Advantage Testing | Vairam Alagappan

VAIRAM ALAGAPPAN
Director
Advantage Testing of Long Island

Vairam Alagappan is a magna cum laude graduate of the University of Pennsylvania. At Penn, Vairam was a member of the Mathematics Honor Society and President of the Mortar Board National Honor Society whose membership is based on leadership, community service, and scholarship. After having received a B.A. in Mathematics, he pursued graduate studies in Computer Science at the University of Illinois and graduated in the top 1% of his class. His honors at Illinois include membership in the Engineering Honor Society and the Scholastic Honor Society. While in graduate school, Vairam worked in the General Products and National Accounts divisions of IBM. In 1987, he joined the Artificial Intelligence group of what is now known as Accenture and eventually went on to its Center for Strategic Technology Research.

Vairam has always had a personal and professional interest in teaching. At both the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Illinois, he received teaching awards. At the University of Pennsylvania, he was a University tutor and a University liaison to the public school system in Philadelphia. At the University of Illinois, he taught numerous classes in the engineering school and lectured frequently in the business school. Vairam has also taught seminars and made presentations to several Fortune 500 senior executives.

Vairam's teaching experience with Advantage Testing includes tutoring for standardized tests such as the SAT, ACT, SAT Subject Tests in Math, Chemistry, and Physics, SSAT, ISEE, LSAT, GRE, and GMAT. He has also taught high school and college subjects including Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, Physics, Chemistry, and English. Vairam has received enthusiastic reviews from students he has taught privately and in the classroom. This past year Advantage Testing of Long Island has enrolled several hundred students from numerous schools.