Benji's Feedback

From Nathan

Benji has pulled Nathan up from rock bottom to an A student in a miraculously short period of time. He has done wonders for his confidence as well as essay writing, planning, research and revision techniques. Huge thanks!

From Lindsey

No nonsense teaching, something I had hoped I would find for my 15 year old's GCSE History. He homes in on weak areas very astutely. So glad we found Benji because to be honest, I had almost given up.I would highly recommend to anyone.

From Kitty

Benji was an excellent online tutor for my son during his final terms of A level revision. Although engaged for History, Benji was able to improve confidence and achievement across all subjects due to concentrating on essay writing skills. Benji was highly organised and supportive throughout, a focused and hard working tutor setting essays, marking and discussing them - inspiring and motivating, pushing my son to work a great deal harder and to appreciate and understand the study of History. Benji was an exemplary tutor whom I heartily recommend - my son enjoyed working with him and gained a great deal from the experience.

From Hilaryjane

Benji is a breath of fresh air as a tutor for my son’s A level and Oxbridge application.He is challenging,hard-working and engaging.

From Audrey

Benji was very helpful and engaging. However my daughter needed more help with content and the emphasis was more on her personal statement and course work .

I wish I'd known that Audrey desired that change in the approach - if I had we absolutely could have changed tack. The most important thing though is that she find someone with whom it works, so I do wish her the best. Am always around to help in the future should you need it. Best. Benji

From Joseph

Benji really knows what hes talking about and is so helpful. He really helped me with both coursework and career advice which was a big issue for me. I would highly recommend him. It was a pleasure learning under him.

From Victoria

From Tom

Benji has helped me restructure my writing style in economics to achieve the highest marks in essay style exam questions and my improvement since starting with him is significant. Benji's guidance is clear and his tutoring style suits anyone willing to improve. I highly recommend his service.

From Anila

I wanted to say a massive thank you to Benji for the support he is giving to me in my study. Every time I call him, he is there to help me because I study and work and care for my children. Thank you from my heart, Benji.

From Jake

Amazing!!! He teaches your child how to think for himself and eventually be independent. Exactly what we need from a tutor.

From Desiree

Benji has really helped me with my History A-Level this year. Before having him as my tutor my writing style was weak and I had no clear structure or focus in my essays but since we started our sessions he gave the structure I needed; whilst pushing me to think for myself and be a better student. Moreover, he taught me how to critically analyse the question and decide what parts of the question I had to focus my essay on. Overall, Benji has been a great tutor and I recommend him to anyone who needs help in History.

From luz

We were very impressed with Benji professionalism, David has learned exam technique and he is applying this knowledge on his current A level exams making him to be more confident on the outcome
many thanks

From Fang

I would say I was extremely lucky to have Benji as the tutor of my daughter.10 weeks back, She was preparing for an academic scholarship exam which includes history. As my daughter has been studying in China, she hadn't got much experience in writing an essay in English. With Benji's help, I saw her improve greatly. And finally, she got the scholarship and got an A in history. I am impressed at how much she has improved in such a short period of time. My daughter says that Benji is very insightful, always has ideas and changes the way she approaches an essay for the better, so I would definitely recommend Benji as a History teacher.

From David

From Michelle

For the past 8 months Benji has been a great tutor. When I started having tutor sessions with Benji I was not confident, my written work was structured poorly, and I didn’t go into enough depth. I can see this has all changed. In December last year Benji suggested I should be tested for dyslexia. He had picked up from reading my written work that I might suffer from it. It turned out that I do indeed have dyslexia and knowing this he has been a great help. My teachers have seen a big improvement in my work and my anticipated grades have changed for the better. To anyone who is looking for an experienced, friendly, and high quality tutor I really recommend that you go see Benji

From Kevin

I was very happy to meet benji. Before I knew him, I had no idea how to write an economic paper, but now my economy has been greatly improved. Because I am a Chinese student, my English has some obstacles, but my economic level has also been greatly improved. He used his own unique way to train my examination ability, so that my examination level improved very obviously.

From Heidi

Very helpful and kind. Gave a sound structure for work and confidence.
thank you

From Ivo

I must say, we (including our son) consider ourselves lucky to find Benji as a tutor for our son for more then a year now, and we intend to continue as long as it takes for our son to ahcieve his ambitions. Benji has an outstanding patience, understanding, positive influence on our son and efficient approach to study in preps for A levels (ecconomics, history, politics, geography).

