Scott B. Remer

Scott Remer is a highly experienced spelling bee coach with 13 years of experience tutoring students for success at the highest levels of the National Spelling Bee. He takes on elite spellers for regular one-on-one and group coaching (visit www.spellingbeebook.com for more information). He also offers one-time diagnostic tests and more ad hoc tutoring, and he has a series of audio modules & word lists available for purchase. He graduated Yale University summa cum laude and received his master’s from Cambridge University in political thought & intellectual history.

After placing 34th in 2007 and 4th in 2008 at the NSB, Scott wrote Words of Wisdom. Published in Feb. 2010, it is now in its fifth edition and is updated as the Bee evolves. It now contains 446 pages. In Jan. 2022, Scott published Sesquipedalia!: A Rigorous Vocabulary Study Guide. Sesquipedalia! can be used as a study tool for middle- and high-schoolers seeking to expand their vocabularies for writing, literature, & English classes. It also makes an excellent guide to the PSAT, SAT, & ACT verbal sections. In Dec. 2022, Scott published Regional Bee Ready!, a handy 384-page guide to regional bees and the final book in the Words of Wisdom trilogy.