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Bruce's tutors include a former school science teacher with four years' experience, a peer mentor and academic scholarship recipient who scored 99.2% in Year 12, an award-winning university mathematics graduate with Dean's Excellence awards, seasoned K–12 maths and English specialists, and passionate youth mentors skilled at building confidence across diverse backgrounds.

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Lu

Modern History Tutor Acton, ACT
I think the most important thing is to inspire students to learn more and improve in their own respective ways, as it is crucial that we teach them methods of how to learn instead of just force-feeding knowledge. Tutors should teach strategies that are easily implementable for a variety of situations so that students can confidently adapt their…
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Lucinda

Modern History Tutor Acton, ACT
Provide support to students in both the academic and mental difficulties they might be going through. Often as a tutor you must recognise that students who get tutoring need further help than what is being given and may have academic insecurity, so it is our role to help them improve on this and gain confidence in their learning, with hopes that…
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Gurjit

Modern History Tutor Acton, ACT
I believe the most important thing a tutor can do is to help students develop critical thinking skills. It’s not just about giving them the right answers, but guiding them to ask the right questions, break down problems, and reason through solutions on their own. This way, they become independent learners who can tackle new challenges with…
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Alastair

Modern History Tutor Acton, ACT
The two most important things a tutor can do for a student in my view are (1) adapt to that particular student and (2) encourage and motivate the student along the way. Indeed, without motivation, tutoring is a fairly pointless exercise. My strengths as a student are (1) my ability to make complex concepts, especially in maths, tangible to…
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Jonah

Modern History Tutor Acton, ACT
I think listening to the student is the most important thing a tutor can do. Whether it is simply listening to troubles they are having with a class or with life, listening to the student is very important. As someone who has studied a wide range of topics throughout high school and college, I feel like I have a wide range of expertise.…
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Sean

Modern History Tutor Acton, ACT
I think it is important that a tutor be able to explain a concept in a way that the student can understand, internalise and remember, while tapping into their passion for the subject, rather than strictly and laboriously forcing them to rote-learn concepts (with the exception of fairly simple ideas like times tables of course) I think my strengths…
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regan

Modern History Tutor Canberra, ACT
Personally I think showing students how to be a better person and letting them know more about the world. I understand about most of the struggles that a students face and I am patient and passionate on helping…
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Lydia

Modern History Tutor Denman Prospect, ACT
I believe the two most important things a tutor can do for a student are to aid them in the learning gaps they may have and to help them in building a positive relationship with academics. It is common that if students may have a negative relationship with subjects they are not very confident in. Building confidence in these subjects is one of the…
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Samhruta

Modern History Tutor Franklin, ACT
Be there for them whenever they need, be accessible, give them prompt replies in case of a doubt, make learning fun and not boring - its for life and to make a life. I am patient, punctual and ever ready to help the student during an emergency test or last minute assignment. I am open to learning new perspectives from the student and teach them…
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Chiamaka

Modern History Tutor Gungahlin, ACT
Being patient and making sure that students throughly understand concepts and can apply it their daily lives. One of my strengths as a tutor is throughly explaining each concept, ensuring that my students come out fully understanding concepts. I also take pride in being incredibly patient and never letting anyone feel…
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Laiba

Modern History Tutor Gungahlin, ACT
The responsibilities of a tutor involve not only cultivating subject knowledge but also developing a passion for learning. Building a strong connection with the student, identifying their unique learning style, and adapting teaching strategies accordingly are crucial. Moreover, a tutor plays a pivotal role in instilling confidence, critical…
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noor

Modern History Tutor Gungahlin, ACT
The most important thing a tutor can do for a student is identify any key areas for improvement academically and set goals together to maximise and successfully achieve those goals and reach new levels of academic capability. Additionally, it is also important for a tutor to have a respectful and a comfortable relationship with their student so…
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Olive

Modern History Tutor Curtin, ACT
Listening to their needs and their struggles is vital to finding a way for them to enjoy school and the subject. You need to be able to push the student but in a way that helps them to achieve something they're proud of. Pushing them for results is usually only going to increase their frustration and dislike for school/learning. Tutors are in a…

Local Reviews

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Inside BruceTutoring Sessions

Content Covered

Year 9 student Ethan worked through NAPLAN past paper questions 1–25 and reviewed key concepts on circumference basics.

Year 11 student Priya focused on mastering the laws of indices and revised surds, with some work on rationalising denominators using step-by-step examples.

Meanwhile, Year 12 student Daniel practiced applying differentiation to exam-style questions and tackled problems involving tangents and normals to curves.

Recent Challenges

A Year 9 student left multiple homework sets unfinished in algebra and fractions ("Homework - 9A, 9B, 9C - All Questions"), making it harder to reinforce new skills.

In VCE Methods, one student tackled complex differentiation but didn't complete assigned past exam papers—notes read: "Needs to complete the 2009 Paper for Homework."

Another in Year 11 focused revision on familiar problems, shying away from application questions that would boost understanding.

As a tutor observed about a senior: "Need to get more organised then will be able to succeed"—misplaced notes and incomplete practice meant extra time spent catching up before tests.

Recent Achievements

A Bruce tutor noticed a big change in one Year 10 student who previously hesitated to use her calculator and often guessed, but now double-checks her answers confidently during sessions.

In Year 11 maths, a student who used to skip tough surds questions is now attempting them without prompting—last week, he even set his own goal of full marks for the next exam.

Meanwhile, a Year 4 learner who would only answer with help is starting to tackle basic problems independently and asks follow-up questions when unsure. This time, he finished all ten problems on his own.

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 Belconnen Library—or at your child's school (with permission), like University of Canberra Senior Secondary College Lake Ginninderra.