Our Team

Bob Chen

Founder State Rank Physics 2019 1st in James Ruse Phys 3rd in James Ruse Chem

Bob is a James Ruse graduate who came out with amazing HSC results. He started private tutoring afterwards and now has extensive tutoring experience. He started tutorgum in 2020 to bring his knowledge in cracking hard Physics and Chemistry exams questions to even more students.He emphasises the importance of mental effort in learning and incorporates this into his materials.

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Eunice Huang

1st in North Sydney Girls Maths Ext 1 1st in North Sydney Girls Maths Ext 2 2nd in North Sydney Girls Chemistry 99.85 ATAR

I still remember the shock I felt when I opened my report.Afterall, this was coming from someone who was a reserve 32 for North Sydney Girls High School, who always sat in the audience seats during Presentation Day watching others receive awards, envious of their talents and results. Particularly, the sense of dread that I can never be good enough followed me through the first few terms of year 11 and 12, when my ranks were never in the top 5.You can imagine my delight when I saw that I came 2nd and 3rd for Chemistry and Physics respectively.

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Johnny Tran

5th in James Ruse Physics 99.50 ATAR

I graduated from James Ruse , coming 5th in Physics and 9th in Chemistry, with a ATAR of 99.50 and UCAT of 95th percentile. This has helped me get into USYD Med.I focus on developing a deep conceptual understanding for students. This is through carefully planned lessons and also 1-1 attention when I notice students struggling. I will improve your knowledge and exam technique and give you extra help if you need it. You can feel free to ask me any question, any time - including outside of class!

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Crystal Fu Chen

1st in Meriden Maths Ext 1 Examination 3rd in Physics 99.15 ATAR

Below average - 68%. Both Ext 1 and Ext 2. They were going to count to my ATAR.That week, when I remembered what happened, tears would spring uncontrollably to my eyes.All I could think was that I wasn’t smart enough. Perhaps I would never be good enough.So how did I get 100% in my very next exam?

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Jerome Shin

James Ruse Graduate 1st in Maths Ext 1 Exam (100%) Top 15 in Physics (97%) 99.35 ATAR

Year 11, rank 80th in the cohortYear 12 semester 1 Rank 89th out of 140.“Is my son going to get a band 6 in chemistry?” my mum would ask Ms Fern in her broken English at Parent Teacher interviews, not even understanding what a band 6 was.

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Jaiden Chee

1st in Ext 1 Maths (99) 3rd in Ext 2 Maths (95) 5th in Physics (95) Reddam House ( Scholarship)

Hi, I’m Jaiden. I have recently graduated in 2023 from Reddam House where I was on an Academic Scholarship. I finished my studies with an internal rank of 5th in Chemistry, 5th in Physics, 1st in Extension 1 Maths and 3rd in Extension 2 Maths. I am an aspiring Engineer and plan to study Engineering at UNSW.

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Linus Guo

James Ruse Graduate 6th in Chemistry 1st in Physics Exam 12th in Maths Ext 1 99.70 ATAR

You know that moment when you start calculating how many marks you lost instead of doing the actual questions? I just did that for the rest of the exam, convincing myself a 50% wasn’t too bad.I didn’t get 50%. I got below.

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Queenie Pham

2nd in Physics at Hurlstone 2nd in Chemistry Exam (98%) 2nd in Maths Ext 1 Exam (96%) 99.75 ATAR

In my first physics assessment task in Year 11, I got 65%.My name is Queenie Pham, and in Year 12, I ended up ranking 2nd in trials in both physics and chemistry at Hurlstone Agricultural High School. Around half the sample answers in the marking criterias were taken directly from my exam papers.

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Claire Zhang

3rd in Chemistry (97) 2nd in Maths Ext 2 Hurlstone Agricultural Graduate 98.95 ATAR

I was always slightly average, but never good.In my average school, I would open my reports, only to get average marks. Double digits ranks covered the page as I scrolled: 40s, 50s, even 157th in English.I envied my friends. I wanted to get better, but didn’t have the motivation. Those ranks would only be an unattainable dream for the lazy, procrastinating, average old me.

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Victor Yuan

9th in James Ruse Physics 17th in James Ruse Ext 2 Maths James Ruse graduate 99.70 ATAR

My last name starts with a Y, so I used to always receive my exam marks after everyone else. Watching my friends reveal their scores and start to smile and laugh, there was always a growing sense of dread within me, and I would keep my exam paper face down for as long as possible to delay the inevitable.I knew I was smart enough — as someone who frequently did Olympiad math and sciences — and I sure did my fair share of practice questions. But rank 120/158 for a Y11 math exam? What was going wrong?

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Cayleen Xu

1st in Chemistry Internal Assessment (100%) 95 in HSC Mathematics Advanced Sydney Girls Graduate 98.50 ATAR

MAYBE BUY:PhenerganI still have this ‘shopping list’ in my notes app. My sister suggested it to me after I burst out crying at the dinner table, recounting how I could not fall asleep last night and in turn, already discovered many silly mistakes I had made in the exam I just took.

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Sara Chen

1st in Maths Advanced Exam 2nd in Chemistry 2nd in Maths Ext 1 Exam 99.15 ATAR

While I loved maths and science in junior years, I was never scoring well in my exams despite pouring time and effort into the content. I was always terrified to flick through my papers because the number of silly mistakes was always so disheartening, and it became a frustrating cycle trying to explain to my parents I really studied the content hard. But studying hard doesn’t equal efficiency, and in Year 12, I ended up Rank 2 in Chemistry and 4 in Maths Advanced and Maths Extension.

