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Andrew
Andrew
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London, London
Home Town: London
Member Since: 07/12/2012
Last Login: 3 years ago
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2014: First Class Honours (86% average) - London School of Economics, BSc Economics
2013: 3 A Stars at A-Level (97% average) - Self Studied
2012: 5 As at AS-Level (98.2% average) - Sutton Grammar (School)
2011: 11 A Stars (GCSE) - Sutton Grammar (School)

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I`m a final-year First Class LSE Economist with over four years` experience teaching 200+ students. I attained 11 A*s at GCSE a 98.2% average at AS-Level, the highest in my year 3 A Stars in my self-studied A-Levels, achieving 100% in ten exams and the top mark in my 2nd year at LSE, winning the "Economics Examiner Prize", and the "Rishi Madlani Award" for Macroeconomics. I own Enspire Academy, an 11+ creative learning tuition centre, and Advantage Maths and Advantage Economics, which offer Edexcel and AQA A-Level revision courses.

It may therefore surprise you to learn that I dropped out of school when I was seventeen to begin work as a private tutor, while studying for my A-Levels in my spare time. To put it simply: I hated school. It was either too fast or too slow for me. I became frustrated, outpaced and bored. My attendance dwindled through my GCSE years and by sixth form I realised my time at Sutton Grammar was better spent helping other students and independently studying for my own exams. My headmaster, to whom I am very grateful, was gracious enough to permit me to take my remaining exams at Sutton and to my former teachers`’ joint surprise, I achieved the highest AS-Level grades in the year, went on to receive offers to read Economics at LSE and Cambridge, and then secured 3 A Stars at A-Level.

Awards:
- Rishi Madlani Award: for the highest mark (91) in Macroeconomics (EC210) out of 600+ LSE students
- Economics Examiner Prize: outstanding merit in my 2nd year at LSE
- ifs Young Business Writer of the Year 2013: My article came 1st in the country
- Royal Economic Society Young Economist of the Year Competition: 3rd internationally out of 750 entries
- Harvard Prize: Highest grades in the year
- Young Enterprise Achiever of the Year 2012
- Jack Petchey Award for mentoring younger pupils and my general contributions to school life
- GCSE Prize & Business Prize

Availability: I`m available weekdays and weekends. I`m happy to travel to you (but must charge extra to cover the opportunity cost of my time), or for you to travel to me. Please let me know when is convenient and I will do my best to find a suitable time slot.

Willing to travel: 50 miles

Experience: At A-Level, I specialise in AQA and Edexcel Economics. I`ve been particularly successful at AS-Level where two of my students achieved full UMS (100%) in both modules (feel free to check my reviews). Over the past few years I`ve developed a wealth of adoptable and effective techniques, strategies and frameworks to help students achieve the very highest marks. I am currently working on a revision guide and Youtube tutorial series which will pull together an expansive collection of model answers, real world applications and evaluation points that I`ve created with students, teachers and examiners into a concise, comprehensive and understandable set of resources.

I also run Enspire Academy, an 11+ tuition centre which exploits creative teaching and new technology to deliver a highly effective and rewarding educational experience. Our focus on creative learning manifests itself in our content design: Pokemon Percentages, Disney Movie scri pt Writing and Verbal Reasoning Hangman have all proven to be huge hits with our students, while in no way detracting from their educational development. 11+ preparation can be crushingly dull my aim is to turn it into a more stimulating, interesting experience for students, and work more to build academic skills that will endure beyond entrance examination.

I`m a big fan of technology so all notes are made on my iPad and lesson audio is recorded both notes and audio are then synced to a Dropbox account for parents to access, allowing students to review past lessons (particularly useful around revision time) and parents to understand how best to help their child improve. I also use a screen capture software to create video tutorials, with my students as narrators, which leaves them with a wonderfully personalised set of revision resources and reduces lesson time wasted on repeating past content.

Strategy and mastery are key to exam success. Assessments take place before the first lesson so I can get an initial (admittedly sketchy) understanding of a student`s profile. The first lesson is designed in reflection of assessment performance and aims to evaluate: potential achievement, current weaknesses and pace of learning. From here we can agree on targets and a route to achievement. I keep a spreadsheet of my students` past mistakes, which we habitually review in the lead up to final examination, while building a comprehensive series of revision materials (videos, recordings, flashcards and more). Repeat mistakes are tackled with an infinite question generator (for unlimited practice), past paper exercises, or, in more niche cases, I will design individualised worksheets to specifically address the problem topic.

I`m always happy to go into more complete detail about my approach - please don`t hesitate to get in touch.

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