MCAT
TUTORING
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While instructors for standardized
prep companies tend to have extremely limited experience, I've
been helping students prepare for the the MCAT since 1987, and
have conducted MCAT classes (my own) for 20 years. Currently
I'm offering private tutoring only (or tutoring with a very small
number of students). The major advantages of private tutoring
is personalized attention, and flexibility. As a result I give
out assignments after each tutoring session, rather than have
a fixed, one size fits all, schedule.
Techniques which
I employ are:
- "Spiels",
reviewing chunks of material and often creating questions on
the fly.
- Answering your
specific questions and concerns.
- Working with
books, such as Gold Standard MCAT, Kaplan, or ExamKrackers.
- Analyzing AAMC
and Berkeley Review MCATs. You take the exam, then we review
your work.
- Employing out
of print, but still of high quality, AAMC verbal passages. (No
one has been able to come close to the AAMC's style for VR).
The goal is to fairly rapidly
get you to the point where you have about a 70% grasp of the
material as it relates to the MCAT, so that you can begin taking
timed MCAT exams to develop your test taking skills, while at
the same time pushing that 70% grasp up into the 90's. Generally
this phase begins slowly about 6 weeks before your exam and picks
up pace as your test date approaches.
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