- IB Mathematics
- Lessons cover Analysis & Approaches and Applications & Interpretation at both SL and HL, and follow whatever your school is teaching that week rather than running a parallel syllabus of my own. The first job is always diagnosis: whether marks are being lost to missing content, to method, or to exam technique, because the three need different fixes. From there we build the fluency each paper actually rewards — non-calculator work for AA Paper 1, GDC technique for Paper 2, and the extended multi-step problems of HL Paper 3. Past papers are used as teaching material from early on, not saved up as a final test. IA support runs criterion by criterion. If you are still choosing between courses, the AA versus AI comparison sets out the decision.
- IB Physics
- IB Physics at SL and HL, structured around the five themes and taught concept first. The most common pattern I see is a student who can recite definitions but stalls the moment a question is unfamiliar — so the work focuses on turning a described situation into the right equation, then sanity-checking units and orders of magnitude before trusting an answer. Graph interpretation and data analysis get specific attention, since they carry marks across both papers. We drill Paper 1 timing under multiple-choice pressure, the structure that earns full credit on Paper 2 extended response, and fluent use of the data booklet. The Physics IA is supported throughout: research question, controlled variables, uncertainty propagation and the evaluation that separates a good IA from an average one. More on IB Physics tutoring.
- SAT & Bocconi Test Prep
- These are two very different tests, and preparing for both means holding two opposite rules in your head. The Digital SAT Math section is 44 questions in 70 minutes across two adaptive modules, with no penalty for a wrong answer — so a blank is always a wasted mark, and fluency with the built-in Desmos calculator is worth real points. The Bocconi admissions test puts 24 maths questions inside 50, gives you about 90 seconds each, and deducts 0.2 for a wrong answer, which makes a considered blank sometimes the correct play. Preparation starts by finding which content areas are actually costing marks, then drills those alongside pacing until the timing decisions stop requiring thought.
- Summer Revision Courses
- Intensive IB Maths and Physics courses built for the gap between the first and second year of the Diploma. The second year assumes fluency in the first year’s material, so gaps that were survivable in DP1 tend to compound quickly once new content lands on top of them. A summer course closes those gaps while there is time and no exam pressure, consolidates what was covered too quickly during term, and gets a head start on the topics that open Year 2. The programme is agreed in advance rather than improvised week to week, so you know what will be covered. It also suits students moving between AA and AI or SL and HL, and those arriving into an international school from a different curriculum.
- Individual or Group Sessions
- One-to-one lessons are the default: the pace, the examples and the balance between content and exam technique are all set by the individual student, and the plan changes as their needs do. Small group sessions work well for friends or classmates who are genuinely matched — same course, same level, and roughly the same starting point — and cost less per student as a result. Where a group does not work is when the levels or goals diverge, because the session ends up serving neither student properly; I will say so rather than take the booking. Scheduling is arranged around school timetables, exam periods and time zones, and lessons can be taught in English, Italian or Croatian.
- Resources & Briefings
- Every student gets material built for the specific gap rather than a generic worksheet pack: targeted practice sets, condensed revision summaries for the topics that keep costing marks, and exam-style questions matched to the papers they will actually sit. Between sessions that gives structured work to do rather than a vague instruction to revise. For families, optional parent briefings cover what is improving, what still is not, and what the next few weeks are aimed at — enough for parents to stay genuinely informed without having to sit in on lessons or manage the process themselves. What all of this costs depends on subject, session length and whether you are booking individually or as a group, and is discussed on the free intro call.
