Hi everyone!
My name is Paul Khoo, and in 2011, I am offering tuition in units 1-4 in English, Chemistry, Physics, Methods, Specialist Maths and Biology.
The numbers (scaled scores):
ATAR: 99.90
Biology [2009]: 50
English: 50
Chemistry: 49 (49.73)
Specialist Maths: 43 (48.61)
Mathematical Methods [CAS]: 46 (48.60)
Physics: 46 (47.78)
UMAT: 98
Aggregate: 207.978 [damn you VTAC scaling!
], highest aggregate in Melbourne High School 2010
As to the assertion of my biology ranking, I direct you to
http://www.asi.edu.au/newsroom/mediareleases/20100802.pdf and
http://www.ibo2010.org/. I was selected after rigorous preparation and examination for the 2010 Australian Biology Olympiad team which competed in Changwon, Korea, in the 21st International Biology Olympiad (IBO). The team is drawn from candidates who apply from all around Australia, and I was one of four who was finally chosen to represent the country, winning a silver medal in the competition and the highest theoretical rank of the Australians. Only students below the university level are allowed to compete, and yet the syllabus for the competition encompasses approximately an entire university biology course. As a result, I've learned too much biology than any year 12 student should ever have to know, giving me a clear and in-depth understanding of VCE biology, which also relates to certain aspects of unit 3&4 chemistry.
The IBO was held over the mid-year holidays, making the first six months of the year a hellish attempt to juggle challenging subjects and cram three-odd years of university-level biology into my head. From this, I have significant insights into coping with many of the stresses above and beyond the 'regular' pressure created by VCE, and can share many of my tips/strategies
/cheat codes to deal with it.
I believe that everyone learns differently. Personally, I can learn well by just reading textbooks, and yet I'm in the minority. I will cater my tutoring to your learning method. You learn by someone explaining things to you? I'll talk to you to the face. You're a visual learner? I'll draw you diagrams throughout the session. You remember by writing things? I'll force you to write notes.
As a tutor, I do not believe that I supplant the roles of your teachers in your education. Believe it or not, nearly all your individual subject teachers will teach the entirety of the course. What makes a good teacher is how engaging and coherent they are, and good students often are the ones with the ability to concentrate, then understand and remember the reams of information forced down their throats. What I aim to do is to pick up the slack when your teachers aren't completely up to scratch. My primary purpose is to firm up your knowledge of your subjects by explaining that which you find that you just can't seem to understand, and give you confidence by forging ahead in what you haven't covered in class yet. This works by you telling me beforehand what you want to know, I prepare, and we go through it together.
LocationI am still tossing up between MBBS at Monash and biomed/guaranteed-entry medicine at the University of Melbourne, but my preferred location is at my house, located in Mulgrave in the south-eastern suburbs (near Wheelers Hill/Glen Waverley/Springvale). Depending on my final university course, I'm also willing to tutor somewhere in the institution, or at State Library. Local libraries are a no-no for me since tutoring there is illegal, and as a staff member of Monash Public Library Service, I can't even pretend that I don't know that. Nevertheless, an alternate location can be arranged (especially if you live in the SE suburbs), contact me if you're interested.
UPDATE:
I am almost certainly going to Monash this year, but am willing to tutor at State Library if there is sufficient interest from a number of students, all one after the other, maybe every second Saturday.
Other ServicesAs your tutor, I am available to you to answer any quick questions you may have, by phone or email.
If you're doing the same subject choice as me, chances are, you're aiming to do medicine. The UMAT was held less than one week after I returned from Korea in July, a time in which I really didn't want to do any preparation at all. I walked in with about three hours of preparation and techniques with which to tackle the questions, and that was enough. The same applies to the Monash University MMI interview, since... difficult/traumatic/sudden... changes in family circumstances meant that I wasn't in the mindset to do any interview courses or undertake extensive preparation. I have been offered a place in the Monash MBBS, and can pass on my personal tips and ideas, which seem to have been useful. All this can be taught as part of a normal tuition session, at no extra expense.
EnglishNow this is strange. Unfortunately, tutoring English attracts a once-off surcharge, to cover the effort required to learn all the darned books in your course to an extent where I can mark your text response/context work. Once paid though, you can send any number of essays for me to mark, only limited by how fast you can write them. Enquire for details.
within reason. pleasePricing$35/hour for one-on-one (not overly strict on timing)
Lower for groups, group size has an arbitary limit which I haven't decided upon yet. Maybe case-by-case.
Casual sessions and weekly scheduled sessions are both available.
If you're seriously considering long-term tuition, a discounted and extended trial session for first-timers is available.
I'm willing to teach lower year levels as well, at a much lower price.
Contact DetailsMy email is
[email protected] (seriously)
If you can find me on facebook, feel free to send me a message.
My myspace is- who uses myspace anyway?
If you have any further questions, or want to poke holes at my credentials, feel free to email me, or post below. (the raw number rankings of the IBO are located in the second link)
I wish you all good luck in your studies, even you graduated VCE types who beat me.
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