For most students, the thought of doing more work isn’t likely to appeal. After a day at school, listening to teachers and engaging with lessons, you no doubt feel you’ve earnt the right to some down-time, whatever that may involve for you. However, taking just one hour out of your day each week can help you drastically improve your studies and raise your grades.
We often hear the phrase, “It’s like riding a bike,” when it comes to picking a skill up again after a prolonged absence. However, if you’ve not ridden a bike for a while, the process can feel a little wobblier than this cliché suggests. Rusty riders are likely to struggle maintaining their balance and are going to be filled with anxiety as they narrowly avoid a tree. The sense of achievement may be immense, but it’s hard to say if the experience of getting back on the bike was fun.
Sadly, our A Level Tutors and GCSE Tutors don’t offer cycling lessons; however, they do cover a range of other topics. What they do know, for certain, is that the more you work at something, the more you practice it and the more consistent you are in your approach to learning, the better your results will be. Someone who consistently picks up their study books or spends time looking through their class notes is undoubtedly going to perform better than someone who only glances at them occasionally.
Working with an online tutor can help you find that level of consistency when it comes to your studies. Knowing that you have a set tutoring spot, once a week, with your tutor will ensure you hold yourself accountable, and do the work required. In this way, the conversations you have with your tutor and the tasks you’re set, will help you create the consistency needed to make progress.
If you consider the disruption caused from moving to and from classrooms, the need to settle down and get equipment out, the distractions caused by students asking genuine questions or simply mucking around you can quickly see how much time can be lost in a class. A one-hour lesson could easily become 30 minutes of teaching new content, which means you’re missing out on the opportunity to progress.
Deciding to work with online tutors, for instance a private science tutor, online maths tutor, online Physics tutor, online biology tutor or online chemistry tutor removes all these distractions and allows you to focus your time entirely on your studies. An online tutor is there to teach you – not anyone else. They won’t have other students to admonish or encourage. They won’t have questions to answer which means they can’t find time to answer yours.
Instead, they will work closely with you to ensure you not only understand the topics that are being discussed but are able to recall them and use them correctly. This laser-focus which only a one-to-one tutor can provide is what will make a huge difference when it comes to your understanding of a given subject.
No doubt, your in-class physics teacher is great, and does a fantastic job of keeping lessons engaging and relevant. However, the downside of learning any subject at school is the restrictive nature of it. Your teacher has a full teaching load, and only a certain amount of time to deliver the content deemed relevant. They also have an entire class of students, perhaps up to 30 at any one time, who require their attention.
Your teacher would no doubt agree that they wished they had more time to work with their students on a more individual basis – providing support as and when needed, and in a way that works best for you. Sadly, the education system isn’t designed to work that way, but an A Level Physics tutor online, or a physics and maths tutor and any other online tutor does have that opportunity.
When you work with an online tutor, they will take the time to find out how you work best. Not everyone learns in the same way – some students are very visual learners, meaning they do best with videos and demonstrations whilst others may be more inclined to take something in if they do it for themselves. In a classroom, you must do as the teacher says, based on the lesson plan – but there is no such restriction with a tutor.
Another huge bonus is that a private tutor can approach each lesson or session according to your needs. This means, if you’re struggling with a particular concept, you have the time to ask all the questions you want, to make sure you really get to grips with it before moving on. If your tutor must spend two lessons working on a topic instead of the originally planned one, it doesn’t matter. The extra time spent on building that foundation to ensure understanding will undoubtedly pay off in the future.
Private tutors come from a variety of backgrounds; some of them may still be teachers, or they have recently retired. They could also be University students or experts working within the industry they’ve chosen to teach. As a result, each tutor brings with them a wealth of knowledge and a different way of looking at things.
Working with someone who isn’t tied to the teaching methods of a particular school means there’s an increased chance of you being pushed outside of the norms when it comes to studying. You will be encouraged to read around the subject and access information and materials you may not have considered before. You will also find yourself having conversations with your tutor, inspired by the content, which you would not be able to do in class.
This additional knowledge can help provide more information, but also inspire a deeper interest in the subject. If you love what you’re learning, then you will always do better at it.
If you want to find out how an online tutor can help you get the most of your studies, whether that’s in science, maths or any other subject for that matter, get in touch with us today via info@tutorspot.co.uk.
