2019
She began studying for the SAT on her own, aiming to study abroad.
She began teaching the SAT, according to her own course page; in Nov 2021 she wrote that she had been mentoring SAT students for almost three years.
2020
She won 100% grants to a university in Arizona and to Westminster International University in Tashkent, and enrolled at neither.
With only two to four students, she pitched her SAT programme to about five learning centres; all of them turned her down, and Marstiff was not yet even a plan.
2021
She won grants from the University of South Florida and Arizona (both 100%) and a partial grant from Boston, and turned them all down to try again for MIT.
MIT, her dream school, did not admit her in the 2021 cycle; she said she would apply again.
She put on her first SAT master class with borrowed money; it was her first speech on a stage.
She created her Telegram channel t.me/marifatjamal; she dates the start of her education blog to the end of 2021.
Her first welcome post said she had been mentoring SAT students for almost three years, and that the channel was for improving test scores and college applications.
She ran her first announced offline SAT seminar, in two sessions, at the Ground Zero coworking space near Minor metro in Tashkent, with guest speaker Hasib Yosofi.
She advertised her own first SAT group course, an intensive six days a week, starting 15 Nov 2021 at the same coworking space; her later accounts say the group barely filled.
CIC School billed her with an SAT score of 1500 and more than three years of SAT teaching experience, the second step in her score path after 1420.
She gave the master class 'Barchasi SAT haqida' (All about the SAT) to CIC School pupils; the school later posted a video report and thanked her.
She launched a Telegram bot where students could send hard SAT questions, which she answered on video.
She announced an SAT score of 1540 (760/780) after a retake (most likely the 4 Dec 2021 sitting).
2022
CIC School listed her as its SAT English teacher.
She visited the Jizzakh Presidential School as an 'SAT expert', and afterwards described herself as a full-stack web developer and SAT tutor trying to balance the two.
Her Instagram account @marifat_jamal passed 10,000 followers.
By May 2022 she had worked about two years as a full-stack web developer on the international market, mainly in Python, after a year of learning IT; her first job was the Ministry of Health's IT-Med project, which she later left.
She was teaching daily intensive SAT groups of 35+ students in space rented at the Al-madrasa education centre in Tashkent, after starting with 4-5 private students who averaged 1410.
She gave an online Zoom seminar on scoring high on the SAT for the Uzbek American Association of Chicago; the announcement listed almost 70 students, a mean score of 1390 and a top score of 1480 reached in four months.
Daryo.uz published a long interview with her, as article and video, about the US grants she turned down while waiting for her dream school, her IT work and her teaching.
She relaunched on YouTube with her current channel, @marifat_jamal, opening with 'SAT haqida to'liq ma'lumot', a complete overview of the SAT.
She was the guest on Ulugbek's Podcast, episode 5, a live Telegram voice chat about the SAT and college applications.
Tutor Bekhruz released a long interview with her about self-study and education in the US, produced with the Youth Affairs Agency.
Sodiq School introduced her as its SAT mentor, with three years of experience, as it set out to teach the SAT as a school subject.
At IT Park's 72-hour Cambridge Coding Festival hackathon (3-5 Jun 2022) her team was disqualified for submitting two minutes late, but she received 'The best Developer', one of three special nominations for girls funded by Green White Solutions.
She led the Cambridge Learning Center master class 'How to score 1540 in SAT?'.
The Mohirdev education platform announced an exclusive partnership with her on a project preparing young people for foreign universities; she said she would not apply abroad that year.
She published 'NEGA MIT'GA KIRA OLMADIM?' (Why didn't I get into MIT?), talking openly about the rejection; the same day she wrote a post about celebrating failure.
She gave a guest lecture on studying abroad at Thompson Learning Center.
She ran free weekly SAT classes taught entirely in English, streamed on YouTube and Zoom, through mid-August 2022.
Gazeta.uz included her in its illustrated feature of messages to 2022 university applicants, next to heads of state agencies, introducing her as an SAT mentor who had turned down US grants while waiting for MIT; a Russian edition followed on 17 Aug.
She published her first cohort result: 8 of her students sat the 27 Aug 2022 SAT and, by her account, gained 250+ points on average in two to three months.
She announced an SAT score of 1580 (780/800) from the 1 Oct 2022 paper sitting, her best single sitting.
She put out a call ('BE PART OF US!') for team members and volunteers to join 'big upcoming projects of Marifat Jamal', the first step towards a team.
