Peter Beaven

Welcome to Beaven and Associates Tutoring and Test Preparation

We pride ourselves on forty years of experience helping students excel in their classroom studies as well as on national tests.

Our workbooks are nothing like the standard SAT or SSAT books you will find at the bookstore. That’s because they reflect our credo: “A solid academic foundation not only improves test scores – it lays the groundwork for future educational success.” For decades, we have helped our students excel on standardized tests and win entry to top prep schools, Catholic secondary schools, colleges, and universities by emphasizing the fundamentals: vocabulary, grammar, reading comprehension, logic, and mathematical and scientific principles. Now we are offering our workbooks to the public for use by home school students and anyone who wants to master English and basic math. Our workbooks include plenty of examples and exercises, while allowing students to work at their own pace.

Vocabulary Workbooks:

The Building English Vocabulary series guides a student through classical prefixes and roots that underlie challenging vocabulary. While Books I through III take the student through the Roman past, and Book IV the Greek, Introduction starts the journey with etymology from the Latin, the origins of that half of the English language that appeals to the intellect and sets a foundation for understanding great literature.

Grammar and Writing Workbooks:

English grammar, syntax, and composition are not easy to master, even for native speakers. Imagine, then, the challenges that confront today’s Language Arts teachers in over-crowded public school classrooms filled with a mix of native and non- native speakers. During more than three decades of tutoring middle and high school students seeking admission to elite secondary schools and colleges, we have found that even private school pupils struggle with the finer points of usage and composition.

Reading Comprehension:

The word anthology comes to us from the Classical Greek anthos meaning flowers, and logia meaning collection. In time this collection came to be a selection of poems, wise sayings, stories, essays, and chronicles from history. Readers of all ages are invited to explore short examples of the works of the great and eloquent thinkers from over the centuries. Thus the armchair traveler can learn from the ideas expressed by Socrates in ancient Greece to those of Einstein in modern America.