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Dana
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Dana

English Tutor Indooroopilly, QLD
The most important thing I can do as a tutor is to encourage the student to do their best and achieve their goals. If their goal is to get straight A's then I will ensure that I do all I can to help them get there. If their goal is to pass or to improve their grades, it is important that I help them do that. I do not want to give them the answers,…
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Joseph

English Tutor Kenmore, QLD
I believe that using good listening skills validates them, improves the educational outcomes and in turn improves confidence. Guiding them through the uncomfortable process of learning. I believe my empathy and experience with education are my strengths. I have a good ability to understand the student's perspective and what they are struggling…
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Milan Chirayath
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Milan Chirayath

English Tutor Goodna, QLD
The most important thing a tutor can do for a student is to listen to them carefully and attentively showing all engagement towards the student. This allows the tutor to understand what is difficult and what is easier for the student and at the same time displays to the student that the tutor cares and wants to better the student's life. I am…
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Amal

English Tutor Forest Lake, QLD
My teaching style is a self-made one which is partially inspired by my mom and my grandmother who were also teachers. * I try to simplify things as much as possible. In fact, i believe, the most difficult thing to do is to simplify something. * I always try to include real-life examples while explaining concepts which helps the students to…
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Nandini

English Tutor Doolandella, QLD
A tutor must be patient as well as motivating for their students. They must be organised and have a well structured plan to support their students while still being open to their ideas and opinions. The tutors must also be good problem solvers in order to assist students with their studies. An effective tutor will always encourage independence and…
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Richard

English Tutor Doolandella, QLD
The most important thing a tutor can do for a student is to offer them quality information and direct feedback on their work and areas of struggle. Additionally, a tutor should be humble such that they do not impose their own ideas onto a student, but rather walk alongside the student's journey of learning. This helps to establish a strong…
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Sherin

English Tutor Kenmore Hills, QLD
be a coach to teach self-directed learning and install confidence in own skills become positive about learning new skills and how this is important in life, not only school teaching experience as a pre-service primary school teacher (all subjects) experience in second language tutoring in middle and senior school individual, understanding…
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Diya

English Tutor Forest Lake, QLD
A tutor should treat every students equally. Motivate slow learners and help them improve their learning. Patience is very important and never get angry repeating the same response for those who have trouble grasping the concept. Ready to lend ears to their queries. Make learning easier so that they can enjoy learning. I have always noticed myself…
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Dziila

English Tutor Indooroopilly, QLD
Helping the student build a personalised studying technique & encouraging them to work hard. Answering every single question the student might have & helping them really understand the content. I use a very approachable & organised manner of tutoring, this helps students stay organised as well & ask me any questions they might have, however small…
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Ana

English Tutor Moggill, QLD
While I believe it is obviously important to help a student learn and understand their chosen subject, it is also important to support and encourage confidence in a student. I found during my schooling years that the subjects I most succeeded in were ones where my teachers were kind and encouraging - it allowed me to feel comfortable to ask…
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Jade

English Tutor Indooroopilly, QLD
The most important things I can do for a student: - Be a kind but firm figure, understanding of struggle but still encouraging progress. - Be someone who teaches how to learn just as much as they teach a subject. Learning skills will continue to serve students well after their school years are through. - Be passionate about my subject. A…
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Toby

English Tutor Indooroopilly, QLD
The most important thing that a tutor can do for a student is to build rapport so that they trust in your abilities and in your desire to help them. I also believe that it is important that students feel that the time that they have spent with you has been worth the cost and the effort. One of my tutoring strengths is my ability to explain…
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Nandini

English Tutor Indooroopilly, QLD
A tutor can change a student's life in ways more than one. She can help them find their confidence. She can, also, help them believe in themselves and encourage them to ask questions they have been scared to ask in their classes. A tutor can help a student overcome their fears and help them improve. Apart from helping the students achieve their…
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Edward

English Tutor Indooroopilly, QLD
The most important thing a tutor can do for a student is foster an excitement about the learning process. A good tutor can help a student to achieve not only their language goals but to appreciate how important language is to their overall academic achievement. My strengths as a tutor revolve around my communicative style of teaching/tutoring. I'm…
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Ameesha

English Tutor Indooroopilly, QLD
Build a friendly bond with the students. Understand the student, their problems and help them overcome their fears. Make them understand the concept in the easiest way possible. I would say that Communication and understanding are my strengths. Another best of my strengths include me being able to interact with the students in order to know…
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Aryan

