About
If you want to cram a mountain of knowledge into your head, team up with someone who understands the brain.
Jacob is a former medical student and father of two who studied biochemistry and neuroscience at the University of Texas at Austin.
While at UT, getting ready for the MCAT felt daunting. Jacob had studied neuroscience (how learning, memory, and practice really work), so he made a study routine that works with the brain. You only need to do a few things right to get a great score. That approach earned him a 524 on the MCAT (100th percentile).
A lot of courses out there use tactics based on bad science and brain myths, or they bury you in unnecessary rules. Jacob uses a simpler approach based on two principles of neuroscience:
- Everyone learns the same way at a deep level. We build knowledge like a river carving a canyon. Our brain has to reuse the same pathways across multiple repetitions over a considerable time.
- You only get better at the exact thing you practice. To answer MCAT questions correctly, you have to practice answering questions. To know a concept fluently, you have to practice explaining it from memory.
This approach isn’t limited to the MCAT either. The same principles apply to any scientific topic, and he has the background to help you apply them in biology, biochemistry, genetics, neuroscience, and more.
You can read more about the philosophy and science of his approach here.
Education:
University of Texas at Austin – BS in Neuroscience with honors (2018)
University of Texas at Austin – BS in Biochemistry with honors (2018)
Qualifications:
MCAT Tutor for Jack Westin MCAT Tutor (2022)
Undergraduate teaching assistant for Biostatistics (2016)
“Jacob knows his stuff in Biology and is helping our high-school junior student with her AP Bio with his passion and knowledge. He is very helpful for our daughter to understand better and regain her confidence after she had been totally lost in the class. I can’t thank him enough and look forward to many more lessons with him.”
Shannen