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Being a young tutor helps me to communicate and understand my students' situations and needs better. This also helps me to assist them in their academic field easily. With the small age gap, I am able to explain through analogies that the students can relate to, to allow concepts to be more easily understood, as they link these concepts with their day-to-day real-life examples. This also makes my more approachable, and students would be much more likely to enjoy the lessons and therefore learn to enjoy the subject.

 

I teach students not just concepts but methods to tackle questions. Many students understand concepts but are unable to apply them in questions as questions often have long preambles that confuse students. I teach students how to break down complex questions into simpler parts and solve them easily. I also teach students the marking points for teachers, so that students can learn how to answer questions effectively without wasting words.

 

My usual lesson involves me going through the key concepts and points for each topic, followed by doing actual questions to see how the concepts learnt should be used in answering questions. This allows students to form a link between concepts and methods for solving, and also teaches students to identify common question types and methods. Doing questions immediately after learning new concepts helps to solidify whatever was taught that lesson is extremely important. That is why I insist on having 2h classes as 1.5h will be too short.