What are your needs?

Try to define as precisely as you can what it is you need further help with.  It is not just a problem with Maths, for example, but Algebra, or, more precisely still, quadratic equations; If you feel that much of your Maths is weak, why is this? Missed lessons, difficult relations with teachers or a fundamental difficulty about what algebra is.

If you are at university, do you have a problem building on school work? Have you missed vital lectures?  Cannot get help to understand a set text yourself? Are study skills or research a problem? Go through your difficulties and tell your tutor, as precisely as you can, what you have experienced.

How do you learn best?

There is no substitute for hard work, nor for exact understanding, but different students have different ways which make study easier for them. For example, do you like to think/remember in images, or do you prefer to listen to others in a group rather than work on your own?

If you are at university and you don’t like listening to lecturers or reading and writing, maybe you should be approaching your understanding of your subject in more varied ways. Have some experiences in mind when you talk to your tutor.

The best course of action.

Bring your experiences and relevant material to the first lesson to help your tutor to decide the best course of action. The first lesson is a good chance for tutor and student to discuss their expectations of each other, and for the tutor to obtain a detailed idea of the student’s current strengths and weaknesses. Make sure you are happy with the programme of study.

One-to-one tuition can be a valuable tool for improvement. It may also be used in combination with smaller group tuition in which students can be encouraged to share their ideas and motivate one another. Our experience has shown us that using a combination over a period of time produces better results.

Getting the best out of your tuition.

1. Arrange a course of lessons which gives you time to achieve your goals, whatever they are. One lesson may solve a difficulty; learning much new material or improving your understanding will require longer. We would suggest that you do not cram revision into a period of weeks before exams, but well beforehand, perhaps running alongside what is taught in the classroom. When you properly understand, you will be able to answer exam questions.
2. Prepare thoroughly for your first, diagnostic lesson, and for each subsequent lesson.  Give feedback to your tutor.
3. Try to complete any follow-up work given by your tutor, to revisit the work of a lesson, and to assure yourself that you have grasped it. As part of the tuition process we teach our students to apply what they have learnt to test questions. It is only after practising questions and past exam papers that students are truly prepared to sit examinations.
4. We want to know how you feel about your tuition. We progressively track our student’s progress and we continually track our tutor’s performance. Any problems are ours, not yours, and it’s more than likely that we will be able to give you advice and assistance in any situation. For example, if a student is encountering financial difficulty and unable to meet the cost of his/her tuition we want to know so we can help. We can be quite flexible. We are not a company who will just withdraw our services. Once we have made a commitment to a student we want to see results.
5. Keep up your efforts afterwards.

Our Curriculum

We currently offer tuition in Languages, 11+ and 13+ Common Entrance, GCSE, A and AS Level courses and Undergraduate and Postgraduate programmes of study.