Adam Whittaker

Every single one of my students who has needed my help with interviews or admissions tests has passed. I'd wish you good luck, but you won't need it.

You'll be given practice problems to test your strengths and weaknesses. The problems will get harder until I find an area where you can improve. Then, I'll teach you what kind of techniques you could use to solve the problem you got stuck on. It will feel more like you are being guided towards discovering the technique yourself, rather than simply being told how to use it. At no point should you feel like you know how to apply something without knowing why it works. If this is the case, then you are at a far greater risk of (a) misremembering the method, and (b) seeing mathematics as just memorizing a bunch of instructions and not enjoying it as much.

You are encouraged to bring me problems that they struggled with so that I have a better understanding of which skills you need to work on. I teach primarily online, and I have years of experience preparing students for interviews and university admissions tests, though I do have experience in other areas such as A-level and extra-curricular teaching.

I teach primarily online with a whiteboard that can be shared after the lesson. You will receive as much homework as you feel you need. The questions I set will usually be harder than you can manage, because I am more interested in how you approach a problem you can't immediately solve.