I highly recommend Benji as a tutor regardless of the subject… Ivo Nuic

From John

Benji was incredibly helpful in guiding me with my essay technique. More than this, and beyond what I expected to get from the sessions, he fundamentally changed the way I approached University level study for the better. Very patient, methodical, clear with his instructions and I can't recommend him highly enough!

From Louise

My daughter started with Benji recently and we have already noticed a change in confidence. Benji is an exceptional tutor.

From Vincent

Benji has been an outstanding Tutor for my son. He was very committed to deliver the best support and was always available to discuss the way forward to achieve the objectives defined. He explained very clearly the method he chose to follow. I would not hesitate one second to recommend Benji for future A Level support.

From William

Benji is a motivating tutor. He has honest perspective which has helped me over my A-levels. He was been able to find my weak spots and developed those areas. He is not shy in conveying his opinions which enabled me to grow. Furthermore he pushed me outside my comfort zone and was able to give constructive feedback on work which really helped. He also has a very structured way of working which helped me immensely in my essays.

From Anna

Super helpful and patient with my queries. Very friendly guy who was always quick to respond to my emails and gave feedback promptly.

From James

Benji clearly explained how to structure and go about writing the essays for my exams, which proved very useful. We further engaged in very interesting discussions on the Middle East.

From Manuela

Benji has been tutoring my daughter for over 6 months and we are extremely pleased. He is very reliable and extremely knowledgeable in both History and Government and Politics A-level. My daughter's essay writing skills have improved enormously both in structure and content knowledge. She feels much more confident when writing essays at school and her grades have been improving steadily. I have no reservations in recommending Benji and we will contact him again in the future if need be.

From Rory

I have enjoyed the way you frame concepts with stories.
You talked me through how to structure an essay in a clear way that no other teacher has managed to do before.
You have helped clarify my thoughts on topics: my mind normally goes off on a tangent, but you help keep it on track to answer the essay question.

From Dani

From Adonis

Excellent tutor. Very thorough and full of insightful knowledge. With his help I gained 2 A stars at A2 level in history and politics.

From Eddie

Independent of any exam results, the significant and major advances Raffi made in the wake of help from Benji have been established in his school course work. Thanks very much. A highly recommended tutor.

From Flora

Benji has been a really amazing help and support to my son who has just taken his A-level economics. My sons school had also changed to a new board and syllabus, which seemed relatively obscure, but Benji did his research and adapted extremely well. Benji is incredibly efficient and organised, never ever late / cancelling, utterly reliable. He gives lots of very constructive feedback, which my son said he found hugely helpful. We will wait and see what his results are, but Benji has without a doubt helped my son raise his grade by a couple of bands, he really "knows his stuff"! we definitely recommend him.

From Joseph

Benji has been extremely helpful in improving my essay technique. This has improved the quality of my work and also helped improve my confidence when under exam conditions!

From Louisa

Knowledgable, professional ,friendly. Very good.

From Lucy

You seem very knowledgeable about the exam requirements and seem to give Hardy some confidence which is brilliant. He does need to hear anything that in his work that is positive in order to encourage him to try harder. Last lesson seemed a bit wasted - taking time to connect and then no real plan for the lesson. I will get Hardy to go through a paper next time before the lesson and let you know which one he has done beforehand so that the lesson can be more constructive - unless you would prefer to set the paper for him?. (one of his problems is organisation as well as confidence!). Lucy

Thanks for your feedback Lucy. That last lesson wasn't the most productive its true. Tuition does depend on the Tutor's ability to react to the work done by the student for us to gain traction. As you know, in this first lesson, Hardy hadn't been able to complete much work which left us without a great deal to work on. What we were able to do was talk through how these could be beefed up and made longer, and I've assured him that he is perfectly OK to use the exam board mark schemes for the time being as 'stabilisers' to get him moving, and enable him to get some material down on to the page. Once he's more confident doing so these can be slowly withdrawn at a later date.

