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What do I enjoy most about tutoring? 😁
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
- Maths tutoring in Hawthorn
- Biology tutoring in Hawthorn
- Science tutoring in Hawthorn
- Geography tutoring in Hawthorn
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- Naplan tutoring
- VCE tutoring
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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 has made good progress with probability overall.
Holly has made good progress with probability overall.
Improvement using all the information given in the exam question particularly in extended response section where information might be on a previous page would help Holly get a few extra marks in her exam.
Holly is progressing well with the extended response style questions for exams
Holly is progressing well with the extended response style questions for exams
Further practice with the extended response style questions checking small details provided it start of the questions to check that the answers are valid
Holly was able once explained and shown an example of how to approach and solve the different area under a curve techniques.
Holly was able once explained and shown an example of how to approach and solve the different area under a curve techniques.
Before her exam practice questions with probability will help Holly get more confidence with the approaches she is choosing to use for each question, overall she is doing very well.
Holly did very well this week finding the general solution for sin, cos and tan functions, and was able to accurately find the solution with a given domain as well.
Holly did very well this week finding the general solution for sin, cos and tan functions, and was able to accurately find the solution with a given domain as well.
One thing to improve is speed with graphing functions which should hopefully improve with more practice with the function, this will help a lot in exam settings when time can be vey tight.