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What sort of things do you cover with your students?

Usually we cover both subject knowledge and exam technique, although that can change depending on each individual student. Then we go through diagrams, and they ask questions, and we go from there.

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Studies Medical Pharmacology at Cardiff

How is MyTutor different from school?

Lots of students say that the classes are too big in school, or that they don't have time to ask teachers after lessons. In my tutorials, we take time to explore things in a little in a bit more detail.

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Studies Psychology at Bristol

What happens in a typical tutorial?

I always look up the board my students are taking so the lessons are really relevant. Then we go through past papers or set texts, whatever the student finds helpful.

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Studies English at Oxford

How do you explain tricky concepts in your tutorials?

I use the shared whiteboard. We make diagrams together and label them, and often the student prints it off because they know it's right and they completely understand it.

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Studies Geology at Durham

Do you have any success stories?

After tutoring one girl went and told all her friends the new explanation I gave her. And she was so excited about what she wrote in the exam she emailed me immediately afterwards.

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Studies Philosophy at Exeter

Can you help with last-minute revision?

There was one girl who had her exam on Monday. She wanted tuition on Friday, Saturday and Sunday beforehand. It was very intense, but she said the exam went well.

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Studies Law at Warwick

Describe the main ways in which social control occurs in society.

Social control refers to the methods used throughout society to limit deviance (breaking of social norms) and ensure that people conform to society’s rules and regulations. There are two main types of social control; formal and informal. Formal social control is found in certain societal institutions where the primary goal is to ensure deviance is not permitted, for example prison officers, the police force and the army – many of these jobs have a uniform associated with their profession to signify who is exerting the social control. However, other professionals such as teachers or social workers could also be seen to fit into this category. Informal social control takes place throughout society and often continues throughout our lives. For instance, people around us control our behaviour through positive (encouraging smiles and comments) and negative (frowns, negative comments) interactions which shape our behaviour. These informal ways of communicating act as a social control as they encourage us to behave in certain ways.

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Studies Sociology at Bath

What is diffusion and how is it different from osmosis?

Diffusion can otherwise be known as the technical term for the movement of particles. It is the process where the particles in question moves from an area where it is high in concentration to an area where it is low. This movement of high to low is also referred to as diffusing down a concentration gradient. Diffusion happens because of the random movement of particles. When the concentration of the particle is the same on both sides, the net exchange is zero and concentration stabilizes. Osmosis is a specific form of diffusion referring only to the diffusion of water molecules down a concentration gradient through a partially permeable membrane. For example, we refer to water entering plant cells by osmosis instead of diffusion.

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Studies Computer Science at Bristol

How do automatic stabilizers work?

Automatic stabilizers are a form of autonomous adjustment that the economy does in booms and recessions. To understand automatic stabilizers we need to first know how fiscal policy works and know what a business cycle is. A business cycle is just the trend of booms and recessions that the economy follows. The economy doesn't just grow in a linear way but it oscillates on a slight upwards trend. The peak of a cycle is a boom and the trough is a recession. FIscal policy uses government spending and taxation to control the economy. To encourage growth expansionary fiscal policy is used, where government spending is increased (budget deficit) and taxation is decreased. The opposite is true for contractionary fiscal policy. Automatic stabilizers work in the same way. In a boom less people are unemployed so government spending on benefits is reduced, at the same time incomes rise so government taxation through taxation is greater. This process automatically applies a "damper" to the economy, making the boom less pronounced .The opposite happens in a recession. This has the overall effect of "compressing" the cycle so that the differences between booms and recessions aren't as pronounced and so make the economy follow a path closer to a linear growth.

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Studies Economics at Bath

How do enzymes work?

Enzymes are substances that speed up a reaction by lowering the activation energy of the reaction but they do not get used up. There are two hypothesis as to how enzymes work: the lock and key hypothesis and the induced fit hypothesis. The former is more widely studied prior to A-levels while the latter is more recent and backed up by evidence making it more widely believed by the scientific community to how enzymes work. The induced fit hypothesis states that the binding of a substrate or some other molecule to an enzyme causes a change in the shape of the enzyme so as to enhance or inhibit its activity.

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Studies Biomedical science at Sussex

Change of subject question. Make 'a' the subject of the formula v = u + at.

Rule: An equation must be balanced. Therefore, in order to keep the equation balances, what you do to one side you must do to the other side. Change of subject questions require you to isolate the required letter on one side of the equation. In change of subject question such as the one above 'v = u + at', first you need to realise that the equation is the same as +v= +u + ((+a)x(+t)). To begin with to remove the 'u' from the right hand side of the equation we should subtract the 'u' and thus given our rule of balanced equations we should do the other side as well. (v - u = u - u + at ) and this is equal to (v-u=at). Then to remove the 't' from the right hand side of the equation we should divide the 't'. We divide because to get rid of a 'x t' we need to divide 't' and thus given our rule of balanced equations we should do that to the other side as well. (v - u)/t = (at)/t >>>>>>>>>> t/t =1 ((v - u)/t = 1a (v - u)/t = a