many students see real score gains, and many improve by 210 or more points on the SAT or 6 or more points on the ACT.
The 5-Day Money-Back Guarantee gives students nearly a week to test out the full platform and decide whether Prepmedians is right for them.
Common Questions
When do students see results?
Many students see significant gains on their first official test after using Prepmedians. Most students then take the test one or two more times to truly maximize their gains.
Is Kalyan available for 1-on-1 tutoring?
No. Prepmedians is a self-paced video course rather than traditional private tutoring, which keeps prices affordable and lessons accessible to everyone. Students still receive 24/7 AI tutor support and can request email or chat assistance from expert 99th-percentile tutors whenever they want human help.
Full SAT and ACT courses are $99/month or $349/year, backed by a 5-Day Money-Back Guarantee.
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