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St Ives Chase's tutors include a veteran school mathematics teacher with a Master of Teaching, HSC high achievers with ATARs up to 98.9 and top ranks in Extension Maths, experienced private tutors and peer mentors, accomplished youth coaches and club leaders, and passionate educators skilled at supporting K–12 students' confidence, academic growth, and wellbeing.

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Jonathan

Science Tutor St Ives Chase, NSW
The most important things a tutor can do for a student are provide them with support and motivation. It is essential to provide students with a learning environment where they feel comfortable and supported. It is also extremely important that a tutor provides their students with the motivation required to succeed. I believe that my strengths are…
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Jennifer

Science Tutor North Turramurra, NSW
To me, the most important thing for a student to gain from tutoring is self belief and confidence in their work. As when they feel more confident they will take tasks head on which will help improve their technical skills in the subject as well. I am very patience person who confidently believes that anyone can accomplish whatever they put their…
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Hea

Science Tutor Pymble, NSW
The most important thing a tutor can do for a student is not only support them academically with resources (i.e., practice papers, notes, books), but also be there for them personally, as someone they can turn to for help as they grow and develop Although I am quite new to the area, I am able to sense when the speed of a student's understanding is…
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Tiaan

Science Tutor Pymble, NSW
Constant preparation of work to ensure they are always working towards their goals, providing shortcuts and alternative solving techniques to ideas students are struggling with as well as being a mentor towards students - being supportive and consoling strengths - interpersonal skills, communication,problem solving ability to ensure students have…
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Amrit

Science Tutor Warrawee, NSW
Make complex terms simple and easy to understand Concept understanding Focus on practical…
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Stephanie

Science Tutor Wahroonga, NSW
A trait I consider to be very important as a tutor is being a good leader. They should be very responsible for their actions, meaning that they will ensure each tutoring session is effective for the student. They should also be assertive, trustworthy and mindful, which helps them offer guidance to other students. Lastly, they should keep an open…
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Matthew

Science Tutor Gordon, NSW
In my opinion, the most important thing a tutor can do would be to provide the students with the resources/information necessary to understand a challenging topic effectively. My strengths as a tutor would be effective interpersonal communication, critical thinking skills and the ability to solve problems…
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Ayush

Science Tutor East Killara, NSW
One of the most important things I can do for the student is to explain complex concepts in a simple way which I think Is essential. Another thing I can do is show them some brief study skills and provide them with confidence to attempt more complex questions as well as have fun with them and get to know them I am an excellent communicator and can…
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Sze

Science Tutor Killara, NSW
The most important thing as a tutor is to incentivise and assist clients to reach their ideal academic performance, while also respecting their boundaries and not pushing them too hard. I can also incentivise them to be more passionate and confidence in the subject I tutor them for, as well as empathise with and provide emotional support for…
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Vinh

Science Tutor Mount Colah, NSW
Facilitate learning, inspire curiosity, provide support, and tailor teaching to individual needs. My strength in tutoring lies in my ability to effectively communicate principles and concepts to young…
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Daisy

Science Tutor East Lindfield, NSW
I think encouraging the student to think and ask questions, while trying my best to help solve the issues is important. I also find preparing lessons and checking homework essential. I graduated from Abbotsleigh with Atar 99.6 in 2022, so have a fresh and clear understanding of the syllabus and…
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Owais

Science Tutor West Pymble, NSW
I believe that the most important things a tutor can do for a student is: A good tutor should provide personalized support to help students overcome their challenges, build their confidence, encourage critical thinking, and foster a love of learning. My strengths as a tutor lie in my ability to provide personalized and adaptive learning…
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Ruishan

Science Tutor Marsfield, NSW
The most important thing a tutor can do for a student is not only to teach them how to solve problems, but also the way of thinking to solve them and applying the experience to use their skills in life. It is also important that they be supportive of the student no matter the student's academic level. I simplify the steps of math problems and…
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Jasmine

Science Tutor Lindfield, NSW
It is so important for tutors to adapt their method of teaching to the way the student learns. Every student not only has different needs and difficulties, but learns concepts differently. It is extremely important to regularly re-evaluate the student's objectives. Modifying your approach as a tutor to make the student feel comfortable and…
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Science Tutor Marsfield, NSW
The most important things a tutor can do for a student are - monitoring the progress of the student and help them improve to their full potential, helping the student to achieve their dreams, sharing my own study experiences so that the student can learn from those experiences and make the most effective studying. My strengths as a tutor…
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Jonathan

