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Information About John:

Personal Description:

I am Management Consultant and work in London, I have been tutoring Maths and Physics in my spare time for 7 years and get great satisfaction from it. I graduated from the University of Nottingham in 2002 with an honours degree in Physics, I then joined BAE Systems as a project manager. I now work for Accenture Monday to Friday and tutor at the weekends. I find that because I am not a teacher by day, I can interact at a different level with my students, specifically I can relate the concepts in Physics and Maths to real world business applications. This approach helps to engage students and motivates them to learn Maths and Physics, I believe that this desire to learn is essential for any student to get the top grade.

Teaching Experience:

I have been tutoring part time after work and at weekends for over 7 years. I have had a number of students, ranging in abilities. In all case where I have tutored a GCSE student from their mock exams to the real exams their grades have increased by at least one, in an exceptional case it moved from a D to and A*.

Tutoring Approach:

I only tutor Maths & Physics, subjects that many people find difficult but yet are fundamentally important to real world, everyday life. My approach to tutoring is simple, and can be applied to everything one does in life, first is to motivate the student and once they are motivated apply the principle of "practice makes perfect". Unless the student wants to learn, they will not be willing to practice and unless they practice they will fail to achieve. To understand what motivates a student, I first determine what they want to achieve in life (if they don't know yet, then I help them define a near term goal). I find that because I operate in the business world Monday to Friday I can relate the importance of maths and physics to achieving career goals of just about any student. Once the student wants to learn, I diagnose the areas of the syllabus that they find the most difficult and then focus on these areas first. I set 1 to 2 hours of homework each week, all homework is past exam questions. The following week's lesson will normally be half to run through their homework providing guidance where they are going wrong and explanation of model answers, if the student has grasped the prior weeks subject then we move on to a another area of the syllabus.

Qualifications:

• Physics BSc Hons

Further Information:

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