Student outcomes
Universities where our former students have reported receiving offers
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This website started out as a way to keep track of all our students' study materials. It has now become so much more. Whatever your purpose in pursuing your educational goals, we hope you find something here that will be of value to you going forward. - KSSR editorial team (pronounced KAY-zer btw 😊 )
Y.K. (Kairen) Jung is a professional educator with over 10 years of experience in teaching AP and IB History and English subjects. After studying history and political science at UIC, SciencesPo Paris, and Yonsei University at the B.A. and M.A. levels, she is now working towards her online TESOL certification at ASU. Having helped thousands of students achieve their highest potential on standardized academic exams such as the TOEFL, IELTS, SAT, GED, and GRE, and having somehow tutored her way through all the subjects of the entire IB and AP curricula, she currently divides her time between teaching at private schools and academies in Seoul and California and hatching new schemes to leave the world a better place than she found it.
Iris Hayek is an artist and teacher hailing from Seattle Washington who studied education at various community colleges and has taught English on three different continents with her TESOL certificate. She now travels the world setting up alternative organic farming communities and researching innovative recycling methods to save our planet. In her spare time, she can be found copyediting manuscripts and textbooks written and compiled by her global network of friends.
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Note from the founder : A statement on AI use practices
At KSSR, we believe:
... that honor is worth earning and keeping;
... that we are all connected to each other as people, societies, and the planet;
... and that we must be part of the solution rather than the problem.
Sometimes, though, the solution can only be reached once we persevere through the largest and most damaging problems. This is most often the case when it comes to larger and systemic problems such as the environmental, technological, socioeconomic, and global political turbulence we are experiencing in our world today.
The use of Artificial Intelligence is one such pressing issue that directly impacts how we relate to each other and the world. On May 30, 2023, in their joint Statement on AI Extinction Risk (accessible here https://aistatement.com/work/statement-on-ai-extinction-risk ) , even the key figures behind the development of AI -- such as Geoffrey Hinton, Sam Altman, and Dario Amodei -- acknowledged that "mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war."
In March of 2026, a broad coalition of organizations including the AFL-CIO, SAG-AFTRA, and the G20 Interfaith Forum Association issued the Pro-Human AI Declaration (accessible here https://humanstatement.org/ ). We agree with their stated position that "trustworthy and controllable AI tools should amplify rather than diminish human potential, empower people, enhance human dignity, protect individual liberty, strengthen families and communities, preserve self-governance and help create unprecedented health and prosperity."
Over the past ten years and counting, not a single day has gone by in which I have not personally taught a class, created teaching material, created and performed music, or composed a painted or written work of art. As a writer, musician, artist, teacher, and above all, as a human being, I categorically oppose the unregulated experimentation of AI companies prioritizing profit over human experience and endeavor. I have also come to believe, however, that some elements of progress are inevitable on a larger scale, and purely luddite opposition towards any and all development of qualitatively differentiating algorithmic digital technology is strategically impractical, nihilistic, and defeatist in our current day and age.
First and foremost, however, there are some other things I believe in. I believe in balance, control, and our continued collective future as a species. I believe in the power of empathy and the faculty of intelligence, not as isolated and commercialized commodities, but as paths of holistic and integrated self-discovery for all who may or may not have souls. As such, I believe that we share the burden of collective stewardship for our shared planet with all other fellow human beings.
Most importantly, I believe that all sentient beings who share the qualia of lived experience have fundamental human rights, which should entitle them to dignity and equal access to all of the resources and opportunities on this bountiful planet that we are blessed to call home. There is no critical threshold at which any qualitative-to-quantitative shift can justify the elimination of these first principles.
This is why I believe that the fundamental problem of AI does not lie in its technological or ontological existence, but in the methodology of its deployment. It is an indisputable fact that data centers do use up more water and natural resources than other comparable establishments; this is indeed a contributor to the ongoing climate catastrophe that threatens our existing ways of life. But the cold truth of the matter is: this is a mere extension of the fact that people in developed countries sustain lifestyles of consumption that create greater ecological footprints than those of people in poorer areas of the world. The greater overarching problem, then, is inequality in the distribution of resources, not in the existence of Artificial Intelligence itself. And if AI can be deployed to solve the problems it initially grew out of, maybe I'm on board with the idea of being part of its search for its own solution.
As a teacher, and as a human being who believes in the virtues of integrity and dignity, I will not lie and say that I have created all of the materials on this site without any help from AI technology. I have created the bulk of the material, the actual architecture, and the conceptualization at every stage. AI was mostly used in the classification, synthesis, and digital reformulation process of my 7+ TB of data that I have personally created and amassed throughout my time in the teaching and tutoring space. Technically speaking, I do not own this any more or less than a film's writer or director owns the credits to her film, even as the resultant cinematic release also belongs to the crew, actors, and other socioeconomically created networks that tether a created work to its place in space and time, bound by reality.
At the very least, I hope that I am helping someone who is now in the shoes I once wore : an overthinker, a living human person, overwhelmed by the work of living day to day, tasked with the responsibility of shaping the lives of her students, biding her time.
None of the above words have been written through a Large Language Model or any other such algorithmic happenstance. I hereby affirm upon my word of honor that all of the above is true.
Sincerely,
Y. K. Jung
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