Helen C.

Hi, I'm Helen, a recent physics graduate from Durham University. I've been tutoring for over 5 years now and absolutely love it. I'd say the main subject I really teach is confidence and fun, my real job is to ignite that spark and enjoyment of science and maths again in the student. I do this by teaching all the things that school doesn't - how to memorise, how to think like an examiner, how to understand what the exam questions want from you and how to hack into your individual thinking style and use it to conquer exams.

I'm a tutor who has had a wide range of exam and learning experiences. I know what it feels like to be lost in the theory, not understanding anything and having my grades hit the bottom of the barrel. I've taught myself how my brain works and I took all the fear in education and personally turned it around through working out tonnes of exam technique that no teacher had ever given me. If you've had a bad experience with science and maths, I've been there before - I know how to get out of it!

I tailor my sessions to your individual learning style. I work with you to find your favourite ways of learning and then we fill our lessons with fun and highly effective ways to learn using your style.

We first work together by letting me analyse and give you a full diagnostic description of how you're working and tackling the problems - I find students often gain so much insight and relief once they realise exactly what's holding them back and how they can use the realisation to overcome the block. 

We also heavily cover exam technique, confidence boosting, unique memory techniques used in modern memory championships (condensing facts and concepts into long acting memorisation, you'll be impressed with your memory power!), UCAS applications and how to get an accurate sneak peak of studying a science at university.

Outside of lesson time I can recommend resources, like useful reading, videos or websites. I provide detailed solutions to questions covered in lessons and can give additional questions for practice. I am happy to mark any completed questions outside lessons for free. We can see how well we progress by using targeted questions to get the best out of your lesson.

Primarily, I would encourage asking many subject questions with your confidence in me that I will never think it's a silly question, I am always happy to help!