We did have a plan for the lesson which was to work through a paper together, looking at how much he'd been able to put into play the initial guidance I'd given him in our first lesson. I was pleased to see that elements of it had made an appearance, but as I said above, the next step to allow these lessons to be a bit more productive would need to see him completing an entire paper to give us enough to go over.

As for setting him papers, I have already given him instructions on those, but can clarify with him if he's at all unclear. Just ask him to drop me a text.

Overall, the thing I'd say is that these processes take time. The beginning is often a bit confused, and frustrating, as the student starts to comprehend what is actually required of them by the exam board, but continual practice at a decent rate will see that sense of what is required improve, and with it confidence tends to follow quite swiftly thereafter. My priority is to ensure that he is absolutely clear on what is required of him, and to support him in practicing that regularly. Its my experience that confidence, and success tend to follow thereafter in due course.

Looking forward to continuing working together
Benji

From James

Absolutely delighted with all aspects of your service. Many thanks

From Rishi

Great tutor - helped me improve my work thoroughly. Overall a wonderful guy and tutor!

From Ulas

From Darryl

Top quality presenter with very affable approach to people; will definitely use again

From Tamara

Benji was a great tutor. He helped me completely plan, write and revise my essay. He was very helpful and well-informed, even on a subject he did not specifically state that he studied. I will definitely be contacting him again soon.

From Philippe

So far so good; Orlando is finding his sessions very helpful.
Thanks.

From Elizabeth

From Jeremy

I am an Economics and History Student that was getting erratic results in my essays(usually low 2:1s)
I was provided with excellent and concise feedback to improve my rhetoric, and he made my research and knowledge of my subjects to 'flow' better in essays so that I was able to get a strong first in the first essay that we worked together with. I hope to work on more essays on the future!

From Vincent

Great tutor, very committed, sensitive and intelligent. Our son is not only making tangible progress but is also more interested, committed and ultimately happier.
Vincent B.

From Justin

Benji has been a great tutor so far. He really knows how to get the best out of his students and challenges you to go beyond your targets grade, which definitely helps! Pretty much seems like he knows everything about anything and therefore is a tutor for any student.

From Luiz

Benji is an excellent tutor who is very knowledgeable.
He connected well with my son and his needs to revise his personal statement. His practical knowledge of all aspects of writing, history, economics and more is of the highest level.
Highly recommended.

From James

My son wanted to review the syllabus of Economics following a mock test and sharpen his technique on long form questions. I'm glad to have found Benji as he's flexible enough but importantly organised and efficient. His assistance has quickly improved motivation and confidence, which was good bu had taken a knock.

From Aweta

Benji was very helpful and gave me a very good understanding of the subject in such a short space of time before my exams. He was very friendly and made sure I understood everything I was not confident on. I would definitely recommend Benji to anyone who wants to ensure they get the best grade possible.

From Kate

Benji is an excellent tutor.

From Lorraine

I am taking both Economics AS and A2 papers this summer and Benji has helped me enormously in the very short space of time available before my exams. After finding out how far behind the teaching at my school was, he has made every effort to fit me into his very busy schedule. He is very professional and understanding and tailors his lessons to suit my learning style. He makes economics very accessible and has really helped me improve my essay writing.

He is very good at what he does and I would definitely recommend!

From Joseph

Benji was an excellent tutor and helped me improve my coursework drastically and made sure that I got my money's worth. I would gladly recommend him.

From Celia

Fantastic tutor. Benji has really helped my son tackle essay-writing technique for GCSE History. This has involved developing strategies for examining and evaluating an essay question and delivering considered and precise information to answer the question properly. Benji also focusses on developing confidence so that what skills and knowledge the tutee already has can be much better applied. My son has found these strategies are really beginning to pay off, and also hugely enjoys the lessons. In addition, I have found Benji to be completely reliable and professional about organising the sessions, and extremely good at communicating with the parents! Great tutor, highly recommended! Celia

From Toyin

Benji is a very good and thorough tutor. He explains topics extensively and in depth. He spends time explaining the structure of questions and how they should be tackled. He is very good at using examples to explain a point.

Timi

From Rajni

From Julia

Before I started with Benji (in Jan/Feb this year), my exam technique was terrible and I had been obtaining successive E/U grades for politics essays. My paragraphs were incoherent and evaluation of points was non-existent.

