They lose them for misreading the question, working too slowly under timed conditions, or freezing on two or three specific topics. I find out which one it is, then fix that.
No card details. No commitment. Online, anywhere in the UK.
After enough papers you stop seeing "wrong answers" and start seeing a handful of specific causes. Almost every lost mark is one of these.
No consultation call, no assessment fee, no sales pitch. A normal lesson, so you can see how your child gets on with me.
When you book, you tell me your child's year group, the schools or exam board you're targeting, and the topic they keep getting stuck on. Thirty seconds.
Not a generic assessment — the actual topic you named. If they've got a past paper question they got wrong recently, send it over and we'll work through that one.
By the end your child should be able to answer a question they couldn't answer an hour earlier. That's the whole pitch. If it doesn't land, you've lost nothing.
Grammar and super-selective entry — QE Barnet, Tiffin, Sutton, Henrietta Barnett, the Essex CSSE schools and independents. GL, CEM and CSSE formats. Number, ratio and proportion, algebra, geometry, statistics, and the multi-step word problems that separate the top papers.
Foundation and Higher tier, all major boards. Algebra, quadratics, trigonometry, circle theorems, probability — and the exam technique that protects method marks when the final answer goes wrong.
If your child is already secure across the topics and simply needs to get faster under timed conditions, you don't need me. Buy past papers, sit them properly timed, and mark them honestly. That will do more than paying someone by the hour.
If there are two or three topics they freeze on every single time, that's different. That's genuinely hard to fix at home, and it's exactly what one-to-one work sorts out fastest.
Why two hours, not one?
A single weekly hour is mostly spent reminding a child what you did last week.
Two shorter sessions a few days apart means teaching something, then
deliberately returning to it — and that spacing is what makes it stick. It's a
teaching decision, not a sales one.
Yes. No card details, no obligation, and no sales call attached to it. You book a slot, we do a normal lesson on whatever your child is stuck on, and afterwards you decide. If you'd rather not carry on, that's genuinely fine.
For the 11+, most families start somewhere in Year 4 or early Year 5. Starting much earlier rarely helps and often just makes everyone anxious. If your child is already in Year 5 and you think you've left it late, you almost certainly haven't — but be realistic about which schools you target.
GL Assessment, CEM and CSSE for the 11+, plus independent school papers. For GCSE, all major boards at both Foundation and Higher tier. Tell me which schools you're targeting and I'll prepare for those specific formats.
Video call with a shared whiteboard, so I can see the working as it happens — which matters more than the answer does. Your child needs a laptop or tablet, paper and a pencil. Nothing to install or buy.
Online only. It means I'm not limited by catchment, and your child isn't tired from a journey before the lesson starts. I'm based in Hayes, West London, and work with families across the UK.
Very little. Book the trial, tell me the topic your child struggles with, and if you can, send a photo of a past paper question they got wrong. That's usually more useful to me than anything else.
Tell me the topic your child keeps getting stuck on and I'll come back to you within 24 hours with a couple of times that work.