Michail's Feedback

From Suri

As someone who hadn't touched chemistry in a while, Michail's teaching style is visibly helpful and reassuring. His depth of knowledge is incredibly evident, and he explains everything, making sure I have understood and not left with any questions. He tailors his lessons to suit my level of experience, making complex concepts feel accessible again. I'm glad I found Michail as a tutor, as I can see the improvement myself, and feel more prepared for exams under his guidance.

From Mays

I only had one lesson with the student. At the end of that, she said she was very happy with the progress she had made and she asked me to schedule another lesson for the following week.
On the day of the second lesson, just 3hrs before that was due to start, she emailed me that she wanted to cancel further lessons but this was not related to the tuition itself, she said she simply could not afford the time to travel to me.
No further comments…

From Numra

Michalis is a superb Chemistry tutor. He is very thorough and takes careful measures in helping my daughter grasp concept that my daughter may not have understood properly in class. With just 2 sessions my daughter’s test marks went up from 60% to 90%!! Michalis is wonderful and works very hard to make sure my daughter thoroughly understands whatever the chosen topic may be. Michalis has helped build my daughter’s confidence for class tests that she has really been struggling with. What a wonderful difference I have seen in her!!
I would definitely recommend Michalis!!

From Judy

My daughter has been tutored by Michail for several months in Higher Maths and Chemistry. He is extremely knowledgeable and is happy to work on any area my daughter is struggling with that week in either subject. Since starting tutoring with Michail my daughter's test scores have improved significantly as has her confidence in these subjects.

Judy, thanks for your kind feedback.
It was a pleasure to teach Eilidh, she is a great student to work with and her improvement is even more remarkable when considering that we only had one lesson per fortnight.

From Hooi Ling

Michail helped my daughter in her math and physics. We had 6 lessons with Michail and found the lessons helped my daughter picking up the concept easily from his teaching.

From Marina

Michail has been helping my daughter with an intricate topic on superconductors and I was hugely impressed with the care and effort he put into clarifying complicated concepts.
All the sessions were very focused and effective.
Michail is very knowledgeable, friendly and supportive.
I am really grateful for the amazing help he provided and I would highly recommend him to anyone
who is looking for an excellent Physics tutor.

From Fiona

My son has been receiving tuition for Higher Chemistry and Physics with Dr for a few weeks now and is really enjoying it. It is early days but he finds the way in which Machail explains things very clear and easy to understand. When there is so much uncertainty in the year a head for students Machail is a great asset.

From Roxana

Michalis has provided superb tuition to my daughter who is studying for Advanced Higher Physics.

He is extremely professional, patient, and has excellent subject matter knowledge.

His ability to enhance learning is testament to exemplary teaching skills .

From Cathy

Michalis tutored my son for several weeks for Higher physics. With his patience and many different ways of explaining topics my son was making great progress. Sadly the exams were then cancelled so he could not demonstrate this improvement. I would recommend Michalis to anyone who needs a little extra help to improve their physics.

From Lynne

My son is now four sessions in with Michail and is already growing in confidence with Physics. Thank you

From Sandhya

Michalis organised tuition with prompt communication. We took his recommendation for 1.5 hour upon recommendation. The lesson probably hasn’t been a great start with feedback on practical work and could’ve helped with some preparation beforehand as the recommendations were deviating from school’s feedback. The reference of quite old reference texts further didn’t instill confidence in pupil. It might not have been the best pupil-tutor match unfortunately.

I only spent one lesson with the student, mainly going through her SQA report.
I offered clear recommendations for improvement, noted by the student. I was surprised to hear later that the parent was not happy as "my feedback did not match the school's feedback… "
[a) why would the school's feedback be more reliable than mine… b) if they were happy with the school's feedback (which I was never shown), why would they not just go ahead with that… ]
Anyhow - in the remaining few minutes of the lesson, I went through some basic knowledge chemistry questions and established significant areas of concern.
Again, the parent later complained that the book which I had used (an SQA official past papers booklet… ) "did not inspire confidence, because it was an oder version"! As if basic chemistry questions have changed within the last 5 years… Furthermore the parent went on to directly suggest that "since they didn't feel they got enough out of the first lesson", I should offer them another lesson, for free!
I found that suggestion rather demeaning and, when I declined, they decided it was appropriate to leave me reduced feedback (for the first time after 10 years).
Unfortunately there are people who are plain unreasonable, at the least…

From Daria

Very professional and explains concepts very well.

From Sommer

Thank you Michail for the excellent tutoring for Physics Higher. My daughter is much more confident in her knowledge and understanding of the subject now, and achieved an A in her prelim.

