Jack identified the importance of meiosis as well as the stages involved. He was also able to distinguish between meiosis and mitosis and identified its role in genetic variation.

Although we only covered the basics of meiosis today, Jack would benefit from constructing his own diagram of the process and remembering to label the key components present in each stage (spindles, centrosomes, etc.), as he had a little difficulty remembering some features of each stage.

Despite some technical difficulties, Alex was well prepared. Alex was able to identify how substances move across the cell membrane via active and passive transport.

We covered a lot of terminology that Alex may need to review, as she found some of the names quite tricky, including the different components of the plasma membrane, the names of the fluid inside and outside the cell, as well as the gradient that determines how substances move in and out of the cell. We can also aim to review this next week.

Hannah was able to identify what like terms were and how to use them to solve simple problems involving algebraic expressions. - Hannah had some difficulty with simplifying algebraic fractions and needed to recall that we can simplify fractions using the highest common factor and by cancelling like terms. Once Hannah was able to identify this, she found it much easier to complete the questions involving algebraic fractions.

- Hannah found multiplying fractions, including multiplying a fraction by a whole number challenging. Hannah needs to review her answer when doing problems involving fractions, and she would benefit from asking herself questions such as is the final number going to be larger or smaller (verbalising your working out), to assist her in answering the questions. - Hannah needs to be more careful when dealing with sums that involve negative and positive numbers, ensuring that she has identified the signs in the problem correctly, as this will help to reach the correct answer and will help her avoid any small errors in her working out. We can continue practising this in the next tutorial, but be sure to use the textbook as well. - Hannah found substituting values into an algebraic expression challenging, but I feel that she is improving. However, she would benefit from completing practice questions from her textbook.

- With some help, Hannah was able to answer some of the questions she had not completed during her exam and explained her working out. It's important to always have a go at working out what a question is asking and to then have a go at answering. Hannah was able to explain her working out on the questions we worked through, even though she required some prompting with some content.

- Working with algebraic expressions continues to be challenging for Hannah, and it would be beneficial for us to review this area in the future, as Algebra will be core component of Mathematics through Stage 5 & 6. I would recommend completing more practice questions from the textbook and always ask the teacher (or tutor) if you're not sure about a question, even if you'd rather do it outside of class.