Science Tutor Lindfield, NSW
The best thing a tutor can do for a student is affirm their self-worth as a learner and as an individual. It can be frustrating not being able to figure something out, but it becomes a lot less daunting without extreme expectations. I think my strengths as a tutor lie in my patience and my creativity. It's certainly not an easy task learning…
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Matthew

Science Tutor Westleigh, NSW
As a tutor, I believe that the most important things I can do for my students are to tailor my teaching approach to their individual learning styles, provide them with individualized attention and support, and encourage and motivate them to overcome academic challenges. I have strong technical knowledge, problem solving skills, communications…
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Har Rai

Science Tutor Westleigh, NSW
I believe my main objective is not just to make a student smarter, but to also make a student confident in their ability to answer questions. This is something I know I can provide for students. My experience in tutoring has given me an appreciation for patience, and understanding that learning takes time. I try my best to make students understand…
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Arushi

Science Tutor Westleigh, NSW
As a tutor, my biggest responsibility is to give my full attention and time to the students' and listen to what their question is. When a student is aware that they are being heard and you are working with them to overcome the academic hurdle that is when students' really open up to you. They began asking questions that they were unable to ask in…
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Muhammad

Science Tutor Macquarie Park, NSW
A tutor needs to inspire the students in such a way that they know what their efforts will make them accomplish. A very few teachers are able to provide the contextual applications of what they teach the students. I believe it is paramount that a student know about WHY he is being taught something. Sparking interest in studies is not easy at times…
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Omer

Science Tutor Macquarie Park, NSW
In my opinion the most important thing a teacher can do for a Student is to make a Educational related understanding with the student. As in my case I make sure the student clear his idea and he/she is not shy to ask more questions. I take tutoring as my Passion so I do not move to the next idea/topic if my student did not understand the previous…
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Asmita

Science Tutor Marsfield, NSW
Covering the gap of knowledge in a students mind. A tutor's main job is to help guide student's struggling in understanding anything. Developing new tricks or techniques to make the student understand something they are having difficulties with. This mostly applies during teaching…
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Mandar

Science Tutor Marsfield, NSW
I believe that mankind must progress consciously, taking good care of the every individual in society. A tutor can ignite the interest in student by applying creative approach and also he or she can offer mental support which helps students excel in examinations Empathy, patience, core knowledge of math being from engineering background. Further,…

Local Reviews

Reasonably quick to get going with the right tutor who made a difference to the confidence of my daughter. Worth doing for good results in the HSC.
Tracey, St Ives Chase

Inside St Ives ChaseTutoring Sessions

Content Covered

Year 11 student Ben worked on logarithms, including practice problems and test review, then moved into calculus topics such as the quotient and product rules.

For Year 10, Olivia focused on financial maths by calculating simple and compound interest, followed by work on non-linear graphing of exponentials and parabolas.

Meanwhile, Year 5 student Grace practiced long division within worded questions and solved multiple-step problems to strengthen her understanding of division in real-life contexts.

Recent Challenges

In recent senior Mathematics sessions, one Year 12 student repeatedly avoided referring back to class notes during homework—"he needs to look back at his notes when doing homework"—which led to confusion applying the product and chain rules in calculus.

Messy or incomplete working, especially with Leibniz's form, made it harder for him to spot and learn from errors.

In Year 10, another student's tendency to second-guess answers resulted in "silly mistakes" and a loss of confidence mid-task.

Meanwhile, a Year 5 learner found long division challenging because skipped steps weren't written out clearly, slowing progress on multi-step questions.

Recent Achievements

A tutor in St Ives Chase noticed one high school student who previously struggled with fractions now works through them smoothly, after consistent focus on the basics—he even completed last week's set without needing hints.

Another Year 11 student has started developing her own memory tricks for remembering logarithm rules, a shift from relying entirely on prompts during sessions.

Meanwhile, a Year 4 student who used to rush through math problems now takes extra time to read each question carefully before answering, leading to fewer mistakes and more thoughtful work overall.

What they say about our tutoring

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Tilly is very happy with Sharat. She found it really helpful, and she liked him. As you said, he is a great communicator.

Taylor received her final year 10 exam marks for maths back today and topped her class with 89%! Many thanks to Teresa's assistance along the way

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 St Ives Library—or at your child's school (with permission), like St Ives North Public School.