She spoke at the IBRAT Master Class at the Youth Creativity Palace (Yoshlar ijod saroyi) in Tashkent, on how she reached 1580.
Ibrat Farzandlari released a long interview with her about how she learned the SAT, her programming work, mentoring and her future goals.
She reported her students' results from the 1 Oct 2022 SAT: a top score of 1490 and a lowest of 1030.
WE project listed her among '9 bloggers from Uzbekistan whose content will be interesting and useful to you'.
She ran Cambridge Learning Center's 'Academic Training' session 'SAT and college application' at its Novza branch.
She gave a guest lecture in English at PDP University, moved from its first date of 24 Nov; PDP later released it as 'Which skill can open every company's doors for you?'.
She launched her 'Digital SAT course', built on nine months of research, with the Foundation / Pre-SAT / Advanced levels the academy later kept; she taught the Advanced level herself.
She co-led a second IBRAT master class, 'Digital SAT and related tips', at the Youth Creativity Palace in Tashkent.
2023
In the March 2023 digital SAT she scored 790 in Reading and Writing; with her 800 Math from Oct 2022 this made her 1590 SAT superscore (her best single sitting stayed 1580). She first said so publicly on 16 Jun 2023.
The earliest public use of the name 'Marstiff' found is a teacher-hiring post for 'our team Marstiff'.
She was the guest on Pedagog Podcast episode 4, on the SAT and critical thinking, social media in a teacher's life and choosing a university.
The domain marstiff.uz was registered for the academy.
She announced that Marstiff was moving to a new, better facility so it could hold summer events open to everyone.
She reported that four of her students had scored 1510 on the latest SAT and that about a hundred had reached 1300+.
She ran a free three-day online SAT and college-application intensive ('Intensive by Marifat Jamal', 18-20 Jul 2023), which led into her paid three-month online 'Full Digital SAT' course starting 10 Aug.
Marstiff began working in a newly renovated building so it could take more offline students.
She was one of the invited speakers at Sodiq School's opening of the 2023-24 school year.
Tashkent studio RedFox Branding published the Marstiff identity, the wordmark 'marstiff® by Marifat Jamal' with the tagline 'Inspire your future!'.
The academy said its courses run on a curriculum she wrote personally: three levels (Foundation, Pre-SAT, SAT Advanced), six days a week, 110-minute lessons.
She published 'HAYOTIMNI O'ZGARTIRGAN 5 QOIDA' (5 rules that changed my life), her own account of how she got where she is.
The academy launched online SAT courses taught by her with support teachers.
She hosted a live Telegram voice chat on scoring high on the SAT on the Marstiff channel.
The academy announced her mentorship programme for SAT teachers (1.5 months, SAT 1350+ required), built on her three years of SAT teaching; graduates could be hired by Marstiff.
She gave the first of Marstiff's weekly events, a master class on what to look for when choosing a university; it became the first upload on the academy's YouTube channel.
She spoke at TEDxTMC Institute in Tashkent as a specially invited guest speaker, and opened the programme as its first speaker, sharing parts of her identity in public for the first time.
She gave a master class at Rahimov School for grades 9-11 on the role of the SAT in university admission.
She co-hosted IT Park's podcast at ICTWEEK Uzbekistan 2023 with blogger Teacher Azam, interviewing Coursera's Central Asia business-development director Eduard Kan on online education and careers.
At Marstiff's first Open Day she spoke on the SAT and the story of how Marstiff was founded, and gave SAT consultations; the academy says over 1,000 people registered.
Online KING released an interview with her on girls' education, demand for the SAT and English teaching in schools.
She published 'UYDA 0 DAN INGLIZ TILI O'RGANING!' (Learn English from zero at home), which became the most-viewed video on her channel at over 620,000 views.
She taught a free Zoom lesson on SAT English for students sitting the exam the next day.
Her Advanced SAT group held a graduation party at the academy, where certificates were handed out.
She hosted a live Telegram voice chat on setting goals for 2024 and the paths to them, on the Marstiff channel.
2024
She was shortlisted (six names out of 25 nominees) in 'Educational: Other' at the Influencer Awards 2023, held at the Tashkent Digital Marketing Forum 2024 at the Hyatt Regency Tashkent; she did not win.
Marstiff launched 'SAT choyxona' (SAT teahouse), an SAT question-and-answer podcast on YouTube, which she promoted on her channel.
