Chloe

I am a very outgoing and conscientious private tutor with over ten years’ experience. I enjoy tutoring students of various ages and stages in their education, specialising in the sciences and History equally. I teach both online and in-person in London.

Having spent my childhood in southeast Asia, I studied sciences (Chemistry and Biology) and language-based subjects (History and Geography) at A-Level. I completed my undergraduate degree at Oxford University, where I gained the highest candidate marks in one paper. I then stayed on to gain a Distinction at Master’s level. I returned to complete my DPhil (2024), and have acted as an undergraduate admissions interviewer (History BA and joint Schools) since 2016.

Despite working as a professional historian, it is in the sciences I most enjoy providing private school-level tuition; this allows me to keep in touch with my own interest in the subject, and to use that enthusiasm to help motivate my tutees. Having obtained an academic scholarship via written exam to the prestigious Stephen Perse Foundation (Cambridge) when I myself was fourteen years old, I am especially sympathetic to children undergoing the rigorous school entrance process.

Tutoring Experience

I have enjoyed tutoring students of various ages and stages in their education for almost ten years, specialising in the sciences and History equally. I have privately tutored children from as young as eight to degree-level learners seeking essay-writing help.

Subjects covered in the last year in capacity as private tutor include: sole responsibility for homeschooling three A-Level and IGCSE Biology, Chemistry, and Physics students; providing six students one-on-one tuition in A-Level, IB, and (I)GCSE Biology, Chemistry, Geography, History, and Physics (AQA, CIE, Edexcel); HAT preparation for three Oxford-entry candidates and another mature student; essay-writing help to two undergraduate students (History); preparing five students for their common entrance and three further students for the Winchester academic scholarship and exhibition exams in science.

In 2016 I secured a Tutoring Standards Certificate (Merit). I have taught via Zoom during the summer holidays to children of highly mobile families, as well as ‘in residence’ Haddenham, Wallingford (both one week, Oxfordshire), Gloucestershire (four days), Cannes and Antibes (two weeks, France). Previous students have secured scholarships to Eton, Harrow, and Tonbridge at 13+, and entry to Wycombe Abbey at 14+.

Tutoring Approach

I have been best able to help young people develop increasingly mature outlooks on their reality when we feel at ease with each other. I am a highly dedicated tutor as well as a warm and gregarious one; I aspire to offer students a tutorial space which feels ‘for them’ in order that they are encouraged to reciprocate my focus on their learning. While every pupil and their interests and needs are different, I place an emphasis on past paper practice and inspection of previous mark schemes wherever possible. This is especially salient given the very specialised and particular vocabulary required by mark schemes in order to hit those top marks (particularly in the sciences).