Helping make your dream grade a reality from secondary to A levels

Hi, I’m Izzie and I’m studying BSc Medical Genetics at Queen Mary University of London. I’m an IB diploma graduate, achieving 38 points (an AAA in a levels) with 6/7s in biology, maths, chemistry and business. And I’ve been tutoring students for 1 year now! I try to make my lessons as dynamic as possible, because I like to adapt them to the students unique needs and preferences. Hence, before each session (usually a day or two before), I’ll ask students what they’d like to go through during the session so I have time to plan the perfect lesson. Most sessions are via zoom, where I will share the link the previous day to the session. During the session I like to share screen, showing the student the question we’re doing and the working out answers which I’ll be writing as we go along - and don’t worry, I’ll share these notes at the end of the lesson! Some activities which we usually do in sessions include: doing deep topic reviews, past papers, topic questions, and going over homework. Furthermore, I am a firm believer that setting a short homework task is great to see if students can apply what we did during the lesson without help, so I usually set some task for them to do which I can then correct and we can go over in the next session. This is a method which worked for me when I was a student, but which has also helped my students go from a B to an A.