Akshay

Hi my name is Akshay and I am now 17 years old. Having gone through my GCSEs and first 12 months of A-Levels I have learnt that youngsters teaching youngsters of comparable age is a great deal more of a success than you may think! Culminating my appointment to the Head Boy Team in a position of academic oversight across years 7-12, I know how to help others achieve their goals. Similar schemes have been proven to achieve success across other parts of the United Kingdom and we aim to continue this success. What we have found is that working with someone of similar age will help shape a stronger relationship among one another and understanding the struggles of the student is much more relatable having been through the same hurdles when it came round to learning the same concept themselves.

Tutoring Experience

As mentioned before, I help oversee academia at Watford Grammar School For Boys and have also been appointed the subject leader for Chemistry after my fulfilment at GCSE. Having started at the bottom set of Science at my school to attaining 8 A-A*s at GCSE and this year being predicted 3 A*s in Biology, Chemistry and Geography, I have not made the common mistakes that others fall into the trap of doing.

Tutoring Approach

I use scientifically proven techniques like active recall and spaced repetition inside and outside the lessons through a mixture of homework and questions to help your child easily retain information. One of the biggest mistakes I see tutors make is teaching the content to the student and then leaving them to remember the information on their own. With 1/3 of all questions being fact recall and the other 2/3 being application based, a simple but effective method which I choose to use is fact recall questions. For instance during lesson 1, write down 10 (or more) questions about the content we learnt in the lesson. For instance what is the function of a ribosome? We will then come back the following week and go through the question and I will make note of the questions he or she got wrong. Lessons 2 questions will include the questions from lesson 2 as well as the ones they got wrong from lesson 1 and so on… With lesson 10 possibly including lesson 10,2,4,6 and 8 questions, all with the aim of maximising the active recall and spaced repetition techniques to prevent them from forgetting the past material. There are many other strategies that I have learnt which have propelled me in my studies and am keen to share. I have spent lots of my own money on question booklets with hundreds (and I mean hundreds) of questions, CGP books and people’s notes which I plan on sharing with the students.