Do you need help with your classes but cannot visit the tutorial center during the week because of your schedule?
Now you can get the help you need beyond weekdays.
The Fresno City College Tutorial Center has extended its hours to Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Previously, the center was open only on Monday through Friday.
“[It’s] because of student demand,” Soheil Partoviamin, a tutorial center staff, said. “Students requested Saturday tutoring hours because we are so busy on weekdays.”
Close to 70 students came the first Saturday the center was open and more are expected to take advantage of the extended schedule as word gets out about the center’s new hours.
The center will offer tutoring on Saturdays in English, writing, math (up to calculus) chemistry, biology, CIT, physics, accounting, and statistics. More subjects are expected to be offered soon.
The new Saturday hours are just an extension of what the tutorial center already has available Monday through Friday.
The center offers an even wider variety of subjects on the weekdays such as: anthropology, art, business technology, Chinese, computer information technology, computer science, decision science, economics, history, Japanese, political science, Portuguese, psychology, sociology, and Spanish.
Kiranjeet Bhinder, an FCC student, said that the Tutorial Center has been “really helpful” in assisting her in her studies for her history class, and that the available times are convenient.
Students are encouraged to visit the Tutorial Center website at fccwise.fresnocitycollege.edu to set up an appointment with a tutor in the subject that they need assistance in.
Students are also encouraged to make plans and come in early to prevent feeling overwhelmed as they work through unfamiliar material.
“Some of them are really flustered because they have a test tomorrow,” said Kevin Altamirano, a math tutor. “[They] come here and [they] expect us to help [them]. We do, and we do the best that we can but we also let them know that [they] shouldn’t really procrastinate.”
The tutorial center stresses that students take necessary steps to prepare adequately for their classes.
“The students that are the most prepared are the students that do the best,” said Altamirano.
Students can visit the Tutorial Center as often as they need to in order to be successful in their classes.
“We see them either a lot less often because they are on the ball and they got it at that point,” said Altamirano, “or they come back because, you know, there’s a really tricky problem.”
