Helping students achieve their best grades
I am an experienced maths and physics tutor and qualified teacher offering face-to-face and online tuition.
International Baccalaureate
GCSE/IGCSE
A-level
Entrance examinations
11+ and 13+ in mathematics and physics
Before becoming a full-time private tutor in 2013, I gained a PhD in Physics from Warwick University, and worked in experimental physics research at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory’s neutron source near Oxford (1990 – 1995).
I then went to Zimbabwe in 1996 as part of Voluntary Service Overseas, where I taught maths and physics. This journey led to me qualifying as a science teacher in 2000. Having caught the travel bug, I combined this with my teaching and have taught at various international schools in the Middle East, Africa and Europe.
Along the way, I’ve been exposed to many different cultures, economic backgrounds and personalities. I believe this enables me to adapt my teaching style to individual students, with impressive results.
On a more personal note, I’ve sponsored a student through high school and university in Swaziland. I’m very proud to say that he graduated in 2019 with a BA in Accounting & Commerce.
I’m also a keen long-distance runner, and have completed 35 marathons and ultra-marathons in the UK and overseas.
Online tuition is becoming the only realistic option for tutoring these days – and it can be as good as face-to-face tuition.
But how does online tuition work? I use a reliable video conferencing tool called Zoom and write on the shared screen with a digital pen. All notes are recorded, organised and retrieved using Microsoft OneNote, included in all Windows systems and available for Macs too. The student can also interact on the screen using a digital pen.
Watch me explain more in this video clip from 2019.
Hello, my name is Alan Evans. I’m a maths and physics tutor based in Tbilisi, Georgia. I tutor all levels of maths and physics including GCSE, IGCSE, A-level and the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme. I’m a qualified teacher and I’ve been tutoring online since 2013. I qualified in 2000 but prior to that I started teaching for Voluntary Service Overseas, which is a charity. My first teaching job was in Zimbabwe in 1996. Shortly after that, I came back to the UK, qualified as a teacher and I was teaching in a variety of international schools in the UK and overseas in Africa and Europe.
“Alan’s extensive knowledge of mathematics was the most significant and useful attribute for overcoming difficult questions. This helped with questions which required a different line of thinking to the conventional and easier questions. Alan was very flexible with times we could do the lesson at.”
Anders got a 9 in both Math and Physics so thank you so much for your help during the past few years. Thank you once again for your help!
“Alan has been a very helpful tool for Pedro to progress in his studies throughout his IB course. He helps him to consolidate knowledge by going through the necessary theory and practising with a series of past paper questions. Overall, Pedro is very satisfied with the tutoring and with Alan’s help he is on track …
Congratulations by the way, as my son got a 7 in GCSE maths, and did quite well in all his subjects, getting a 9 and 8 in Sciences, 7s in computer, geography and 6s in English and German. All in all he is very pleased.
“Alan has tutored my son for an IB Maths standard level Internal Assessment. He has taught him so much in a short time and has made a tremendous difference to his confidence. We are grateful to him and would recommend him without hesitation.”
“Alan is very knowledgeable in his subject which was Higher Level IB Maths and my son found his knowledge to have great depth. He was excellent at conveying and explaining the Maths and we were very happy with his assistance.”
‘My son had wanted to study Maths at university and preferably at Kings College London since he was in year 7. Having found out that they required Further Maths AS level at A grade which his school did not teach, as well as an A* in Maths A level and a 3 in the Cambridge …
Hi Alan, Just to let you know Lewis’s A level results. He’s achieved amazing results. B in maths, which is thanks to your tuition (he was predicted a D!), B in Biology and a C in Physics. He has got his first choice – Mechanical Engineering with Robotics! Thank you very much for all your …
Hi Alan! T got 3 A*s and got confirmation from Edinburgh of her place! She has her marks for maths (254/300). Thank you so much again for your help! We couldn’t have done it without you.
Look around you. That ripple when you lift your coffee cup, the sunlight streaming in through the window, the annoying noise your neighbour makes when he revs his car in the morning. All these are examples of the phenomenon of waves. The mathematics of waves is modelled by the trigonometric functions, the sine and the …
This problem is from the 2015 Senior Mathematical Challenge published by the UKMT.
I’ve recently been tutoring a student who is taking this examination. It is very interesting and requires true problem-solving skills, something that A-level examinations have not been very good at. The format is of ten multiple choice questions and four longer questions. It covers the entire A-level syllabus but requires a great deal of intelligence …
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