🚀 Supercharge Your Progress
in Chem 1A
Go from feeling confused to feeling confident in 60 minutes with a Cal alum & Chem 1A expert who deliver results.
Does this sound familiar?
- You can’t understand your professor and are feeling frustrated
- You’re studying a lot but still getting less than ideal grades on midterms
- You feel like you understand the concept, but are having difficulty answering questions on the midterms
- You’re reading and re-reading the book, but still not understanding the concepts
- You’re so far behind that you don’t know where to start catching up
- You aced chemistry in high school and have no idea why you’re struggling so much in Chem 1A
- You’re spending so much time on this class and it consumes your life
- You’re losing confidence, but need to do well to get in this class so you can get into med, dental, PA, professional school
If you relate to any of those situations, then you’re in the right place.
Chem 1A Has Stopped Thousands of Students From Become Doctors / Health Professionals
Here’s something just in case you didn’t know. Chem 1A is a weeder class. What does that mean? Chem 1A is a challenging class that causes many students to switch majors / career paths. Of course, the professors don’t intend for the class to be this way. Professor Stacey even said she would gladly give everyone A’s if everyone did well. But in reality, chem 1A is a weeder class.
Each semester over 1,000 students take the class, but many do not continue to organic chemistry and switch majors. Hundreds, if not thousands of students, have given up their pre-med dreams because of how they did in chem 1A
Don’t let that happen to you!
Here’s how I can help you excel in Chem 1A.
🚀 Learn concepts 3x faster
I will teach you the concepts in simple straight-to-the-point language. There is no fluff. You’ll learn 3x faster compared to working with other tutors and you’ll be shocked at how much you’ll learn in just one session.
💬 Customized explanations to fit your learning style.
I will explain concepts in multiple ways to figure out your learning style, then I gear all my future explanations to fit your specific learning style. This is to ensure that you deeply understand the material and understand the “why” behind the concepts.
🧪 Access to High Yield Chemistry Resources
You’ll get access to the best chemistry resources with the highest yield. These are the resources that I’ve collected working with over one thousand chemistry students since 2011. Every time a student shares an excellent worksheet, study guide, or practice exam, I’ve saved them and added the files to a resource vault. *Student must meet 1x/week to access these resources*
❓Follow-up emails
This is extremely rare, but if there are any questions I can’t instantly answer during our tutoring session, I will send you a follow-up email with a detailed explanation of that question. This guarantees that you’ll get all your confusion clarified.
🧠 Learn how to study smart
I will teach you a study system that allows you to get better grades while studying less. I used the same system to get a 3.93 GPA at UC Berkeley while only studying for 2 hours a day
🎯 Personalized tutoring to attack your struggles
I pinpoint your area of struggle, whether that is comprehension, application, test anxiety, or seeing a problem and having no idea which concept to use. Then I work with you to fix your specific struggle areas, with ultimate goal of improving your grades.
💡Systematized problem solving mastery
Instead of just focusing on memorize procedures, I will teach you a systematic way to deconstruct chemistry problems so you have a process for figuring out how to solve any problems, even ones you’ve seen before.
✏️ Step-by-step assistance on homework
I will lay out all the steps in an easy-to-follow format so that you can breeze through the homework while understanding it so well that you can explain the material to a friend in need.
🔥 Engaging and dynamic tutoring sessions
My tutoring sessions are highly interactive, designed to fully engage you in the learning process. Students often find themselves deeply immersed, reaching a state of ‘flow’ where they are actively participating and absorbing information effortlessly.
There Are Other Tutors Out There. Why Should You Work with Me?
I personally struggled in Chem 1A and make changes to I way I approached this class. In fact bombing my first midterm and got a D+ on it (68% to be exact). Then, I scored a 87% on my 2nd midterm and above 90% on the remaining midterms and final. In the end, I got a solid A in Chem 1A.
What accounted for the improvement in my exam performance after scoring below average on the first one? What was different? It sure wasn’t my IQ increasing. What changed was the way I studied for the exams. Chem 1A exam grades does not reflect pure intelligence. Rather, chem 1A exam grades depend on how you study and prepare for the exams.
Specialized Chem 1A
Tutoring
Unlike other tutors who teach every subject imaginable, I ONLY tutor chemistry. What this means for you is that I can explain concepts in multiple ways until you “get it”. With over 4000 hours of chemistry tutoring under my belt, you can be confident that I will be able to answer any questions you ask. I have helped students with problems ranging from those who were so far behind they didn’t know where to start to those who just couldn’t make the jump for a B to an A. And I can help you reach your goal, whatever they may be.
Guidance Beyond
Tutoring
I don’t focus solely on comprehension of the class material. Acing the class involves more than just understanding the material. Sure comprehension is important, but if you can’t apply the material, then your grade will suffer. If you can’t deconstruct a problem, and figure out which concept to use, your grade will plummet. If you can’t select the right answer among answers that all sound somewhat correct, your grade will drop. Etc. I help you improve on all these areas so that when the exam comes around, you’ll be ready to rock it.
