Hiraku

Tutoring Experience

My tutoring experience has been amazing to me so far. I’ve had the luxury of tutoring a total of 4 students for IB Physics HL, a student in Math AA HL, a student for SAT Math, as well as an AP Student for Calculus. My students are yet to take an official examination; thus results cannot be shown in a simple manner, however their grades have consistently been scoring at a top percentile in their respective classes and grades. My SAT student went from a 510 Math student (May 2021 Examination) to a 710 (August 2021 Examination) in over 2 months of tutoring.

Overall, I enjoy tutoring a lot. Out of the 7 students mentioned, 3 of them was for free of charge because I absolutely enjoyed teaching and was a “kill two birds with one stone” situation with my CAS experience in the IB Diploma Program. I especially love tutoring IB Physics HL, particularly quantum physics which, quite frankly, is why I love Physics so much.

Tutoring Approach

IB Physics Tuition Approach

My Physics Tuition is quite simple. I teach contents ahead of the classes, so that even if the teacher at their respective schools may be confusing, it would merely be a review from my tuition session and therefore easy to understand. The most important aspect of achieving high results in IB Physics is understanding the concepts extremely well, and so free time should be used to review the lecture notes that I share with them. I typically spend the first 15 minutes of class going over problems that they’ve struggled either in class or from other resources, then proceed to teach with practice problems.

IB Math Tuition Approach

Math, as unfortunate as it is, is all about the amount of time spent doing practice problems. My classes will consist of conceptual tutoring, but depending on each student and their understanding, much of the class may be spent going over problems, identifying where the student struggles, and going back to tutor those concepts, and repeat. With Math, I typically assign problems as homework from Past Papers so that the student is accustomed to the level of difficulty of IB Math AA.


SAT Math Tuition Approach

SAT Math is about gaining fundamental understanding of mathematics. It is why I really loved tutoring this subject because it was all about trying my best so that students look at math with conceptual understanding behind numbers and word problems rather than memorization of short-cuts and tricks that schools teach to skip over conceptual tutoring. My tuition approach is to teach conceptual understanding, then assign plenty of problems to the student as homework, then go over the problems they’ve struggled with them in class, and repeat.

IB Chemistry Tuition Approach

My tuition approach of chemistry is the exact same with IB Physics.

General Tuition Approach

It is extremely important to me that the students gain proper conceptual understanding of their respective fields of studies. I care deeply about the perspective of the student, as I had been one who had struggled a lot early on, thus I have a bad habit of going over the hour to finish explaining a certain concept. I have never had a tutor in my life, and so I also attempt to share my resources that I’ve used before to study on my own and share my experiences. Overall, I am very passionate about tutoring, and I hope to make big differences in alleviating academic stress from students.