Alexander

Tutor profile - Alexander

Alexander

13 Plus & English

Like all our tutors, Alexander is a qualified teacher Like all our tutors, Alexander holds a degree from a top University Like all our tutors, Alexander holds a full, clean criminal records checkAlexander holds a Masters degreeAlexander holds a First Class degreeAlexander either works or has worked as an examiner for an exam board
We have been so grateful to Alexander for his patient and consistently professional coaching he has delivered in the past few weeks. Alexander’s enthusiasm and excellent tuition, has really busted our son’s performance and he has helped him to unlock his potential.

Alexander is a very passionate teacher and has assessed our son’s level accurately, putting in place a plan of action that has helped him to increase his confidence in English and improve his writing. This has been achieved in a very short period, just 5 weeks before the exams, that shows the level of commitment and the excellent teaching approach Alexander had applied.

Our son has achieved excellent results in his 13+ entry exams and he has passed to the school of his first choice with flying colours. Few weeks before started with Alexander, this was looking as a very remote prospect.

We are immensely thankful to Alexander and we look forward working with him in the future.

Parent of online 13+ student

Alexander's biography

Alexander is a Fellow of The Royal Society of Arts (FRSA), a published academic writer, and a highly experienced English teacher and examiner of A Level, GCSE and 13+. He is a member of The Tutors' Association. After attending Oundle School he attained a range of distinguished academic qualifications. He holds an MA in Shakespeare Studies at Distinction, a First Class BA (hons) in English Literature, a further First Class DipEngl in English Language Studies, and has a PGCE. He began his teaching career in 1996 and currently teaches at Mander Portman Woodward (MPW) 6th Form College in South Kensington, London.

Previously, he taught at three `Beacon Status` 6th Form colleges, all of which have been rated `outstanding` by OFSTED and two of which feature in the Top 10 A level results annually: Hills Road Sixth Form College, Cambridge; The Sixth Form College, Farnborough; and Esher College, Surrey, where he was the Head of English from 2008-2012, leading a highly successful English department consisting of 11 teachers and 770 A Level English students. He has been an examiner for the major exam boards in both English Literature and English Language throughout his career.

Alexander has recently taught a range of exam boards: the OCR, AQA, Pearson Edexcel and CIE (Cambridge International) specifications. He has tutored the International Baccalaureate (IB), helped students with undergraduate work, and has a track record of success with English 11+ and 13+ Common Entrance Examinations. He is currently writing a book for Palgrave-Macmillan aimed at undergraduates in ‘The Reader’s Guide to Essential Criticism’ Series, due for publication in 2022 and he authored the York Notes on 'Frankenstein' for the GCSE series in 1999. He is a member of The London Library, The British Library, The Society of Authors and has extensive educational resources at home.

Alexander has had resounding success as a private tutor. His students find him enthusiastic, supportive, cordial and professional. He is a responsive tutor, an attentive listener, able to make complex ideas accessible and exciting, and can balance exploratory, individualised and structured approaches to learning. He believes in drawing from a wide range of teaching methods to make a student`s experience of English varied, fresh and challenging. While he believes in developing intellectual curiosity, he ensures that the particular needs of each individual are identified so the right skills are prioritised and tackled rigorously. He always provides a clear direction to learning. Alexander has raised the quality of his tutees’ written work from one to three grades, thereby significantly lifting their performance in exams.

Many parents have often thanked Alexander for his willingness to 'go the extra mile' for their sons and daughters and his tutees over the last six years have valued his commitment.

IB Experience

I have tutored a student for her IB (Higher) examination, helping her with her comparative essay component and preparation for the Oral Exam. The work covered drama by Oscar Wilde and Brian Friel and the poetry of Seamus Heaney. She was successful and is now studying at UCL. I have also helped a student with the Extended Essay on dystopian literature which compared '1984' with 'The Handmaid's Tale' and have also helped a student improve his essay technique with a History essay for the same component.

Alexander's availability

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School entrance experience

Alexander has worked with children aiming to attend the following schools:

I helped a boy from South Korea successfully gain a Queen's Scholarship to Westminster School and another boy from India to pass his 13+ entrance exam to the same school. Most recently I tutored a girl to pass her 11+ exams to both Francis Holland and Godolphin and Latymer as well as a boy who passed his 13+ entrance exams to Harrow and Cranleigh. Before this, I tutored a boy who passed his exams to Dulwich College and Alleyn's School for 13+. I am currently helping a primary school student from China to prepare for her 11+ entrance exam to St Paul's school that she will sit in two years' time.

