Year 9 student Zac focused on graphing linear equations and interpreting their gradients, as well as revising algebraic techniques for solving equations.

Year 10 Lily worked through trigonometry applications including angles of elevation and depression using diagrams, plus reviewed non-linear relationships such as quadratic and exponential functions.

For Year 11 James, recent lessons included networks—covering spanning trees, shortest paths, and critical path analysis—using real exam-style questions to reinforce concepts.

A Year 8 student often relied on memorised rules to solve linear equations, which, as one tutor noted, "limited his ability to tackle more complex rearrangements."

This was most apparent when real-world worded problems required flexible thinking—he hesitated without a set formula.

In Year 11, another student struggled with messy working and unclear formatting during multi-step trigonometry tasks; her answers were hard to check line-by-line and important units were missed.

For a senior student preparing for HSC finance topics, incomplete homework meant fewer opportunities to review tricky concepts like reducing balance loans together before assessments.

One Bomaderry tutor noticed Andrea, a Year 12 student, recently began checking her own exam mistakes and could clearly explain why an alternative method worked better—something she hesitated to do before.

Another high schooler, Laaibah, who used to wait for hints, is now working through complex network problems and minimum spanning tree questions on her own without prompting.

Meanwhile, in the middle years, Isaak has shifted from guessing to carefully explaining his reasoning when tackling perimeter and area challenges for both 2D and 3D shapes.

Last week, Laaibah completed several bivariate data workbook examples independently.