She was a guest speaker for 'Speak Up With Us', a public-speaking training project run by IDARE and IBRAT Farzandlari.
She was a guest on episode 3 of the Sodiq School podcast, about studying abroad.
The domain jamals.uz was registered; it later became the home of the renamed academy.
Uzbekistan announced that students scoring above 75% on the SAT would receive grants at Uzbek universities; she shared the news on 8 Aug 2024 with her own commentary.
She launched 'Jamal's project' (t.me/jamals_uz), the earliest use found of the Jamal's name for her own programme, two years before the academy took the name.
Marstiff opened its second branch, in test mode, in Tashkent's Yunusobod district.
She taught a free online class of about 3.5 hours on studying abroad on a 100% grant, with three full-ride scholarship holders from Vassar, NYU and CMU-Qatar; she reports about 5,300 watched live and more than 22,000 in total.
Thompson Learning Center released its interview with her, 'Chet elda ta'lim va SAT!' (Study abroad and the SAT).
She and Marstiff launched an online SAT course aimed at taking students from zero to 1400.
Kun.uz English published 'From student to SAT mentor: Marifat Jamal's journey to SAT', based on a 41-minute English-language video interview released on 6 Nov; a reel followed on 13 Nov calling her one of the youngest SAT tutors in Uzbekistan.
2025
She hosted a free live session working through the verbal section of the real March 2025 SAT, as she had promised her students.
She opened a separate SAT-prep channel, t.me/SATwithMJ, run by her personally with daily lessons; it later became 'Marifat Jamal | College Prep' (t.me/MarifatJamalAtColumbia).
She turned t.me/marifatjamal into a personal blog, 'a diary of my thoughts', and moved SAT content to her new channel.
She released a free English-language guide to the SAT, from zero to 1400+, which she says took more than ten hours to write.
After a period of training teachers only, she opened one morning 'SAT booster' offline group, seven lessons a week, and taught every section herself.
She was the guest on Ad Astra Muse episode 56, 'The Devout', a two-hour English-language podcast covering her school years, Marstiff and women in entrepreneurship.
After the March 2025 SAT, where about 30% of Marstiff students could not sit because of a problem at the test, she reported that all who sat were first-time takers and that there were 1500+ and 1300+ scores among them.
The academy opened a new branch serving Chilonzor, Uchtepa and Sergeli, where she personally gave free consultations on 17-20 Apr 2025.
She reopened the academy's online classes for students outside Tashkent, announcing them in a live voice chat.
She ran a free two-day live SAT marathon (maths and Reading & Writing) with the academy's online mentors on 21-22 Jun 2025.
She started work in a research lab in Tashkent, one normally open only to the institute's own bachelor's and master's students.
She met students of iKnow School in an event organised with Abstract IT Group.
She said publicly that she was preparing her own university applications, and offered a free online lesson on applying (13 Jul 2025).
She co-launched MediaPlus, an Instagram social project on inclusion with the disability NGO Sharoit Plus ('Powered by @marifat_jamal and @sharoitplus'), which ran stories of people with disabilities finding work until Nov 2025.
She was the guest on the first episode of Uzwomen Podcast, on success, limits, happiness and inner strength.
Pivot.uz featured Avoza, her smart glasses that turn speech into real-time subtitles for deaf and hard-of-hearing people, with Uzbek-language support; it reported interviews and trials with 41 people with hearing impairments, 98% of whom wanted to use it regularly.
She spoke as the founder of Avoza at Girls&Talk, an offline master class for women founders run by Pivot.uz within the SG Women programme.
She played in UzChess's 'Media Liga', a media chess league run under the Youth Affairs Agency's UzChess project (games on 25 Jul and 30 Oct 2025).
Pivot.uz cited Avoza as an example of a minimum viable product: it began as simple AI-integrated subtitle glasses and, after user surveys, was moving to an AR-glasses form.
She ran a free two-day live webinar, '100% Grant yutish / SATdan 1400+ ball olish' (Winning a 100% grant / scoring 1400+ on the SAT), streamed on YouTube, Instagram and Telegram.
She taught a free online SAT English lesson before the December exam, the last sitting for many applicants.
She recruited student volunteers for a Marstiff Student Union media team and an 'Opportunity Hunting' scholarships channel.
She ran season 2 of the '5x5' project, a free learning contest with five teachers offering lessons, course grants and gifts to 120 participants.
She was the guest on Kitobxon Kundaligi #8, Ozodbek Botiraliyev's book podcast.
