Nicholas Seifalian Seifalian

So I would like to reflect on the teaching methods I received during secondary school where my grades when from B'c/C's in A Levels (and GCSE's) to A's and A*'s. I believe that just memorising the content is not good enough, since this is what I would do and my grades wouldn't excel no matter how much time you put into it. My method is to actually understand the difficult concepts and memorise the easier ones. A typical lesson would also be going through questions and a lot of them, but more importantly reviewing them and figuring out why the student had got it wrong and what they can improve upon.

My experience is mainly teaching GCSE students whilst I was studying A Level's myself. I was able to push them up 2 grades on average in the last couple months of their studies. I believe that getting the top marks is 65% by the amount of hours you put in, but still 35%, and. a large proportion, being about how you revise and study techniques. These study techniques is from the school I went to which allowed me to pick up on these and perfect them so that any type of student can implement it into their studying.

On-top of all this, I will teach exam technique as-well. This includes what to look out for and how to give the question the answer it needs which is a big part on why many students just narrowly miss the top grade.