Award-Winning GRE Tutors in Chapel Hill, NC

...each student, I focus first on organization: what we need to cover and a timeline to get to their goal. I'm a physician assistant student at Duke and hope to become a clinic director some day. In spare time outside of school , I write, play music, and kick it with friends. Most recently, I spent about a year in Peru and Ecuador working at a nonprofit clinic and freelancing as a writer. The next...

...a MS in Technical Communication through North Carolina State University in Raleigh, NC. I have spent my career working with students of all levels, including EC, Honors, and AP. I have also spent much time tutoring students to be successful on the verbal portion of the SAT. In my free time, I of course enjoy reading, but a close second would be traveling. I love a good road trip, and I'm also trying to expand...

...provide to a student's learning experience. I aim to understand the student's learning style and altering my methods for each student's needs. I do my very best to not only help students reach the right answer but to make sure they completely understand the subject at hand. It is important to me that students enjoy the learning process, so I aim to make tutoring sessions both intriguing and challenging. If I am not tutoring or...

...down complex concepts in multiple ways until they truly click. Whether it's preparing for the SAT/ACT or tackling advanced university-level coursework, I aim to make the subject both understandable and enjoyable. Each student receives a customized lesson plan, which we update together based on progress and goals. I also provide extra materials and explanations to reinforce learning outside of sessions. I genuinely welcome questions, feedback, and collaboration from both students and parents because when we...

...enjoy the process as well as enjoy the results you will achieve. Whether you are working through upper-level science courses to complete a pre-med degree, taking the MCAT before applying to medical school, or studying for the USMLE Step 1 or 2 exams to get into the residency of your dreams, I can help you achieve your goal. With whatever content we are mastering together, we will work to be as organized and planned as...

Helping students grow is a passion of mine; it is, in fact, my life's work. Since I graduated from the University of North Carolina in 2001 and NC Central University in 2005, I have worked to help students develop their potential in my roles as as an Exceptional Children's Teacher, Middle School ELA teacher, High School English and Social Studies teacher, and College Developmental Reading/Writing and English/History/Humanities instructor.

...as a peer-tutor in college. Most recently, I taught Spanish to a toddler, expanding my teaching experience to students aged from 1 to 20 years old. My approach to tutoring is reframing concepts through analogies that are easier to understand based on a student's personal experience. I also rely on mixed media such as Khan Academy and online activities to supplement in-class lessons for students interested in take-home activities. Overall, my approach is conversational and...

...backgrounds, and ages in many different settings. I have taught undergraduate courses in Latin, Ancient Greek, and Classical literature. My introductory courses combined a traditional, formal approach with oral drills and English-to-Latin translation; by thus actively using the language, my students strengthened their memory and their ability to apply their knowledge to new texts. My advanced courses involved students in interpretive debates through class discussion, readings in scholarship, and papers. I have tutored privately at...

...deeply responsible for upholding a standard of rigor and basic knowledge in assisting my students in reaching a new baseline in their understanding of the course material. My chief goal, however, is to push students beyond that baseline by instilling them with a sense of ownership and command over their coursework. To that end, my basic objective with each student is to identify the areas of discomfort and to move toward them in a goal-directed...

...and graduate school admissions. Writing is another area of interest for me. I especially enjoy helping students develop their writing skills. I love learning and I want to help students learn to love it too. Learning is valuable for its own sake apart from any practical considerations. However, I do recognize that sometimes students need concrete, immediate, quantifiable results, and so I always keep a student's stated goal at the forefront. In my free time,...

...gender studies and in teaching from Duke University Divinity School. While completing my graduate programs, I gained seven years of experience teaching college and graduate students in philosophy, ethics, writing, and various subjects in Christian religious studies (including New Testament Greek). I also worked as an academic tutor to help children and adolescents build concentration and memory skills so that they could succeed across subjects in school. What I enjoy most about teaching and tutoring...

...of Public Administration in Nonprofit Organization Management in 2014 from Pennsylvania State University, where I worked extensively as a teaching assistant and tutor throughout my 2 years there. Before that, I obtained my Bachelor of Arts in History from Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, China. I moved to Research Triangle Park Area in 2014 and remained active in nonprofit filed, as Public Relations Specialist and Project Director. My main philosophy of teaching is to generate...

...3 parts psychologist, 1 part artist, 4 parts programmer, 5 parts educator, 7 parts researcher, 2 parts neuroscientist, and 10 parts gamer. During my sophomore year of college, I realized how games and game research could help people. My academic background in biology, psychology, biomedical engineering, and educational technology have been productive stepping stones towards that future. I work a lot. I play a lot. I read a lot. And I do a lot.

I have enjoyed teaching all my life. I have taught and coached swimming, Boy Scout skills, classes and small groups in church, college classes, and enrichment classes for home schoolers. I like tutoring one to one because of the flexibility it allows me to have in tailoring the tutoring to the individual needs of the student.

...in political science and history from the University of Florida. I tutor a wide array of subjects in the social sciences and humanities, with a particular focus on comparative politics, writing, and statistics. The study of politics has always been my passion for as long as I can remember. Statistics, on the other hand, was a bit of a struggle, but I persevered and am now an expert in the field. Given my own uphill...

...public charter settings. I followed my heart into the classroom and instruction after pursuing a Political Science degree from Tufts University and a Masters of Public Policy & Management at Carnegie Mellon University. Since my high school days, I have worked with students of all ages, tutoring in mostly elementary reading, writing and math, as well as test prep for SAT and GRE. My favorite subject to tutoring is reading, given you're learning so much...

Meredith College Alumnae and NCSU Masters in Science Education Student. Graduated with a double major in Biology and Psychology and a minor in Religion. A student-centered tutor who is here to help on homework, study skills, test prep, and organization.

Knowledge is accessible to all. One of the most common problems I see is students trying to learn or being taught in a way that doesn't access the way they learn best. I approach all learning from multiple directions to utilize the most efficient route to content mastery for all students.

...biology, ecology, environmental science, and conservation. While I feel most passionate about marine biology, I am also qualified to tutor a variety of different subjects. I have taken the SAT 11 different times, and feel very confident teaching standardized test subjects! For me, tutoring is about breaking down difficult subjects into bite-sized pieces for my students to understand. My motto is "baby steps," and I love finding new and personalized ways to make learning fun...

...have graded hundreds of student organic chemistry tests which have kept me updated on all my chemistry classes I have taken. I have begun academic research at NC State Chemistry Laboratories and further sparked my interest in the field of research. I have even became involved and appeared in the organic tutorial videos used by students. At the end of the third year in my undergraduate studies, I realized that I only needed 10 more...