Predicted C, D, D. Left with A*, A, A.
Until the Christmas of my final A-Level year I was on course for grades that would have closed most doors. Nobody had told me anything untrue — I genuinely wasn't on track. What changed wasn't how much Geography I knew. It was how I answered the question in front of me.
I now read Geography at Durham University — ranked 6th in the world for Geography in the QS World University Rankings 2026 — and I'm on track for a First.
It is never too late. Most students aren't short of knowledge — they're losing marks on command words, structure and evaluation. Those are fixable, and they're fixable quickly.
That's what I teach: the personal, targeted strategies that took me past what I was predicted, adapted to whatever your child is actually getting wrong. The aim isn't to hit their target grade. It's to go past it.