Benji has been of indispensable help, giving me a great essay structure which not only maximises marks, but is also time efficient. I would definitely recommend Benji as a tutor, who has undoubtedly salvaged my academic prospects and, therefore, my future! Cheers Benji

Will

From Doreen

I liked the feedback I saw on the website for Ben and after several exchanges of emails decided to progress to a face to face meeting. I arranged to meet him with my daughter to discuss our requirements in detail and to ensure that Tutor and Tutee were a good match. From our discussions it was clear that Ben has one style of tutoring which he does not flex and also does not focus on content. Which to me is a gap even if the other aspects of exam technique is strong. Furthermore, when we have our first meeting with a Tutor, we have never been asked to pay as most would agree that it's more of a suitability discussion and not a lesson. In Ben's case he wanted to be paid the full hourly rate just for the discussion and indicated to me that he is a very financially orientated individual and that other important traits of genuine concern for the progress and development of the Tutee were clearly far less important. I was quite surprise by that behaviour so we paid him for the 1 hour but then never used him. Although I appreciate for some people it can be their main earnings it should not feel like just another Tutee.

Hi Doreen

Thank you for your feedback, I'm always grateful to hear people's thoughts, even in an instance such as this when it hasn't worked out the way you'd planned.

As inflexible as you might find it, I'm afraid that the only way your daughter is going to improve her essay writing technique is with regular practice and though I understand she has a busy schedule, I wouldn't be doing you any favours by being flexible with the truth and implying that she'd be able to make up such a large performance gap as her present grades reflect any other way.

Furthermore, if you're hoping to have a meeting with any professional for which you don't expect to pay the publically listed fee, then I suggest that you check your 'commonly held' expectations with them first, especially when the website provides a free messaging service to clarify necessary details prior to a first appointment.

You may also want to ensure fees are settled in a timely manner to avoid any future tutor having to chase you for payment, we may seem less 'financially motivated' then.

I do wish you and your daughter the best for her exams next year, and I'm happy to help in any way I can should it be needed

Yours

Benji

From Elizabeth

Hi Benji,

Sorry that it's taken so long to supply feedback.

I was very impressed with your approach to Alexandra and her difficulties with writing essays. I thought it particularly helpful of you to meet with her.

Your advice was pertinent and helpful and I know that Alexandra found your input constructive and helpful.

I hope you are well.

Beat wishes.

Elizabeth

From Daniel

I found Benji to be very efficient. Very easy to get along with but at the same time pushed me very hard. I know my exam technique and my general approach to my work has improved a lot because if his tuition.

From Andre

Excellent and highly knowledgable regarding exam technique but also in giving a broader take on the subject in question, as opposed to just focussing on the exams. Something I felt was lacking in the mainstream teaching of A-Levels.

- Andre

From Michal

Benji has been tutoring me for over half a year now, and he's been really helpful in teaching me essay techniques in A2 level History. His feedback is very thorough,and I feel that my essays have improved enormously, since he began to tutor me. I feel confident that because of his help, I'll be successful in my exam! Thank you BenjI!

From Clare

Benji did my son a great favour by agreeing to give him some last minute Economics tutoring for his AS exam. The session was extremely helpful and he found Benji to be friendly, approachable, knowledgeable and most importantly, inspiring. My son went in to the exam 2 days later with renewed confidence in how to approach the questions. Thank you Benji!

From Ana

Benji has helped my son with his essay writing technique. He's shown him a structured way of answering questions which he will be able to use for other subjects in the future too. Benji is reliable and enthusiastic. My son found him very easy to get on with. I just wish we'd found him earlier!

From Brahma

Very helpful tutor who helped me make the transition from a rather unconventional background to succeed at my studies at postgraduate level at a highly demanding course. Feedback he gives on assignments and writing concise arguments are very good and to a high level and I cannot recommend him enough, a very good tutor and person.

From Mark

Benji is very well rehearsed in both the content and format for all modules of AQA A-level Economics. Helped me enourmously with the structure and format of my answers, especially the longer "essay" type 25 mark questions. He's always more than happy to answer any questions, explains feedback in a thoroughly comprehensible way and generally is just a really nice guy!

From Jane

Unfortunately, we didn't get to meet up but thanks for letting us know that you have moved. All the best.

