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How Tutoring Changes Closer to Exams
We’ve posted articles before about the difference when a student requests long-term tuition, compared to last minute tuition close to exams.
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Admissions Policies at Oxford and Cambridge
Figures have been released this week showing the number of state school students accepted by Oxford and Cambridge Universities.
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Do We Need Private Tutors Because of Bad Teachers?
Over the last few years a number of schools have begun to employ tutors, or use existing teachers to offer one-to-one tuition to their students.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Stating Goals in Context when Tutoring
We’ve already written an article about setting lesson goals.
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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.
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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.
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