Certified PCAT Reading Comprehension Tutor in Halifax
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...the 100th percentile on the SAT, the MCAT (old and new), and pretty much any exam you could think of. I was also a National AP Scholar. I majored in Physics and Biochemistry at NYU, and published several papers as well as patents through my research. I tutor well over 135 subjects, but my favorite subject to tutor is the MCAT and Physics. I've never taken a break from tutoring, which has honed my intuition...
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Certified PCAT Reading Comprehension Tutor in Halifax
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...ranges from 16 to 40 and they come from many different backgrounds. I remember when I was a college student, I went through the same things that they are going through which makes it easier for me to work with them. With my experience and knowledge, I can help them succeed in their classes. While I tutor a very broad range of subjects, I am most passionate about sciences such as chemistry, biology, microbiology, and...
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Certified PCAT Reading Comprehension Tutor in Halifax
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...University of Arizona. I received my B.S. degree in psychology with a minor in biology, with a focus on neuroscience and biomedical science from Northern Arizona University. As long as I can remember, I have had a love for teaching. In elementary school I would come home in the afternoon and 'play school' with my stuffed animals, creating and grading worksheets for them. Throughout school, I continued to take every opportunity to assist friends and...
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Certified PCAT Reading Comprehension Tutor in Halifax
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...remember. I started my career as an educator as a volunteer one-on-one reading tutor when I was still in high school and, ever since then, have gained a wealth of teaching experience with students of diverse backgrounds. I have worked with students as young as third grade up to learners that already have college degrees. My background as a 9th grade English teacher has given me the opportunity to work with students from low-income backgrounds,...
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Certified PCAT Reading Comprehension Tutor in Halifax
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...I received my Bachelors of Science in Biology with a concentration in Physiology/Pre-Health and a minor in Chemistry. Since high school I tutored many students ranging from primary to college level students on a variety of science and math related topics. While I tutor a broad range of science subjects, I am most passionate in Algebra, Geometry, Anatomy, Chemistry and General Biology. I am a firm proponent of education, I try my absolute best in...
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Certified PCAT Reading Comprehension Tutor in Halifax
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...K-12, English 6-12, ESOL K-12, and Elementary Education PreK-3. I tutor English, Literature, Grammar, Test Preparation, Music, Music Theory, and Microsoft Office (including Word, Teams, Excel, Outlook), among other subjects. I have five years of online tutoring experience, and in the 8,600 classes that I taught, the parents have described me as meticulous, encouraging, attentive, professional, engaging, and appropriately humorous. My teaching philosophy is to connect with the student as a person first and foremost,...
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Certified PCAT Reading Comprehension Tutor in Halifax
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...Florida. I possess a current professional teaching license from the Florida Department of Education in K-12 Reading, K-12 ESOL/ESL, and K-6 Elementary Education, and my teaching specialties are English, reading comprehension, and writing including SAT and ACT preparation. I taught grades 7-12 for 12 years in Florida using Achieve 3000 for the FCAT reading assessment and Read 180 for struggling readers. I use online fiction and nonfiction articles, SAT and TOEFL exam preparation booklets, and...
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Certified PCAT Reading Comprehension Tutor in Halifax
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...want to forget the thrill of helping students learn at every level! I am passionate about student's reaching their goals and dreams through increased knowledge, experience, and skills. I have worked for 10 years in the elementary classroom teaching grades 1, 4, 5, and 6. I also have over five years experience with online learning and helping my students feel the connection with the teacher and material that is important for strong and consistent improvement....
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Certified PCAT Reading Comprehension Tutor in Halifax
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...Florida and received my Bachelor of Arts in Psychology with a focus on learning and brain development. Since graduation, I have began working in a middle school, facilitating speech therapy sessions. I work with an SLP to assist students with their reading comprehension, articulation, and overall language skills. While I tutor a broad range of subjects, I am most passionate about Arts, Literature, and Science. I am a firm proponent of education, believing it to...
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Certified PCAT Reading Comprehension Tutor in Halifax
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D.O. student, Touro University Nevada Biochemistry and Molecular Biology B.S., University of Maryland, Baltimore County I emphasize foundational knowledge, high-yield study habits and test-taking strategies. Because I was a commuter with a part-time job during undergrad, I understand the pressures students face in meeting their obligations. I strive to produce results quickly by developing efficient, sustainable study strategies.
