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Is this piece in a major or minor key?

This seemingly easy question can be a great way of assessing student's ability to hear major/minor tonalities and ability to read music - e.g. are there any naturals, sharps, or flats on the sheet music? Cou...
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Answered by Lydia F. • Music tutor
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Where in the text does it tell us that the protagonist is 'anxious'?

This question is a great way of both examining the student's understanding of 'anxiety', how to describe and then bring an investigatory eye to the text to find word, and phrases that relate to this. It's gr...
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Answered by Lydia F. • English tutor
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Please name a live theatre production you have seen recently. Can you tell me what genre it was? What things do you see/hear that made you think it was this genre?

This question is to get the student to link theory with live theatre performance. It is also question that goes beyond the 'learning-off' of categories. Each student should be able to pick out the basic tene...
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Answered by Lydia F. • Drama tutor
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A Car of mass 1000kg applies a constant 200N breaking force over a distance of 30m and comes to a complete stop. How fast was the car going the instant the brakes were engaged.

Before we start we should have some idea of the route of our solution. We should observe that force, distance and work have a relation and that mass, velocity and work have a relation. So we should calculate...
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Answered by Sean O. • Physics tutor
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Rationalise the denominator of 25/sqrt(5)

In maths when we are asked to re express something we really only have 2 tricks. Multiply by 1, or add Zero. The hard part is finding how to express 1 or zero to suit the problem. For this one we should mult...
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Answered by Sean O. • Maths tutor
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