Stephen

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!

Stephen is an exceptional tutor with extensive experience and impressive organizational skills. In addition to his subject matter expertise, he offers valuable guidance on revision, scheduling, and exam techniques that are crucial for success. After every lesson, Stephen provides detailed feedback, highlighting areas of weakness and progress based on a topic-by-topic plan.

My daughter, who has dyslexia, began working with Stephen 12 months ago for combined science. Despite her best efforts, her initial class exam results were disappointing, hovering around 4s and 5s from her first year of GCSE. We suspected that the shift to online learning during the Covid period may have contributed to her struggles, given the lack of practical aspects in science classes. Stephen quickly put her at ease and implemented a structured approach to help her catch up. His use of online lessons and homework has been highly effective, and my daughter enjoys working with him so much that she often requests extra time when she encounters challenges.

Thanks to Stephen's expertise and dedication, my daughter's confidence has grown, and she is now enthusiastic about her progress. We are now aiming for 7s and 8s in her upcoming exams, and she plans to continue studying some science subjects at A-level.

Overall, I highly recommend Stephen as an exceptionally professional and effective tutor.

Stephen was highly effective in motivating my son to review for his Science GCSEs. The homework provided by Stephen was very useful in preparing my son for the three Sciences. As well as assisting him in learning the subjects, Stephen was able to show my son how to manage his time and revise in an efficient way.
My son achieved grade 8 in GCSE in all three science subjects. This was 2-3 grades higher for Chemistry and Biology compared to his mocks, which my son took before we started using Stephen.
We would recommend Stephen to anyone looking to significantly improve their GCSE Science scores.

Stephen is an amazing highly experienced and knowledge tutor who generally cares about how the student is doing in all subjects. He has helped my son immensely with explaining and building my son’s understanding of challenging scientific concepts. He also shows and teaches how to balance and utilise time effectively by revising, making study effective schedules and assist with exam techniques.

Even though online learning presents many challenges compared to face-to-face learning, Stephen puts in the effort to make the lesson feel like face-to-face learning. Stephen uses real-life situations to explain concepts and how things work including making animations to demonstrate how something works, which I think, is going the extra mile.

Stephen sets a decent amount of homework that strongly relates to what has been learned in the lesson and at school to help my son work on answering exam styled questions, which better prepares him for my assessments.

Stephen started tutoring my son 11 months ago and ever since then, my son has overall felt more confident with assessments. He has given him many exam styled questions and has told him how to improve his answers to better fit an examiner's requirements to get higher marks which have gotten him higher marks.

Stephen is an excellent tutor and a lovely person. He is very professional and communication and feedback after each lesson is very prompt. My son received three 9 grades for his GCSE Biology, Chemistry and Physics and we are over the moon. We cannot thank Stephen enough for all his guidance and hard working.

In this very challenging year for our daughter especially going through the Covid lock down. She lost a lot of school learning and her confidence for all her subjects and especially for her favourite Science subjects. As a consequence she did very poorly for her end of year 10 exams achieving 555 for Sciences. We embarked the support of Dr and immediately after the first session, our daughter gained the confidence simply on how Dr was going to support her with his teaching methods. Dr quickly assessed our daughter’s learning style and needs and with her built a plan to support her achieve positive results,

The uncertainty surrounding her final exams and sixth form choices caused her anxiety. Dr is calm and supportive; he also brings an element of fun into the tutorial, which makes the learning experience more valuable. Initially we were very pessimistic with online teaching but were impressed with Dr ’s patience, encouragement and excellent teaching approach. Keeping our daughter engaged, motivated and focused is no small feat and full credit to Dr for keeping our daughter on track. Our daughter always looked forward to her lessons with Dr and after the lesson she often shared what she learnt. Her confidence grew and I really don't know how our daughter would have gotten through this academic year without Dr so top marks and huge gratitude to him.

As a result of Dr ’s continued weekly online lessons and regular exam homework as well as guidance on effective revision methods, techniques and help create study schedules, our daughter achieved all 9s for her Science GCSE subjects. She also achieved 8s for her other subjects which we strongly felt Dr 's guidance and study schedule helped. All these points above and many more are why Dr is a great tutor!

Thank you so much Dr !!!