Tom's Maths Tutoring

Why me?

I want to be clear I'm not a professional teacher, but I'm a high-achieving GCSE student who's just sat the exam myself, so I know exactly what younger students get stuck on, and able to explain it without overcomplicating it.

Sat GCSE Maths through early entry this year
Scored 92% on GCSE Maths mocks in November
One-to-one, structured and planned lessons
Median report-card grade: 9 — see my grades

Each table reads: CAT4 score, term 1, term 2, term 3, end-of-year grade.

Year 8 — End of year, Maths

Year 9 — End of year, Maths

Year 10 — Maths exam

The last entry shows CAT4 score and exam result only.

How I teach

Every session follows the same structure. Identify strengths and weaknesses, turn weaknesses into strengths, then confirm it with recaps and summary. Here are the tools I use:

1The Progress Sheet

Parents and students get their own copy of a progress sheet that tracks every topic across the maths GCSE specification. Each topic sits in one of five stages:

Gaps — not yet covered or tested
Weak — content we definitely need to cover
Covered — solid at medium confidence
Proficient — confident, solves most problems
Mastered — complete understanding, exam-ready

Gaps Weak Covered Proficient Mastered

2Diagnostics

To work out where each topic sits on the progress sheet, I've designed nine diagnostics covering every topic on the specification, alongside Corbett Maths practice papers. The progress sheet gets updated after every session so you know exactly where your at.

These papers are printed to ensure all questions are accessible (like graph ones)

These are meant to be low stakes, low stress papers just used to indentify strengths and weaknesses

3Topic-Specific Papers

Save My Exams, Physics & Maths Tutor, AND Maths Genie (mind blowing when I figured they had this stuff) supply topic-specific papers I use alongside the main teaching. It is an incredible, deep well of worksheets for testing knowledge.

Save My Exams

PMT — Physics and Maths Tutor

Maths Genie

These, the school textbook, my laptop and notebook are the main things I use every lesson.

4Lesson Structure

Sessions run for one hour, split into four parts:

5 40 10 5

5 min — recap of previous topics
40 min — teaching & practice on current topics
10 min — diagnostic to identify strengths & weaknesses
5 min — summary, consolidating current topics

Resources

A few sites I found useful in my maths GCSE:

PMT - Perfect for past paper practice, which became my primary revision tool for the final months leading to exams. Also includes worksheets per topic/grade
Maths Genie - Fantastic resources just like PMT
School textbook - contains its own checkups, unit tests and extends after each topic, alongside exam style questions. I taught myself the cirriculum mainly through this alone
Desmos - Graphs all kinds of functions, very interesting and fun to play with too!

Honourable Mentions:

MathsWatch - Praised by friends for video explanations
YouTube - Ultimate platform for learning through video, anything you don't understand you can find here