Year 8 student Isaac focused on ionic and covalent bond interactions in Chemistry, including identifying compound types and writing chemical formulas.

In Year 9, Sophia tackled index laws—simplifying expressions with indices and evaluating decimals from her recent school test.

Meanwhile, Year 11 student Eve worked through advanced trigonometry problems and reviewed similarity and congruence questions from a past exam, discussing strategies for approaching both familiar and unfamiliar question types.

A Year 10 student struggled to explain the reasoning behind trigonometric comparisons—needs improvement when it comes to explaining why the answer is what it is—which made higher-level questions difficult.

In Year 8, homework was repeatedly incomplete or missing, leading to less practice with BODMAS and percentages and ongoing confusion in class tasks.

A senior chemistry student arrived unprepared, lacking required resources like a textbook, which slowed progress on gas law problems.

For English in Years 11–12, one student's draft essays had cohesion issues between sentences; this caused thesis links to break down under time pressure during planning.

One Aitkenvale tutor noticed a big change in Jacinta, a high school student who now arrives at lessons with her essay drafts already written and has started seeking out feedback from both her tutor and schoolteacher—previously, she waited for help before attempting to write. Now arrives with essays drafted.

In another session, Eve, also in high school, was able to spot where she'd gone wrong on a recent test after reviewing just two textbook exercises, showing new self-awareness that wasn't there before. Spotted mistakes independently.

Meanwhile, Lauren (Year 7) took the initiative to ask questions about the Pythagorean theorem when stuck and worked through example problems without waiting for prompts. Took initiative with problem solving.