by Astrid | Jan 6, 2024 | Education, Tips, Tutoring
All tutors have seen it. In the run up before exams, in weeks, days, or sometimes even hours, panicked requests from new students or new parents to help prepare for an exam. Their aim could be to avert disaster or to guarantee success. Most tutors have taken one or...
by Astrid | Dec 20, 2023 | Education, Tips, Tutoring
Ask any tutor why students underperform and I’m willing to bet that whatever their subject, the number one reason they’ll give is lack of self-confidence. It’s such a pervasive and pernicious issue. Students freeze up in exams, become convinced they can’t answer a...
by Astrid | Sep 28, 2023 | Education, Tips, Tutoring
Ask any tutor why students underperform and I’m willing to bet that whatever their subject, the number one reason they’ll give is lack of self-confidence. It’s such a pervasive and pernicious issue. Students freeze up in exams, become convinced they can’t answer a...
by Astrid | Mar 28, 2023 | Education, Tips, Tutoring
Some students hate studying English. At least, they start off that way. They might have had bad teaching at school, they might think of themselves as more scientifically or mathematically minded, and sometimes they view answering questions about a text as inventing...
by Astrid | Mar 14, 2023 | Tips, Tutoring
Good teaching and bad teaching both stay with us. As a ten-year-old, I remember a music teacher telling me to listen. A small group was singing a hymn, and clearly I was getting it wrong. Our music teacher was getting increasingly frustrated. “Listen!” He’d say....
by Astrid | Mar 7, 2023 | Tips, Tutoring
Every student completes their exams alone. But with support and tuition, in the heat and pressure of an examination hall, they’ll have a set of tools and insights to help them unpack even the fiercest questions. Knowing that a significant part of a student’s future...
