Chaewon P. Very responsive
Tutoring near Eastwood, Sydney, NSW


About

🌟 96 English Adv I Ruse Rank 10 I 3210 UCAT I 99.25 ATAR l 5 Med/Dent Offers I WAITLIST OPEN 🌟 ENGLISH ADV/ UCAT/ MEDICAL INTERVIEW Tutor 🌟 English Adv Year 12 Rank 10 🌟 3210 UCAT (98th%) 🌟 10 Medical Interview Offers 🌟 How I smashed my interviews to land multiple medical and dentistry offers - 5 offers out of 6 interviews I sat! Hello! My name is Chaewon and I graduated from James Ruse Agricultural High School in 2022 and now in Year 2 of the Joint Medical Program at the University of Newcastle. I aim to personalise lessons for each student, analysing previous performances together to create individualised academic plans for success. From breaking down texts for English Advanced to discussing personal strategies for UCAT and Medical School Interviews, I'll ensure that students focus on their weaknesses to maximise their performance under exam conditions. In addition to lessons, I'm available via text or email to answer ANY questions you have, at NO additional fee! With 2+ years of experience and a current English tutor at a leading coaching college, I'm sure that I'll lead you to your goals! 2023: 🎖 ALL English students obtained Band 6 and top Band 5s 🎖 2 English Advanced students top 20 James Ruse 🎖 6 students achieving UCAT 3000+, up to 3270 🎖 ALL interview students received first round medicine offers - including WSU, Adelaide, JMP, UQ 🥇 MY RESULTS 🥇 ✅ ATAR: 99.25 (All Rounder) ✅ English Advanced: 96/100 - Internal JRAHS Rank 10 (Consistent top A-range results across all Modules A, B, C) ✅ UCAT: 3210 (98th Percentile - 720 VR, 770 DM, 850 QR, 870 AR) ✅ Offers for medicine and dentistry from many universities, including University of Queensland (med), Central Queensland University/ University of Queensland (med), University of Adelaide (med + dent), and University of Newcastle (med) 📝 STUDENT RESOURCES 📝 ✅ All of my English Advanced pieces and more exemplars for each module ✅ English Advanced notes (e.g. analysis, quotes) and analysis ✅ Unlimited 24/7 feedback throughout the week ✅ English Advanced Essay Questions and Medical Interview Questions (BOTH MMI and Panel, and exemplary responses to practice questions) ✅ My unique insights and strategies into smashing English, UCAT and Medical School Interviews 📈 ENGLISH ADV TEXTS 📈 📌 George Orwell 1984 📌 Donne and W;t 📌 King Henry IV Part I 📌 All Mod C texts 📚 ENGLISH LESSON DETAILS 📚 ✅ Gain strong understanding of the syllabus: Through interactive discussions, I will help you break down key concepts and terms to integrate into their essays. A thorough understanding of the syllabus is extremely important for you to write focused essays that hit the high A-range. ✅ Content and Analysis: While maintaining a focus on the syllabus, we will work towards a thorough summary of the text and analyse from a macro to micro level. This means we will work through the ideas and themes of the text, how these link to context and the syllabus, and specific pieces of the text that can be used in essay responses. ✅ Writing Paragraphs: Before a student begins writing, a solid grasp of paragraph structure and logical flow is crucial for success. With me, you will easily learn how to set up context, place analysis throughout the paragraph to create a logical argument, then make your entire essay cohesive and progressive. I will always keep your school's essay structure and preferences in mind to achieve the highest grades possible. ✅ Adapting to Questions: Using my extensive bank of essay questions organised per syllabus dot point, I will ensure that you will smash any essay question you get in your own exam! We will go through key techniques, tips and tricks in understanding what the question wants, then adapting your essay to meet this criteria. ✅ In-Class Editing If you are struggling to understand your strengths and weaknesses in essay writing, I will go through your pieces, sentence by sentence, with you. From not linking enough to the syllabus to having a non-progressive argument, I will ensure that you realise your areas for improvement. With this in mind, we can then focus more on overcoming these weaknesses through lessons and for homework - remember, I offer unlimited marking, so use that to maximise your learning! 