Tutoring for the UGA courses that catch students off guard.
I tutor CHEM 1211, BIOL 1107 and 1108, MATH 1113, STAT 2000 and ECON 2105, one-on-one. I’m a UGA student myself, and I came in as a transfer from Kennesaw State, which is work I do too.
The lecture is big.
The pace does not wait.
Most of these courses are taught in large lectures, and each week covers a new unit. A student falls behind in week three, the next exam covers the next unit, and the gap grows. Office hours are shared with the whole section.
I start with a diagnostic built from your actual course and syllabus, so I know where the points are going before we spend an hour on anything. Then it is one person every session, and it is me. I don’t hand students off and I don’t run groups.
The courses, and how I work each one.
CHEM 1211
CHEM 1211 is graded on a fixed point scale set in the syllabus, not a curve, so I find out early whether the gap is math, concepts or test strategy. I also work toward the ACS final.
The CHEM 1211 and 1212 guide →BIOL 1107 and 1108
The exams give you a scenario you haven’t seen and ask you to reason it out, which is not what AP Biology trained. I work on those application questions and on the lab reports, which are graded as writing.
The BIOL 1107 and 1108 guide →MATH 1113
Most trouble here goes back to algebra and trig that never fully set in earlier years. I find those gaps and close them, and I keep you current with the pre-class work and ALEKS.
The MATH 1113 guide →STAT 2000
The arithmetic is light and the interpretation is not. I work on sampling distributions and the step to inference, because the exams ask why, not which formula.
The STAT 2000 guide →ECON 2105
This is macro: the graphs and the models behind them. I work on drawing each model, explaining a shift in words, and seeing how the models connect.
The ECON 2105 guide →College math placement
A free practice test in three stages: College Algebra, then MATH 1113, then Calculus. Twenty-five minutes a stage, no calculator. It covers the topics UGA’s DMAT covers. It isn’t UGA’s exam.
Take the practice test →It starts with a diagnostic.
I start every student with an intake diagnostic. It shows me what you actually need before you commit to anything. It is $199, paid when you book, on Zoom or in person in Athens.
1 · The assessment
A short assessment you take at home, 45 to 60 minutes, built from the actual course and syllabus.
Ask about the diagnostic →2 · The report
A written report with the plan I’d recommend.
3 · The meeting
Sixty minutes. We go through the report, work one concept together, and decide what comes next.
On probation, or close to it.
If you are on academic probation or heading there, the first job is finding out why the grades dropped. It is usually a content gap, a study method that worked in high school, a course load that was too heavy, or some mix of the three. I look at your courses one at a time and we decide which to protect first.
From there the work is the course tutoring above, plus the habits that hold it together: how to read for a lecture course, how to practice for an exam, how to spread out a week of work. Two guides cover this in full, how to recover from academic probation at UGA and study strategies for UGA freshmen.
On Zoom, or in person in Athens.
Most sessions are on Zoom, anywhere in the Eastern time zone. Same screen, same pen, same method as the table. It works well for these courses.
In person in Athens is possible by availability. Evenings and weekends are open. Tell me your schedule and your exam dates, and I’ll tell you what fits.
Questions I get
Anything not covered here, ask me directly. (706) 389-0528.
Tell me the course and when your next exam is.
Your name, the course, the professor if you know who it is, and the date of the next exam. A parent is welcome to write instead. I reply within a day. (706) 389-0528 if a call is easier.