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Austen Wong

4th in Physics at Kings School 7th in Chem State Rank - Chinese Continuers 99.80 ATAR

“Time to LOCK IN”“The academic comeback is REAL”“I am HIM”However, when results day came around my naive optimism shattered. I had dropped one of the lowest marks in my Chemistry exam and my math marks were plagued by silly mistakes. The academic comeback was a lie.

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Janet Chow

4th in Physics (94) 10th in Chemistry (92) North Sydney Girls 99.45 ATAR

Year 11 Physics was a completely new experience to me, revealing new concepts which seemed daunting and challenging.During exams, I would panic, seeing the page filled with phrases and concepts like forces and electromagnetism which still felt foreign after terms of learning.After each exam, I would come back with a mark I wasn’t satisfied with, feeling disappointed about the errors I made.

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Janice Chang

7th in Physics (95%) 7th in Maths Ext 2 (99%) Baulkham Hills Graduate 99.60 ATAR

“This isn’t like you, I know you can do better than this.”My Chemistry teacher wasn’t even mad. Just disappointed, like I was in myself. The mark was the worst I had ever gotten for any subject. For a student who had achieved a 90+ average in Chemistry year 11, Rank 100+/150 felt like a death sentence.“What went wrong?”I studied, I did the homework, I didn’t do tutoring (odd for a selective student), but it had never mattered before. I had always done well. So I tried working harder. I took more notes, went over worked solutions, and did mountains of practice papers.

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Jheel Gandi

1st in English Advanced 1st in Mathematics Advanced (Accelerated) 1st in Mathematics Ext 1 Assessment 1 99.40 ATAR

It was term 1 of year 8. I still remember that the student teacher handed out the math papers ranked from highest to lowest. I was one of the last few people to receive my paper. I knew it was over. I flipped the page and saw the lowest mark I had ever received.I skimmed through the paper and only terrible working out and silly mistakes stared back at me. If I couldn’t do well in basic year 8 math, how on earth would I even attempt math in senior years?

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Ishaan Gollada

96% in Maths Ext 1 Exam 60% in Physics to 91% Girraween High School Graduate

I got sick and ended up missing several important lessons.By the time I returned, the whole class had moved ahead without me.Concepts that used to feel comfortable suddenly felt shaky. I remember being one of the only people in my class who hadn’t received an offer yet.

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Mustafa Khan

1st in Chemistry (95) 94 in Physics Dux of Sydney Grammar 99.95 ATAR

Maths and science were never my strongest suits. Time after time, exam after exam, I would make silly mistakes, which all added up to cost me many marks in exams. I hated seeing “NO!” and “Careless” written all over my exam scripts in bright red ink. I never got a HD grade in maths in Years 7, 8 and 9.Fast-forward to my HSC year, and I managed to achieve top bands in all my maths and science subjects, and an ATAR of 99.95. I’m now studying the Bachelor of Science and Doctor of Medicine at the University of Sydney – a degree that seemed out of my reach just a couple of years ago.

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Esther Yum

1st in Meriden Physics Exam (97%) 2nd in Chemistry Exam 98.00 ATAR

After the exam, I thought I cooked. When I received my results, I realized I had gotten cooked instead.The first time I opened my exam results in Year 11, my heart sank faster than my grades did.By the end of that year, I ranked 2nd in my Chemistry exam (yep, the same me who once Googled “what even is a mole”)

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Kami Shen

1st in Maths Ext 1 (100%) 1st in Physics 1st in Chemistry Exam 99.70 ATAR

I graduated from Abbotsleigh in 2024 with 1st in Physics, and an Honour prize for being top 20 of the cohort.But here I’m going to share with you a secret I’ve kept for many years until now, something I was embarrassed to tell even my closest friends at school: In Year 7, I failed the school entrance exam and only got into Abbotsleigh by pure luck when a spot became open.

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Chloe Arnold

3rd in Maths Ext 1 Exam Meriden Graduate 96.85 ATAR

After my first Extension 2 Maths assessment, I was convinced I’d have to drop the subject. My marks weren’t improving, and even my teacher doubted me.By the time trials came around, complex numbers once my weakest topic had become one of my biggest strengths. All the effort paid off, and I ended up ranking 3rd in a Maths Extension 1 assessment and 6th overall for the year.

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Jonathan Tian

99.00 ATAR North Sydney Boys

My story is probably the same as you, dear reader. Once an unmotivated and underachieving student, I found myself at the mercy of poor grades during the beginning of my time as a senior (Yr11~), ranking in the bottom half of the grade for maths and bottom for physics.However, upon Yr12 and the HSC looming overhead, with the invaluable assistance I received not only from fellow peers and teachers, I was able to achieve the results I did in what little time I had left.

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Dominic Bourke

1st in St Aloysius’ College Physics Exam 1st in St Aloysius’ College Chemistry Exam 1st in St Aloysius’ College Maths Ext 2 Exam 99.75 ATAR

Term 1, 2024, Year 12 Maths Classroom.Mr Chester walked into the classroom full of nervous faces, a stack of white test papers in his hands. A year ago, I was struggling in this maths class, barely passing and coming in the bottom 30% of the cohort. I had consistently come home with disappointing marks and disillusioned parents.“Wow! 91 percent! I topped the year in a Maths Ext 2 test!”

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