Tutoring (HSC)
Maths & Physics
Strong focus on
- understanding the basics
- effective learning techniques
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understanding the basics
• effective learning techniques
If you are reading this page then you already know the school teaching system isn't working particularly well for you. We know it doesn't work well just by looking at the HSC results. Better schools (teachers) and tutoring can help improve your marks, but current tutoring seems to follow the same approach as teaching - with the (insane?) idea that doing something that didn't work the first time will work the second time.
One-on-one tutoring will help you as more attention can be focused at the areas you don't understand. Tutors that just teach a lesson plan and then give homework - just like teachers - add a lot more work to the student which can result in the student losing interest in the subject and consequently the money spent on tutoring is just wasted.
If you were to spend a lot of time researching into learning, had a lot of experience learning yourself as well as training and mentoring others, you would find there are some learning techniques that work well and other techniques that rarely work at all.
So by taking the approach of tutoring the student in how to learn effectively by themselves, they will be better set-up for learning by themselves during the rest of the HSC and whatever future learning they need to do. Also by going over any topics they do not fully understand, they get to fine-tune their learning ability with the aid of the tutor while they are clearing up any misunderstandings on that topic.
The last student I tutored using this approach was in the bottom half of her maths class half-way through Yr 12 when I started tutoring her. She came second in her class in the HSC maths exam.
About me:
- obtained my pilots license in Yr 11,
- top HSC mark at my school,
- honours degree (B.E.) in computer engineering,
- working as a professional computer engineer in Australia and overseas on a wide range of projects like fighter aircraft, telecommunications, Internet technologies and digital image processing (see technology consulting),
- many years of experience in leading, training, mentoring, reviewing and interviewing staff working for me.
