Year 5 student Alex worked through composite shapes and practiced worded area and perimeter questions, focusing on breaking down multi-step problems.

In Year 8, Jasmine tackled linear equations and explored non-linear equations, including graphing simple parabolas by hand.

Meanwhile, Year 9 student Lucas strengthened skills in expanding and simplifying quadratics and analysed probability using real-world data sets from tables and graphs.

In Year 9 mathematics, one student often avoided writing out full solutions—"he prefers to do it in his head," as a tutor noted—which led to confusion with negatives and errors when expanding brackets.

For a Year 11 learner, answers in trigonometry became tangled due to skipping the initial step of copying down formulas; this left working unanchored and made backtracking difficult.

Meanwhile, a Year 5 student misplaced her homework and struggled to keep materials organized, so time was lost searching instead of learning.

In Year 3 English, missed homework on word definitions meant gaps remained in vocabulary during sessions.

A tutor in Carabooda noticed one Year 10 student who used to skip steps when solving indices questions now writes every stage down, helping avoid simple conversion errors and showing a much more logical process.

In Year 8, another student who previously hesitated to ask for help has started talking through tricky volume problems out loud and checking their answers step by step, which wasn't happening before.

Meanwhile, a younger student surprised her tutor by independently setting her own learning goals at the start of the session and sticking to them—she finished all her planned work without reminders or prompts.