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Help is a few doors away

City College Tutoring Center, located on the first floor of the Learning Resource Center. Photo by  || Oswaldo Hernández-Hernández || elden_hernandez@hotmail.com ||
City College Tutoring Center, located on the first floor of the Learning Resource Center. Photo by || Oswaldo Hernández-Hernández || [email protected] ||

As this semester fades away, many City College students dropped some of their classes, and many others are struggling and staying up late to study for their final exams.

Dropping and failing classes can be depressing to some students, but it is not the end of anything. It is just a learning experience and a subliminal warning sign that extra support is needed in order to succeed and keep up the grades in challenging courses.

City College offers multiple support services available free of charge to current students.

“We have a small library with current textbooks, solutions manuals, calculators that can be check out for use in our lab,” said Terrie Martin, City College’s math lab coordinator.

Martin said that the math lab counts with qualified tutors to provide support for every math course.

In order to tutor, City College students must have obtained a grade of an A or a B in the course for which they wish to tutor and pass a one-on-one interview. If they pass the interview, they have to attend training to master the subject they will be tutoring.

“I went a few times to the math lab and once to see my professor during his office hours, but I think I would have benefit even more if I had gone to the math lab more often; they helped me taught me how to solve matrices,” 20-year-old student Alma Avalos said.

In order to use the tutoring services, students must enroll in HSER 1000, which is a free, no-unit course.
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“To use this area, students are asked to sign in and out, so that attendance can be tracked and reported to the state for future funding,” Martins said.

The math lab is open seven day a week and it is located at Rodda South 162. For more information, call 916-558-2162.

City College also counts with the Learning Skills and Tutoring Center to use this service students must file an application and enroll in HS 1000, which is a zero-unit free course.

“One-on-one, small group tutoring, both in appointment or walk-in basis,” said Timothy Ching, a tutorial program assistant. “Here in the center, we tutor most for academics subjects, such as sciences, foreign languages, humanities, social sciences.”

Students working at the City College math lab. Photo by Oswaldo Hernández-Hernández
Students working at the City College math lab. Photo by Oswaldo Hernández-Hernández

Ching said all student can benefit from the tutoring services offered on campus, not just the students who are failing classes. Services are open to everyone who would like to increase knowledge in a particular subject.

“We offer writing tutoring for students in any course where they have a writing assignment,” said Susan Griffin, Learning Center tutoring coordinator. “Students can come in or they can make an appointment in advance,”

City College also offers academic computer labs in LR 144, advance technology design labs in TECH 144 and communication training in Temp 9-2.

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