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Year 6 student Ella focused on converting between fractions, decimals, and percentages, then practiced applying these conversions in simple word problems.
Year 8 student Daniel worked through solving linear equations with pronumerals—including those with fractions—and expanded brackets while reviewing how to combine like terms.
Meanwhile, Year 9 student Sophie revised circle theorems by working on proofs and terminology before practicing setting out formal solutions for tangent-related questions.
Several process-related habits impacted learning this term across multiple year levels.
In Year 9, a student regularly tried to solve equations in her head instead of showing all working, which led to "a lot of careless mistakes along the way" and made it harder for her to spot errors under test conditions.
For a Year 11 student, homework was sometimes incomplete or forgotten entirely—one lesson note simply read, "Did not complete homework," meaning new concepts like polynomial division had to be retaught from scratch rather than extended.
Messy working and unclear graph sketches in senior years also caused confusion during revision and assessment.
A tutor in Peppermint Grove recently saw a Year 9 student start attempting all their algebra questions independently before asking for help, a big shift from earlier sessions where they'd wait for guidance.
In Year 11, one student who used to rush through homework began checking her answers and caught several careless mistakes on her own.
Another win came from a Year 7 session: after struggling with short division at first, the student now completes these problems confidently and sets out their working much more clearly than before, even finishing an entire worksheet without needing reminders.
It takes a lot to do well in biology. Moving up the curriculum can be a challenge and if students don't jump in with both feet it's easy to fall behind.