Carrum's tutors include a qualified primary and secondary school teacher with Steiner expertise, experienced maths and science instructors, K–12 specialists with years of mentoring and classroom leadership, award-winning high-achievers (ATARs 95+), student teachers from Monash and La Trobe, competition finalists, and youth coaches skilled at motivating kids both academically and beyond.
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Impressive Joshua is happy with the tutoring he is receiving from Nicholas and is confident that it will help him with his exams.Andrew, Patterson Lakes
Year 5 student Alex practised addition and subtraction with regrouping and explored rounding numbers to the nearest ten using practical worksheets.
For Year 10, Jordan focused on essay structure for text responses, including analysing themes in Of Mice and Men and planning a creative writing SAC based on class novels.
Meanwhile, Year 11 student Maya worked through argument analysis techniques by reviewing teacher feedback on her Language Analysis SAC and preparing comparative essays using evidence from assigned texts.
A Year 10 student repeatedly broadened essay topics too much and defaulted to retelling the plot instead of addressing the specific prompt; as one tutor noted, "he needs to focus on the pertinent aspects of writing a review, rather than just re-telling the plot." This tendency led to less effective argument analysis and weaker essay structure.
In Year 7 English, another student struggled with unpacking texts and putting ideas into words, often hesitating due to low confidence—'her confidence in her abilities is quite low.' As a result, drafts stayed incomplete or vague, making teacher feedback harder to apply and progress feel frustrating.
One Carrum tutor noticed a big shift with Alex, a high school student who used to need lots of prompting to support his arguments; this week, he independently found multiple relevant quotes for his essay and had his topic sentences ready before the session began.
Another high school win: Talha, who previously waited for hints, is now picking out important quotes on his own and explaining why they matter in context.
In primary years, Asha—who once hesitated over maths questions—has started finishing her work quickly and accurately; last lesson she completed every task without needing reminders.
