Qualified Primary Teacher, English-Only Tutor with a 90% Student Success Rate for 11+ & 13+ for 45 schools. My Student Success Formula: Sharp Mindset + Subject Strategy + Exam Technique 

Ashmita (Parent)

My son was a Year 11 student studying English Language GCSE.

Before starting with Sonal, he was predicted a lower grade.

Sonal taught him for approximately 9 weeks, and in such a short period of time, he improved his results by 2 grades.

Sonal understood my son as an individual student and was able to identify his strengths as well as areas he needed improvement.

She helped him address the learning gaps and taught him how to answer questions to a high standard.

She also provided him with extra resources to support his learning.

Whatever Sonal taught my son not only helped him achieve better grades but also benefited his overall personal development.

My son became more confident in his ability to approach English questions and was able to express and develop his ideas more effectively.

Sonal encouraged him to set high standards for himself and helped him become a more confident and capable learner.

Sonal is committed, patient, supportive and genuinely invests in her students’ progress.

She sets high standards while making her lessons enjoyable and engaging.

She also maintained excellent communication with me throughout the tutoring.

After each lesson, she would email me to update me on my son’s progress and provide constructive feedback.

This made me feel very much involved in the whole learning process.

I would highly recommend Sonal as a tutor and coach because of her dedication, her individualised approach and her ability to support both the academic and personal development of her students.

Ashmita's son (Student)

Sonal in 3 words: Committed, patient and empowering I achieved a high-level grade, 2 grades above my predicted grade.

I was overjoyed!

One of the biggest improvements was in my creative writing.

Sonal taught me how to use English Language techniques such as similes, metaphors, personification and onomatopoeia.

She also taught me how to write with detailed description and imagery by using more sophisticated and wide-ranging vocabulary for verbs, adjectives and adverbs, as well as interesting sentence starters.

For comprehension, she taught me that I could only sharpen my interpretation of a text after understanding the question first.

She showed me how to skim and scan for information, retrieve relevant evidence and use quotations to support my own insightful and unique analysis.

Sonal helped me become more confident in my own abilities and encouraged me to believe that I could achieve a higher level than I initially thought possible.

She was committed and patient, but also set high standards for me and encouraged me to elevate my English.

Her lessons were fun and engaging, which made learning much more enjoyable.

Most importantly, she empowered me to improve through hard work and showed me that with the right guidance, commitment and effort, I could achieve my goals.

Finally, a wish came true through hard work from both of us!

Sonal helped my son Alex when he was in Year 6 with 11+ English

He came downstairs after doing a piece of creative writing, was very happy to show it to me and shared how he finds it much easier to do creative writing, whereas before, he was dreading it.

I was so happy to hear that! And it's all thanks to YOU Sonal! So much work and so much attention and dedication you put into lessons and it has paid off!

I cannot express how grateful I am for that.

Such a relief to see Alex feeling happy and confident about his creative writing now!

Sonal prepared my son Yash, in Year 5, for his 11+ English Exams at various private schools:

Habs (Haberdashers' Aske's Boys'), Merchant Taylors and St Albans Boys.

She's a very warm person and my son took an instant liking to her. She would not only teach the subject in hand but also bring in relevant aspects of the broader Key Stage 2 syllabus to consolidate the learning.

My son always came away learning new facts or idioms, analogies, similes.

He enjoyed these aspects of the lessons the most.

I would not hesitate to recommend Sonal and she has been an asset in my son being offered a place at all three schools mentioned above.