The average positive rate of my more than 400 students is 98.75%. I really care about my students and I won’t rest until I have all their questions answered! I’ll give you Whatsapp support so you have the freedom to ask all the questions you want and feel at ease studying at your own pace while getting valuable real-time feedback on what you’re doing – provided those questions can be quickly answered by Whatsapp. Otherwise we’ll book a tutoring session. Plus I’ve been doing this for more than 15 years, so you can be sure I know exactly how to help you.
Ok, so you’re in college and you fear being disrespected, shamed, and humiliated by your colleagues. God forbid, by your teachers. Having gone through the same experience and having been a tutor for more than 15 years I know how it goes. You feel your teachers don’t care enough about you, your colleagues are just as lost as you are, and going to the library doesn’t magically make your grades go up. Besides spending more time reading books isn’t going to help you anyway because you’re already strapped for time and sleeping less than you should.
You may even have tried tutoring centers. I remember being in a tutoring center for Calculus when I was in high-school. I got my backpack ready, left home and 1h later I was there, studying. We where paying 30€/hour for this one tutor in a room full of students. During the whole 2 hours I was there, I was able to ask exactly 2 questions, which where haphazardly answered because the tutor wanted to spread her time between all the students. I remember thinking to myself “is it worth it to lose 2 hours every day and pay 30€/hour to come here to do the exercises and only getting the tutor’s attention twice in the whole 2 hours? I might as well study at home!”
After that, I tried a few tutoring sessions with this private math teacher. He knew the subject matter, but he just couldn’t bridge the gap between my knowledge and his knowledge. He just couldn’t understand what I couldn’t understand – so he kept mechanistically repeating answers I didn’t understand without giving me the background knowledge I needed to understand the present concepts. It was frustrating.
Are you looking for a better way of improving your grades, and feeling proud of yourself and your accomplishments? That’s why I’m here. To help you dominate college and earn excellent grades with one-on-one private tutoring!
Imagine yourself earning the respect and admiration of your parents, teachers, and colleagues. “Wow son, you’re really doing well in college. Keep this up and I’ll buy you a new car!” Can you imagine how proud you’re going to feel taking your friends for a ride in your new car, earned fair and square by being a top student? And if your parents aren’t able to afford it, soon after finishing college with top grades, you will because you’ll be earning more than everyone else!
How it feels like working with me
Imagine this: your teacher asks you a question which he knows no student would be able to answer. But you have a secret weapon – tutoring lessons with an expert tutor with excellent communication skills that rub off on you. As you start to thoroughly and beautifully answer your teacher’s question, your colleagues start to look at you in awe and you see a smile of approval begin to form in your teacher’s lips. When you’re done there’s a pause while the shock of your answer subsides. You feel a rush of adrenaline as the awareness that everyone is now looking at you hits you. You chuckle and your teacher says “Guys, make friends with him, he’s going places!”
During the rest of the class, all your colleagues will be thinking you’d be a good friend to have. Trust me, you won’t have any problems making friends. Your biggest problem will be to distinguish the ones who appreciate you for your intelligence from those who just want to take advantage of you.
You’re doing the exams. Confident. Focused. Your colleagues struggle to remember the concepts they need to answer the questions. You completely blaze through the memorization questions the teacher posed, knowing every single answer by heart. A great start makes you feel even more confident and allows you more time to answer all the questions and revise your answers after you’re done. Still 10 minutes left on the clock. You turn in your exam early, feeling proud of yourself and everything you’re achieving! You leave the exam room, take your phone out and dial your parent’s phone number.
– Hello son?
– Nailed it!
How is this possible? Because I’ll give you my own researched and scientifically proven method for memorising anything important. Plus I’ll connect to you, at your current level of knowledge, and help you bridge the gap between where you are now and where you need to be to pass the exams like it was first-grade math.
I provide tutoring one-on-one as well as groups.
I really care about you
You’re studying with your colleagues in the library and you hit a problem you can’t solve. You ask your colleagues and no one knows the answer. You open your browser, search on google and you know it’s a quick fix, but you just can’t find the answer online. Then you remember you have a trusted tutor on your side! You pick up your phone, open WhatsApp and write a small message. One minute later you have a clearly explained answer to your problem. You feel thankful, glad and proud to be making so much progress in your studies!
