Award-Winning Graduate Test Prep Tutors serving Philadelphia, PA

...Northern Virginia and graduated high school with an IB diploma. For college, I moved to Houston to attend Rice University, where I majored in Psychology. I then earned a masters degree in Religion at Yale and I am now working towards a degree in Bioethics at UPenn. I also completed the premedical requirements during this time. In Connecticut, I worked as a chaplain in a community hospital. Upon moving to Philadelphia, I found a position...

I'm an experienced tutor with 6+ years of experience and a strong foundation in multiple disciplines. I make customized plans tailored to student needs and guarantee results.

...affinity for tutoring Math and Science materials. These subjects require strong problem solving skills. In my experience working with students in Standardized test preparation, we find the time spent on the Math portions to be the most enriching with results. T.H White once claimed 'Education is experience, and the essence of experience is self-reliance.' I hold similar values to T.H White with respect to the learning process. There is always something to learn, and the...

I enjoy sharing my passion for math and helping people with their difficulties with it.

...a B.S. in biochemistry (ACS certified). This fall I will be starting a biochemistry Ph.D. at Cornell University. While a student at Messiah, I served as a supplemental instruction leader for general chemistry courses. This involved sitting in on the lectures and holding two 90 minute review sessions each week in which I would create worksheets and activities to help students to learn and retain the information from the course. I really enjoy working with...

Working in the medical field for over 20+ years I have a desire to help. Quite a few people helped me along the way. This I believe is my purpose.

...the motto of my alma mater, Illinois State University. I earned my Bachelor's in English and taught for a few years before returning for a Master's in Education. Although I taught students at the secondary level for a long time, I wasn't always a teacher. I was also a writer for newspapers and syndicated magazines. One of my treasured opportunities included collaborating with a mystery novelist to promote one of her books back in 2005.

...enjoy working one on one with students to improve their composition and grammar skills. There is nothing more professionally satisfying than watching students improve their skills over time. Moreover, regardless of an individual's present writing competencies, I am convinced that with effort any student can learn to write well. My years of instructional experience have convinced me of this time and again. Indeed, writing is not rocket science, but rather a skill developed through sustained...

...1 and high school and college level biology and anatomy and physiology. I also really enjoy undergrad immunology and microbiology. Instructionally, I have worked with learners from one, some, or all seven of the major learning styles. They have had a wide variety of capabilities, motivators, and challenges when learning. From that low, I have learned that all people can learn; I just need to find out how they learn. Professionally, I am a certified...

...in Civil Engineering with a focus on transportation and project management. Since graduating in 2011, I worked for three years as an engineering specialist for the City of Philadelphia Streets Department in the Traffic Engineering Division. In 2015 I made the decision to go back to school in order to pursue a career practicing medicine. I recently completed a Pre-Medicine Post Baccalaureate program at University of Pennsylvania, and was also recently accepted into medical school...

...in October 2017 after 44 years of professional engineering experience. Math has always been one of my favorite subjects. In the past I have had opportunities to teach others on an informal basis. I relish the opportunity to work with others who want to improve their skills. Anyone can do well in math once they develop some confidence in their ability. Being able to solve problems that may have seemed impossible can be an exhilarating...

...realized the value of having a good tutor when I was studying for my Dental Admission Test and scoring highly. The subjects I teach are Biology, Organic Chemistry, DAT prep as well as SAT prep. My teaching style varies depending on the subject I teach. I like employing methods like summarizing complex notes, using Youtube videos as reference, and going over practice problems in a step by step manner. I recently graduated from Temple University...

...Center. In this role, I held primary responsibility for observation of patients admitted to the epilepsy monitoring unit through continuous EEG recording and audio/video monitoring. Specifically, I preserved the integrity of both scalp and intracranial EEG electrodes by conducting bi-hourly impedance inspections and performing appropriate electrode fixing or disconnects. I am also an incoming osteopathic medical student and will be attending the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine beginning in the fall of 2020. Personally, I...

I love to teach and tutor Math! I have been tutoring since I was in high school and have made my career in academia, teaching first-year college students. My favorite thing about teaching and tutoring math is to help students gain confidence in their math abilities. If you put in the work, I believe you will be a success!

I love to teach. The feeling of pride in someone else's accomplishment, the intellectual challenge of explaining a concept to someone else, the joy of seeing when it clicks in the student's head...those are only a few of the benefits that I get from teaching. I work tirelessly to tailor my lessons to my students' personal learning style to ensure their success, and I'm grateful for every opportunity I have to help students through teaching...

...and I am currently applying for medical school and hoping to start in Fall, 2018. Prior to Peace Corps, I spent a year as an Out-of-School Time Data Coordinator with PhillyBOOST, an initiative to improve after school programs across Philadelphia. I received my BA at the University of Chicago as a Biology major, but I have taken a number of Spanish language, history and culture courses as well as micro/macroeconomics and other social sciences courses....

...is how to learn. No two people are the same. No two people learn the same way. My mission is to help my students discover how they learn best. Then, we can use that information to develop a strategy to conquer any material. Along the way, I reinforce my students' efforts with my own experience as a professional student and life-long learner. With a little help, there is no reason that a motivated student cannot...

Cameron holds a Masters of Fine Arts in creative writing, nonfiction from The New School in New York City. Her undergraduate degree was also in writing from Ithaca College. She has had experience as an instructor for adults and for children. She enjoys working one on one with students to solve problems and, even though writing can be a lot of work, still feels it is a rather entertaining art form.

Thom Murphy is an experienced educator, academic coach, tutor, and TEFL certification holder in the Delaware Valley. He specializes in literacy, literary analysis, composition, research strategies, language arts, and 18th, 19th, and 20th century Irish and British writers.

...While at Penn, I was a Teaching Assistant for several semesters in the Computer Science department. I particularly enjoyed working with undergraduate students through mathematical foundations of computer science. Meanwhile, I fell in love with English Literature and decided to write an honors thesis on the writer Virginia Woolf. Currently, I work with school-age students and provide homework help in all subjects. I am pursuing a graduate degree in Counseling, where I get to study...