Stephen

Stephen started helping my son with GCSE Biology and Chemistry in November last year.

He got predicted a 7 in both Biology and Chemistry in his mock exam in January this year.

Stephen taught my son online regularly with his personalised materials.
He did not like online lessons previously but with Stephen's method and techniques it was very efficient !!
My son enjoyed every sessions with Stephen.

His way of turoring was very unique and professional. Stephen started by showing my son all the topics for GCSE Biology and Chemistry. He then asked my son to identify the topics that he struggled on and needed help with. They then made a plan to make sure that all those topics were covered before the exam started so my son was confident and ready for his exam!

After each session, Stephen sent me the homework to print off for my son to do. When my son completed his HW, I sent it back to Stephen to mark. With this method it was very effective way of tutoring. It helped my son to revise what he had been learning with Stephen and it helped Stephen to see whether my son understood the topic he already taught him from marking his homework.

On GCSE result day last week, 22nd August, my son was very very happy as he got 9 in both Biology and Chemistry. We were very very happy with him too!

Thank you very much Stephen for helping and had been mentoring my son during his GCSE journey.

I highly recommend Stephen to toturing your children.

PH
27/08/2024

Stephen helped me with AQA GCSE Biology, Chemistry and Physics, in which I received a grade 8 throughout on results day, after being at a grade 5/6 at the end of November in year 11. His tutoring is carefully and thoughtfully tailored to each tutee, and he adapts this throughout, ensuring he is teaching them in the most efficient way so that they can perform their best throughout exams. His tutoring enables the tutee not only remember the topic, but to fully understand it so that they can explain it and answer any type of question that they receive on this topic.
Stephen’s tutoring is online - which for some tutors/tutees, makes a large difference, but for Stephen’s it doesn’t. Each lesson is engaging, allowing the student to see the powerpoint and videos of practicals that he projects, but also allowing the student to ask questions and have the ability to learn at their own pace. He helped me form a study schedule that was achievable, but one that I was also able to follow from the end of March, all the way through to the end of exams at the end of June. It made me realise that as long as you are working hard and effectively, you don’t need to be working from the early hours of the morning until late at night, as you require time to rest in order to be able to keep a study schedule going on for the duration of the exam period.
The lessons consisted, in my case, of re-learning a topic with Stephen or perhaps being taught one that I hadn’t been, and often continuing to be taught this for a few sessions, to cover all content, and then Stephen would set me homework, on each aspect of this topic, to consolidate my learning, after doing some active recall in the lesson and reviewing my notes. Stephen would then mark this homework, and deliver the feedback to me in the lesson, covering whatever questions or material that I didn’t understand or get the marks on. As the time went on, I discovered that this method of answering as many exam style questions as possible was something that worked for me incredibly well, and by the end of GCSEs I had completed a question pack on every topic.
Additionally, Stephen doesn’t solely care about how well you do in the Sciences, he wants you to do your best and achieve great results in all your subjects, so when forming the study schedule, it isn’t dedicated to the Sciences being the top of the hierarchy, but instead it is designed so that you spend the most time on the subjects you need the most time on and so forth.
I wouldn’t want to recommend any other tutor for the sciences - Stephen is really incredible at what he does, and he has a lot of experience from being a full-time tutor, but also from teaching A-Level Biology, students of medicine and other courses, as well as being incredibly familiar with each exam board and how to tackle the questions they give you and to know what they want.
Thank you Stephen!

We've found Stephen to be a fantastic tutor and would be very happy to contact him again if our children needed further Science tuition.

Throughout the process, I found you to be extremely thorough in your approach, ensuring that every detail was covered and understood. Your straight-talking manner made it easy to have clear and direct conversations, which I greatly appreciated. Additionally, you were always approachable, making it easy to reach out with any questions or concerns.

It's clear that you are in high demand, and it's no surprise given the level of professionalism and dedication you bring to your work. I wanted to express my respect for the way you manage your services and handle your clients.

I found Stephen to help me with Science GCSE, Biology in particular, and the progress I made is beyond what I expected of myself. Stephen is a very supportive and knowledgeable tutor who helped me improve not only in my subjects but in the way I learnt and revised.
Having lessons online was easy and efficient, and the powerpoints that were used to learn from were effective and very clear. Stephen’s method of teaching involved finding the ways in which I learnt best and adapting, for example including more diagrams, images and videos for a visual learner, how his information in his powerpoints were conveyed so that I could understand the concepts better.
One of the most valuable things I have taken away during my lessons with Stephen are the study schedules; they helped me to minimise distractions and fit everything I aimed to do into weekly timetables. Furthermore, the homeworks that I received from Stephen after each topic was covered involved exam-style questions that were extremely helpful for practice and consolidation, especially in the lead up to exams. He ensured that I was not just taking in the new information but also understanding it and would come back to a previous topic and test me on the key ideas.
Stephen’s exceptional method of tutoring was apparent from the first session. I am very grateful to him for the things that I have learnt, which I will continue to apply in my next exams and in the future, as well as his impressive dedication to his students and his teaching. Thank you Stephen!