The Best ACT English Tutors in San Francisco, CA

Hello! My name is Madeline (Maddie) Alvendia Johnson, B.A., E.d.M. I am an educator, activist, and life-long learner based in Oakland, California. I received my B.A. in History from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where I graduated in three years. I received my E.d.M. (Master's in Education) from Harvard...See Madeline's full profile

I'm Tom! I designed and completed one of the world's first interdisciplinary doctorates in AI Ethics at UC Berkeley. Before that, I first earned a Bachelor's degree, double majoring in Philosophy and Sociology and earning a Best Senior Thesis award. I then lived for two years in Europe, first as a Fulbright Scholar in...See Thomas's full profile

As a graduate student UC Berkeley, I taught several molecular and cell biology courses. My course evaluations were always above the department average, and I received the Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award for my creative lesson plans and engaging teaching style. I'm here to help you work through problems and...See Anna's full profile

I realize this may sound weird considering how stressful it is for most people, but the college admissions process was some of the best fun I had in my life. I loved every aspect of it, from pulling all nighters for my Honors/AP classes to stacking my schedule with enrichment activities to grinding out those seeming...See Aaron's full profile

Hi prospective students, my name is Ricky, and I have over ten years of experience as a professional tutor. I am passionate about tutoring because it helped me achieve academic success in my own life. I struggled with certain subjects when I was a child, but ended up being valedictorian when I graduated from Woodside...See Richard's full profile

I am an experienced tutor with a PhD from UC Berkeley and a wide array of teaching and tutoring experience. I'm also a professional writer and editor who has published widely in national publications like CNN, Politico, NPR and the LA Times. I can help your student prepare their college application essays, including...See Rebecca's full profile

As an English Language Arts teacher and tutor and a grammar expert, I can teach students strategies for performing their best on the ACT English section. The ACT English section addresses English grammar and usage as well as rhetorical skills. As an experienced grammar teacher, I can help students sharpen...See Marie's full profile

I have twelve years of experience teaching programming, test prep, statistics, finance, and business courses. I have authored five textbooks on Python Statistics, Python Machine Learning, Python Data Analysis, Artificial Intelligence, and Software Development. I tutored an undergraduate Business Statistics course for...See Bernard's full profile

Hi there! About me—I’ve completed everything but a dissertation for a Ph.D. in Economics from UC-Berkeley. I triple-majored at UT-Austin, earning math, economics, and journalism degrees in four years (not counting two semesters in DC/India!) with a 3.9 GPA. As for teaching qualifications, I TA’d for six...See Dawn's full profile

I can help students with writing organization and analysis, research writing, reading strategies, grammar, vocabulary, and ACT or SAT preparation. Specific areas I can help: - ACT English and Reading - SAT Writing & Language and Reading - AP English Language: Rhetorical Analysis, Synthesis Essay, or...See Michael's full profile

Greetings! I proudly educate as a tutor, teacher, and school administrator with state credentials. I am a UC Berkeley grad with my BA in English and my MA in Educational Leadership (Principal Leadership Institute). I earned my teaching credential with Tulane University. Even though I retired early to write, I keep...See Stephen's full profile

I graduated from Cornell University and Yale Law. I have many years of experience tutoring in a wide variety of subjects and all ages, from small kids to junior high to high school, and kids with learning disabilities. I am also available to tutor adults who are preparing for the GRE, LSAT, or wish to learn a second...See Romy's full profile

Having tested these strategies in the January 2016 ACT and scoring a perfect 36, I know that the key to excelling in ACT English is to test for objectively correct choices by plugging in and noting specific mechanics, including subject-verb agreement, proper verb tense, proper adjective/adverb usage,...See Randy's full profile

36 on ACT English and Writing portionsSee Ariya's full profile

I have been tutoring since 2005 in various subjects such as high school and college math, SAT/ACT test prep, high school and college biology including chemistry and physics. My education is in Molecular and Cell Biology from University of California Berkeley (UCB). I received a Masters of Science in Applied Anatomy and...See Yanina's full profile

Hi, I'm Phillip. I have a bachelor's in math from UC Berkeley, and have passed multiple junior level computer science, physics, and statistics courses as well. I have always loved math and it's applications. I have also always loved tutoring, especially in STEM subjects. There is always a fresh perspective to discover,...See Phillip's full profile

I earned my Ph.D. in Human-Centered Computing from Clemson (’19), where my research wove together machine learning, biostatistics, and collective-intelligence theory. After Clemson I joined Stanford’s Biomedical Data Science department as a research scientist, building Python- and R-based pipelines for genomics and...See Lorenzo's full profile

ACT English is about understanding the basics of grammar, punctuation, and spelling. It's about understanding how "particles" of language like adverbs and conjunctions help create transitions from one idea to another as we express ourselves in logical and subtle ways.See James's full profile

I’ve been a private tutor for many years and also work onsite as a tutor at a college prep high school in San Francisco, CA. I provide academic support for all subjects K-12 and assist college students with math and writing. I’m also highly experienced with test prep for the SSAT, HSPT, SAT, ACT, GRE, GMAT, CBEST,...See Jason's full profile

I graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) with a bachelor’s degree in Bioengineering and minor in Chemistry. I won multiple awards, including highest achieving bioengineering lab group and best senior design project. After college, I was awarded a prestigious Fulbright Scholarship to...See Ella's full profile

Hi, I'm Sam! I completed a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science in 2015 and have worked as a software engineer with a focus on full-stack web development for over 6 years since then. I also have over a year of experience teaching web development skills for a coding bootcamp. I love teaching and helping students learn...See Samantha's full profile

I'm in Oakland, CA, USA. My 22+ years in the educational arena--and ongoing professional development--have taught me to help students shift from lower- to higher-order thinking, which is really only coaching them to go from knowing the "what" of things to putting all those "whats" together to understand the "hows" and...See Kenisha's full profile

[I appreciate all inquiries and respond promptly to inquiries, but not mass emails to multiple tutors.] Dr. Jeffrey was a university lecturer and tutor from 2003-2017. He has helped students of all ages, including secondary school, college, postgraduate, and executive clients. From 2020-22, he helped almost 30...See Jeffrey's full profile

I am a recent college graduate from Stanford University, where I double majored in Economics and Film & Media Studies. And for the past four years I have also worked as a professional tutor or teacher's assistant for a variety of companies and organizations, including Stanford University. During this time, I have...See Raymond's full profile

Hello! My name is Colleen and I have been tutoring and teaching in a variety of capacities for the past 15 years. I graduated Summa Cum Laude from Columbia University with a major in Sociology in 2014. Since then I spent two years as a high school math teacher, two years as the Director of Instruction at a tutoring and...See Colleen's full profile