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I enjoy most are the moments when a student I have been tutoring has a moment of understanding with a concept that they previously found challengingMy Strengths as Tutor 💪
My strengths are my patience and adaptability, which helps me support students to find an approach that works best for them and to build confidence in their own abilities.Most important things I can do for a student 🏅
I consider the most import thing a tutor can do is to explain concepts in ways that suit the student's learning style, to improve their understanding of the subject.Subjects Tutored 🎓
- Chemistry tutoring in Hawthorn
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About Olivia
High-achieving maths and science role model
Olivia is a high-performing student with an ATAR above 95 and strong study scores across her subjects, making her an excellent role model for primary and high school students. She is beginning a Bachelor of Science with a pathway into Engineering, so she brings fresh, up-to-date maths and science knowledge to her sessions. Olivia focuses on building understanding rather than memorisation, breaking down tricky concepts into clear, manageable steps and showing students how to think through problems with confidence.
Real experience supporting children with homework
Through several years of babysitting, Olivia has regularly helped children complete their homework, especially in maths and English. She is used to explaining tasks in different ways until they “click”, and keeps in close communication with parents about progress and any concerns. Her experience as an assistant coach for a junior girls’ basketball team has strengthened her ability to encourage shy or anxious learners and to keep sessions structured, positive and focused.
Energetic coach who builds confidence and resilience
Olivia’s background in competitive rowing and multiple school sports means she understands goal-setting, discipline and perseverance—skills she weaves into her tutoring. On the basketball court she has run warm-ups, drills and small-group activities, which translates into engaging learning routines and short, targeted practice tasks in tutoring. She helps students set realistic goals, celebrates small wins, and shows them practical strategies for staying organised and calm during tests and busy school weeks.
Recent Tutoring Comments:
Holly understood how to approach the average rate of change well, and could remember most of the content cover last term.
Holly understood how to approach the average rate of change well, and could remember most of the content cover last term.
Holly should try to continue to revise trigonometry, particular drawing graphs as these a very commonly used in the questions across all topics including calculus Holly's next topic.
Holly understanding of how to approach average rate of change questions is very good and she seem confident using this method.
Holly understanding of how to approach average rate of change questions is very good and she seem confident using this method.
Holly could do with some more practice with first principles method, however for a first introduction to limits she is doing well.
Holly once derivative graphs were explained to her with a few example questions seemed to have a good understanding of how to approach these questions.
Holly once derivative graphs were explained to her with a few example questions seemed to have a good understanding of how to approach these questions.
Holly is making good progress with calculus, but could do with more improvement linking different skills together to solve a more complex problem. This is should also get easier with more practice and for a first introduction Holly is doing very well.
Holly made good progress in understanding permutations and quickly picked up the formula. She was able to apply it to more complex problems rather than relying ...
Holly made good progress in understanding permutations and quickly picked up the formula. She was able to apply it to more complex problems rather than relying solely on the box method, which is useful for understanding the concept but can become challenging and less efficient when working with larger solutions.
Continue practising how to use and rearrange the permutation formula to solve for different variables, such as (n) or (r), rather than only finding the number of permutations. This will build greater flexibility and confidence when approaching different types of permutation problems.