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Harish
- Hourly rate £85
- Response Time 4h
- Number of students 50+
£85/hr
- Creative writing
- 11 plus
- 7 Plus
- School Entrance Exams
- Classical Culture
7+/11+/13+ specialist tutor. Senior Examiner, working closely with schools and education consultants - Very High success rates.
Lesson location
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At Harish's house: London
- Online
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at your home or in a public place : will travel up to 50 km from London
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About Harish
Senior Examiner ~ 6 years experience ~ DBS checked ~ Taught the 11+ in the UK's top primary school.
I teach in a private tuition centre where I am Years 7 - 11 coordinator, meaning I have the most up to date knowledge on the secondary curriculum. I am also an senior examiner, marking for the country's leading examination board, where my marking has been rated as "Excellent" in all areas, every year.
By being a senior examiner, it means that I have access to the latest resources, approaches and changes that have occurred in education. I have worked with curriculum lead teachers, head teachers and education directors, giving me an insight into the best approaches to tackling examinations and coursework.
I am currently teaching and offering private tuition which gives me first hand knowledge of the required skills needed for top marks. I currently tutor both privately as well as in schools as an external educational consultant to either raise standards or to accelerate groups of students.
By being relatively young, parents often comment on how well I get on with their child. To me, rapport is the absolute foundational building block of successful tuition. With a proven track record with my students doing very well at both GCSE and A Level, it is clear my methods are effective. By achieving 14 GCSE's myself, completing some in just 1 year, this gives me a broad knowledge of the syllabus. In addition, my A levels have reinforced this knowledge and given me a breadth of wisdom into the insight of perfecting examination techniques which I can, and have, passed to a plethora of my students. I understand what it takes to attain the highest marks possible; during university, my marks were the ranked as some of the highest not only in my year but also in the university's history, with many of my papers being published.
The key to examination success is seldom simply learning what is in the text book; indeed, more often than not, the opposite is true. It is about understanding what the examiner wants! Contrary to popular belief, examiners are not mean or cruel - they actually want to award the highest possible marks; students just have to learn how to structure, approach and write in a way to allow them to do so.
My main approach to tutoring is understanding my student, meticulous planning and engagement. I tend to use a mix of resources in my lessons. For example, I may use my whiteboard, exam questions, model answers, or anything creative to keep my students engaged. I also like to set questions for homework and intertwine past exam questions with my teaching, and often set mock examinations.
To me teaching is a passion. I absolutely love teaching and tutoring. Instead of being a tutor as a last resort, teaching is my absolute first choice. The fact that I am so passionate about teaching, enjoying every lesson I plan and teach, really transpires to my students where they gain a similar positive energy, helping them for their future studies.
11+
I have coached hundreds of students over the past 6 years for entrance exams alone. These schools include: the prestigious Haberdashers school, Latymer, Queen Elizabeth's boys, St Micheal's, St Paul's, Westminster, Henrietta Barnett, Dame Alice Owen and, Mill Hill, Highgate, St Albans Boys and St Columbas'. l. All the students that I have coached for the 11+ have had an offer from their chosen grammar or selective independent school; making me very high in demand! I have plenty of resources from most grammar and independent schools coupled with the resources I have personally created. Last year, I had 4 of my students attend Eton and 6 attend Harrow.
Reviews:
[1] " I would like to say how wonderful Harish is with both my children.
He teaches my 13 year old son who has poor concentration in Maths. My son not only finds Maths hard, but boring too. Harish has a way to make the subject fun and not at all stressful. Harish is the most patient, kind and considerate Tutor. He makes the subject fun and will go over the topics to ensure that what he has taught has not been forgotten. Spencer is becoming more confident with his approach to the subject.
All thanks to Harish.
Harish also teaches my 17 year old daughter A level English Literature - again he makes the teaching interesting and challenging. He has also boosted her confidence and has built on her knowledge.
Harish is a good teacher with a good understanding of his pupils and makes everything workable. So glad we found him."
