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By Russell Greenhill Founder & CEO @ Greenhill Academics Oxford Master’s Graduate • 8+ Years Tutoring Experience A Level exams sit at the end of two years of work. The final month is not the place to cover new ground, it is the place to convert everything already learned into the specific, well-structured answers that […]

By Russell Greenhill Founder & CEO @ Greenhill Academics Oxford Master’s Graduate • 8+ Years Tutoring Experience The 11 plus is sat in September of Year 6, the results arrive in October, and the school allocation follows in March. Most families who succeed start preparing seriously in Year 5. Most families who are disappointed started […]

By Russell Greenhill Founder & CEO @ Greenhill Academics Oxford Master’s Graduate • 8+ Years Tutoring Experience If your child wants to study Medicine, the A Level choices they make in Year 11 will either open or close doors to every medical school in the country. The requirements are not uniform across universities, and the […]

By Russell Greenhill Founder & CEO @ Greenhill Academics Oxford Master’s Graduate • 8+ Years Tutoring Experience IB Biology is one of the most content-heavy courses in the Diploma Programme. Students who sit it at either SL or HL quickly discover that knowing the content is not the same as being able to score a […]

By Russell Greenhill Founder & CEO @ Greenhill Academics Oxford Master’s Graduate • 8+ Years Tutoring Experience Nobody tells you how strange GCSE season is as a parent. Your child disappears into their room for hours, emerges periodically for food and mild irritation, and you find yourself oscillating between wanting to help and not knowing […]

By Russell Greenhill Founder & CEO @ Greenhill Academics Oxford Master’s Graduate • 8+ Years Tutoring Experience GCSE chemistry past papers are the single most effective revision tool your child has — but most students use them wrong. Rather than treating each paper as a learning opportunity, they sit down, attempt every question under timed […]

By Russell Greenhill Founder & CEO @ Greenhill Academics Oxford Master’s Graduate • 8+ Years Tutoring Experience IB Maths Analysis and Approaches is one of the most demanding maths courses available at secondary level. Whether your child is sitting SL or HL, the jump in expectation from GCSE or IGCSE is significant — and the […]

By Russell Greenhill Founder & CEO @ Greenhill Academics Oxford Master’s Graduate • 8+ Years Tutoring Experience GCSE maths past papers are the closest thing your child has to a preview of the real exam — but sitting through paper after paper without a clear method rarely leads to better marks. The students who improve […]

By Russell Greenhill Founder & CEO @ Greenhill Academics Oxford Master’s Graduate • 8+ Years Tutoring Experience GCSE English past papers don’t work the same way as past papers in maths or science. There’s no formula to memorise, no method to repeat. Each question asks your child to read, think, and write something original — […]