Certified SAT Subject Test in United States History Tutor
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I am a graduate of the University of Cambridge (UK) and King's College London (UK). I received my Bachelor of Arts in History and my Master of Arts in Medieval History. Prior to enrolling as an undergraduate, I took college-level coursework and exams in Chemistry, English Literature, History, and Archaeology. As an undergraduate, I tutored middle-school aged children of immigrants in English as a Second Language. I moved to the US in 2011 and...
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Certified SAT Subject Test in United States History Tutor
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...in Biochemistry and I will be joining the Chemistry and Chemical Biology PhD program at the University of California, San Francisco this Fall. I am very interested in tutoring standardized tests such as the SAT, ACT, and GRE, both the general and subject exams, as well as other specific subjects such as Chemistry, Biology, and Physics. I'm very passionate about teaching and helping others through the same process of standardized tests I went through when...
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Certified SAT Subject Test in United States History Tutor
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...been ignored and replaced by standardized testing, worksheets, and "covering" as much material as possible. That method was story. I have made that method my primary focus throughout my educational career. In college, I double majored in History and Religion, adding my secondary Social Studies teacher's license as well. I was not drawn into those subjects by facts, dates, or feelings, but by the stories contained within. Those stories provided the backdrop to all of...
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Certified SAT Subject Test in United States History Tutor
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I'm currently a senior at Vanderbilt double majoring in history and business, while also preparing for the LSAT exam. I've tutored several different subject areas, but I can make the most impact assisting students with history, reading, and writing. I believe that every student has the potential to achieve their goals, and that by helping others I can enhance my own education as well.
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Certified SAT Subject Test in United States History Tutor
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I recently finished graduate school in Classics, which is the study of Latin and ancient Greek. Prior to that point, I taught high school Latin for two years. I have also tutored college students in writing. I am available to tutor most subjects, though my specialties are foreign language (German, Spanish, and Latin) and test prep. I teach by asking students the right questions so that they learn the method of finding the right answers.
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Certified SAT Subject Test in United States History Tutor
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Recent Amherst College grad, double major in Math and Theater. I believe in meeting students where they are. I hope to make difficult subjects accessible, even exciting, through new ways of thinking about (apparently) mundane problems.
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Certified SAT Subject Test in United States History Tutor
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...in Spring 2018 with a dual degree from the University of Pennsylvania, completing both a BS in Business Management from Wharton, and a BA in Urban Studies, with Honors, from the College of Arts and Sciences. My academic background is diverse in interest and expertise; as a recent graduate, you can be assured the content, even from high school standardized tests, remains fresh. I am extraverted, gregarious and energizing. Many of my hobbies revolve around...
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Certified SAT Subject Test in United States History Tutor
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I am a recent cum laude graduate of the University of Amsterdam's Masters in Economics Program where I specialized in Monetary Policy and Banking. While there, I worked as a teaching assistant and tutored in economics and mathematics. Prior to that, I worked as an ESL teacher for two years in Russia and China. I enjoy helping students achieve their goals, and seek to foster a love of learning in every student I teach.
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Certified SAT Subject Test in United States History Tutor
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...Washington, DC, and currently working in international development. I have substitute taught STEM and English to all levels of college-preparatory high schoolers. I also established a peer-to-peer tutoring and mentoring program at my former high school and developed curricula centered around standardized test preparation and college admissions. In college, I coordinated outreach to promising underrepresented minority students, developing and implementing seminars designed to guide them through the admissions process for top universities, bolster their chances...
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Certified SAT Subject Test in United States History Tutor
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...in creative writing. In addition to tutoring, I am currently working as a journalist. I tutor high school history, chemistry, physics, geometry, algebra, calculus, English, and Latin. I prepare students to score well on the AP and SAT subject tests, as well as on the standard SAT. Additionally, as a professional writer, I am well-equipped to teach students how to improve their essays, for college or otherwise. I have also worked with gifted students as...
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Certified SAT Subject Test in United States History Tutor
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...success. I was valedictorian in high school and a dean's list student in college. I was a history major and psychology minor, but my passion has always been writing in one capacity or another. Professionally, I've worked at various ad agencies. Personally, I've had articles published in athletics magazines, wrote for a dorky hip hop blog for five years, dabbled in short fiction, and have been focusing most of my recent efforts on stand-up comedy...
