Award-winning LSE class teacher with ~10,000 hours experience in economics tuition in London

Experience

Award-winning class teacher at the London School of Economics (LSE), Graduate A-Level examiner & Co-Founder of Up Learn. I recently received the LSE Class Teacher Award for "excellent teaching" and "outstanding student feedback", and was listed in Forbes’ 30 Under 30 for my work in education.

After dropping out of school at 16, I achieved 4 A*s in my self-studied A Levels and won the Harvard Prize for scoring 98% at AS Level. I graduated from LSE with the highest mark out of 1400+ students in my 2nd year, winning the Economics Examiner Prize and the Rishi Madlani Award for Macroeconomics.

Over the last 7 years, I have taught 200+ students privately, 3000+ students through my online courses, and accrued ~10,000 hours of teaching experience.

I really love learning and I’ve had some incredible success in academia... but actually a very difficult time in education.

I hated school: I hated sitting bored in a classroom, not understanding what was going on, wanting to ask questions but being too afraid of looking “stupid”, and forgetting 95% of what was taught by exam time!

So, at sixteen, I dropped out of school and started tutoring part-time to support myself.

Suddenly, I was on my own, responsible for my own learning and my students'. I had to learn how to learn, and learn how to teach!

The 5 years that followed led to a powerful discovery: everything we “know” about learning is remarkably wrong.

Research from cognitive science shows that rereading notes is the least effective way to revise, and drawing is 9.5x more effective than rewriting for retention. The list of these counter-intuitive insights goes on, but our schools plod on as if science doesn’t exist.

I want to empower all of my students with the techniques needed to learn most effectively. I want to inspire inside them with a veritable passion for their subject. And, most importantly, I want them to achieve excellence.