Christian Farrell

Results and Qualifications:

• ATAR: 99.90
• State Ranks: $1^\text{st}$ in NSW for Italian Ext. (48/50), $4^\text{th}$ in NSW for Italian Continuers (98/100), $7^\text{st}$ in NSW for Biology (96/100)
• School: Sydney Grammar School
• University: University of Sydney (Sydney Scholars), Bachelor of Science / Bachelor of Laws

Approach to Tutoring:

Everything Christian does as a tutor is intended to furnish his students with a broad base of prior knowledge and a precise set of independent skills, such that they may become more competent and thus more confident students. He recognises that lasting passion for a subject can be as important to long-term success as engendering effective exam practices, efficient study habits, and broad knowledge bases. He sees his task as a tutor as fourfold:

• Balancing short-term goal setting (i.e. achieving a certain mark on a future assessment) with long-term improvement in the subject.
• Balancing proficiency and growth in measuring improvement (i.e. a proficiency-based approach measures success in terms of the reaching of minimum standards, whereas a growth-based approach measures success in terms of relative improvement on the student’s previous standard.)
• Balancing a relentlessly structured and process-based approach to all subjects with an understanding that methods of study are fundamentally organic and must be encouraged, rather than forced to change.
• Balancing a need to be faultlessly prepared for any assessment with a desire for enrichment beyond the curriculum.