The average positive rate of my more than 400 students is 98.75%. I really care about my students and I won’t rest until I have all their questions answered! I’ll give you Whatsapp support so you have the freedom to ask all the questions you want and feel at ease studying at your own pace while getting valuable real-time feedback on what you’re doing – provided those questions can be quickly answered by Whatsapp. Otherwise we’ll book a tutoring session. Plus I’ve been doing this for more than 15 years, so you can be sure I know exactly how to help you.
Recorded sessions and whiteboards
“I wish I had a diagram showing me how all these pieces fit together!” Is something you will never have to think again – all complex concepts will be drawn on the whiteboard with you and transformed into PNG for easy reference. Don’t remember how to calculate the block size of a 2 KB cache? Easy fix: just open your YouTube playlist and watch our tutoring session on caches!
About the tutor, André Casal
André has been working as a software engineer, for more than 15 years, with companies like Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, American TV network NBC, and energy drink Monster Energy. He has provided technical direction to countless startups and managed teams of over 20 people. Currently, he helps other software engineers improve their work output capacity and quality through online training, which has been featured by Microsoft. Teaching has always been one of his passions and that is why throughout his career he has tutored 380+ college students on computer science, from which more than 80% smashed their grades while the remaining, even though didn’t have higher than average grades, report not having passed the exams without André’s help. Some students only come to André for a few weeks before the exams, while others stay for more than 3 years (Master Degrees), but on average, students stay with André for 1 year.
What people are saying about the tutor
Paulo Jorge, 21 yo
Bachelor’s degree in Computer and Multimédia Engineering
Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa (ISEL)
"The way teachers introduced Arduino programming was with small pieces of code during the lessons. A little bit of code here and there. They never explained things very well. They assumed we went looking for the missing pieces. I tried researching on the internet and talking to friends, but I couldn’t find good resources on the internet and my friends were just as lost as I was. [When I started the tutoring lessons with André,] my grades increased exponentially. I’ve been with André for one year at this point, the current class is the second one we’re doing together. In the first class, if I know anything about Arduino, it was because André taught me. I mean it! Not only did André taught me how to complete the Arduino projects, he taught me to the point where I could complete the exams on my own. And in terms of availability, André is top."
Miguel Ferreira, 19 yo
Bachelor’s degree in Informatics and Computers Engineering
Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa (ISEL)
"I couldn’t understand the class subject matter that was being given by the teachers. They weren’t doing a good job and weren’t giving us the necessary resources. I tried going to the university library, tried talking to colleagues that understood a little bit more of the class but it was of little help. The difference [between having and not having tutoring lessons] is that I wouldn’t pass my exams. I have been getting results. It has been a good experience, I’ve been learning and improved."
What tutoring actually costs
What is the actual cost of failing a class? It’s spending another year in college. Being conservative, if you account for tuition fees in the order of 700€/year and around 500€/month (on the low end) for expenses, that amounts to 5700€ for the 10 months of another college year. Add to that the salary you will not earn as an entry-level engineer of 70000€ on that year. So the actual cost of failing a class in college is 5700€+70000€ = 75700€ plus 1 year out of your life.
I offer 10% discount for group tutoring. Wether you're a student or not, for each student you provide me, I'll pay you 10% of the total lifetime value of that student. If you bring me a student that has tutoring lessons every week for a year, then every week for a year, you'll receive 10% of every tutoring lesson he has with me.
100% Satisfaction Guarantee
You need to be 100% satisfied! In the unlikely event that you’re not – and in 15 years of tutoring not a single student requested their money back – I’ll give you your money back.
My personal note to you
I just want to thank you for taking the time to read about my tutoring service. It continues to be a tremendous honor to have so many students trust me to help them find a better way of going through college. I sincerely hope you decide to get tutoring lessons, even if not with me, because I know it’s such a good decision.
To your success!
I offer 10% discount for group tutoring. Whether you're a student or not, for each student you provide me, I'll pay you 10% of the total lifetime value of that student. If you bring me a student that has tutoring lessons every week for a year, then every week for a year, you'll receive 10% of every tutoring lesson he has with me.
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