Raise your MCAT score and get into medical school with one-on-one MCAT tutoring
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Tutoring focuses on raising your score
- We provide one-on-one tutoring that focuses on your specific needs. Rather than teach one inflexible curriculum, we create a custom study plan that addresses your needs, focusing tutoring time and homework on the areas in which each individual needs to improve. Whether you need improvement in one section or all three, Next Step can create a custom program to maximize score improvement.
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Veteran MCAT tutors
- Each Next Step MCAT tutor has scored 36+ on the exam and has several years of tutoring experience. You will be working with a veteran instructor, never a first-timer or an instructor who has mastered only parts of the exam. This level of instructor experience and scores achieved sets us apart from many of our competitors.
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Online Convenience
- We are available to work with students nation-wide or even overseas through our online MCAT tutoring option. This is live, one-to-one videoconferencing — never pre-recorded sessions or group lectures. This format allows us to serve our students everywhere with the very best, most experienced MCAT instructors possible.
Creating your MCAT Prep Experience
Each of our students begins with a diagnostic exam to gauge their current score level and to understand their initial strengths and weaknesses in each of the three sections. (Alternatively, we can begin with scores from a previous MCAT sitting).
Students meet with their instructor once or twice per week, usually for two hours at a time. At each session:
- Students have the opportunity to discuss questions on their homework and re-assess their overall progress.
- New topics are covered or weaker areas are reviewed; tutors make sure that a student has fully mastered each area before moving on. Our instructors focus on both substantive knowledge (i.e. cell structure) as well as test-taking strategy and time management.
- Specific homework and practice exams are assigned for completion between study sessions.
Ideally, students prepare for the MCAT for 2-5 months. However, we have also helped students successfully optimize a shorter time frame for maximum gain.
- Non-traditional students. Students who plan to return to medical school after pursuing other interests often benefit significantly from personal attention as they have been out of the “learn>study>test” cycle longer.
- Students who have already taken the MCAT and were unhappy with their score. Next Step has been able to help students improve on retakes by creating a focused plan of study and in-depth coverage of the material. We have also worked with many students who went through a lecture-style prep course in advance of their low MCAT score. We make sure to review, but never to duplicate the efforts our students have already spent preparing before coming to us.
We understand how critical the MCAT is to medical school admissions and, thus, your future career. That’s why we provide what we believe is the best prep possible — one-on-one tutoring from a qualified expert.
We have learned that on the MCAT, personal attention matters because each student moves at his or her own pace. While some students need extensive training in biology, other students just need to focus on raising their verbal scores. A prep course requires that all students go at the same pace; that disadvantages all students. We believe that our students’ time is valuable; we make sure to focus study efforts where they are most needed. If you don’t need a two-hour review of the structure of a cell, we won’t give you one.
Next Step believes in one-on-one tutoring, and we’ve designed our services around offering complete packages of individual tutoring starting at the price of a prep course.
Payment and Financing
At Next Step, we are proud to offer our complete packages of one-on-one tutoring starting at the same price as a lecture-style prep course. An excellent MCAT score pays off in medical schools admissions; however, we understand that the initial investment is significant. We can offer payment plans on either MCAT tutoring package; please contact us for details.