Jameela

Hey! I'm Jameela and welcome to my profile. I am currently a third year medical student at UCL, doing an intercalated degree in Psychology. Medicine has been my passion for a long time and the application process plus being able to secure a place at medical school has been challenging but worth it! The stimulating and dynamic nature of medicine, the wide variety of options available as career paths after graduating, being able to combine my interest in science with my love for helping people and being apart of their journey to health are the core reasons as to why medicine fascinates me and why I chose this career path.
I aim to not only be a tutor to my students but to also be someone who can motivate them to succeed and also give specific revision tips which were a success for myself throughout GCSE's and A levels and many others I know. As well as this, I believe it's important for students to have someone who they can not only talk to when they get stressed during exams, but who can also relate to them. It is perfectly fine and normal to become stressed during these times so if you ever need any advice drop me a message and I'll be more than happy to be of help!
I always emphasise the importance of taking a breather from academics, especially when feeling demotivated and exhausted. So personally, I go to the gym which I found improved my mental health so much, and this was the main thing that helped me get through exam season. I also enjoy cooking and reading.

Tutoring Experience

I’ve had experiences with teaching in various settings over the past 5 years. From privately tutoring (GCSE maths during my first year of college) to volunteering at the secondary school I attended (helping/tutoring GCSE Arabic students), to using a similar platform called MyTutor to tutor GCSE and A level students. These experiences have given me the opportunity to build on my knowledge as well as improving my approach when it comes to learning what works best for each individual student I tutor.

Tutoring Approach

My sessions will be student led in the sense that the student can present any topics or specific areas they are experiencing difficulty understanding or want to consolidate their knowledge on. Throughout the lesson, we will work through this and I will check their understanding by asking them questions (and providing exam questions which we can work through together) and also telling them to explain the concepts to me! I have found that one of the best ways to really understand a topic is to teach it to someone else (after having been taught the content) and through that, I am able to identify any gaps in my knowledge and hopefully this same technique will work for my students. At the end of the lesson, I will most likely give the student a short task to complete to check their understanding and solidify their knowledge which we will then be able to run through as a starter in the next lesson. If the student does not have a particular topic they want to go over, we could run through the specification of the subject and look at it in detail to make sure they understand each specification point which will aid in organising their revision and breaking the syllabus down to become more manageable. I'll use the same technique I used to measure progress at A-levels (which was really useful when it came to revision) which was systematically keeping track of my strongest/weakest areas using a spreadsheet/tick sheet based on the specification.