From Yildiz

From Fran

Michail tutored my son for7 months, primarily focusing on Higher Physics but also on occasion assisting with Higher Maths and Higher Chemistry. He is extremely passionate as to tutoring, encourages healthy debate with his pupils and demonstrates a clear drive to ensuring his pupils obtain the best results they can. My son excelled in his Maths exam, put a dissapointing Nat 5 Physics result behind him with a comfortable B pass at Higher level and also Chemistry crashed in 1 year. I would highly recommend Michail

From Peter

Michail proved a very effective tutor in Higher Maths guiding my daughter from a C in her pre-lim to a band 1 A in the exam later in the year.

He is knowledgeable on format of the exam papers, how to answer the questions to maximise marks, how to complete a paper in time etc

He is patient with his tutoring but to his credit pushes the student whilst keep testing & confirming the students understanding.

From Yvonne

Michail began tutoring my son in chemistry after a disappointing prelim result at Higher level. Michail worked methodically with him in the time available to address areas of weakness and improve his basic understanding, often revisiting gaps at Nat 5 level, before working methodically through the Higher syllabus prior to his exam. He secured an A. Michail is always professional in his approach, willing to explain concepts in a variety of ways to ensure understanding and aid progress. He is particuarly good at identifying strengths and weaknesses and tutoring to meet my son's specific needs. This year my son has gone back to Michail for Advanced Higher Physics tutoring and continues to be pleased with the help and support Michail gives him. I would recomend Michail to others for both Chemistry and Physics.

From Sandra

My son has been seeing Michail for approximately 9 months.

During that time he has always been professional, reliable and very helpful. My son’s understanding on both maths and physics has definitely improved as a result.

Would recommend Michail to others.

From Tommy

Michail provided first class tuition in taking my grandson from a definite fail (38%) in the Physics Prelim to a B in his final exam after only a few months. Similarly my grandson got an A in Chemistry too with Michails' help. I would recommend him highly.

From Lisa

My son has been seeing Michail for around 5 months for physics tuition at National 4/5 level. He is able to explain concepts in a way which my son understands and in a recent S3 end of year exam he obtained a good A pass, something which would not have been possible without Michail's input. Michail conducts himself in a professional and friendly manner at all times and we would have no hesitation in recommending him to others.

From Lucy

From Iain

Michail began tutoring our daughter around 6 months before she sat her Higher Physics exam. Our daughter had been encouraged to sit Higher Physics at the end of S4 instead of the Nat 5 level, and she was keen to get a tutor so that she could do well in the Higher. I was very impressed that Michail's priority was building a strong foundation and understanding of Physics, and not simply on 'how to pass' by looking at past papers and guessing what may come up. He worked well with our daughter, and I honestly don't think she ever had any criticism of his manner or tutoring methods. The bottom line: an 'A' in Higher Physics achieved in S4, and Michail will be tutoring her for Advanced Higher Physics this year!

From Pauline

Michail has been a great tutor for our son. He was able to provide 3 higher subjects which meant he could be very flexible within our weekly 2 hour sessions. He supported my son from prelims through to highers, giving him a bit more confidence in his readiness for his highers. My son got along well with him 1:1 and felt he helped him due to his in depth knowledge of physics, maths, and chemistry at higher level and the fact he appeared to really love these subject. Michail was very flexible in his times and communicated well with us as parents. We would be delighted to use Michail again if support is needed for advanced highers and would recommend his to others.

From Mohammed

Competent,friendly and punctual tutor. He has full command over the subject and explains every topic very well. My son got Higher Chemistry tuition from him and he improved a lot and now looking forward for A grade in his exam. I would recommend him to any one who is looking for professional and dedicated tutor.

From Craig

Excellent, punctual and my son seems to get on well with Michalis which is important. Highly recommend!

From Arlene

I am 15 years old and studying for my National 5 in maths. I have found Michail very clear in explaining the areas of maths that I have not been confident in and he has helped my overall understanding. He always uses the time he has with me really well and I feel more confident with every lesson. He is also always punctual.

From Lewis

Fantastic tutor, would thoroughly recommend him to anyone studying mathematics in need of some help to improve grades. His tuition has changed my predicted grade of a fail to a strong pass in a matter of 6-7 weeks.

From Sue

Our daughter struggles to keep up in a large class and has found her sessions with Michail very helpful. He is very pleasant and reliable and seemed to identify problem areas after the first session.

From Philip

From Dhileas

Michail was very thorough and clear with his turoring of my daughter. He immediately spotted where the weak spots were and concentrated on them. He was perceptive and challenged where necessary, in a very professional way. My daughter found his approach clear and very helpful.
We were very satisfied.

From Jean