Archie Heard

For my mathematics student I usually spend the first 10 minutes as a recap of the previous lesson had, ensuring the key objectives have been retained and can be applied, alongside this a few basic practice questions to warm up and get the student in the right mindset.
For GCSE level most of the lessons will consist of practice of various different types of practice questions that will come up in the exam.
For example if a student has a particular area of weakness then practice questions will be provided and I will guide them through a method of working in which they should be able to repeat up to a point where they can do complete the problem on their own.
Once we have practiced multiple questions I will then show how this particular topic will present itself in the exam and the different ways in which it could be answered and the student will then attempt to tackle the problem.
I like to keep my lessons entirely applicable to the final examinations as I feel this is the best way to get the student used to what the real thing will be like, this is to ensure when they get to the final exams that they are relaxed as possible and will not feel surprised by anything they see in the exam paper.
As previously said if there are particular areas of weaknesses these will be isolated and looked at separately but in an exam context so that this builds confidence to tackle the harder problems.