I often get students telling me that they know the content but don’t do well on exam questions. If you are doing well on topic tests but not on your mock exams, it is likely that either the topic tests are missing some of the key details the examiners are looking for, or that you haven’t faced sufficiently challenging questions often enough. I have collated some of the more challenging exam questions from the recent OCR A A-level Chemistry exams, those from Paper 1 are listed below and I can send on those for Paper 2 if requested, please just get in touch.
Is online tuition as good as face-to-face tuition? It is certainly a little different, but it is in no way inferior providing everybody has the right equipment and you use the best online whiteboard, like I do! There are some key advantages to working online, for both of us. These are:
More timeslots that work well for both the tutor and tutee The work we do is automatically saved and can be viewed again after the lesson, so you won’t need to choose between participation and making notes You can replay solutions to problems from the start (the whiteboard records all the actions we take, so you can undo and redo every change to the page) Instant access to a large library of questions, worksheets and other materials that it would be impossible to carry around or print Most importantly, I can focus completely on being a Chemistry tutor.
