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By Russell Greenhill Founder & CEO @ Greenhill Academics Oxford Master’s Graduate • 8+ Years Tutoring Experience Your child did well in GCSE maths, then hit a wall at A Level. The frustrating part is that the step up is real, and a strong GCSE grade does not always carry across. If you are in […]

By Russell Greenhill Founder & CEO @ Greenhill Academics Oxford Master’s Graduate • 8+ Years Tutoring Experience Your child has good ideas about a text but cannot shape them into a clear argument on the page. The frustrating part is that the essays come back with feedback about structure rather than understanding. If you are […]

By Russell Greenhill Founder & CEO @ Greenhill Academics Oxford Master’s Graduate • 8+ Years Tutoring Experience Your child knows the maths but keeps dropping marks on small things. The frustrating part is that they understand the method, then lose a mark to a stray minus sign or a rushed step. If you are in […]

By Russell Greenhill Founder & CEO @ Greenhill Academics Oxford Master’s Graduate • 8+ Years Tutoring Experience Your child reads a text well and senses what it is doing, yet the marks on the language paper do not reflect it. The frustrating part is that the reading is sharp while the written analysis stays on […]

By Russell Greenhill Founder & CEO @ Greenhill Academics Oxford Master’s Graduate • 8+ Years Tutoring Experience Your child knows the Physics but reaches for the wrong equation under pressure. The frustrating part is that the formula book is right there, yet choosing the right tool for an unfamiliar question is where the marks slip. […]

By Russell Greenhill Founder & CEO @ Greenhill Academics Oxford Master’s Graduate • 8+ Years Tutoring Experience Your child has good ideas about a text but cannot get them onto the page as a clear argument. The frustrating part is that the essays come back with comments about structure rather than understanding. If you are […]

By Russell Greenhill Founder & CEO @ Greenhill Academics Oxford Master’s Graduate • 8+ Years Tutoring Experience When you run a tutoring agency, the lesson itself is the product. The software it runs on either helps or gets in the way. A clunky classroom loses the first five minutes of every session to setup. A […]

By Russell Greenhill Founder & CEO @ Greenhill Academics Oxford Master’s Graduate • 8+ Years Tutoring Experience Your child knows the Biology content but freezes on the longer questions. The frustrating part is that the revision was there, yet the data questions in Paper 2 seem to swallow the marks. If you are in Cyprus, […]

By Russell Greenhill Founder & CEO @ Greenhill Academics Oxford Master’s Graduate • 8+ Years Tutoring Experience Your child understands Chemistry in the lesson, then loses marks on the paper weeks later. The frustrating part is that the content was there in October and gone by the mock. If you are in Cyprus, you may […]