Learn How to Study
Smart
I won’t just teach you chemistry. I will also teach you a study system that maximizes your efficiency so you finish your homework faster. Using this system, you’ll be able study less while still get good grades. Personally I used this study system at UC Berkeley and it allowed me to get a 3.93 GPA while only studying for two hours a day. This system is extremely easy to implement and it will help you get higher grades in high school and in college. Most tutors don’t even teach you basic study skills.
What You Can Expect From Tutoring with Michael
These are the tangible benefits you will experience after each tutoring session
⚛️ Deep comprehension of the concepts
You will feel like you truly understand the material, and that you’re just not memorizing facts and equations. You will understand the “why” behind each concept and equation. In fact, you will understand the material so well that you will be able to explain the material to a friend. That is the ultimate measure of understanding.
🚀 Supercharged Progress
My tutoring sessions are extremely efficient. We will finish all the homework, labs, and assignments that you want to complete. In fact, my students finish all their work with time to spare and then we do extra practice problems afterwards. You will feel like you’ve done 3 hours worth of work in just one hour together.
📝 Beautiful Detailed Notes
Immediately after each tutoring session, you will receive the notes of everything we’ve covered during our session. All the notes will be saved in one central location so you can easily access them when you’re studying for exams. Many students have noted that the notes are organized and aesthetically pleasing.
💪 Rock solid confidence to do well in Chemistry
Because you grasp the material so well, you will a sense of confidence that you haven’t felt before in Chemistry. You will no longer doubt yourself. Instead, you trust that you know what you’re doing and you’ll walk into exams with complete confidence.
✨ Sense of Clarity and Calm
You will leave each session feeling that you have made significant progress, that you are on the right path, and that you know what’s next. I will recommend you specific steps to take after each session and give you a personalized study plan. Of course, all this is optional, but the students who follow through are often the ones who achieve exceptional results.
📔 Expert Test Preparation
As your exams roll around, we will shift our focus to properly preparing for the exams. This will involve reviewing the core concepts, practicing solving exam level questions with instant feedback, and creating a study plan. After the session, you will receive extra practice exams with step-by-step solutions.
Testimonials
What past students say about tutoring with Michael
★★★★★
What if You Go With a Less Skilled Tutor?
Instead of the benefits and results you see above, you might experience
❌ Slow Progress – You will probably only complete a portion of your homework and assignments. If you’re assigned more challenging problems, you may only complete 3 or 4 of these questions in an hour. You will feel like you’re barely making any progress and that you’re wasting your time.
❌ Frustration – The tutor may have difficulty answering your questions clearly. They may have trouble explaining their reasoning and you won’t understand the material enough to be able to solve the problem on your own, let alone explain it to a friend. The tutor may not even know the answer to that question and give you an incorrect answer that will lower your grade. You become more and more frustrated with the class and you leave the session feeling worse about chemistry.
❌ Doubt – You may hear conflicting answers from your tutor. You may ask “Wait… you said I should do this with a previous similar problem. Now we’re doing this problem entirely differently.” Even worse, the tutor may give you a completely incorrect answer. Then when you see you got it incorrect, you start to doubt everything that you’ve learned from the tutor.
❌ More Confusion – Because the tutor is not skilled at giving crystal clear explanation while explaining the reasoning behind the problems, you’re left feeling even more confused after the session. You wasted an hour. You didn’t finish your homework. Or maybe you did finish your homework but you have no idea what the tutor was talking about.
❌ False Sense of Confidence – Maybe you are lucky enough to find a tutor who understands chemistry well enough to help your with your homework. But they don’t really know chemistry. They may teach you material you don’t need to know. Most likely, they will just help you with your assignments but won’t help you adequately prepare for your exams. You’ll feel confident with your homework problems and then be completely surprised by your exam questions. These are questions you’ve never seen before and you have no idea how to approach them. Or perhaps, your tutor didn’t properly assess your understand and ensure that you’ve grasped all the core skills. The less skilled tutor gave you a false sense of confidence and your grade plummets.
❌ Disappointment – You’re meeting with your tutor at least once per week, maybe even multiple times a week, and you’re studying hard, but you don’t get the results you want. Your grade does not reflect the effort you’re putting in.
Avoid the negative emotions, stress, and headaches. Get it right from the start and meet with Michael.
Pricing for Tutoring
You’re not just getting any tutor. You’re getting expert-level academic guidance from the top 1% of chemistry tutors that will help you get results like the ones you saw above. You’ll be shocked at how much you’ll learn and how much more confident you’ll feel after just one session. It’ll take less skilled tutors 2-3 sessions to cover what we’ll learn in one session.
$195/hr
Weekdays before 12 PM PST
$235/hr
Weekdays 12-8 PM PST and weekends