From Susan

Benji is a friendly, approachable and reliable tutor together with a professional attitude. I feel that his analytical and positive approach will be instrumental in assisting my daughter to achieve her goal in A2 Economics.

From Richard

Benji was instrumental in helping my daughter improve her History grade from B to an A and, as a result, she managed to get into her university of choice. Benji was a huge help in building her confidence and teaching her a fundamentally different essay writing technique to the one she had learnt at school. I thoroughly recommend him as a tutor.

From Zara

Although I only had a few lessons with Benji I found them to be extremely useful, particularly in terms of structuring my answers and sourcing the most significant pieces of material in order to achieve the highest marks. I would undoubtedly recommend Benji to anyone looking for an experienced teacher and friendly person

From Sarah

Benji's tutorials have been extremely helpful for my A2 History exam and coursework, particularly with exam technique and essay structure. Benji's extensive knowledge on the subject has improved my understanding of the topic content. He explains things very clearly and making topics easy to understand. I would highly recommend him as a history tutor!

From Nasrin

Benji has been tutoring my younger brother since September and has since introduced him to alternative and more effective ways of writing essays. This has been highly beneficial for my brother as he has managed to improve his overall AS grade by two grades and he also received an A for his coursework. I highly recommend Benji if you are looking for a history tutor.

From Robyn

Benji has been tutoring our son for the past month for his final exams for Economics. Benji explains all aspects very clearly and has a relaxed and friendly manner . I would not hesitate to recomend Benji he has helped our son at this very stressful time .

From Stephen

I could not be happier with the help that I'm receiving from Benji, especially in such a short period of time. In a small number of weeks I've gone from Ds to As in AS History and this has been helped especially by being properly shown how to structure my essays. I feel much more confident after having him go through my essays with me and it's made such a difference to my work!

From Ginette

Benji has been excellent. My son was really struggling with his economics - to the point where he had given up completely on his AS - and he is now back on track with a fighting chance in the exam, and keen to continue with his lessons.

From Mark

Benji has tutored me History for roughly 7 months now. I have been having an hourly session every week and I have never left feeling as though I haven’t learned something new. I failed my AS exams last year and decided to retake Year 12. Following my poor exam results, I found that I was under confident in my ability to write a history essay. However, Benji has helped me realise that I have the capability to write an essay to a good standard. He also introduced the ‘thematic approach’ to me, an essay structure which my school teachers failed to tell me about. Over just a few weeks I could see huge improvements, and my essays are still improving now. I cannot recommend Benji enough!
Sophie

From Carole

Benji has been an incredibly supportive and helpful tutor. He has provided excellent advice on essay writing. He taught my son a new way of structuring his responses so that the essays he now writes are well planned and more detailed, consequently his grades have improved significantly. I would thoroughly recommend him as a tutor to any anyone studying AS/A2 History.

From Sophie

Benji has given me really helpful, practical advice on essay structure and technique. The sessions are proving very useful.

From Tony

Benji has been excellent for our daughter. She went to him with a B and a D at AS level in Government and Politics, and this has been turned into A grades! She has gained much confidence and developed her ability to argue a case effectively. We are very grateful for his input.

From William

Fantastic tutor! Helped my with my essay writing skills and improved my ability and confidence dramatically in time for my exams. Ben helped me to gain huge improvements in my writing and knowledge, even given the short space of time we had. I highly recommend him to anyone.

From Carmen

Benji is one of the best tutors I've ever seen. He has excellent writing skills and really knows how to write a perfect essay.
His teaching is lucid and I very much admire his enthusiasm for teaching.

I would not hesittate to recommend Benji to anybody who needs help with History.

From James

Benji is very knowledgeable, friendly and explains things well. His help on essay structure for my son's A-Level Politics has been invaluable.

