Hey, I'm Ollie! 5 years of experience, 99.95, Dux at Hale, and a School Prefect. Awarded a General Exhibition and 5th in the state in the 2021 WACE. I will not only explain concepts clearly and intuitively, but will help students develop the key organisational, analytical, and reasoning skills which will enable them to perform at their best. Aside from my ATAR, I also achieved a scaled Year 12 mark of 100 in both Specialist and Literature, and scored the second highest mark in Literature in WA. I have since also been awarded a place on the Dean's Honours List at the University of Melbourne, in recognition of outstanding academic achievement. Currently, apart from studying and teaching, I work as a research assistant in computational biology at the Walter and Eliza Hall of Medical Research. If you're interested in learning more about the ATAR system or asking any questions, I run a free 30 minute consultation session! I was offered direct entry into the UWA Medicine program (1st round offer) as well as multiple other medical schools across Australia, but I've accepted a Chancellor's Scholarship to study undergraduate Mathematics and Statistics, and then postgraduate medicine at the University of Melbourne. So... what do I think I can offer as a tutor? 🙋‍♂️ 𝐈'𝐦 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠. In the delivery of tuition sessions, I will systematically break down difficult topics and explain clearly how to maximise marks, but also demonstrate the intuition behind them. They're not "lessons" as such - more a collaborative process, and I often even ask my students to explain ideas to me to test their knowledge! As a result, my students often are equipped with both a deeper understanding of why, not just how, which prepares them for future learning which build on this intuition. I try to structure these sessions on key areas which students either find difficult intuitively or struggle to execute, instead of focusing on rote-memorisation of how to do a question. As an example, while it's easy to recite the core principles of Faraday and Lenz's Law, or recall the formula for the turning point of a parabola, you'll never be asked to define these terms in an exam. Instead, you'll have to apply these principles in more complex questions. As a successful student myself, I've come to learn that intuition is key, and so I work with students to develop these key conceptual understandings. ✅ 𝐌𝐲 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐧. Not only have I used them myself to achieve great results, but I'm known in the school community as a great helper, which is why I'm often casually approached for help by students after school in the library. I also founded, ran, and taught at the Hale School Programming Club, assisted and taught at the Year 7/8 Maths Enrichment Club, and every Friday morning would help struggling maths students with their homework at Peer Tutoring. And my involvement with the community isn't just academic; in 2021, I coached a Year 7 debating team that made the semi-finals of the WA Debating League and took on various leadership roles within the school. I also voluntarily gave introductory university-level chemistry lectures over the holidays to advanced Year 11 students as enrichment, covering topics like organic mechanisms, analytical chemistry, and basic quantum theory! I do all this because I love to teach, and I'm passionate about engaging with students of all kinds and academic abilities. ✏️ 𝐈'𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐚𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐛𝐞𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞... 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐈'𝐦 𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬! Of course, I'm still learning how to teach. While I have experience working in classrooms and private tuition (for five years now!), I know that every student and every situation is different, which is why I try to adapt my teaching style to suit my students. I believe that an open-minded and collaborative approach to teaching - as opposed to blindly reading from a preprepared workbook - is crucial. I've worked with all kinds of students with varying academic abilities. This includes struggling C-grade students, who have gained confidence and seen their marks rise noticeably thanks to hard work, practice, and my help, and I've also been fortunate enough to inspire and help incredibly talented academic achievers who want to enrich their knowledge through Olympiad maths and chemistry work. If you are looking for a passionate and academically capable educator with a good understanding of the requirements of high school, one who will teach you not only your school subjects but also how to excel at them - send me a message! I look forward to helping you on your journey. I'm also doing group tutoring sessions over Zoom through my education company. I work collaboratively with all students to ensure that everybody is receiving excellent quality of tuition. I also provide a large Y11 and 12 resource bank to all my students, as well as custom-written Specialist questions with components from HSC and VCE exams. Contact me if you're interested! --- I have a valid Working With Children's Check. --- My final scaled results:    ATAR: 99.95    TEA: 420 out of a possible 430    Mathematics Specialist: 100.0    Literature: 100.0    Physics: 97.6    Chemistry: 94.1    French: 85.0    Mathematics Methods, accelerated and completed in 2020: 94.8 Medical school invites: - University of Sydney - University of Melbourne - University of Western Australia - University of Queensland - Flinders Note that you can only be offered a position for at most one medical school per state. Other involvement:    Australian Chemistry Olympiad: Bronze medal (top 18 students across Australia!)    Australian Maths Trust Senior Contest: Bronze medal (top 50 students across Australia)    Australian Maths Olympiad: Honourable Mention    Australian Informatics Olympiad: Silver medal    Invited to the National Chemistry Summer School and the Informatics School of Excellence