Jaden Poi

A typical session runs an hour. The first ten minutes go on whatever you attempted since we last spoke, including anything that went wrong, because that is where the useful information usually is. We then work through problems together, and I finish by setting two or three specific questions rather than a vague instruction to revise.

I cover GCSE Maths, A-level Maths and A-level Further Maths. The topics students most often come to me for are the ones I found hardest myself: proof, integration by substitution and by parts, mechanics, and hypothesis testing in statistics. In Further Maths I am comfortable with complex numbers, matrices and differential equations.

One thing that may be useful: I sat my A-levels in Malaysia rather than the UK, so I have seen a lot of this content taught in more than one way. If an explanation is not landing, I usually have a different one rather than a slower version of the same one. I also sat Further Maths recently enough to remember which parts are genuinely difficult and which only look difficult.

On experience, I have taught in two settings. In my final year of school I led a community project which ended with my team running tutoring sessions for children with very little access to one-to-one help, which taught me how to explain something to someone starting from much further back than I had assumed. I also spent several months working weekly with a student two years below me, which was less about content and more about rebuilding his confidence that he could do it at all.

I teach online only.