Our Physics Tutors:

Archer Newton

Subjects Offered: Physics, Maths Methods

Past Student Testimonials:

Previous Year 12 Student (2020)

Archer is a really awesome and thorough tutor who goes the extra mile to ensure all your questions are answered, and you have a full understanding of the subject. If he thinks you don’t yet understand whatever you are learning entirely, then he’ll send you some YouTube videos or send you a text containing a summary of key points, so you can look over them in your own time. Even though he is a Med student and very busy, he always makes sure to answer any questions you have out of tutoring hours. I would definitely recommend Archer as his broad knowledge and understanding of countless topics allows him to provide outside of the box thinking, so the student doesn’t just learn the information, but is able to further understand it and therefore apply it to a vast array of questions. Archer also offers the student an alternative explanation to the teacher’s, so that it can be understood from a different, and perhaps more retainable way. Keep going strong, Archer!

Rachel Hosking - Year 12 (2020)

Archer is a warm, understanding and talented young man. He communicates the learning concepts across magnificently while still being friendly and supportive of learning 24/7. His management system for booking appointments with him is smooth, quick and easy. Additionally, his drafting of SACE tasks produces A+ results.

Previous Year 12 Student (2020)

Archer is a great tutor knows what he is doing as he recently completed year 12 highly qualified to be tutoring the subjects he offers he is very selfless and flexible always willing to help even outside his sessions he tutoring and overall mentor ship has been extremely valuable and useful only wish I knew him earlier to start from the beginning of year 12 I highly recommend for any year 11/12 students whether you are struggling or want to advance your learning he will surely be able to help.

"Archer was great help for Physics in year 12, he always found a way to explain concepts such that I could retain them so easily for my test"

Archer's Tutoring Experience:

Students tutored by Archer in 2020 have achieved impeccable results in their tests, assignments and grades. Working with students of all skill levels, including the highest achievers. For example, Archer mentored 2 students who achieved a 99.90 and 99.4 raw ATAR.

After surveying his students last year:

Specialising in study and learning techniques, Archer has worked with hundreds of students to assist them with adopting highly effective and efficient study techniques to give them a competitive advantage against their peers.

Not only based of experience, Archer teaches techniques embedded within modern neuroscience and learning psychology that has also produced highly competitive results for students in medical school, law, engineering etc.

His experience has helped hundreds of students increase their grades, exceeding their expectations, and avoid common preparation mistakes. For example, students often believe working harder and doing the same thing as everyone else will guarantee results.

How can you really expect to get different (and better) results if you're doing the same thing as everyone else?

Students Archer tutored in 2020 have seen great improvements in their tests and assignment grades, as he promotes efficient study skills, backed by science which help avoid the common preparation mistakes almost every student makes when studying, such as studying harder, rather than smarter.

Extremely passionate about helping students prosper, Archer runs a YouTube channel helping 3,500+ students learn the best techniques for academic success.

https://youtube.com/archernewton

He believes, “There are so many ways that students prevent themselves from reaching their full potential, and I will help identify and remediate those issues.”

About Archer:

Academic:

99.95 raw ATAR
A+ in all Year 12 Subjects, Merits in Physics (20/20), Psychology, English and Research Project
1 of the 26 recipients of the Governor of South Australia - Excellence Award out of 15,000 students
Received Vice-Chancellor's scholarship at the University of Queensland and 3 Medical School Offers (UNSW, UQ, and Flinders)
2nd Year Medical Student at Flinders
Dux for Physics, Psychology, Specialist Maths, Biology, Research Project
7.0/7.0 GPA

Interests / Hobbies:

Making Youtube videos about effective study.
Investment
Guitar and Drums
Soccer
Social events

Aatmaj Dasondi

Subjects Offered: Physics

Past Student Testimonials:

• “I quite enjoyed Aatmaj’s group classes as well – always seems to find a whiteboard around so that he gets you to explain things back to the class. He’ll intervene at the very end with a list of things that could be modified for better marks. I was quite bad at vector diagrams and the trigonometry that is involved in Physics, but this learning style really helped me stay on top of my visual and conceptual learning themes.”

I’d tried a couple of different Stage 2 Physics tutors, but no one really ‘clicked’ for me. I need things to be relatable to day-to-day activities and Aatmaj has a very good sense of humour when it comes to analogies. This, oddly enough, made me laugh randomly in the middle of the exam but more significantly, ensured I remembered what fancy terminology to write down to get my merit.

The biggest aspect of Aatmaj’s tutoring that made sense to me was that he didn’t just rant off about healthy/consistent study habits in the first trial. I experienced it in my lessons – I remember getting to the third/fourth lesson and key concepts got reviewed over, and again at other crucial times too. I’ve started to do this in my university work, and I can confidently say it’s still working.”

Top bloke – he’s smart but I’d rather someone who teaches well, and with Aatmaj, you get that combo package. Quite bang for your buck by the time exams have finished.

Aatmaj's Tutoring Experience:

Aatmaj has been tutoring for about two years now and he loves teaching with new perspective. It was very common for his students to describe his methods as: “Learning from Aatmaj was very different to how I got taught at school, he actually helped concepts stick in my head long-term.”

Never having scored less than 100% on his Physics tests and A+ on all assignments – Aatmaj’s performance and teaching standard can be directly translatable through the scores of his students. “Starting classes with Aatmaj after my first test, helped boost my SAT average from B+ to A+. This played a substantial factor in making my ATAR competitive for medicine.”

Closely knitting the student’s competence to the way Aatmaj structures his lesson plans has helped generate a total of 7 A+’s and 4 merits in Physics in his two years of experience as a tutor. Not just efficacy in tutoring – Aatmaj provides guidance and mentorship when climbing the learning curve. He teaches ways to incorporate healthy and consistent study habits into lesson plans and even independent study.

About Aatmaj:

Academic:

99.95 raw ATAR
Third year medical student
Merits in Physics (20/20), Chemistry (20/20), General Maths (19.8/20)
School dux in 2018, and subject dux in above merits
A+ in Biology, Research Project
7.0 GPA in University
Does pro bono (free) teaching to primary school students to continually refine and develop upon his teaching skills

Interests / Hobbies:

Likes playing table tennis (will often have a match-off if you get an A+ in anything)
Did boxing for a week (will often have a match-off if you don’t get A+ in anything)
Big Marvel fan
“Be humble” ~ Kendrick, circa 2017