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Certified PCAT Reading Comprehension Tutor in Halifax
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...Biology from the University of Illinois @Urbana-Champaign. Since helping my peers in both high school and college I learned that I have both a passion and talent for imparting knowledge upon others. I am very excited for the opportunity in helping students achieve their potential. I have found that teaching is very rewarding for myself as well as my students. It helps cement my knowledge of the material and sometimes I can learn a little...
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Certified PCAT Reading Comprehension Tutor in Halifax
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I have been tutoring since 2004 and have also served as adjunct professor of English at Newbury College and Spanish at Fisher College, both in Boston. I have also published fiction and non-fiction. If you don't have test material for the PSAT/SAT, ACT, TOEFL, or SSAT/ISEE, no need to worry; I will provide you with material.
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Certified PCAT Reading Comprehension Tutor in Halifax
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...in Spanish, French, Canadian French, and English. Spanish being my mother tongue, I learned French in an immersion school named Lycee Francais Louis Pasteur in Bogota. I graduated in Computer Science while I was living in Toronto, Canada, where I also had the chance to improve my communication skills in English. I began teaching languages at the Alliance Franaise, in Colombia, for 3 years, and I also worked as an English, French, and Spanish teacher...
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Certified PCAT Reading Comprehension Tutor in Halifax
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...in addition to medicine, I love to teach and feel that this field will allow me to practice both. After graduating from UNLV with a Bachelor of Biology, I attended Touro University Nevada and earned a Master of Science in Medical Health Sciences. During the program, I took first year medical school courses including anatomy, biochemistry, physiology, immunology, histology and embryology. After completion of my degree, I continued to tutor master students in biochemistry and...
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Certified PCAT Reading Comprehension Tutor in Halifax
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...Danville, Indiana. I got my bachelor's degree in Biochemistry from Vassar College in Spring 2018. I'm currently in graduate school to become a pharmacist - I'm in my first year of the PharmD program at Northeastern University. As you can probably guess, my area of expertise is the sciences - specifically Biology and Chemistry. However, I am also able to teach other subjects such as math through high school levels, and standardized test prep (SAT, ACT,...
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Certified PCAT Reading Comprehension Tutor in Halifax
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...I taught PCAT review classes. My personal tutoring style involves pieces of the Socratic method; I use questions and the student's knowledge of the subject to walk through a subject piece by piece. I am patient and always willing to approach a problem from a new angle if the original approach isn't quite working. When I'm not in class, I spend a lot of time outdoors in this beautiful city I call home. I love...
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Certified PCAT Reading Comprehension Tutor in Halifax
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...Anatomy & Physiology, Pathology, Microbiology, Genetics, and Molecular Biology. I have an extensive background in K-12, Undergraduate and Graduate-level Sciences, Mathematics, and Spanish. My approach with each student is to identify their immediate needs and gaps in knowledge and assess how best to reach their goal and boost their grade. Through our sessions, we then work together to build personalized learning tools that they can utilize to become confident, independent learners. My Academic Experience: I...
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Certified PCAT Reading Comprehension Tutor in Halifax
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...& a program that provides education/career counseling to families who have survived domestic violence. As a child, I had multiple disabilities that could have derailed my life. Instead, they fortified my desire to learn as much as possible, spawning over 50 hobbies and a general desire to improve the world around me. I hope to bring joy to your child's learning process as well as the knowledge that one can achieve anything you set your...
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Certified PCAT Reading Comprehension Tutor in Halifax
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I became interested in tutoring during college. I started tutoring biology, chemistry and writing. By my senior year, I was running the tutoring center and writing lab. Following undergraduate, I became a teacher's aid and substitute teacher in the public school system. A year later I attended graduate school, where I received my PhD in neuroscience. I have over 10 years of experience tutoring math, science, SAT prep, and sciences (including biology and life sciences).
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Certified PCAT Reading Comprehension Tutor in Halifax
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...was also accepted to medical school after college. In addition, I worked as a Research Assistant at the Institute for International Economics in Washington DC for two years. Also, I volunteer with the Pima County Environmental Education Department. I assist with leading nature walks and presenting educational programs to school children. I seek to share my passion for learning. My joy is when the lightbulb goes off in the student and they "get it."