📚 UCAT LESSON DETAILS 📚 ✅ What is the UCAT, and what is being tested? From my own experience of extensively preparing for my UCAT exam, I gained a strong understanding of what key techniques and skills this exam is looking for. Before you start blindly practising, it's important to learn your aim - gaining ALL of these skills - to have a focused and efficient UCAT preparation. ✅ Specific Strategies for each subsection VR, DM, QR, AR are all incredibly different subsections in terms of techniques needed, questions asked and pacing. This means that you need unique strategies to tackle each section to maximise your score! From my experience of trial-and-error with multiple strategies per subsection, I will share my best strategies and tricks with you. ✅ Hearing my Unique Insights During lessons, I will solve your UCAT questions WITH YOU to explain my own line of thinking and techniques to reach the correct answers. By comparing your thought process and techniques to mine, you will quickly realise how to adapt to each type of question within a subsection. This lesson structure is especially helpful in AR - being trained to analyse patterns efficiently and accurately will help you get that 95th+ percentile. 📚 MEDICAL INTERVIEW LESSON DETAILS 📚 ✅ What are MMI and Panel Interviews? Before we jump into interview preparation, the first few lessons will be about understanding these interview types, their purposes and structures. This foundational knowledge is key to tailor your preparation - what skills you need to acquire to impress the interviewers! ✅ Part 1: Manners Your first impression can be what makes or breaks your admission into medicine! And, of course, your attitude throughout your interview can have the same huge impact. Manners may seem like a simple part of interviews, but it is incredibly important to understand how to carry and present yourself, your way of talking and active listening. During lessons, I will go through the key non-verbal communication cues, provide feedback on your manners as you speak, and also provide extra resources I found useful when creating my interview manner. ✅ University-Specific Information Every university has a specific list of skills they want, and so you must tailor your responses to reflect them. Throughout lessons, I will share my understanding of each school's values, and how you can present these throughout your responses to maximise your chance of acceptance. ✅ Part 2: Learning how to structure your response Putting all of your newly gained information to use, I will guide you step-by-step into structuring your interview responses. Firstly, I will help you understand WHAT the questions are looking for - empathy, conflict resolution, teamwork? This ability to quickly grasp what skill you need to portray is what shapes your entire answer. Secondly, I will focus strongly on logical flow, progression in thought and verbal portrayal of your anecdotes and beliefs. I will also practise questions WITH YOU so you can see the correct structure that compliments your answer's content, not degrade it. ✅ Part 3: Mocks! Finally, interview mocks under timed conditions is very important! From time management to responding under pressure, mocks will immediately reveal your strengths and weaknesses. I will encourage you to analyse your own performance with me, then create plans to improve your weaknesses in future mocks. As someone who received 10 interview offers and multiple medical and dental school offers, I can simulate realistic interview mocks to best prepare you for your own. 📘 PRICES 📘 Primary School Year 1-6 (per student): $70/hour - private 1-1 lesson High School Year 7-10 (per student): $85/hour - private 1-1 lesson English Adv Year 11/12 (per student): $100/hour - private 1-1 lesson $75/hour - 2 students $40/essay review if not a current student - extensive feedback! Medical Interview: $110/hour - private 1-1 lesson (recommend for foundational lessons) $85/hour - 2 students (recommend for mock interview lessons) UCAT: $90/hour - private lesson $70/hour - 2 students English Advanced Essays (Mod A, B, C; free access for current students): Internal Assessments and Trial Pieces are available! $40/one essay $75/two essays $110/three essays Short Answer Responses $15/timed short answer practice completed during Year 12 I am offering online tutoring via Skype.

