Academic excellence and Physical development — would be the answer of modern youngsters to a question: What achievements define a successful individual in today’s world? How delusional, isn't it? How could we forget for what Socrates devoted his entire life and what is cultivated in no school, tested in no exam, but defines your life's path? At the end of the day, we, the human race, were not brought here for money or parroting Ronnie Coleman. Everyone forgot about our spiritual world, just as I did.

I enrolled in Agora classes due to my lifelong weakness. I never could “change the world by picking my pen up and writing”. I remember shamelessly losing so many bright thoughts throughout the day and regretting the words spoken out of my regretful mouth. It always seemed to me that I speak π language: all the time when I wanted to express a thought, only 3.14 could escape my mind, leaving the endless bunting of remaining symbols behind. The same thing with writing.

At the end, as an alumnus, I can confidently say: Agora gave me the path and bait on it. The path eventually leads to my desires. Ultimately, in my particular case, one of the quotes I heard during the class describes it all — "Learn to be smart, not appear smart". Agora taught me how to build my own path, style, and vision, yet so distant, but still important. I want to thank our speaker, Mr.Husan, especially for guiding our "sloppy" dedication through those 2 months of constant growth.

I started my SAT journey in the beginning of this year when I joined Qareken Academy, courses run by students from my school. I saw great progress during the course, going from a ~1300 to a 1470 scored in a practice test.  I'd also attribute my introduction to the SAT to them. After two months at Qareken Academy, I decided to try self-studying. However, for me, the process was mediocre at best. For the next month or so, I was juggling my schoolwork and SAT prep, with the latter usually not being focused on a lot. Then, when SATashkent announced their scholarship system with @unlockuz for self-studying students, I didn't hesitate to apply. I didn't know it at the time, but this would be a game-changer.

I was pretty intimidated by the number of lessons at first: there were 6 lessons per week, each one about 2 hours. The reason was that I had my Cambridge exams starting at the end of the month, and I still had plenty of preparation to do.

The lessons were amazing, however. My English teachers, Mr.Donobek and Mr.Muhammadsodiq, and my Math Teachers, Mr.Shoxrux and Mr.Behruz, were all very insightful and would clearly explain every question that we struggled with in our homework. I made it a habit to note down the new insights I gained from the lessons, and, by the end, it would turn into a long list of tips and tricks that would end up helping me out a lot. During the lessons, we'd use the books released by SATashkent. During personal study, I'd use SATashkent's test-taking platform. Thanks to SATashkent for providing these amazing opportunities!!

I was actually planning to take the exam in May. Now, it doesn't take a fool to realize that, with the number of important school exams coming up, deciding to take the May test would probably hurt my performance in those exams. So, when I found out that there were no seats left for the May test, I probably should've been happy about it. I ,of course, was disappointed at first, but then decided to register for June. During May, I had a tooon of free time and with this new mindset of "Oh, I still have a month left", I ended up mostly wasting it (in terms of SAT prep, at least). It was in the last two weeks that I dialed up my prep intensity and made significant progress. My last practice test score actually matched my real test score)

When applying to SATashkent, I set 1530 as my dream score. Dreams come true if you work hard enough, and thanks to SATashkent for making dreams a reality❤️