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Private PCAT Reading Comprehension Tutoring in Halifax
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Halifax PCAT Reading Comprehension Tutoring FAQ
Many students wishing to impress pharmacy schools with excellent PCAT scores may brush over the PCAT Reading Comprehension section during their review in order to focus the majority of their study time on the test's Chemistry, Biology, and Quantitative Ability sections. These students may imagine that since they have encountered reading comprehension sections on nearly every standardized test they have taken before, the PCAT will present them with no new challenges. This is a mistake. The Reading Comprehension section on the PCAT is an examination of reading skills that is far more rigorous than those commonly encountered on tests like the ACT and SAT.
While it includes standard questions concerning a passage's main idea and supporting details, the definition of words in context, and aspects of tone and purpose, the section also includes questions that move beyond the literal information presented in a passage and challenge test-takers to draw conclusions, make inferences, and analyze the strengths, rhetoric, and subtle biases of the argument at hand. Having perhaps prepared for pharmacy school by following a curriculum in which reading comprehension has played a relatively small part, you may find yourself feeling unprepared for the difficulty of this section as you begin to review for your exam.
Instead of wasting time and energy trying to self-diagnose your own weakest skills and figure out the best way to go about bolstering them, work with an experienced instructor who can help you do this in an efficient and effective manner. PCAT Reading Comprehension tutoring is available all across the country to provide aspiring pharmacy students with custom-tailored assistance in mastering the reading comprehension skills they most need to succeed on test day. Your tutor can objectively analyze your current reading abilities in the context of the skills required by the PCAT Reading Comprehension section. Your tutor can then develop a course of study that addresses the skills you most need to improve before test day.
Varsity Tutors can connect you to private instructors who are available to teach you via in-person and face-to-face online tutoring using our live learning platform. Varsity Tutors is committed to helping students find the best private tutors in their area. Our thorough screening and qualification process ensures that only an elite group of tutors makes it past the interview process.
Qualities Varsity Tutors looks for in candidates include exceptional teaching skills, prior teaching experience and mentoring skills and credentials, and a friendly and personable demeanor, among several other factors. Private instructors must possess the capacity to develop and teach individualized learning plans. Effective communication is simply a part of the trade. Varsity Tutors is dedicated to making the selection process of tutors as seamless as possible.
In each of your one-on-one tutoring sessions, you can work through targeted exercises and spend as much time on each concept as you need to in order to feel completely confident. Your learning plan will remain flexible to take into account your growing proficiency in reading comprehension, and your tutor will be able to adjust it on the fly. Your tutor can also teach you valuable test-taking strategies that can help you learn to manage your time wisely on test day. You may be surprised at how quickly you can bolster your reading comprehension abilities with the personal attention of a talented instructor. Don't let the PCAT Reading Comprehension section catch you off guard on test day when private PCAT tutoring can help you gain the knowledge and skills you need to excel on this section. To learn more about the tutors we can connect you with, contact Varsity Tutors' educational directors today!
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A good portion of the session was spent reviewing the work assigned to the student. We reviewed her verbal work of sentence equivalence problems as well as problems pertaining to rates and multiple-variable word problems. Following this, I reviewed with her new material pertaining to circles and 4+-sided polygons for which I assigned homework from the prep book. Also, I assigned 1-23 from the reading comprehension questions.
The student and I met for another session of GRE tutoring. In this session we first checked over a practice test she had taken for homework. She did very well, scoring in the low 160s on both math and reading. We then did work on coordinate geometry, data interpretation, and mixed geometry. With these lessons completed, I will begin to move on to more test prep as opposed to focusing on teaching specific subjects. Normally this a later portion of the tutoring, but she has moved through the subject material very quickly.
We began the session by reviewing some practice problems he completed. We then went through mini review lessons on exponent expressions, the distance formula, surface area, and volume. We then did mini lessons on how to approach factoring problems. Simply because we had yet to encounter a problem involving factoring a quadratic equation, I never realized the student did not know how to factor, but he can expand expressions. Thus, I showed him how to eliminate certain options based on the lowest and highest coefficient term and then expand the remaining options to get the answer. We also went through how to reason through probability problems. We ended the session with him completing independent practice and me chiming in as need be. Today was our last session, as he will be taking the GRE on Wednesday.
The student and I went over the essay section of the test. I had her complete a practice essay and then reviewed it with her. I also had her complete a verbal section of the test, which we then reviewed.
Today we took a practice half-examination. It was determined that her skills are currently at the eighty percent threshold and are almost at her target goal. Further practice will work to get her used to the word format of the GRE company.
Final review before the student takes the GRE on Saturday. Did a little bit of everything. Went over some old math problems she had trouble with the first time through. We talked about what to expect and a little bit of review she can do before her test.
