510 MCAT Scorer & Honors Biochemistry Major Tutoring Chemistry

Jonas M.

I am a senior at New Jersey Institute of Technology pursuing a Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry through the Honors College, where I have maintained a 3.90 GPA (3.83 in science coursework). I scored a 510 on the MCAT and received NJIT's Outstanding Undergraduate Chemistry Student Award for my performance in coursework and research. I also presented research at the International Society of Pharmacoepidemiology, where my poster was selected for one of 12 Spotlight Recognitions out of over 1,200 submissions, giving me both strong content depth and recent, relevant experience with the material I teach.
Since January 2024, I have worked as a paid tutor through NJIT's Chemistry Tutoring Center, providing one-on-one and small-group instruction to undergraduate students in General Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Physical Chemistry, Analytical Chemistry, and Biochemistry. In that time I've logged over 150 hours working with college-age students ranging from first-year gen chem students to upperclassmen in advanced coursework. My approach is to work through the underlying mechanism or logic of a problem with a student rather than have them memorize a fixed procedure, since that's what actually transfers when an exam changes the numbers or the context. For MCAT-specific work, I combine content review with passage-based reasoning strategy, since the exam tests application under time pressure more than raw recall.
Outside the classroom, I work as a hospital patient care technician in cardiothoracic and heart failure units and as a volunteer EMT, which gives me firsthand clinical context for the physiology and biochemistry that MCAT passages are built around, not just textbook familiarity. I bring the same patience and structure from that clinical work into tutoring: I meet students where they are, build confidence through incremental wins, and adjust pacing to how they're actually processing the material rather than following a fixed script.