At El Capitan, AP Literature comes in junior year and AP Language in senior year. Our tutors are UC San Diego students who took many of the same courses not long ago, from biology to AP Calculus.
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We help El Capitan students keep up in their classes, prepare for the SAT and ACT and work on their college essays. Sessions are one-on-one, at your home in Lakeside, Santee or El Cajon, or online.
Meet our tutors.
Samantha
Pursuing a Ph.D. inBioengineering
Tutors Biology · Chemistry · Math
- Research in deep learning for assistive robotics
- President’s Undergraduate Research Award
Raquel
StudiesBiology
Tutors Math · Spanish · Writing
- AP Scholar with Distinction
- Bilingual teaching experience in Spanish
Anna
StudiesNeuroscience
Tutors Biology
- Research internship in Hamburg, Germany
- Governor’s Scholars Award recipient
Daniel
StudiesElectrical Engineering & Computer Sciences
Tutors Math · Physics · Computer science
- High-school valedictorian
- STEM education minor and after-school tutoring
Preston
StudiesApplied Mathematics
Tutors Math · Calculus · Computer science
- Mathematics research fellow
- Presented at the Young Mathematicians Conference
Evan
StudiesPhysics & Applied Mathematics
Tutors Math · Physics · Calculus
- Independent research in machine learning for quantum computing
- 4.0 GPA in Physics & Applied Mathematics
Lesly
StudiesMathematics & Computer Science
Tutors Math · Computer science · Spanish
- Java and Python programming
- Game development and interactive software projects
Honors Precalculus
El Capitan’s Honors Precalculus covers the material much more extensively than the regular course, across two semesters, and it’s the main road to AP Calculus. Logarithms are where strong students slow down, because they look like a new operation instead of the inverse of the exponents they already know. A tutor rewrites each log problem as an exponent question with your student until the connection is automatic. Learn more about our math tutoring.
Lab reports in Agricultural Biology
Honors Agricultural Biology asks for technical reading and writing, regular lab reports and daily study, with extensive lab work. Writing up a growing experiment means explaining variation: why two plants under the same conditions came out differently. A tutor asks your student to separate what they controlled from what they couldn’t before writing the discussion. Learn more about our science tutoring.
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AP Literature as a junior
Juniors in AP Literature write argumentative essays about poems and novels. The jump is from saying what a text means to arguing how it makes that meaning. A tutor asks your student to argue against their own first reading for a few minutes, then decide which reading the evidence supports. Learn more about our English and writing tutoring.
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