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What do I enjoy most about tutoring? 😁
From my mentorship experience in my past roles, I found it very rewarding so see someone's progress in their understanding. I think that most people feel a sense of pride when they realise that they can no comprehend something that flummoxed them at the start of a lesson or tutorial.My Strengths as Tutor 💪
I believe that I am patient and understanding of the student's position, since I myself required tutoring early on in Secondary level maths. I believe that any problem can be taken on from multiple directions, any one of which could be the key to understanding for the student.Most important things I can do for a student 🏅
To help students to not feel overwhelmed by the subject, since this can extinguish any desire to learn further. I find that the best way of doing this is to break questions or ideas into smaller parts so that the areas that they are struggling with can be identified, isolated, and worked through.Subjects Tutored 🎓
Exam Prep 📝
- Naplan tutoring
- WACE tutoring
Tutoring students in 👦 👧
- year 7
- year 8
- year 9
- year 10
- year 11
- year 12
About Ross
Background
I moved to Perth from Ireland in August 2025. I have a bachelor's in Physics with Applied Physics and a master's in Data Science. My previous professional roles have involved a lot of teaching and mentorship that I believe helps me to connect to students and build their confidence.
Practical Teaching and Mentoring Experience
Ross has hands-on experience mentoring interns and university students, not just doing the work himself. He has created personalised learning plans, written study materials and run small-group tutorials to walk learners through new concepts step by step. He also regularly checked in with his mentees, reviewed their work and helped them prepare presentations to explain what they had learned. This background means he is comfortable guiding students at different levels and adapting to their pace and confidence.
Clear Communicator with a Love of Language and Reading
Although Ross’s background is science-focused, he is also a keen reader and long-term book club member, which keeps his written and spoken English sharp. He enjoys discussing stories, ideas and vocabulary, and can bring this enthusiasm into English sessions, especially for students who need help with comprehension and clear writing. Combining his analytical mindset with a genuine interest in language, he helps students break down questions, structure answers logically and build confidence in both English and maths.
Recent Tutoring Comments:
Patrick now seems very comfortable with budgeting. He is able to calculate monthly balances and determine which costs can be avoided or altered to increase monthly ...
Patrick now seems very comfortable with budgeting. He is able to calculate monthly balances and determine which costs can be avoided or altered to increase monthly savings.
Patrick still has difficulty with the concept of squaring a number. Since this comes up in both area and Pythagoras, we will need to work more on this to avoid confusion in the future.
Patrick was able to complete a question on statistics without help (only prompting). He was able to remember all the steps for calculating the mean, median, and ...
Patrick was able to complete a question on statistics without help (only prompting). He was able to remember all the steps for calculating the mean, median, and mode, and even correctly determined that there was an outlier in the data that should be removed from any calculations. Also, I was very impressed that Patrick has started to refer back to previous notes and workings when presented with a new question. This was something I had marked as needing improvement in the past and he seems to have caught on to the advantages of this.
Patrick has had difficulty with some minor but vital aspects of maths, such as the difference between diameter and radius for a circle. I may need to set time aside in our next session to focus purely on these confusing aspects so that they can be improved upon for future questions.
I would say that this is the subject that Carter seems to be the most comfortable with in the course. He is able to describe the theory behind the algorithms as ...
I would say that this is the subject that Carter seems to be the most comfortable with in the course. He is able to describe the theory behind the algorithms as well as apply the algorithm mathematically.
Carter has a tendency to work slowly through questions, even when he finds them easy. While this can be useful to avoid careless mistakes, he will not have much time in the exam to do this.
Carrying on from last week, Carter has continued to show that this is the most comfortable topic in the course for him. He was able to tackle each precedence table ...
Carrying on from last week, Carter has continued to show that this is the most comfortable topic in the course for him. He was able to tackle each precedence table question with ease and confidence.
Carter tried to avoid doing a forwards/backwards sweep to calculate the earliest/latest starting times for a 3 mark question. While this may save time, it is very likely that he would lose marks without taking the prescribed route to the answer.