I'm Yousaf, a tutor with a first-class Master's in Mechanical Engineering Industrial. I work as an engineer and have tutored maths and science alongside my career for the past seven years.

I teach primary maths & science, GCSE maths & science, and A-Level maths & physics and further maths. Tutoring started as something I did during university and became the part of my week I most look forward to, there's a specific moment when a student stops copying a method and starts seeing why it works, and I've never got tired of it.

Seven years of one-to-one tutoring, covering primary through to A-Level.

At primary level I prepare students for SATs and build the number confidence that everything later depends on. At GCSE I teach maths and combined and separate sciences across all major boards, including foundation and higher tier. At A-Level I teach maths and physics, including mechanics, calculus and the applied modules that students most often find difficult and further mathematics which is complex pure mathematics.

I've worked with a wide range of students: those aiming for top grades, those who've fallen behind and lost confidence, and those retaking after a disappointing result. I'm familiar with the current specifications and mark schemes, and I teach students how examiners award marks, not just how to reach an answer.

I start by finding out where the difficulty actually began. A GCSE student stuck on algebra is usually missing something from primary; an A-Level physics student struggling with mechanics is often fighting the maths rather than the physics. Drilling past papers over an unaddressed gap wastes everyone's time, so the first session is diagnostic, a short assessment and a conversation about what feels hardest.

From there I build a plan around the specification, working from the underlying idea outward. I ask students to explain their reasoning back to me, because being able to follow a method and being able to use it under exam pressure are different things.

Because I use this material as a working engineer, I can answer the question every student eventually asks: what is this actually for. Calculus, forces and thermodynamics aren't abstract topics I revised once — they're things I work with, and students engage differently when that's clear.

I'm also honest with parents. After the first assessment I'll say plainly what I think your child needs, including if that's fewer sessions than expected.