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By Russell Greenhill Founder & CEO @ Greenhill Academics Oxford Master’s Graduate • 8+ Years Tutoring Experience Your child sits down with a past paper, works through the questions, then opens the mark scheme to check their answers. The final answer is right. The marks are not. It happens constantly in GCSE maths, and the […]

By Russell Greenhill Founder & CEO @ Greenhill Academics Oxford Master’s Graduate • 8+ Years Maths Tutoring Experience The challenges of further maths Two weeks into A Level Further Maths, one of my students, fresh from a Grade 9 at GCSE, was already thinking of dropping it. Not because she wasn’t smart, but because she […]

By Russell Greenhill Founder & CEO @ Greenhill Academics Oxford Master’s Graduate • 8+ Years Tutoring Experience GCSE English Language is one of the most misunderstood exams at GCSE level. Students often prepare for it by learning lists of techniques — metaphor, personification, sibilance — and then spotting them in texts and naming them. That […]

By Russell Greenhill Founder & CEO @ Greenhill Academics Oxford Master’s Graduate • 8+ Years Tutoring Experience The students who get an A* in A Level Biology are not always the ones who know the most. They are the ones who write their answers in the way the mark scheme rewards. A Level Biology exams […]

By Russell Greenhill Founder & CEO @ Greenhill Academics Oxford Master’s Graduate • 8+ Years Tutoring Experience Most students who fall short of an A in AQA A Level Maths can do the maths. They understand the topics, they practise the past papers, and they still come out with a B. The issue is almost […]

By Merry Guarin Lesson Coordinator @ Greenhill Academics “Why tutors from an agency can be better than freelancers” can sound like a bold statement. Because if you only compare credentials, a freelance tutor and an agency tutor can look identical: great grades, great university, great teaching. The difference is rarely the teaching itself. It is […]

By Russell Greenhill Founder & CEO @ Greenhill Academics Oxford Master’s Graduate • 8+ Years Tutoring Experience A-Level chemistry past papers should be at the centre of your child’s revision — but the way most students use them leaves marks on the table. They sit a paper, check the total, and move on. The questions […]

By Russell Greenhill Founder & CEO @ Greenhill Academics Oxford Master’s Graduate • 8+ Years Tutoring Experience A-Level maths past papers are the most valuable revision resource your child has, but grinding through paper after paper without a strategy is one of the most common ways students waste revision time. The difference between a student […]

By Russell Greenhill Founder & CEO @ Greenhill Academics Oxford Master’s Graduate • 8+ Years Tutoring Experience A-Level biology past papers are the single best predictor of what your child will face in the real exam. The question styles repeat, the mark scheme expectations are consistent, and the topics that examiners favour come up again […]