Year 11 student Ruby focused on sequences and series, then practised exam-style trigonometry questions to strengthen weaker areas.

For Year 12, Sebastian worked through quadratic equations from a past exam and reviewed similarity and probability in preparation for upcoming assessments.

Christian, also in Year 12, tackled area and volume problems from his half-yearly exam before completing worksheets on probability and statistics to prepare for a test.

In Year 8, she struggled to recall the general formula for straight-line equations, and a tutor observed she'd "forgotten some of the material covered from the last lesson."

Gaps in recall also surfaced in algebra, with sign errors recurring when variable signs were mixed.

In Year 11, difficulty managing time under test pressure led to missed steps: as one tutor noted, "he was conscious of time so didn't spend much on that question," which resulted in preventable errors.

A pattern of losing motivation or freezing up appeared whenever long worded problems or 'ugly' numbers came up—especially during senior topics like trigonometry proofs.

One Millers Forest tutoring session saw a Year 11 student move from hesitating on advanced calculus to independently tackling integration problems and even reworking equations herself—something she'd previously avoided.

Meanwhile, a Year 9 student who used to guess quietly during algebra is now actively asking for clarification when stuck, making sure she truly understands before moving on.

For a younger learner in Year 4, there's been a real shift: he now remembers his own ways of visualising 3D shapes and confidently builds cubes from nets without prompting, finishing his model entirely on his own this week.