Lesley Glanz
[2]: "Harish is an excellent teacher who really cares - enough to have taught her one Sunday because she was upset at missing a lesson close to her GCSE exam! He had a wonderful rapport with my daughter and really knows his stuff so she loved her lessons with him. I think she will do really well in her geography exam but I know she will miss her geography lessons!"
Aisha B.
*Please note, that prices for A Level may incur an extra fee, as well as tuition for 11+.
*Please note, there may be a travel fee added
*If you have any questions whatsoever, even if it is for some advice, simply drop me a message and i would be more than happy to respond.
If you have made it all the way down to read this, well done! It may sound cliché, but learning really is a journey. It takes time to find the right tutor, but once you have, your child's confidence and results will accelerate.
University :
- University of Hertfordshire - Law, with English [Upper First Class]
- Queen Mary University of London - Masters in Law
School :
Highlands school
GCSEs
- English Language [A]
- Maths [A]
- Citizenship Studies [A]
- ICT [A]
Prizes and Scholarships :
Award for volunteering to tutor a very talented primary school student and getting him to GCSE standard - prestigious head teachers award.
Several Jack Patchy nominations for delivery exemplary work.
Highest marks in the year during my law degree
Other Qualifications :
Fully qualified as a first aid practitioner
Fully DBS checked
A Levels: ICT, Government and Politics, Geography & Maths
About the lesson
- All Levels
- English
All languages in which the lesson is available :
English
11+, teacher in London (Maths, English, Verbal and Non Verbal Reasoning).
I am a senior examiner for the largest exam board in the UK, and have marked more than 5,000 exam papers. I work closely with schools and education consultants.
Review
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Perfect! Harish is an excellent tutor. My son has made significant progress in both maths and English, and feels much more confident in his own abilities. Harish keeps the lessons interesting and challenging, and brings out the best in his student. Would highly recommend.
Perfect! Highly recommend
Harish has been tutoring my son Cameron and I have reserved his time weekly up until the 11+ entrance exams as I find it invaluable.
He is clear, patient and thorough with his lessons. Most importantly my son Cameron genuinely enjoys studying with him and looks out the window awaiting his arrival.
Really happy and recommend.
Subject : 11+ School Exam Preparation
Outcome : OngoingPerfect! Harish is a great tutor and i am happy to have engaged him to teach my daughter maths.
My daughter is getting to like maths and gaining confidence rapidly.
Subject : MathsPerfect! Amazing service
Exactly what I asked for! Very friendly tutor.
Subject : English Literature
Outcome : Prepared for my examPerfect! Subject : Maths
Perfect! Excellent Tutor
Perfect! Excellent, calm tutor
My son has Asperger's syndrome, at the high-functioning end of the spectrum, and does his schooling in a mainstream school but with the support of a specialist unit. He has done well and is forecasted A grades at GCSE, but in the stress of year 11 he has been struggling. I took him to see Harish to see if he could help my son with the particular aspects of English and Geography that he is finding difficult. My son found him calm - a particular need of his - well ordered and clear. Indeed, at the end of the lesson, he told me that he'd learned more in the past hour than in the previous half term. He particularly appreciated the structured approach to question answering that Harish taught him. We will continue to attend lessons with Harish and recommend him highly.
Subject : GeographyPerfect! Excellent!!
Great lesson! Harish certainly knows how I get the best from his students.
Very positive vibes and immediate improved confidence from both my children after just one lesson!
Subject : Maths
Outcome : Great start!Good! Good tutor but let us down half way through revision period
We got Harish to tutor our 12 year old daughter in maths and English for a late Year 8 entry exam in a sought after school. We got notified 2 weeks before the exam and there was only one vacancy, so the tuition had to be intense for the 2 weeks. Harish committed to do it and did five 2-hour sessions. He was well prepared, organised and seemed to have a good knowledge of what was expected. However mid way into the revision period he started to be less and less available, being reluctant to book other sessions and changing times/days all the time (because already booked or personal commitments). I was disappointed with his 'take it or leave it 'attitude, borderline arrogant. It gave me the impression that he thought my daughter was a lost case, and that he preferred focusing on other students. It was probably mainly because he got tired of travelling to us from North London, however he knew about the distance from the beginning (I paid more than his travel fare on top of his rate and booked him for 2 hours to compensate anyway), he committed to taking us on, and he had our area included his list...