Alexander's qualifications

Alexander qualified to teach English in 1996, and holds a PGCE English from UEA.

University name Name of degree Year of graduation
Royal Holloway College Shakespeare Studies MA 2004
Open University English Language DipELS 2001
University of East Anglia English Literature 1995

Subjects tutored:

13 Plus (English)

English (KS3, GCSE AQA, GCSE Edexcel, GCSE OCR, IGCSE, A Level AQA, A Level Edexcel, A Level OCR, Pre-U, IB Standard Level and IB Higher Level)

Here's where Alexander can teach

London

  • Mayfair (W1Y)
  • Mayfair (W1X)
  • Soho, Piccadilly (W1V)
  • Oxford Street, Regent Street (W1R)
  • Goodge Street, Warren Street (W1P)
  • Regents Park, Oxford Circus (W1N)
  • Marylebone (W1M)
  • Westminster

  • Great Portland Street, Fitzrovia (W1W)
  • Marylebone (W1U)
  • Hanover Square, Savile Row (W1S)
  • Mayfair (north), Grosvenor Square (W1K)
  • Mayfair (south), Piccadilly, Royal Academy (W1J)
  • Marylebone (W1H)
  • Harley Street (W1G)
  • Soho (north west) (W1F)
  • Soho (south east), Chinatown, Soho Square (W1D)
  • Portland Street, Regent Street (W1B)
  • Paddington, Bayswater, Hyde Park, Westbourne Green, Little Venice, Westbourne Green, Notting Hill (W2)
  • Camden

  • Fitzrovia, Tottenham Court Road (W1T)
  • Euston, Camden Town, Somers Town, Primrose Hill, Gospel Oak, Lisson Grove (NW1)
  • Hampstead, Chalk Farm, Primrose Hill, Swiss Cottage, Belsize Park, Gospel Oak, Frognal, Childs Hill (NW3)
  • Kentish Town, Tufnell Park, Dartmouth Park, Gospel Oak (NW5)
  • St John’s Wood, Primrose Hill, Lisson Grove (NW8)
  • Hounslow

  • Chiswick, Gunnersbury, Turnham Green, Bedford Park (W4)
  • Hammersmith and Fulham

  • Hammersmith, Ravenscourt Park (W6)
  • Shepherds Bush, White City (W12)
  • Fulham, Parson’s Green (SW6)
  • Kensington and Chelsea

  • Kensington, Holland Park (W8)
  • Notting Hill, Holland Park (W11)
  • West Kensington, Kensington Olympia, Holland Park (W14)
  • Chelsea, Brompton, Knightsbridge (SW3)
  • Earl’s Court (SW5)
  • South Kensington, Knightsbridge (SW7)
  • West Brompton, Chelsea (SW10)
  • Lambeth

  • Brixton, Brixton Hill, Streatham Hill, Tulse Hill, Clapham Park, Balham (SW2)
  • Clapham, Stockwell (SW4)
  • South Lambeth, Vauxhall, Battersea, Clapham, Stockwell (SW8)
  • Stockwell, Brixton, Clapham (SW9)
  • Kennington, Vauxhall (SE11)
  • Wandsworth

  • Battersea, Clapham Junction (SW11)
  • Balham, Clapham South, Hyde Farm (SW12)
  • Putney, Roehampton University (SW15)
  • Wandsworth, Southfields, Earlsfield (SW18)
  • Richmond upon Thames

  • Barnes, Castelnau (SW13)
  • Merton

  • Wimbledon, Colliers Wood, Southfields (SW19)
  • Merton Park, Raynes Park (SW20)
  • Southwark

  • Bankside, South Bank, Southwark, Bermondsey, Vauxhall (SE1)
  • Tower Hamlets

  • Aldgate, Bishopsgate, Whitechapel, Shoreditch, Spitalfields, Shadwell, Stepney, Mile End, Portsoken (E1)
  • Bethnal Green, Haggerston, Shoreditch, Cambridge Heath (E2)
  • Hackney

  • Barnsbury, Canonbury, Kings Cross, Islington, Pentonville, De Beauvoir Town, Hoxton (N1)
  • Islington

  • Highbury, Highbury Fields (N5)
  • Brent

  • Kilburn, Brondesbury, West Hampstead, Queen’s Park (NW6)
  • Barnet

  • Golders Green, Hampstead Garden Suburb (NW11)