From Tarka

Benji-Alexander has really helped in the lead up to my History AS paper. We have payed particular attention to essay technique, which i believe he has managed to improved.
Thank you very much Benji

From Antonio

Benji been working with my daughter nigh on 3 months now. I so wish l had found Benji before my daughter did so poorly in her AS exams in Business Economics and History instead of listening to her schools teachers melee month excuses of what went wrong with their teaching methods and how unfair the exam board have been. The truth of the matter is a student poorly prepared no matter how studious they are will fail !!! So it was important that not only l found a tutor but one that could actually teach!!!.
Benji works fantastically with my daughter, and not only transformed a failing student but also to restore her confidence when it was at such a low ebb. His perception of what went wrong was uncanny and he went straight to work rectifying the problems. He has a knack of extracting the best out of her but does expect commitment students who want to succeed and fulfill their ambitions. I know proof of the pudding is still yet to come when she actually achieves her grades, but l truly cannot speak highly enough of Benji and wish to thank him for all his help so far. So if any concerned parents read this and get the opportunity and chance for Benji to tutor their son or daughter grab it with both hands you will not be disappointed.

Kind regards

Tony

From Jerry

My son was struggling with both economics and some areas of history, and we really needed someone to help him out (school teachers weren't making a difference).
Benji is very knowledgeable, confident and able to communicate clearly and effectively with teenagers. He was able to identify the weak areas and fill in the gaps very quickly. My son wouldn't have achieved A* in both subjects without Benji's help.

From Joshua

My son really enjoyed his tutoring with Benji. Benji didn't just help him with the subject but also about how to form his work correctly, different ways to revise that make sense and are enjoyable plus otherwise of learning about the subject that almost feel like you're not working! Benji only had 6 weeks with my son who had been on a 'gap' year so really had his work cut out and was very accommodating with days and time to enable my son to maximise the time. My son resat his Government and Politics A2 exam last week and he went into his exam feeling much more confident and said it went very well, so fingers crossed for results day. I would high recommend Benji.

From Jeremiah

Over the past few months, Benji has been tutoring my son who is retaking his A2 History exam this summer.

We came across Benji by chance and we all feel very lucky to have found him.

The sessions with Benji have been invaluable. He has an in-depth knowledge of the subject matter and, as importantly, understands how to apply that knowledge to get a student ready to sit the exam. At the outset Benji took great care to identify areas where my son was weak, to ensure that he would be fully prepared by June. He did this by devising a timetable of learning and revision tailored to my son's needs.

Benji's enthusiasm for History has helped to bring the subject matter to life for my son.

Benji has been more than a tutor; he has been a mentor to my son whose own knowledge and interest in the subject has grown week by week.

I would not hesitate in recommending Benji to a student who needs support and guidance from an expert in his chosen field.

From Alix

My friend and I were really struggling with our essay technique and structure. Yet Benji managed to Greatly increase our style and flow of my essay. He was great help and marked numerous of essays giving is great feedback and targets for next time. Also I gained a more Insightful understanding of the topic through benjis teaching.

From Steve

After a few sessions with Benji Jack now, at the very least, has much more confidence in his own abilities and seems to have a better grasp of how to approach both essays and exams. The proof of the pudding will be in the exam results but, so far, so good.

From Robert

Benji has boosted the confidence I have towards my Economics A level and has been extremely helpful with every aspect of the course. I would recommend him to anyone doing Business or Economics

From Mark

Benji has really helped my daughters confidence in A level History. He is assisting her to understand the subject material, understand what the examiners are looking for in the essays and how to structure an essay.
Benji is flexible on days/time when lessons can be held and will recommend the occassional longer lesson if it is required or closer to exams.
Most importantly my daughter believes that Benji is making a difference to her subject understanding and I cant ask for more than that.

From Elizabeth

Really pleased with Benji. He is easy to talk to and to ask questions. He is enthusiastic about his subjects and his way of teaching is really helpful to me and i'm starting to feel more confident about the subjects and forthcoming exams.

From Wendy

Benji been great. He is very keen to tailor the tutorial to the needs of the student. He is a delightful young man and clearly passionate about economics and keen to make it understandable. My son is finding him very helpful.

From Dawn

Alex has proved to be an excellent tutor to my daughter, who is taking English A level. He is patient and conscientious, with an ability to explain topics in a manner which is clear and comprehensible. He has been helpful and constructive in his approach and has helped boost my daughter's confidence in the subject.

From Glennis

Alex has given me a new way of approaching the writing of essays, and this has been a huge help to me in structuring my answers. His enthusiasm for the subject is infectious… His enthusiasm for the subject is infectious.

From Amanda

Alex has provided some very constructive input which I am sure will be very beneficial.