2026
At INTER NATION School in Andijan she judged a TEDx-format public-speaking event for its students and then gave a guest lecture in English.
She announced her admission to Columbia University, on her own channels and on the academy's at the same moment, after six years outside formal education.
HayoTalks featured her Columbia admission as an example for girls.
Days after her admission she gave a guest lecture at INTER NATION English School's Sunday Events (Xalqlar Do'stligi branch) on how she learned English and how to prepare for high results.
She posted her 'Admitted Student Appointment' with Columbia University.
She committed to writing her personal channel entirely in Uzbek, at least once a week, as 'a big new page', her university, was about to open.
She announced that she was co-writing her first scientific thesis with PhD-level and senior researchers in her lab.
She was the guest on the Talabachilik podcast, 'Qizlar uchun eng muhim prinsplar nima?' (What are the most important principles for girls?), which noted she had been admitted to two other top universities besides Columbia.
She returned to Instagram with a series of story reels about her path, saying that starting late is normal (the reel's early-years footage is AI-recreated, not archival).
She hosted a podcast meant to surface undiscovered science talent; its first guest was Jamshid Qayumov, the chemistry and biology tutor who taught her chemistry in English.
She wrote that she had spent almost four months designing an intensive General English programme for the academy (two months per level instead of three, six days a week), whose first group grew from 2 to 19 students.
She was the guest of UzCombinator's Andijan Founders Camp, introduced as founder of Marstiff SAT.
She set out her one firm decision: choose the most needed field, study at the best places, and return to Uzbekistan.
When followers said a former student of hers had overtaken her, she answered that if her students become stronger than her, that is exactly what she built; several former students have gone on to open their own SAT centres.
She was the guest on 'Qo'nish Vaqti Keldi!', talking about SAT leaks and fake scores.
She described Marstiff as 'our family business' and said she had not been much involved in its day-to-day management.
She presented a talk on carbon monoxide and reactive oxygen species in rat heart-muscle cells at the V International Scientific Conference run by the Natsrazvitie research institute, and received a participant certificate.
About a year into her lab work she wrote that she was co-author on nearly three theses and two articles, and showed a thesis certificate.
Her first indexed publication appeared: she is the second of four authors of a conference paper on the role of carbon monoxide in generating reactive oxygen species in primary rat cardiomyocytes (DOI 10.37539/260722.2026.55.64.004).
The academy published its origin story: one small room and three first students who all left within two months, then a restart with one student and walls painted by hand.
She announced the 'SAT + Admission Mentorship', a programme combining SAT, admissions and visa support that she teaches personally, with a launch webinar on 11-12 Aug 2026.
Marstiff SAT Academy was renamed Jamal's International Academy, after six years under the Marstiff name; she announced it in a reel, saying the new mission is to follow students all the way to their dream university and beyond.
She gave the Cambridge Learning Center master class 'Getting into the world's top universities' at its Tinchlik branch; the recording was published on 27 Aug as '6 yil o'tib Columbia universitetiga kirdim' (I got into Columbia after 6 years).
HAYOTALKS released 'Nega MIT emas, Columbia University?' (Why Columbia, not MIT?), a long interview on how she started, the SAT and why she chose Columbia.
She wrote that she had applied to 20 universities and been admitted to 3, a big achievement after a six-year break.
She taught a free two-day live webinar (11-12 Aug 2026) on getting into the world's top universities through the SAT, answering applicants' questions on air.
Online KING released a second, two-hour interview with her on her SAT lessons, Columbia and medical technology.
With her US visa in hand she left Tashkent for Columbia, travelling through Istanbul; the academy marked it with a farewell video ('Columbia, here she comes!').
She arrived in New York to start at Columbia.
She switched her college-prep channel fully to English to reach applicants anywhere, and reported a new branch, a growing team and new projects at the academy back home.
She published the vlog 'Kolumbiyagacha' (On the way to Columbia), from her departure to her Columbia ID card and first orientation day.
In a Q&A on her six gap years she wrote that most of them went into building the business, and that the lab work, the startup and the research paper all came in the last year.
She shared her written story of six gap years as a guide for applicants, advising against taking more than two.
Jamals Admissions (jamalsadmissions.com), the admissions arm of Jamal's International Academy, went live, listing her first on its team as Founder.
She wrote that she no longer teaches anyone individually or in groups, with her admissions course as the only exception.