Ramin - East Finchley tutor






Information About Ramin:


Personal Description:

As cliched as it might sound, I want to teach as I find it extremely rewarding. I truly love learning and have a great passion for both my academic subjects and external intellectual interests, which I feel is the main source of my academic prowess. The potential prospect of bringing about or nurturing such passion in a student excites me deeply.
I participate in a variety of extra-curricular activities I put large effort into, including debating, drama and charitable enterprise, which I feel have developed me as a person and allow me to communicate much better with other people. I also extend my passion for the intellectual to a vast quantity of reading books and publications of all sorts, and writing fiction, drama, poetry and journalism. This is part of what defines me as a person and has certainly assisted me in attaining an offer from Oxford University.



Teaching Experience:

I regularly mentor younger students in my school as a form mentor and assist them with their schoolwork.
I have taught several full English classes in my school for years eight to ten, for which I have received great positive feedback from the students and supervising teachers.
I regularly coach and judge inner-school debating, which involves high-levels of analytic and communicative skill invaluable for academic subjects.



Tutoring Approach:

I feel that there are two areas of teaching. Learning and passing exams. There is a common misconception that these two are one and the same. They are not. Learning involves appreciating, understanding and hopefully enjoying a subject. Passing the exam involves acknowledging the correct hoops to jump through. This is an unfortunate but true fact in the current educational climate. In my tutoring I seek to achieve both for students.
For learning, what is most important is to engage with the subject and to find something enjoyable within it. I believe that finding what most appeals to the students natural abilities and enhancing that will bring about a greater appreciation for the subject as a whole, which will allow the student to learn what is necessary with much more rigour, involvement and enjoyment.
When it comes to passing and doing well in exams, it must be remembered that the examiners are looking for very specific criteria to be fulfilled and, in the majority of cases, this is all that is necessary (although not preferable). Learning as I described above is still a much more effective method for a student to achieve academic success and I will strive to make sure that all my students learn in such a fashion as much as I can, but for those less confident in a certain subject, getting through the exam can be made much easier by clear demonstration of what the mark scheme and curriculum specify. I feel that there is sometimes a confusion in school teachers' teaching between learning the subject and passing the exam for it. By making a clear distinction, the process can be greatly simplified and exam success can be much easier with focused practice and effort.



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Qualifications:

  • AS Levels - 5 As - English, Latin, Maths, History, Economics
  • GCSEs - 8 A*s & 2 As - 2 English, Maths, History, Geography, Latin, Biology, Drama, Music, Spanish

Further Information:

Availability:  Weekends / Weekdays (evenings)
Types of Tutoring:   Travels to you / From their home / Online
References Supplied?   Yes