Subject : School Entrance Exams
Outcome : So overall very disappointing and left a bad taste. Fortunately this site was very helpful in finding 2 other tutors at such short notice. We still wasted a few days as a result of all this, which isView more reviews
Recommendations
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Harish is an excellent tutor. He takes into account the individual child's personality as well as teaching them the essentials and more.
He pushes where necessary without upsetting the students. He is very thorough and when he can't make it- due to emergency weather conditions etc- he does skype consultations.A calm, experienced, and confident navigator through the alien world of 11+ grammar school exams. Targetted practice and analysis on areas of weakness, and lots of useful tips and information.
Harish has a gentle manner and is tutoring a gifted child in our school. He has always been punctual and prepared for lessons and you can see the progress in the child in his past few months with us.
I would recommend him as he is clearly dedicated to his tuition and has a good rapport with children which is evident. We chose him because of his expertise in 11+ tutoring. A child in our school being tutored this way is extremely unusual in our deprived area urban school and with his help, this student a real chance of getting into the local grammar school despite starting the process very late in Feb 17 for exams in July and Sept 17.We decided to hire Harish because we were called up by Henrietta Barnett school and were told that there was one opening available for a late entry into Year 8. My daughter Amy; whom currently attends St Pauls school wanted to join her sister who was already enrolled at Henrietta Barnett as it was closer to our home in Hamstead.
So i was given Harish's details by a close friend of mine who is actually an Ofsted inspector... so i knew my daughter would be in good hands with Harish!
As we did not have much time, Harish came to my home everyday and prepared my daughter for her exams for around 2 weeks. It was surprising to see how much knowledge he had! He really knew everything there was to know about the admissions. He even gave me call to let me know when Amy's test date would be, which i thought was really good of him.
With Harish's help, my daughters confidence really grew. She was starting to do her school homework because she wanted to do it...rather than because she had to do it. I think its because Harish gave her that confidence she needed to strive. Even though Harish is really busy as he is high in demand he always ensured that my daughter had her lessons (apart from one of the days as it was his brothers wedding...but we forgave him for that!).
Overall, Harish is fantastic. My daughter always says that his lessons are engaging and creative.He really has given my daughter a push that she has long needed!I have been asked to write a review for Harish in sight of my sons success in his 11+ entrance exams. Harish has tutored my youngest son last year and my eldest son the year before. Harish always had a very positive energy towards both my sons lessons which was really important as my sons were losing faith in themselves as they had poor concentration in school. If you are thinking of having Harish help your children for their 11+ exams you have really found the right person. He really understands the requirements of the entrance exams and he always took out the time to have a thorough chat with me after each lesson to discuss my children's progress, which i thought was really important. The fact that he would set plenty of homework each week and always provide fantastic feedback helped my children see how they were doing. He was really genuine and If he saw that my son was slacking or that his homework was not good enough, Harish would be the first to tell my son to re-do it! He really did push my children to their full potential but that is what they needed; especially as the exams are just so incredibly competitive.
Harish helped both of my sons in English. They were really struggling to understand they key aspects of the books they were reading in school.
With Harish's help they really got to grips with the books, and perfected exam technique.Both me and my Husband were really impressed by Harish's approach to my daughters studies. With Harish's help my daughter went from being in the bottom ability group and striving to the top ability group.
I thoroughly recommend him.We found that Harish was an exceptional tutor. He went above and beyond to ensure that my son fully understood everything. And it worked! Harry really improved my sons confidence and his teachers were so impressed.
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Rates
Hourly rate
- £85
Pack prices
- 5h: £425
- 10h: £850
online
- £85/h
Travel
- + £5
Details
All single sessions are 45 minutes in duration.
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