Award-Winning Graduate Test Prep Tutors in Austin, TX

...recently, I spent many months tutoring groups of highschoolers in Geometry to prepare them for their TAKS exams. I have also given one-on-one Calculus tutoring to several college students, as Calculus is my favorite subject. Since I love math in general, I tutor many subjects from Algebra II to SAT/GRE Test Prep. I like to be very patient and encouraging with my students, because I believe all students can excel if they are taught how...

...I spent the next 15 years in the Engineering industry, working as a Heat Transfer Design Engineer, Manufacturing Engineer, and Project Manager. Throughout my college years, and shortly afterwards, I tutored several students in subject areas of math and physics. For me, there is nothing more personally rewarding that seeing the mental "light bulb" turn on in a students eyes when they grasp a difficult concept for the first time. My tutoring philosophy is to...

...in both math and English, and my love for these subjects make them my emphasis in tutoring jobs. I am also a member of the Honors College here at Texas State, as well as a member of the National Society of Collegiate Scholars. As a tutor, my goals are to improve the student's confidence in the course work and help them find the techniques and pacing that work best for their individual studying needs. I...

...started tutoring Math, French, and Arabic at our university tutoring center. I fell in love with teaching others and decided to spend a year teaching English in China after graduation. It was the best decision I've ever made and I learned so much, about myself and about teaching. It was also exciting to travel and see the world. Since I've returned, I have been teaching and tutoring in the Austin area. While I have tutored...

...in English and my Master of Science degree in Kinesiology. I am currently a certified English Language Arts and Reading teacher. I enjoy tutoring in English, reading, writing, composition, literature, or speech. I specialize in editing, revision, grammar, mechanics, and essays. Good study habits and organizational skills are also important, and I am more than willing to provide those in my tutoring sessions. For STAAR related help I can tutor English I, English II written...

...Architecture from the University of Texas at Austin, and a Bachelor of Science in Interior Design from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. While both of these degrees are design-oriented, each placed heavy emphasis on research and writing, public speaking, art and general history, logical reasoning, and a clear synthesis and presentation of ideas. I specialize in grammar and writing technique; study skills and organization; public speaking; reading comprehension; world, US, medieval, and art histories; ACT Reading,...

...understand themselves and the way their brain gathers information can help them love to learn! I am a psychotherapist with a Master's degree in Counseling from Texas State University. In my work with teen and adult counseling clients, I teach them that knowing yourself is the best way to get your needs and wants met. This is very similar to how I approach teaching in that knowing yourself is paramount. A student does not "need...

...a true interest in education. I love working with students and helping them to realize their full potential. Prior to returning to graduate school, I had the pleasure of teaching SAT, MCAT, GRE, and DAT test preparation for Kaplan. I have had students go on to attend and finish medical and graduate school all over the country! This experience afforded me the opportunity to teach Cellular and Molecular Biology to students in an undergraduate medical...

...of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, earning a Ph.D in Genes and Development. My studies there were focused on Immunology, Cancer and Genetics. Since graduation, I have worked in the biotech industry, lectured in Microbiology and am currently doing research on vaccine development. I enjoy one on one teaching, and just discussing science in general. It's always a thrill when the light goes on for someone. I am a follower of all fields of science and...

...thing I enjoy more than that is helping other people learn. When tutoring, I like to take the approach of cutting through the details to hit the big concepts, to make the topic more personal and come alive. In my experience, Professors will always prefer a student understand concepts and have an interesting thesis than be able to regurgitate details they can look up. And if it's necessary to learn those details, they can be...