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MCAT CARS specialist with 99th percentile score | T30 Current M4
Mary O.

132 hours tutoring

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Hourly Rate: $80
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About Mary


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Hello! I am a current M4 at the University of Virginia. As an experienced tutor, I can help you reach your academic and career goals. I graduated summa cum laude with a degree in Biochemistry from Juniata College. I have 7 years of tutoring experience. My MCAT score was in the 94th percentile with a 131 CARS. My experiences teaching and mentoring paired with my subject knowledge makes me a great tutor for college and high school level chemistry and biochemistry. Additionally, I coached rock...

Hello! I am a current M4 at the University of Virginia. As an experienced tutor, I can help you reach your academic and career goals. I graduated summa cum laude with a degree in Biochemistry from Juniata College. I have 7 years of tutoring experience. My MCAT score was in the 94th percentile with a 131 CARS. My experiences teaching and mentoring paired with my subject knowledge makes me a great tutor for college and high school level chemistry and biochemistry. Additionally, I coached rock climbing! This may not seem relevant to science, but rock climbing is all about problem solving with the physical skills you have at a given time. If I can teach middle schoolers to rock climb, I can help you work towards your academic goals.
I took the MCAT in August 2020 and scored a 517 (94th percentile) by self studying. My content review was minimal and I achieved a large increase in my score by focusing on gaps in my understanding. I went from a 509 first practice test to a 128/131/129/129. My CARS score is in the 99th percentile: the trick to this section is test taking skills. Now with 5 years of CARS tutoring experience, I will help you improve your test taking skills and create a more focused MCAT study strategy to achieve your goal score.


Education

Juniata College
Biochemistry

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I took the MCAT in August 2020 and scored a 517 (94th percentile, 128/131/129/129) by self studying. I improved my score in just 3 months by 8 points with minimal content review. I focused on understanding my own test taking errors and gaps in my knowledge. I can help you achieve you goal score and improve your score in time for your test date.
Algebra 1
Algebra 2
Biochemistry
Biology
Chemistry
Elementary Math
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Practical strategies for CARS

Mary's experience in tutoring for CARS undeniably shows. She was patient and explored multiple angles with me to find evidence for tough questions. Mary provided insightful strategies for high yield MCAT CARS traps which will be very helpful! I would highly recommend her to anyone.

Kelly, 1 lesson with Mary

Highly Recommend!

Mary O. is probably the best tutor I have ever had in my whole entire life. I used her for MCAT tutoring specifically for Bio/Bio Chem. As a person who suffers from ADHD already starting to study for the MCAT sounded extremely overwhelming and scary. I told her that I was starting at “ground zero” and that I knew I needed content review then wanted to evolve into doing practice questions. Mary immediately knew exactly what to do, for the first 6 weeks she made a syllabus of exactly what we were going to cover content wise in each of our sessions. This allowed me to come to the sessions completely prepared and take my own notes of what each topic was. Mary then came prepared with practice passages at the end of each week that covered the topic of that week, so that I would get use to seeing how content would be tested on the MCAT. Mary helped me with my confidence on even just to approach problems and was extremely patient with me because it takes me longer to read passages at times. She always communicated with me though she is a busy woman studying in med school. She breaks content down in a way that you can understand it, while explaining the traps that the MCAT sets for wrong answers. I have not taken my MCAT yet and I am still tutoring with Mary, but if you are looking for a truly reliable tutor I HIGHLY recommend Mary.

C. Amanda, 17 lessons with Mary

Super nice and knowledgeable

Very knowledgeable about all topics on the MCAT and is good at teaching. She also always sends me super helpful resources to help with areas I’m weak in. My score has already increased by 5 points since starting with her.

Fatima, 14 lessons with Mary

Very helpful guidance

Mary offered me advice on how to better organize my schedule to review more efficiently as I move forward. She provided me with new strategies on how to better optimize my prep.

Bianca, 1 lesson with Mary

Explains concepts clearly

I am taking general chemistry after long hiatus from school. Mary's ability to break down complex concepts into understandable pieces and build them back up has put me on a path of understanding.

Charles, 4 lessons with Mary

Amazing biochemistry tutor!

Mary has been a great help in my biochemistry prep! She explains the difficult concepts really well and even creates practice problems for me to reinforce my learning. I really recommend having her as your tutor!

Amy, 7 lessons with Mary
Hourly Rate: $80
Response time: 4 hours
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