A while back I sat down with Ray Nufer from Nexus, the student newspaper at Camosun College, for a profile on my path from Camosun student to instructional assistant to running Heywood Academies. You can read the full article on the Nexus website here: Camosun alumnus shares love of learning through tutoring Here’s some of […]
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We’re excited to share that our founder, Matt Heywood, was featured on Work It, the University of Victoria’s career exploration podcast produced by UVic Co-op and Career Services. In the episode, “The Power of Switching Career Paths,” hosts Emma Ulveland and Katy DeCoste sat down with Matt to talk about his journey from mechanical engineering
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If you are looking for linear algebra help at UVic, the first thing worth sorting out is which course you are actually in, because MATH 110 and MATH 211 are not the same animal. Students mix them up all the time, pick the wrong one for their situation, and end up working a lot harder
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I recently sat down with Ruben Stephen, a mechanical engineering and computer science student at MIT, for an episode of his LearnWell podcast. Ruben runs his own tutoring operation on the other side of the continent, and he reached out because we’re working on similar things at different stages. What was supposed to be a
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Summer is the one time of year when there’s no test coming up, no assignments due, and no report card on the horizon. It’s also the best window to fix the things that went sideways during the school year before they become a bigger problem in September. Research shows students can lose up to a
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A lot of students assume they’re bad at physics. After a few tests that didn’t go well, it starts to feel like physics is just one of those subjects that some people get and others don’t. That’s usually not what’s going on. Most students who struggle with Physics 11 and 12 in BC are struggling
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University calculus is harder than high school calculus. Most students know that going in. What catches them off guard is how different it is, not just harder in the way that more content means more to study, but different in how it’s taught, how fast it moves, and what the tests actually expect from you.
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Chemistry is one of those courses where students can feel completely fine for the first few weeks and then suddenly hit a wall. The early material isn’t too bad. Then stoichiometry shows up, or equilibrium, and things fall apart fast. It happens to a lot of students in BC. Chemistry 11 and Chemistry 12 both
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Physics 110 and 111 are among the most failed courses at the University of Victoria. If you’re enrolled in either one, you’ve probably already heard that from other students. These are difficult courses, and a lot of first-year students underestimate them until it’s too late. At Heywood Academies, PHYS 110 and 111 are our most
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Pre-Calculus 12 trips up a lot of students in BC. The material is harder than anything you’ve seen in Grade 11, the assessments are cumulative, and for many students it’s a required course for university admission. The pressure is real. But most students who struggle with Precalculus 12 aren’t struggling because they’re bad at math.
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