Award-Winning PSAT Tutors in Garland, TX

...graduated from Plano West Senior High School in May 2009 and received a B.A. (Spanish) and B.B.A. (Business Honors) from The University of Texas at Austin in May 2013. I am currently a first-year J.D. student at SMU Dedman School of Law. My greatest instructional strengths include SAT/ACT, critical reading, writing, essay editing, and Spanish language/literature. I look forward to developing a customized study plan with your student in order to achieve his/her educational goals.

...undergraduate research in developmental psychology during my time at UT Austin. Considering my background in teaching middle school mathematics, I am most comfortable with this subject area. However, I have also tutored and supported students with study skills, public speaking, writing, upper-level math (e.g., Algebra, Geometry, & Algebra II), lower-level math (e.g., basic arithmetic), and social science areas (e.g., psychology, history, government etc.); I also am well-equipped with a variety of teaching strategies and techniques...

...soccer and football. The skill definitely helped me as a goalkeeper for high school team. I like to enjoy the good-weather-days by swimming, playing football and futball, golfing and taking walks in the park. During down times I like to play darts, build things, do some microscopy or read books on neurology and evolution. I also am a big fan of video games and can entertain myself for weeks after getting a new game. I...

...2010, I have been working as a tutor for the Plano Independent School District. I received extensive training in tutoring both ACT and SAT test strategies. While I have been trained to tutor all core subjects, tutoring Mathematics has always brought me the greatest joy in life. Through my years working as a tutor, I have found that "all work and no play" makes students tired and yields to difficulty with focus. I overcome this...

...liberal arts honors programs offered at UT. Throughout college, I had internships and jobs both on and off-campus, and I was an undergraduate researcher in the department of neuroscience at my university. Among these experiences, working as a writing consultant at our undergraduate writing center was especially memorable for me. It was a joy to help students from various academic backgrounds cultivate the writing skills they needed in order to flourish in undergraduate courses and...

...purpose that comes with helping others do the same. I take great pride in developing individualized tutoring programs for my students based on their specific needs and goals. I have taught high school for several years and also have tutoring experience in a wide variety of subject areas. Some of my favorite subjects to tutor are Algebra, Geometry, Trigonometry, and test prep, including SAT, ACT, GRE, GMAT and LSAT. In my free time I enjoy...

...session in the South-of-France and a semester in Paris. In law school, I spent a summer studying International and Comparative Law at Trinity University in Dublin, Ireland. Perhaps the most rewarding experience of all was being able to spend my final semester of law school as an exchange student at the University of Hong Kong, China. The chance to learn and study with students and faculty of diverse nationalities and cultures has been both enlightening...

...also earned a Certificate in Latin American Studies and am a member of Pi Sigma Alpha, The National Political Science Honor Society. I have experience tutoring students in both the SAT and the SSAT. Additionally, my time as an 8th Grade Science teacher here in Dallas has prepared me for the curriculum and challenges facing students in the area. While I offer tutoring in a broad range of subjects from foreign languages to grammar and...

...to be an effective and knowledgable English teacher. I began teaching in 1996 while still working on my Masters Thesis. For the past nineteen years I have actively taught and tutored students from a variety of grade levels through a wide assortment of courses, preps, and materials. Throughout this time, the one thing that has become apparent to me is that every student is capable of learning and doing well, and that there is never...

...have a passion for learning and teaching languages. I am currently fluent in English and Spanish, conversational in Italian, and I'll be tackling Mandarin next. I received my Bachelor of Fine Arts in Drama from the University of Oklahoma with an emphasis in Acting. I was lucky enough to attend OU on a National Merit Scholarship that covered my expenses almost entirely, so the National Merit qualification process is one that I deeply believe in...