Quandong's tutors include an assistant principal with over 12 years' school leadership and teaching experience, a Kumon instructor and selective school high-achiever (Australian Maths Olympiad top 10%), a primary educator with five years' classroom expertise, maths and science Olympiad winners, VCE subject duxes, experienced university peer mentors, and multiple qualified teachers.
Jake has had 2 sessions and already he feels a bit more confident. He is not very confident around new people and usually takes a while to open up, but he seems to have hit it off with Kisanet so that's great. We are very happy and looking forward to the next couple of months.Suzanne
Year 8 student Lachlan worked on poetry analysis by identifying techniques such as metaphor and personification, then practiced writing his own free-verse poem; in a separate session, he strengthened geometry skills with targeted textbook exercises.
Year 10 student Aiden focused on trigonometric functions and practiced applying the chain rule for differentiation using VCAA exam-style questions.
Meanwhile, Year 11 student Zoe tackled problems involving matrix addition, subtraction, multiplication, and finding inverse matrices to deepen her understanding of advanced algebra topics.
In Year 11 Maths Methods, a student's notes lacked dates and clear working—"Pen & Paper needs work, particularly neatness and clarity"—which made it harder to trace errors in calculus and graphing tasks.
In Year 9 English, one learner hesitated to annotate poetic techniques or integrate quotes smoothly; as observed, "he needed support to identify figurative language," slowing his progress in analysis.
Meanwhile, a Year 4 maths student repeatedly lost focus during multiplication drills, needing reminders to stay on task. When written answers were rushed or messy, extra time was spent untangling calculations instead of building new skills.
A Quandong tutor recently saw real progress with a Year 11 student who, after previously hesitating to ask questions, began proactively seeking clarification during sessions on the unit circle and product rule—he now voices what he doesn't understand rather than staying silent.
In Year 8 maths, Braith had struggled to solve algebraic equations efficiently; now he completes one-variable equations in fewer steps and even does much of the calculation mentally.
Meanwhile, a Year 4 student who was once reluctant to read aloud managed to finish an entire chapter out loud and then volunteered to tackle new spelling tasks without prompting.
