Hi, my name is Oliver and I'm a 4th year mechanical engineering student studying at the University of Glasgow. Also planning on studying for a master’s degree here after my first 4 years. I chose to study engineering because I have always enjoyed my maths and science-based subjects at high school and found them the most interesting to study. So far, I'm really enjoying the course and looking forward to studying more areas within engineering as I progress through the years of my degree. I want to show that anyone is capable of success with hard work and it's not just down to talent. Throughout primary school and the start of high school, I found maths and physics hard and didn't do very well in them, but I started to go to extra classes and work hard in and out of school and with that hard work and time I improved and was able to achieve A's in both from national 5, higher and advanced higher (which is the highest study level of high school in Scotland). I decided to become a tutor on this site after tutoring 2 local students, and have enjoyed teaching them and improving my teaching style. I feel like I can improve students by using my experience and understanding how frustrating it can be to learn and use that to put myself in the student's position. Using my own experience and techniques I used when I started to improve and gain confidence within the subject, which I feel is key to being successful when learning any subject in school.

I will come up with a plan for each student to help with their specific needs, I think that coming back to pervious content that the student has covered will help the skill and information stick making the exam not as intimidating with the amount of content in them. I want to make the lesson space as supportive and friendly as possible, making the student think they can ask me anything is very import to me no matter how big or small the question.I want the student to make mistakes within the lesson because this is how everyone learns and if the student is not making mistakes it means they understand the content and we need to move onto something else.