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Certified SAT Subject Test in United States History Tutor
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...educator to be a sacred trust between my students and me. That means that my mission is not simply to help my students get good grades (although we do that, too); I work to strengthen my students' ambition to know more and to use academic success as a measure for how much they are learning. Most teachers don't like to be asked why students have to know math or grammar or history and so on;...
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Certified SAT Subject Test in United States History Tutor
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Hi, my name is Sarah, and I'd love to work with you! I have a great deal of experience working as a volunteer tutor at my schools, and I love to help people learn. Hopefully we can work together to make test taking and study as painless and successful as they can be!
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Certified SAT Subject Test in United States History Tutor
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I have worked for many years as a teacher and tutor in the US and Latin America. In addition to working with students of many ages and learning levels, I also develop test materials for standardized test prep. I enjoy working with students to help them set specific goals and succeed in their educational and career goals.
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Certified SAT Subject Test in United States History Tutor
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...variety of subjects. I graduated in 2016 with a degree in Classical Studies from Bowdoin College, but would probably be most helpful in English, biology, and American history. I received a "5" on all AP tests for Literature, Biology and US History in high school, and love those subjects dearly. I've also worked with a lot of elementary school students on their reading and math skills. Email me if you have further questions, I'd love...
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Certified SAT Subject Test in United States History Tutor
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...Georgetown University, where I studied Anthropology and Portuguese. I tutor world history and Spanish, both of which I enjoy doing. For me, history is like a story; and so, doing well on a history test means being able to remember every part of a story, and being able to elaborate on that story. Of course, the tricky part is being able to memorize all of the parts of several concurrent stories. When it comes to...
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Certified SAT Subject Test in United States History Tutor
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...with a finance concentration, as well as a minor in History. Over the years, I've acquired extensive experience tutoring high school students, going back to my own high school days when I tutored fellow classmates in a variety of courses, as well as tutoring local Durham high schoolers during my college years. Nevertheless, I look forward to instructing middle school and college students as well. While I tutor a broad range of subjects, I am...
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Certified SAT Subject Test in United States History Tutor
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...in the education field for a few years now and it is my passion to not only teach but to learn from teaching. In order to teach students, I believe patience, understanding, and resolve are all important in assisting students. Through tutoring, it is my hope to help coach students to feel more comfortable with their academia. My area of strength is communication and adaptability; the best way to help a student in understanding is...
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The SAT Subject Test in U.S. History is a one-hour, 90-question, multiple-choice exam that allows you to demonstrate your mastery of United States History to colleges. While some colleges do not require SAT Subject Tests in their application criteria, many colleges require applicants to present scores from two or more of these tests as further evidence by which they can evaluate your academic abilities. If you are a history buff or have recently taken and performed well in a U.S. History course, this SAT Subject Test may be a good option for you.
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Recent SAT Subject Test in United States History Tutoring Session Notes
For the reading section, we talked about how to manage time, skim, and mark the passages. The student tends to like the science articles most, so she should start with those. As soon as one of the articles is especially hard to read, she should abandon it and come back to it as the last passage.
In my last session with the student we focused solely on the math and science section of the exam. I reminded her once again to look for shortcuts on the math section (like magic triangles) in order to save time. On the science section she is doing a better job of determining which graphs/charts to use with each question. Overall she seems confident and I believe that she will do very well on the exam.
The student and I spent all the time on the math section. Its her weakest but she is starting to see the trends in how the exam is asking questions. Her goal is to accurately answer the first forty questions or so. If she gets to the last 20 that will be great. She needs help with the critical thinking aspects of applying math. Reading and understanding the questions are getting easier as she is working with each question type.
The student and I began our session today with examining the scoring rubric and reader expectations for the exam essay. I reviewed these guidelines with her and then had her read various essays and give them scores. We talked about what each essay did well, but also where they could improve. She scored all of the essays very closely to what the readers did, so she seems to have a good grasp of the essay expectations. We then focused in on writing and reading. She is doing much better in the writing section, probably largely due to her extensive work on grammar with her previous tutor. She is also improving in the reading section now that we are perfecting her strategy of reading less of the actual passage and focusing on the content of the questions. She continues to feel confident in math, so we do some practice with this section but mostly focus on reading and writing.
The student had gotten his PSAT results from October, so we spent the session analyzing the questions he had gotten wrong. He was able to answer nearly all the questions right this time around, and he was able to explain the reasons for the answers.
The student has chosen to take history as his second subject test so we started working on that today. Lots to review here, but he likes history. Also did some math 2 subject test review.