Year 9 student Chloe focused on strengthening algebra skills, especially solving equations and manipulating expressions.

For Year 11, Jack tackled financial mathematics topics including shares, dividend yield, and depreciation calculations using real-world examples.

Meanwhile, a Year 12 student spent the session reviewing HSC exam content with an emphasis on trigonometry and area problems, revisiting Pythagoras' theorem through practice questions.

A Year 10 student in financial maths often defaulted to plugging numbers into formulas without grasping the underlying context, as a tutor observed: "She is too reliant on putting numbers into a given formula." This led to confusion when faced with unfamiliar worded questions.

In Year 8, another student's messy working and poor organization of steps made errors harder to spot and correct, especially in metric conversions and times tables revision.

For a senior Extension 1 Maths student, overthinking basic trigonometry sometimes caused unnecessary complexity; lost confidence quickly followed.

When explanations were written incorrectly in class notes, misconceptions persisted, making later corrections more difficult.

One Tea Gardens tutor noticed Danika, a high school student, taking real initiative by organising her notes each week and now flagging tricky questions in advance—something she never used to do.

In recent sessions, she also hit a personal best of 60 correct answers in 100 seconds on her times tables test after starting well below 40.

Another high schooler, Liz, began explaining her reasoning out loud and even challenged the tutor's answers when she felt confident—a big shift from quietly doubting herself last term.

Meanwhile, Lara (Year 7) tackled an unfamiliar geometry formula independently for the first time and completed a practice question without any prompting.