English Tutor Indooroopilly, QLD
1. Be knowledgable 2. Be encouraging 3. Be Organized 4. Be Adaptable 5. Be a Clear Communicator I bring knowledge, patience, adaptability, encouragement, clear communication, and organization to my lessons. Scoring an IB 43 (ATAR of 99.40) in high school, I have a deep understanding of my offered subjects and can give insight into helpful…
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SHUTING

English Tutor Indooroopilly, QLD
I think the most important things are teaching students the learning methods, help them form a good learning habit and culture the keeping learning attitude. 1. Patience and good temper. 2. Several learning skills to get good grade. 3. Strong acdemic background. 4. International experience. 5. Good learning…
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Mahesh Kumar

English Tutor Archerfield, QLD
A tutor should transfer all of the knowledge to a student without holding back anything Patience and…
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Seyed Amir Mahdi

English Tutor Archerfield, QLD
The most important thing a tutor can do for the student is to make them realise that they have much more potential than they think. Tutors have the opportunity to show and help students to gain confidence in themselves and this will remain with them not only during their schooling years, but as they grow and face many challenges in life. The…
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Gabriel

English Tutor Taringa, QLD
As a tutor, what I believe to be important for a student is the ability to not only push but to better the student in their schooling career. My years of high school were spent with teachers who picked favourites and let me fade into the background. As a tutor, I would enjoy seeing the potential in someone and letting them see that for themselves.…
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Nur Hanisah

English Tutor Taringa, QLD
The most important thing is to get the student have a deep understanding on the part they have troubles. I believe once they understand there will be no problem to do well and increase their passion in that particular subject. "You can't love what you don't know" is my motto. My strength as a tutor is making things more simple to understand…
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Kianna

English Tutor Taringa, QLD
I believe that tutors should aim to create a safe and comfortable space for students, allowing them to feel confident to ask questions and express their confusion. I also think tutors should try to understand the student’s perspective and take that into account when teaching. I have good communication skills and am very patient and organised. I…
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Jenna

English Tutor Taringa, QLD
The most important thing a tutor can do for a student is to not only instruct, but listen. Tutoring is a beneficial one on one experience, therefore tutoring has opportunities to become specialised for the students benefit. This can be achieved with asking questions such as “How is this content relevant to the student?†or “Does the…

Local Reviews

We had a lesson with Annie, she is really good.
Changyu, Middle Park

Inside SumnerTutoring Sessions

Content Covered

Year 10 student Lucas tackled binomial probability and discrete random variables, focusing on applications to real-world scenarios and confidence intervals.

For Year 11, Emma practiced integration by substitution and solved problems involving probability density functions, including finding the equation of a function and calculating probabilities.

Meanwhile, Year 12 student Alex worked through differentiation of natural logarithms using the chain rule and applied the log change of base formula while rearranging exponential equations for assignments.

Recent Challenges

A Year 8 student was asked to write out every calculation but often defaulted to mental maths—"needs to not do it in his head"—which led to missing steps, especially in algebra.

In Year 11 Chemistry, homework was left incomplete, making it difficult to reinforce new concepts like distinguishing alcohols from carboxylic acids or correctly drawing esters.

One Year 12 Maths student struggled with organizing written work for problem-solving tasks; as a tutor noted, "needs to improve communication and setting out of certain questions (chain rule)," which resulted in unclear justifications during test reviews and lost marks on multi-step solutions.

Recent Achievements

A tutor in Sumner noticed a Year 11 student who previously hesitated to correct her mistakes now actively reviews her working and pinpoints where she's gone wrong, particularly during binomial probability tasks.

In another session, a Year 9 student who struggled with setting up diagrams for trigonometry questions began drawing them independently, which let him tackle worded problems with less prompting.

Meanwhile, a Year 7 student has moved from guessing ratios to confidently dividing by 10, 100, and 1000 and checking his answers before moving on—he finished all the practice division problems without needing hints.

What they say about our tutoring

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We are extremely pleased with Hilario and would be happy to recommend him to anyone. Alison is a bit picky and Maths is a subject she hates but feedback from her has been really positive. She commented this morning that if her school teachers were like him, she wouldn't have been having issues with Maths.

I am really happy with Gabriele and the confidence she is providing the girls in their maths.

Both Amber and myself are very happy with the first two lessons Kamen has given.He has a great way of making Amber at ease with the learning process and we look forward to seeing her maths improve.

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 Mount Ommaney Library—or at your child's school (with permission), like Jamboree Heights State School.