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Jasmin

Chemistry Tutor Oyster Bay, NSW
The most important thing a chemistry tutor can do is to practice empathy in order to ensure the student knows they're in a safe environment where they are allowed to make mistakes and learn from them. Being kind and really listening to what they say to you is also essential, as you don't want them to feel like they can't talk to you, as this will…
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Ryan

Chemistry Tutor Oatley, NSW
Teaching the student effective methods of independent learning, as opposed to teaching them the answers Communicating the content in an effective way at a level the student will understand while maintaining a fun and interesting learning…
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Hyunchul

Chemistry Tutor Peakhurst Heights, NSW
The best thing that a chemistry tutor can do for a student is not to regurgitate information - that can be found by reading a book, or browsing the internet; but to inspire. I believe that a perspective can be most powerfully shared by someone who has seen and understood, who can empathize with the struggles that are necessary to get to seeing the…
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Kuyan

Chemistry Tutor Peakhurst Heights, NSW
I think the most important thing a chemistry tutor can do for a student is to help them understand the course content- so they can pass assessment- and also to help them understand other aspects of the subject they need or want to understand, either for the sake of curiosity or because they have some use for it. It is best if this understanding is…
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Navroop

Chemistry Tutor Peakhurst Heights, NSW
Emotionally support them and help them achieve their goals. Ensure that they're doing well in class and achieving the highest possible results in their exams. Give them help when it's needed, even if it's outside working hours. I believe I am very patient, I try to put myself in the student's shoes to better understand their weaknesses and figure…
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Cookie

Chemistry Tutor Oatley, NSW
Finding gaps in a students knowledge and helping to fill them, facilitating a student to learn at their own pace and in their own way, and ensuring that the student can handle problems without my help once they've learned the concept. I'm good at not just teaching a student a concept, but making sure they fully understand it, even if that requires…
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Marko

Chemistry Tutor Sutherland, NSW
I think patience is the most important skill a chemistry tutor can have. Some students don't understand a concept right away, I had to have a concept explained to me multiple times before and if the tutor was patient I was not scared to ask. I think as I have been tutored before I knew what worked for me and what didn't so I could apply those…
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Neil

Chemistry Tutor Oatley, NSW
As a chemistry tutor remaining persistence and professional are two important qualities that I bring to any student I teach. Any student can learn and understand their true potential, this comes through clarity and how you explain things in a way that makes in easy to understand since all students learn in a different way. And I take this approach…
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James

Chemistry Tutor Kareela, NSW
The most important thing a chemistry tutor can do is to be supportive. Even the students struggling the most always have something they're doing well. The tutors job is to highlight that and develop skills to transfer those proficiencies to other areas of the subject. Furthermore the tutor must be patient. A student is there because they need help…
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Vasiq Ahmed

Chemistry Tutor Padstow, NSW
Try to understand and listen to them and make them feel important. Also make them responsible and how to deal with problems can be the best thing a chemistry tutor can impart to a student. Patience, Tolerant, Active listener, Fun, Responsible, Mature, Realist are some of the qualities that I think are necessary that should be present in a tutor…
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Anthony

Chemistry Tutor Padstow, NSW
I think an important role tutor must be able to do is to be able to adaptable in their teaching style to cater to the needs of students. Additionally being relatable and exploring how this knowledge can be expanded to world wide applications. I believe tutors need to make strong relationships with both students in order for them to feel…
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Dinesh

Chemistry Tutor Revesby, NSW
In my point of view, students and tutors must be like a friends so that tutor can teach and student can learn easily. Similarly, every tutor needs to be prepared before they enter in classroom to teach because it will help tutors to express their views in such a way that students can learn and understand easily. Friendly, Responsible, Teaching in…
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Salina

Chemistry Tutor Penshurst, NSW
The most important thing a chemistry tutor can do for a student is to provide them with sufficient learning resources as the student needs. Such as exam papers from different schools and providing a thorough explanation about the concept they do not understand. I am bilingual, my fluency in both English and Mandarin can help both local students…
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Zenan

Chemistry Tutor Gymea, NSW
The Important thing is to give students a sense of confidence in their ability. This will require the tutor to integrate complex ideas into simple, straightforward concepts. Once the student realizes their capability, they can endure failures, learn from mistakes and try again. My strength as a tutor is definitely my close and friendly…
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KA YIK

Chemistry Tutor Gymea, NSW
I believe that a chemistry tutor should be extremely cautious in what they say; can everything be supported with a logical statement? Because the steps the tutors take to construct the answer are how the students learn from them, a tutor must prepare well and be confident and knowledgeable of what they are giving to the students. It's not about…
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Connor

Chemistry Tutor Penshurst, NSW
One of the most important things aside from assisting the student is to be a mentor to them. Being able to provide support and advice to improve on their study routine, increase their efficiency gives motivation, which is essential for improvement. My strengths would include the ability to understand where students struggle to understand concepts,…
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Samrin

