Online Tutor Alastair

Alastair

Classics MPhil

I am a highly qualified tutor with an MPhil in Classics from the University of Cambridge, able to tutor Classics, History, and English.

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University of Cambridge - Classics - MPhil

I am a highly qualified tutor with an MPhil in Classics from the University of Cambridge, able to tutor Classics, History, and English.

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Signed Up: 2nd December 2016

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All-time Students: 0	Total Classes: 0	Signed Up: 2nd December 2016

About Me

At university I played a number of sports at college level, including squash, lacrosse, and ultimate frisbee. I also enjoy sailing but I don’t get out on the water enough!

Other interests include walking, reading, and going to the pub with my friends (if that can count as an interest!).

Tutor Experience

While at Cambridge for undergrad and postgrad, I won 10 prizes and scholarships for the whole range of academic skills: translation, prose composition and essay writing. I bring this academic rigour to my tutoring.

There are two key aspects to my tutoring philosophy. The first is the importance of excelling in the exam format. While exams can be narrow, hoop-jumping exercises, it is nevertheless crucial to use them as a platform to demonstrate academic ability. After a long period of doing very well in exams, I have many tips and tricks to help maximise exam results.

However, I view tutoring as the opportunity for much broader intellectual development than the narrow confines of the exams. Through probing questions and challenging ideas, I seek to put in place critical thinking skills and the ability to explore issues independently that will enable tutees to respond creatively to problems throughout life, but particularly at university and Oxbridge level. Cultivating academic rigour and curiosity early on pays great dividends in later life.

I have been putting this philosophy into practice while tutoring and advising younger students for several years – both on translation and with essay questions.