Suzanne

I have over 30 years teaching and tutoring experience including being Head of Chemistry at a school for many years. My students have always achieved excellent results. I am a Principal Examiner for a leading examination board and also write exam questions.
I am married with two sons and have a Degree in Chemistry from Loughborough University. I enjoy watching sport and travelling.

Tutoring Experience

I taught Chemistry at a large Leicestershire 14-18 School for over 29 years including being Head of Chemistry at this school for 21 years. I teach AQA GCSE Chemistry and AQA A-Level Chemistry. I have also taught Nuffield A-Level Chemistry. I have tutored AQA, EDEXCEL, OCR and OCR(Salters) A-Level Chemistry and AQA and OCR GCSE Chemistry. I have tutored students outside of school for over 30 years with much success.
Many of my A-level students have achieved 100% in A-level Chemistry modules and I have tutored many GCSE students who have achieved 100% in all their GCSE modules for GCSE Chemistry.
I am also Principal Examiner for an IGCSE Chemistry paper. I have marked both Foundation and Higher IGCSE Chemistry papers. I have been an Examiner for Singapore A-level Chemistry . Both these roles have helped me to recognise the difficulties that students have with both GCSE and A-level examination questions and the way to answer them successfully. I use this knowledge to the students advantage in my lessons.
I tutor mainly online now using Skype, Zoom, Teams and FaceTime - these work really well. I have been tutoring online successfully for many years. I have had many students who have gone on to study medicine and other medical degrees.
I also write multiple choice IGCSE Chemistry questions for an exam board.

Tutoring Approach

My approach is variable depending on the ability of the student and what they are struggling on at the time. However I believe that the practicing of past paper questions is vital for examination success. It is the attention to detail which counts in an examination and I make sure all of my students know everything in the syllabus and have practiced lots of different styles of examination question.
All of my tutoring is online at the moment using Skype, Zoom, Teams or FaceTime. I usually text or email students examination practice questions which works really well. I am very familiar with online tutoring and have been doing this for a number of years now.