Chemistry Tutor South Hurstville, NSW
Working with students can be a challenge, especially if we're meeting to help them bring up low grades. One thing I do when I meet the student for the very first time is to ask them questions about their interests, like sports, school subjects, music and movies. In the math problems that I create, I incorporate references to these interests. It…
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Kai

Chemistry Tutor Hurstville, NSW
A tutor's Job is to ensure the academic success of the student, however to do this effectively a chemistry tutor must listen and understand the student such to alter their teaching method to suit that of the student. Thus, one of the most important things a tutor can do for a student is to ask the student appropriate questions to identify what…
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Jason

Chemistry Tutor Beverly Hills, NSW
Help the students to reach their goal. For example, if a student want to pass the test with certain grade, then me as a chemistry tutor must try my best to make the student reach their goal and the tutor must make the process fun not stressful. My knowledge on how to apply certain method of teaching to the student so they can understand the…
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Varun

Chemistry Tutor Hurstville, NSW
I consider working on the clarity of concept as the most important thing. The concept once built, can be polished by recalling it several times when solving directly or indirectly related problems. Overall, the student should be able to process new information and solve the related problems on its own. My strengths are as follows: 1. The way…
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Kayla

Chemistry Tutor Hurstville, NSW
Help them achieve their goals. It isn't about getting the highest marks, it's about improving and feeling good about going into tests and exams and feeling confident you know the material. Being able to complete tests to the best of your ability is always the main goal. Slow and detailed explanations of the topic. I'm really good at going in depth…
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Freddy

Chemistry Tutor Hurstville, NSW
The most important things that a tutor can do for a student that always actively listen to a student and understand lives they live. I do believe that my strengths as a tutor are building strong, personal relationships with students and having specific content expertise. As roughly 2 years providing one-on-one sessions, to what I have learned…
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Armak

Chemistry Tutor Punchbowl, NSW
The most important thing as a tutor is to help students connect to what they are learning. It is the job of the tutor to differentiate instruction based on the learning preferences of the students. Further, a tutor reinforces what the students have been learning at school. I am a teacher with 15 years of teaching experience. My last school was…

Local Reviews

We had our 1st session tonight with David and it went really well. My son connected with him immediately even though he was nervous about tutoring and didn't really want to do it prior to tonight. After he had his session with David he said it was fun! I was pleasantly surprised to hear him say that and he asked that David come back next week instead of waiting a fortnight! We are very happy so far.
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Content Covered

Year 8 student Olivia focused on understanding fractions, decimals, and percentages, including converting between them and revisiting previous skills for an upcoming topic test.

In Year 11, Jack worked through the introduction to networks by learning key terminology, practicing how to travel and draw networks, and then progressed to solving problems using Prim's and Kruskal's algorithms.

Meanwhile, Year 12 student Mia explored critical path analysis—drawing diagrams with and without dummies—and developed her skills in forward/backward scanning to determine project timelines.

Recent Challenges

In Year 12 Mathematics, a student occasionally overlooked writing down unused edges first in Prim's algorithm—she sometimes forgot to make sure that in Prim's algorithm the edges that weren't used have to be written down first—which led to confusion when reviewing solutions.

A Year 11 learner hesitated to ask questions, so gaps persisted and confidence wavered during difficult recurrence relation problems.

In Year 7, one student skipped regular independent revision; this meant that methods for simplifying fractions weren't retained from week to week.

For a Year 4 pupil, homework was incomplete, so subtraction practice stalled and mistakes repeated themselves across sessions.

Recent Achievements

One Illawong tutor noticed a big shift with a Year 10 student who previously hesitated to speak up, but now asks for help independently as soon as she gets stuck—especially when working through tricky network diagrams.

In Year 8 maths, a student who used to rely heavily on step-by-step guidance tackled cosine and sine rule problems independently after some initial practice. This surprised their tutor and marked real progress in their confidence.

Meanwhile, during a recent Year 4 session, a child who'd struggled with fractions was able to spot his own mistakes and explain how he fixed them before moving on to the next question.

What they say about our tutoring

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Yes we are very happy with Georgia and Catrina seems to be enjoying maths again. I have also recommended Georgia to another parent at my daughters school

Agnes quickly determined the areas that we could see Charlotte was struggling with. It was lovely to see Charlotte's body language change during the course of the first session from slumped over looking disinterested to sitting up and engaging with Agnes by the end of the hour. I had never seen her like that when we have sat down to do maths before. I knew that I lacked the strategies to give to Charlotte and Agnes is certainly showing her these patiently and with the support she needed.

Yes very happy with Phoebe she is a wonderful tutor & very pleasant towards my girls  they feel at ease with her as she explains all maths concepts in the simplest of forms (much to the delight. of my daughter Phoebe who said she's learned/understood a lot more in the last three weeks than she had learned all of last year) &  she's building up their confidence to have a more positive outlook when approaching their maths homework!

Local Spots for Tutoring

If you'd prefer not to have lessons at home, tutoring can also take place at a local library—such as Menai Library—or at your child's school (with permission), like Illawong Public School.