Devan

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Please note that Dev has availability at £35 per student per hour for KS3 (Year 9) and GCSE (Year 10 and Year 11) mathematics lessons. There is a maximum of 8 students in each class. Please do get in touch should you like further information on these classes.

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These lessons currently take place at Roding Valley High School.

Dev’s students currently attend the following schools: City of London School for Girls, Bancroft’s School, Chigwell School, Roding Valley School, Braeside School, Trinity Catholic School.

Background

Dev is currently a qualified teacher of mathematics at the Haberdashers' Boys' School (a top 10 independent school in the UK). In July 2022, he completed his PGCE in Mathematics at UCL and gained Qualified Teacher Status. Dev teaches Key Stage 3 (year 7 to 9), GCSE and A-level mathematics. In his role, he has conducted interviews for 11+ entrance exam candidates at Haberdashers’ Boys’ School. Over 8 years 11+ and 13+ experience and results of students gaining places at the most competitive schools: City of London Girls, Forest School, Bancroft’s School, Chigwell School, Brentwood School and Woodford County High School for Girls.

Background:

Dev is the founder of [Tutor Dev], a professional entrance exam and secondary mathematics (KS3, GCSE and A level) tutor and mentor whose core purpose for tutoring is to boost his students’ knowledge and their confidence in mathematics. He has tutored privately for over 8 years and delivered in excess of 2500 hours of lessons.

Dev’s academic record is as follows:
- PGCE Mathematics - University College London
- B.Sc (Honours) Economics with Spanish - 2.1- University of Birmingham
- High A in A level Mathematics - Forest School
- High A* in GCSE Mathematics (94% in exams) - Forest School

2023/2024 highlights
- A 7+ student has passed the entrance exams and received offers at City of London School for Girls, Bancroft’s School and Forest School.
- An 11+ student has passed the entrance exams and received offers at Bancroft’s School, Forest School, Chigwell School and Brentwood School. Offer letters have been kept as evidence.

2022/2023 highlights
- Only one student taught for 11+ entrance exams this year to maintain consistency and quality of lessons. The student received three offers from City of London Girls School, Bancroft’s School and Forest School.

2021/2022 highlights
Only two students taught for 11+ entrance exams due to schedule and to maintain quality and consistency of lessons. Dev has kept offer letters from his pupils as evidence of his pupils’ outstanding results. The results are as follows:

• One student received 6 offers for 11+ entrance exams from Bancrofts School, Forest School, Chigwell School, Brentwood School, Bishops Stortford School and St Edmunds School.
• Another student received 4 offers for 11+ entrance exams from Forest School, Chigwell School, Normanhurst School and St Edmunds School.

2020/2021 highlights
- Two out of three students received offers at Chigwell School for the 11+ entrance examinations. One student was awarded a scholarship for exceptional performance and obtained one of the highest scores from all entries.
- One GCSE student received a grade 8 (A*)
- One GCSE student received a grade 7 (A) despite her average at school being a low B.

2019/2020 highlights:
- 100% pass rate for 11+ independent school exams. Students have passed exams for New Hall, Forest School and City of London boys.
- a KS3 student averaging a grade 6 is now at an average of an 8.
- Dev’s quarterly catch-ups with parents have shown students’ confidence and maths knowledge have increased.
- A student at Chigwell school was at the bottom of the class, after three weeks of preparing for an end of term exam, he achieved the highest mark in his class.

2018/2019 highlights:
- 100% 11+ exam pass rate for grammar and independent schools with students accepting offers at Woodford County High School and top independent schools such as Brentwood School, Forest School, Chigwell School and Bancroft's School.
- All students gained offers at their first choice school. A couple of students received a minimum of two offers from top independent schools.

2017/2018 highlights:
- One of Dev’s students has been awarded a place at Forest School for 13+.
- A student averaging a U in AS Level Maths, achieved a high C after two months of lessons.
- A student averaging a low D in GCSE Spanish achieved a comfortable B grade.
- A KS3 Maths student averaging a borderline level 3 achieved a high level 6 in his end of year exams and is predicted a level 7/8.
- A GCSE Maths student averaging a low D achieved a comfortable B Grade after a short period of lessons.
- All students have achieved their desired grade as a minimum.

Entrance exam students:

Dev’s 11+ and 13+ students have passed the entrance exams to the following schools: City of London Boys, Bancroft’s, Forest, Chigwell, Brentwood, Woodford County High and New Hall.

Dev offers a pre assessment to entrance exam students to determine their strengths and weaknesses and provides feedback to parents. He is also able to offer a peer to peer review on past 11+ papers sat by his students so that parents are able to see how their child is performing relative to other students in the same age group. Over the years he has collected feedback from students on the questions asked at the interview stage which he uses to assist future students. Please note that Dev's tutoring service is to ultimately ensure his students are better mathematicians and not designed just to pass exams. This is to ensure that when his students start secondary school they are able to continue with the school's pace of covering mathematics material. Most of Dev’s entrance exam students continue to stay with him for secondary school mathematics tutoring and therefore the majority of his students are long-term students.

KS3/GCSE/IGCSE Maths students:

Dev covers the topics in the exam board syllabus and sets questions for homework from the core Mathematics textbooks used by top independent schools and his bank of past paper questions. This helps to reinforce his students' understanding of the topics all whilst ensuring they are entering the exam room as ready as possible. Please note that Dev covers all exam boards for GCSE/IGCSE maths (OCR, Edexcel, AQA, CIE etc.).

Dev also introduces challenging problems from leading mathematics bodies to his students. This ensures they are able to apply their mathematical skills and start to develop strong problem-solving skills and a love for problem solving. This will help his students to deal with the problems that are mathematical and non mathematical that they encounter throughout their life.

For your peace of mind, Dev is Security Cleared and holds a DBS certificate.

Reasons to choose Dev as your tutor:
1) He limits his students to ensure he maintains his teaching quality across all students. This is evidenced by the reviews thus far.
2) Dev tells you exactly which books are worth purchasing to boost your knowledge and hence save you the time and stress of searching and contemplating.

3) He provides full worked solutions to all questions from the books you will use together so your child can recap the methods taught in the lesson.
4) He has unrivalled patience and can boost his students’ confidence in a subject.
5) He provides honest advice and feedback throughout.
6) He monitors the progress and learning objectives of his students to ensure they are maximising their potential.
7) Dev is a punctual and reliable individual.

Tutoring Experience

Dev has been tutoring full time since 2016 and has taught a number of students KS3, GCSE and A-Level Maths. He has also taught a number of students preparing for the 10+, 11+ and 13+ entrance exams to top independent and grammar schools.

Tutoring Approach

11+: Dev specialises in Maths. He has made his own 11+ question bank and mock exams which mirrors the style of questions asked in the exams and runs mock exam sessions and provides feedback on improvement areas.

Secondary Maths: Dev’s lessons involve going through all topics in the exam syllabus, learning the necessary theory and reinforcing the students' understanding through an abundance of increasingly challenging questions. Homework will also be questions from various exercises and past papers which will aid their understanding. As the exam date approaches, he focuses on past papers to ensure his students are entering their exam as ready as one can be. He has always set the bar high and ensure his students extract the most out of their potential.

From his experience throughout school and university, Dev has noticed that the prospect of learning challenging subjects in general can be daunting and students often have low confidence levels as a result. Dev would like to share with you the techniques that he followed to achieve these high marks whilst making the learning experience thoroughly enjoyable. Lastly, Dev offers out of contact hours assistance should his students have any queries regarding the exercises set or otherwise. On a number of occasions he has provided his students a full worked solution to mathematics questions outside of his scheduled teaching hours.