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Tom M.

Expert Exam Prep

Portland, OR (97230)

Travel Radius 15 miles
Hourly Fee $65.00
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I've been tutoring for over ten years now, and I tutor simply because I enjoy helping others succeed. I specialize in preparing students for exams like the SAT, ACT, GRE and GMAT.

I provide study material and practice exams. I can usually help a student fully prepare in 4 to 8 weeks.

When it comes to standardized tests, I believe in teaching to the test because the research shows that is the best way to improve your score. In other words, I focus on the essential principles of math, logic, science and English that you need to score high on the specific test, no more, no less.

While you need to know essential math for the SAT, GRE, or GMAT, these tests are not math tests - they are problem solving tests, which means that I focus on the strategy and techniques to exploit those essential principles!

Tom's Subjects

Math:
Science:
English:
  • ACT English,
  • ACT Reading,
  • SAT reading,
  • SAT writing
Test Preparation:
  • ACT English,
  • ACT Math,
  • ACT Reading,
  • ACT Science,
  • ASVAB,
  • CBEST,
  • GMAT,
  • GRE,
  • MCAT,
  • SAT math,
  • SAT reading,
  • SAT writing
Business:
  • GMAT,
  • GRE
Sports/Recreation:
  • poker
Corporate Training:
  • GMAT
Homeschool:

Algebra 1

Algebra is a language for writing recipes that do calculations.

It's also the wacky rules for turning one recipe into another, which are called arithmetic when you apply them to numbers.

Once you get familiar with translating between them, you'll sail.

Algebra 2

One of the best parts about Algebra II is that you finish numbers!

The geometry and algebra keep going on into the stratosphere of calculus and variations and multiple dimensions &tc, but at least one big chunk of math wraps up; the imaginary number i "completes" algebra.

(And actually, it does exist, it isn't merely a symbol or concept.)

I first tutored a friend with her algebra in 1987. Since then I've taken a degree in physics and if you google 'sangaku' you'll... Read More

Calculus

Warning! Some people experience a loss of eyebrows, from being continually astonished at all the amazing things Calculus can do!

I've been tutoring students in Calculus since 2007. I've seen it happen.

"The Queen Of The Sciences" doesn't have to be difficult.

Bishop Berkeley said Newton was cheating on his algebra. Newton said Leibniz was plagiarizing.

So now textbooks use Newton's methods...with Leibniz' notation.

If you use Leibniz methods,... Read More

Geometry

Geometry is a two-part subject;

1) shapes and their sizes

2) argument (AKA, proofs)

We don't just want to know things, we must also know WHY we know things.

We start with shapes anyone can draw in the sand, but the habit of backing up your notions extends across every field of scholarship and created the scientific revolution.

The Greeks tried to model the universe with numbers and arithmetic, thinking numbers only had meaning when attached... Read More

Physics

I took a degree in astrophysics from Michigan State University in 2000. I also worked at the school observatory and did some programming for the SOHO observatory (which popularized coronal mass ejections but is now largely obsolete).

I began tutoring full time in 2005, mostly in physics and chemistry, but with a few students taking standardized tests.

I've never worked with a net (ie, answer sheets) because I've always been working from whatever book my student brings. Sometimes... Read More

Trigonometry

Master your triangles, and you will have the essential tools for analyzing all structures, for the universe is built largely of triangular relations.

If you're memorizing your way through trigonometry, please stop killing yourself. Let me help you (re)discover a better way.

Done right, trig is absolutely the easiest 'higher' math class on the list.

If you can draw a triangle and set up a proportion, you already have 80% of the essential skills. And if you can't,... Read More

Philosophy

Philosophy has been called 'the science of everyday life' because as a field it seeks to answer deep questions on the basis of experience that everyone shares.

How can we know things? What can we know? Can we know things? Where are we, really? What comes next? Are we free? Is there a God? Do we really share ideas, or just sounds?

"BS Artist" is a common and fairly accurate description of many of it's students, including some of the most famous. Learning their errors will... Read More

MCAT

I earned a degree in astrophysics in 2000 from Michigan State University, which speaks for my skill at math, physics and chemistry. During that primary work, I also took a fair number of courses in biology and botany because I liked them so much, which are relevant for the biological sciences section of the MCAT.

I've also been tutoring since 2005 in physics, chemistry and math, at both the high school and college level. Further, I've been helping high school students with ACTs and... Read More

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