Award-Winning MCAT Tutors in Vacaville, CA

...my presentation skills as a student leader and campus tour guide. I now tutor students in Math, Biology, Spanish, and MCAT prep. My method as a tutor is informed by my experience in public speaking as well as peer-to-peer counseling. Through a student-centered approach to learning, I encourage my students to take charge of their learning as we work through examples together in one-on-one problem sets. My experience at the number one biology school in...

...a volunteer tutor. Specifically, while I was in Ohio, I had the honor of volunteering with a youth organization that focused on helping lower income children, acting as both a tutor and a mentor to them. Additionally, having taken the MCAT exam twice and scoring dramatically better the second time, I feel that I have compiled a set of study skills and techniques that could also help other pre-med students who, like me, had struggled...

...by habit. I have over three years of teaching experience at private tutoring companies, UC Berkeley, UC Berkeley's Summer Bridge Program, and as a freelance political science/calculus tutor (there's more overlap than you think). In 2014, my paper "Set Theory and Fuzzy Sets: Their Relationship to Natural Language" was published in the Newsletter of the American Political Science Association Organized Section for Qualitative and Multi-Method Research. I'm fond of good food and bad puns. In...

...from San Diego State University with a Bachelors of Science degree in Biology. In the Navy, I was in charge of teaching and training personnel in scholastic topics in math and science. Since being in college, I have tutored for the last three years at San Diego State University and San Diego Mesa Community College in math and science. I enjoy teaching and tutoring in Math, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, and Organic Chemistry. My greatest strength...

...and tutoring experiences that prepare me for personalized tutoring. As an organic chemistry teaching assistant in college, I facilitated understanding of difficult scientific concepts. In co-coaching sports, I discovered the value of enabling motivation in learners. From participating in student-led seminars and giving public presentations, I understand how to relay scientific concepts and explanations so that information is accessible to a variety of audiences. Active in study groups in college, I gained skills in peer...

...received. Therefore, I channeled the role as a leader and teacher through academic settings in the laboratory and classroom. I peer-tutored in the classroom and taught undergraduate students how to comprehend scientific literature and various experimental designs. I was thrilled that I was able to guide, motivate, and impact my peers and students achieve a certain goal. Furthermore, I firsthand experienced the difficulty of the MCAT exam and struggled through preparation. But I was able...

...to teach students who are struggling on standardized tests such as the MCAT and SAT. It is a fulfilling experience to watch my students cross that hurdle and move on to the next academic stage of their lives. In a world where schools do not have enough teachers to meet the number of students, I would love to help any student that needs the help he/she deserves. In my spare time I enjoy reading, playing...

Over the course of many years, my teacher identity has changed and grown through a plethora of environments. Most significantly, I have had the privilege to engage in educational research in conjunction with onsite student teaching. Both experiences have significantly shaped my personal views on education, and have instilled within me a passion to design and teach a rigorous and culturally relevant curriculum that can push a diversity of students to invest in their education.

...enjoy about tutoring is coming up with different ways to explain difficult concepts and helping students to become more active learners. This past year I decided to get my single subject credential, and I plan on teaching high school biology. Along with biology, I am also passionate about football and have been coaching at the high school level for the past two years. When I am not teaching or coaching, I enjoy hiking, working out,...

...peers in speech writing and public speaking as Co-President of my high school’s Speech & Debate team; and helped middle school students to refine their writing through the service organization WriterCoach Connection. In addition, I was one of only five students in the world to earn a perfect score on the 2012 AP Biology Exam, out of over 200,000 test-takers! At the most fundamental level, my draw to tutoring stems from a deep-rooted desire to...