General praise is easy to write and impossible to check, so every testimonial below names the subject, the problem and the change that moved the grade. All are published with permission and lightly edited for length only.
Twelve families, twelve different problems. The pattern in them is not that our tutors are brilliant; it is that somebody finally looked closely at one student's work.
Organic chemistry was a wall. Her tutor stopped teaching new content for two weeks and made her draw every mechanism from memory until the arrows stopped being decoration. She went from a 5 in the mock to a 7 in June.
Tom could do the maths and could not show it, so he was losing four or five method marks a paper. Six sessions on layout alone. Nothing else changed and the mock grade moved from a C to an A.
Every answer was right and half of them had the wrong unit attached. The tutor made him write the unit before the number for a month, which he hated. He got an A* and still complains about it.
She was retelling the passage instead of analysing it, and no one had ever said that out loud. Her tutor marked three responses against the real grid and the difference in the fourth was obvious to all of us.
Textbook-perfect essays capped at 12 out of 20 because they never reached a judgement. The tutor banned the phrase 'on the other hand' and made her decide. Twenty out of twenty-five by the third mock.
Stuck on 6.5 across three sittings. The speaking mock recording was brutal to listen to and it showed me exactly what I was doing in the pauses. Sat again eight weeks later and got 7.5.
Her figures were always right and the format was always slightly wrong, which the marking scheme does not forgive. Two months of format drills took her from 71 to 94 in the board exam.
We were entered for the wrong unit in January and did not know it. The tutor spotted it from the statement of entry in the first session, which alone saved us a term.
She had watched a lot of Python videos and could not structure a program. Building one small finished project taught her more than six months of tutorials, and the trace tables suddenly made sense.
Entered at Foundation by his school and clearly working above the grade 5 ceiling. His tutor wrote up the evidence, we took it to the school, and he sat Higher and got a 7.
We could teach English and history perfectly well. Chemistry defeated us. They also found us an exam centre that took private candidates, which we had been failing to do for four months.
He was convinced he was bad at maths, which he was not; he had just never been allowed to finish a thought. Forty-minute sessions, lots of silence, and by Stage 9 he was volunteering answers.
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