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By Russell Greenhill Founder & CEO @ Greenhill Academics Oxford Master’s Graduate • 8+ Years Tutoring Experience Mock results come back and a significant number of parents discover their child is further behind than they thought. Some are disappointed by a single subject. Others are looking at results across the board that do not reflect […]

By Russell Greenhill Founder & CEO @ Greenhill Academics Oxford Master’s Graduate • 8+ Years Tutoring Experience The 11 plus exam has not changed. The number of places at grammar and selective independent schools has not changed. What has changed is the number of families competing for those places, and that shift has made the […]

By Russell Greenhill Founder & CEO @ Greenhill Academics Oxford Master’s Graduate • 8+ Years Tutoring Experience Thirty days before GCSE exams is not the time to start from scratch. It is the time to stop revising everything and start revising strategically. The students who gain the most ground in the final month are not […]

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 conditions, […]