Head of Chemistry | Biochemist BSc (Hons) & PGCE with over 20 years Biology & Chemistry teaching experience up to A level.

Find out more about Manish

• When did you develop an interest in your chosen field and in private tutoring?

  I have tutored face-to-face way back in 2004 when I was an established teacher and tutoring A-level Biology and some GCSE Science tutoring. I moved to London from Manchester and used to tutor in a tuition center around 2007. Since the lockdown, I have made use of online teaching methods and gathered resources to do this effectively.

• Did you have any role models; a teacher that inspired you?

  I had a great, and wise A-level biology teacher who was funny but organized and made learning enjoyable with short notes and more methods and examples. Incidentally, I had a strict, but good, chemistry GCSE teacher where I ended up teaching Science along with him in my old school some eight years later.

• What do you think are the qualities required to be a good tutor?

  No information overload, no massive copying, more modelling questions and trying yourself and working on difficult areas, closing any gaps in knowledge. Exam practice questions always more than anything else as that's what you will be doing at the end of the day.

• What were the difficulties or challenges you faced or still facing in your subject?

  A-level Biology concepts can be easy to understand as you can link them to everyday life as a human but, applying essay-type answers can be difficult getting all the facts down. For Chemistry, it is making the student understand the unseen and visualize and understand these concepts that can be difficult at first... but once you get it, it's easy... less content than Biology, however.

• Do you have a particular passion? Is it teaching in general or an element of the subject or something completely different?

  When you have been teaching as long as I have, it's nice to see these students making good of themselves. From getting into university to getting a career, their own house and building their own family showing great success and, as a teacher/tutor, being part of that.