Personal Description:

My name is Mark, and I am a third-year civil engineering student at Princeton University. I am currently taking the year off to pursue an internship in the local area. As I am an engineering student pursuing a minor in Computer Science, my areas of expertise are physics, math and computational programming.

Tutoring Experience:

University Level:
- First-year physics and math tutoring (Princeton University, Princeton, USA) 2018-present
- First-year physics head tutor (Princeton University, Princeton, USA) 2019-present

HighSchool Level:
- High school math and physics tutoring (The School of Excellence, Melbourne, AUS) 2019
- IB Physics 11 HL tutoring (Semiahmoo Secondary, Surrey, CAD) 2015-2016

Tutoring Approach:

When it comes to complicated subjects such as Math and Physics, I find it to be essential that students understand the basics. Most of the tricky questions you encounter in these courses are just different combinations of these basic concepts. Therefore, I approach these subjects by breaking down problems to help the student solidify a foundation. If students can conceptualize these more straightforward ideas, it will be much easier to build up to complexity. As a tutor, that be the next step. I would get the student to try different and more challenging problems that are varying makeups of the fundamentals. By doing this, I hope that the students not only further strengthen their knowledge on those basic concepts but all learn how to use them to obtain solutions to complex questions.