Achievements

  • 2023 Melbourne National Merit Scholarship
  • 2023 Catalyst Program (University of Tasmania)
  • 2022 HSC All Rounder
  • Medicine offer at University of Newcastle
  • Medicine offer at University of Queensland
  • Medicine offer at University of Central Queensland
  • Medicine offer at University of Adelaide
  • Dentistry offer at University of Adelaide

Education

Year 12 completed in 2022.
Mark achieved: 99.25 (verified).
Currently studying Bachelor of Medical Science/Doctor of Medicine at The University of Newcastle.

Reviews

Chae is an excellent tutor - she is extremely knowledgeable and showcases this through her patience and thoughtfulness. Her lessons were always well planned and relevant. Chae has been very encouraging and supportive throughout my lessons and I highly recommend her for UCAT tutoring. Thank you Chae!
- By Dominique on 6th February 2024

Chaewon is an absolutely brilliant tutor who helped me study for the UCAT and Medicine Interviews for nearly 10 months. Aside from her academic expertise in these areas, what I valued most was how Chaewon was friendly, supportive and encouraging each week which helped me be resilient through the inevitable times where I was lacking motivation to study. My tutoring sessions with Chaewon boosted my confidence and led to significant improvements throughout the year, and was ultimately a major contributing factor in allowing me to be offered a place in Medicine at Western Sydney University. Chaewon - thank you so much for helping me achieve my goal. I would recommend Chaewon to anyone who is thinking about pursuing Medicine and wants to succeed in their UCAT and Medicine Interviews. Thank you Chaewon :)
- By Robert Napoli on 25th January 2024

Chaewon was an extremely helpful interview tutor who tailors lessons to suit your interests, provides a range of different questions and resources for both MMI and SSI and prepares many mock interviews. She always gave extensive and comprehensive feedback, but above all, taught in a kind and compassionate manner.
- By Tejas on 13th January 2024

Chaewon was incredibly methodical and clear in teaching how to deconstruct and respond to interview questions. She was thorough and compassionate while giving feedback on my performance in our practices, and provided and explained concise frameworks with which I could structure my responses while thinking on my feet in response to any question. Interview preparation also often involves reflecting on personal experiences; Chaewon emphasised the importance of showing personal growth and introspection through these anecdotes. Above all, Chaewon was a wonderful mentor, linking every aspect of our practice to real interactions in both theoretical and practical medical work, while always encouraging questions about course structure, internships or extracurriculars for each course.
- By Jeremy Yuan on 23rd December 2023

I've only spent a couple lessons with Chaewon, but the improvement I saw in my trials compared to my previous marks was extremely encouraging. I've struggled with English but her lessons taught me a detailed approach to essay writing and answering questions that allowed me to express myself in my exams much better. Her knowledge of what HSC markers are looking for also places her in a unique position to help tailor my essays towards their expectations. She is truly a great tutor and I definitely recommend her tuition.
- By Ahir Shankar on 18th November 2023

Despite only having a few lessons with her, Chaewon has helped me improve in English with the short time we had together. With our main focus being short answer, Chaewon provided me with detailed feedback for my short answer questions especially during the week leading up to the trials. As a fresh graduate of James Ruse, she seems to know extremely well what the teachers want at Ruse, and how students can take advantage of that. It was an honour to be taught by Chaewon, and I am glad I met her as a tutor.
- By R on 22nd August 2023

I wasn't the best at medical interviews, but once I started having sessions with Chaewon, I could see a serious improvement in my confidence and content. In particular, I struggled a lot with the empathetic side of interviews, like sympathising with how characters might be feeling in a given scenario. But practising responses with Chaewon allowed me to become more intentional. Once I sat my interview for Monash, I was able to stand out by actively displaying the skills Chaewon had helped me develop. She has a knack of knowing exactly what to say content-wise and how you should present yourself. Having someone who could continually give me pointers helped me become a more quick thinking candidate, which was the edge I needed to get an offer for Monash :D
- By Bensen Liu on 2nd February 2023

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