I am studying Nutrition at Virginia Tech. I have tutored all the introductory science classes and some upper level courses as well. I enjoy helping students succeed in these courses because I know these classes can be difficult. Aside from tutoring, I play the piano and love working out.
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...cared to learn came to seek help. I quickly went from large study groups to one on one tutoring during my junior and senior years. But I wasn't always someone who like to study notes and read books. It wasn't until my junior year when I met a mentor who changed how I would look at the rest of my career. He was an organic chemistry professor who began the class explaining how he got...
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...a recent graduate from Trinity University with a BS in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, I have an in-depth knowledge and love for sciences. I also recently took the DAT, the dental admissions test, which focuses on math, reading, biology, and chemistry, which continued to keep my brain focused in the sciences after graduation. Although my love for learning and sciences is strong does not mean these subjects come easily to me. I work and study...
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...sciences). As a tutor, I want to teach others how to excel academically as well. Also, I hope to emulate my teaching heroes who not only taught me, but encouraged me to do my very best. Over the course of my tutoring career, I have had the honor of instructing Air Force candidates, preparing them for the ASVAB, or military entrance exam. As a volunteer, I carefully strengthened each candidates abilities, providing reference materials...... As a...
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...a Research Assistant at Harvard Medical School in the Department of Neurobiology. I've been tutoring since high school and currently has nearly five years of direct tutoring experience. I am happy to support students with existing classroom assignments, or by introducing new materials to reinforce previous work. I believes that any subject can become easy by structured practice. I've taken coursework in biochemistry, biology, chemistry, microbiology, organic chemistry, and many other science fields. He has...
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...graduate with my DDS degree in May of 2019. I first started tutoring in my sophomore year of college for the Biology Department at my university. I ran weekly tutorial sessions for students taking Genetics. Then, after my junior year of college, I also began working for the Physics Department as an exam proctor and weekly quiz grader for the General Physics I & II courses. I was also available for tutoring for students taking...
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I graduated from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the Fall of 2017. I studied the health sciences and have a strong background in biology, neuroscience, organic chemistry, general chemistry, and psychology. I am in the process of applying to dental school and scored 99th percentile on the Dental Admission Test.
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...School of Dental Medicine. I have tutored students from all backgrounds and ages, more specifically with a focus on elementary to high school education. My experiences range from instructing low-income and minority fifth grade students to that of high level 12th grade private school institutions. My favorite subjects to tutor are that of biology, including the topics of anatomy, microbiology, and physiology. I truly enjoy teaching biology because I believe that the human body is...
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...in the 91st percentile on the American Chemical Society Organic Chemistry examination. Also recently I have taken the Dental Admission Test and scored a 25 out of 30 on the organic chemistry section which places me above the 98th percentile for that section of the exam according to http://www.dat-prep.com/dat-scores-for-dental-schools. When it comes to the sciences organic chemistry is definitely my strength and I will be able to work with you to so you understand the...
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...am an environmental law attorney who loves to work with people. I was also accepted to medical school after college. In addition, I worked as a Research Assistant at the Institute for International Economics in Washington DC for two years. Also, I volunteer with the Pima County Environmental Education Department. I assist with leading nature walks and presenting educational programs to school children. I seek to share my passion for learning. My joy is when...
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...New Jersery Institute of Technology. I graduated with a degree in Biology and perfect 4.0 GPA. I am also a Honors College graduate. I have had a lot of experience tutoring SAT as I started tutoring SAT when I was in high school, and I have tutored various college courses as well as DAT. I scored a 23 AA on the DAT (99%tile), and would be honored to share what I know with you.
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...because of the tangible progress which I am able to help students achieve, and I enjoy working with students of all ages and abilities. I have been a mathematics and physics tutor for the last eight years and have worked with students enrolled in middle school, high school, and university courses. As a tutor I work to build my students confidence and independence. In my spare time, I enjoy drawing and playing volleyball and tennis.
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...University of Central Florida. I have a strong interest in the sciences and math because they explain how things work! While at UCF, I was employed by the universitys Student Academic Resource Center for two years as a Supplemental Instructor for Biology. My duty as a SI Leader consisted of tutoring students in both large and small group settings on course content and study techniques. During each session, I would review the current material with...
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...the complex subject material found in biology courses and presenting it to my students in a clear and understandable manner. Biology is more a story than memorizing a long list of facts, and as a Biology "story teller", my students retain more information than they ever did before. While at Stony Brook University, I worked as an assistant teaching new high school AP Biology teachers from the Tri-State area. Here I re-visited the high school...
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...this summer. Throughout my undergraduate studies, I tutored students in my various courses and found I was good at doing so. Upon realizing this, I looked for further opportunities to tutor other students, at which point I came across Varsity Tutors. My strongest subjects include English, ACT, DAT, Algebra,and Biology. I enjoy tutoring these subjects because a lot of progress can be made in them by simply looking at different strategies to approaching the subject...
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...Chemistry with a minor in Biological Sciences. I mainly tutor for the DAT, which I scored in the 98th percentile when I took it myself! I also provide application advice for applying to Dental school. After taking my DAT, I applied to 8 dental schools and was accepted to 7 of them! In my undergraduate semesters, I often took up multiple positions to be a resource for tutoring and mentoring to underclassman students. This included...
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As someone who has endured multiple standardized tests and successfully completed high school and college, I understand the importance of tutors.
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...leader at UTSA and have continued tutoring privately after graduation. Since graduation, I have also gained experience in healthcare settings and am pursuing a pathway to pharmacy school. I tutor chemistry at both the high school level (regular and AP) and the college level (general inorganic chemistry, organic chemistry, & biochemistry). I used to be a struggling high school chemistry student until I got to college and changed my mindset on what chemistry is at...
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Recent DAT Perceptual Ability Tutoring Session Notes
The student and I did a basic overview of the Math topics that will be covered on the ISEE examination she will be taking in October. We also reviewed and mastered how to solve perimeter and area algebraic word problems, isolated algebraic word problems, and percent problems.
Today we spent most of the session working on the passive periphrastic construction. This past week, the student's class covered the future passive participle, which is used to form the passive periphrastic. After verifying that he understood the formation of the construction, we moved on to some workbook exercises, which had the student translating sentences from English to Latin, with each sentence containing at least one example of the passive periphrastic. We spent part of the session going over the new vocab from the past two lessons, and I suggested some mnemonic aids. We spent the end of the session working on jussive noun clauses, which the student is learning this coming week in class. After getting the formation and meaning down, we again went to the workbook, where the student did well translating from Latin to English.
We focused solely on volume calculations. We talked about the different methods - cylindrical disks, washers, and shells, and when to use which method. It was a lot of material to cover and, although the student did well with setting up the integrals and, doing the calculations, I don't think he absorbed all of the material. Volumes would normally be covered over 2 or 3 lectures.
We reviewed and worked through more triangle problems. After this, we reviewed the types of questions that would include standard quadrilaterals. Following this, we worked through the general format of problems for circles. I assigned the remainder of 27 (triangles) as well as 25 (rectangles) and 26 (circles). Also, I assigned at least 1 practice section of math.
The student and I had our first session of exam tutoring. She told me that she wanted to focus on mathematics. For our first session we went over a wide variety of topics so I could gauge her current abilities. While she has forgotten a lot, she was quick to pick up on what I was teaching. I think with enough work she can do reasonably well on the test.
The student's final is coming up! We worked through his outline--he had several questions that I was able to explain to him. We did some of the examples in the text as well, to ensure he was thinking about things correctly. He's going to meet with the professor tomorrow to follow up with some spots he had trouble with.
