Graduated from UC Berkeley College of Chemistry with a chemistry major and have been tutoring students ochem (and physics occasionally) successfully for the past 17 years at USC (onsite), UCLA (online), UCSD (online), and University of Michigan (online) as either group or one-on-one sessions. I'm familiar with most of the ochem books from Brown, Bruice, Klein, Loudon, Vollhardt, and Wade, so I can adapt to whatever textbook your class uses.
Students find it difficult to know what questions...
Graduated from UC Berkeley College of Chemistry with a chemistry major and have been tutoring students ochem (and physics occasionally) successfully for the past 17 years at USC (onsite), UCLA (online), UCSD (online), and University of Michigan (online) as either group or one-on-one sessions. I'm familiar with most of the ochem books from Brown, Bruice, Klein, Loudon, Vollhardt, and Wade, so I can adapt to whatever textbook your class uses.
Students find it difficult to know what questions to even ask an instructor, so my method is that I actually teach you the material rather than waiting for you to come up with questions (and hopefully put you ahead of the class schedule). Difficult topics such as NMR and synthesis are hard to conceptualize, so it's that students find it hard to even know where to start asking questions. By going through a personalized lesson plan that includes both theory and practice problems that I've created, this allows for students to develop a better grasp of the material to know how to correctly approach problems and questions to ask.
Afterwards, students can elect to have a one-on-one where they can ask questions that they're still struggling with. This approach allows for best use of time of the student to maximize content understanding and retention. The concepts of ochem builds on itself, so it's important to address issues early on to develop a foundation that will carry you forward successfully in the course.
