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Blue Tutors Articles from March 2011

  1. 31-03-11: What Can a Tutor Do Before the First Lesson?

    The more experienced a tutor becomes, the more likely he or she is to have a standard procedure when first put in touch with a student.

    A Blue Tutors article written by Blue Tutors.

  2. 25-03-11: Can tutoring help when students lack basic skills?

    For tutors it is extremely daunting to find increasingly that students lack the basic English skills required to write to a GCSE standard.

    A Blue Tutors article written by Blue Tutors.

  3. 24-03-11: The Dilemma of Students Taking GCSEs and A Levels Early

    It is a relatively rare request for us to provide tuition for advanced students, students who are looking to take qualifications early, but it does happen.

    A Blue Tutors article written by Blue Tutors.

  4. 17-03-11: Stating Goals in Context when Tutoring

    We’ve already written an article about setting lesson goals.

    A Blue Tutors article written by Blue Tutors.

  5. 11-03-11: The games exam boards play

    The fact is that we have an exam system in which excellent students can articulately address the question at hand, and still do very poorly, if they fail to meet the increasingly narrow assessment objectives required by the syllabus.

    A Blue Tutors article written by Blue Tutors.

  6. 10-03-11: Tuition Arrangements: What Students Expect

    Many long-standing Blue Tutors will know that we deliberately don’t try to enforce a lesson structure or a lesson style.

    A Blue Tutors article written by Blue Tutors.

  7. 03-03-11: Why Some Students Get Left Behind

    Of all school subjects, there is one above any other where we hear the phrase “I am completely lost”.

    A Blue Tutors article written by Blue Tutors.

  1. "I would like to say a big thank you to Blue Tutors for introducing Paul as a maths tutor for our daughter. Paul has made a huge difference in how Julia has managed to cope with her maths A Levels. She had struggled with an uninspiring teacher at school which left her in desperate need of someone who listened to what she needed, to enthuse her about maths and to help her keep momentum."
  2. Mr C, Cambridge