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Tutors' Guide to Dealing with Student Stress
One of the things a private tutor will often have to deal with is their students’ overall well-being and stress levels. The spring and summer months are the worst time for this, as students are preparing for exams and waiting anxiously for results.
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Tutors Nervous About Results
Many A’ Level students have been working with private tutors in order to help them prepare for exams, and their tutors have also been waiting anxiously to hear the outcome.
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Tutors Help with Exam Retakes
At this time of year GCSE, AS and A’ Level results are released. For many students, this will be a time of great celebration and they will go on to start 6th form and university courses having achieved the grades they hoped for. However, many other students will be evaluating their situations, and in particular considering the possibility of retakes.
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The Frustration of Being a Tutor in Oxford or Cambridge
Oxford and Cambridge are not actually very big cities, meaning that our tutor to student ratio is much higher than anywhere else in the UK.
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How Does One Know a Tutor is a Good Tutor?
At the time of year when A Level and GCSE exams results are being published, it’s not just hopeful students who are eagerly awaiting the results.
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A Tutor's Guide for Students Working Over the Summer
Once the pressure of the university term is over and students are no longer attending classes, it can be difficult to find the motivation to complete the required work, especially when the sun is shining!
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Tutoring, Trips and Reading Aloud: How to Boost Children's Skills Over Summer
The poll of 1,000 parents of children in primary school suggests that parent’s greatest worry is that long summer holidays will allow time for their children to forget the things they learnt over the last year. A fifth of the parents surveyed responded that they hire tutors over the summer to ensure that their child stays at the top of their class.
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Guitar-it's the instrument for you!
Think you can't play an instrument? Read on, because you can!
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Super Tutors Are Not Always the Best Choice
As the tuition industry has grown, the market has expanded in many ways to accommodate it. We no longer just have your basic after school English or Maths tutors. Now we have Maths specialists, 11+ experts, online tutors, and a growing new phenomenon, ‘super tutors’. This is a rather ill-defined term, and hiring a super tutor doesn’t necessarily mean that parents are getting the best possible tuition for their children.
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