The best Physics tuition starts with one clear focus. Three cover most situations: repairing the maths underneath, working through one chapter, or practising explanation and graphs.
What are the three focuses?
| Focus | Best when | What the lessons do |
|---|---|---|
| Maths repair | Algebra or units fail in many chapters | Fix rearranging and unit conversion, then return to Physics |
| One chapter | Marks fall in one or two chapters | Rebuild the chapter from its first idea |
| Explanation and graphs | Formulas are fine, words and graphs lose marks | Practise reading graphs and writing reasons |
A student can need two. The order is agreed during the trial.
How can I tell which one fits?
Take one wrong question and test it. Here is an illustrative example.
A car moves at 20 m/s and brakes uniformly to rest in 5 s. Find the braking force if its mass is 1200 kg.
The student writes F = 1200 × 20 ÷ 5 and gets 4800 N. The answer is right, and the route is fine: acceleration a = (0 − 20) ÷ 5 = −4 m/s², so F = ma = 1200 × 4 = 4800 N in magnitude.
Now suppose the student writes a = 20 × 5 = 100 and F = 120 000 N. The formula chosen is the wrong kind of step: the student multiplied where the units needed division. Checking units (m/s ÷ s = m/s²) shows the mistake. That points to maths and units repair, not a Physics chapter.
If instead the student cannot say which formula links force, mass and change in speed, the gap is the chapter.
What should we prepare before the trial?
- Two or three recent wrong questions, with the original working.
- The chapters that feel hardest.
- One sentence in the student’s words about what feels hard.
The page on preparing for a useful trial has a fuller list. For maths gaps, read using maths repair without restarting the syllabus.
Where does this lead?
After the one-hour trial class (from RM50), you and the teacher agree the focus of the lessons that follow. The SPM Physics tuition page explains how starting works, and the motion-graph explorer is free.