661 Orange County Chemistry Tutors

I am a chemist by training and by trade. I use the fundamental concepts of chemistry every day. I also have three years of experience teaching undergraduate chemistry while I was a graduate student at UC Irvine. My style of teaching emphasizes concepts and reasoning. The sciences can be overwhelming if you dive in head first, especially if you intend... read more

...The second book is the only one you'll ever want to practice from, because no one knows how to make a practice test quite like the test-maker does. (Which, by the way, is The College Board.) This gigantic book contains 10 practice tests; I've taken all of them. To admit that I've taken some of them more than three times would just be embarrassing... read more

...Today, for obvious safety reasons, fewer chemical experiments involving reactions are taught in the lab class. Much more of the work is theoretical. I make a point of bringing chemistry alive by describing what the chemicals look like and how the reactions proceed. Wherever possible I use visuals from selected textbooks. This makes such a difference... read more

My previous tutoring experience is in organic chemistry; I was an organic chemistry tutor for the Department of chemistry at University of California, Irvine for a year and then became the coordinator for their organic chemistry tutoring program the following year, where I worked with about 15 tutors. Working as a tutor is my primary job. I’ve tutored... read more

I got my bachelors degree in chemistry at California State University of Long Beach. After that I transferred to California State University of Fullerton to take secondary education classes and get credentialed to teach high school chemistry. I did my student teaching at Cypress High School. After that I worked six years at Diamond Bar High School... read more