Dreaming Spires Revision

If you're taking the CIE exam in the autumn, or you are expecting a full timetable in term time, then you might want to be one of fifteen students who takes my live, online crammer starting the 22nd of August. Live and Online iGCSE Revision with Dreaming Spires For eight straight days (22nd-31st, not counting weekends), we will meet for one hour from 7 pm UK time, when I will go through a set of past papers, question by question. I'll tell you how an examiner views answers, and the best way to save time while honing down to the nub of question in the most efficient manner. The format will be just like my revision guide, but with new examples, and of course, you will have my direct input into your child's work. At the end of the eight days, I will mark a mock exam for you. Click on the registration tab to reserve your place today.

I can't believe I've agreed to examine for CIE again this autumn, but here I am, slogging away at A1, A2, A3 ... √√√√ ... exp ... dev ... all this little weird symbols that examiners put into the margins of scripts to indicate good practice. The reason for doing this has nothing to do with money (examiners get paid pittance per script for the time it takes), but because I want to make sure that my advice to candidates on my crammer course is solid, up-to-date, and best of all, inside knowledge. Dreaming Spires Revision offers inside knowledge to home-educated students for the 0500 exam If you want the best supplier of tips and tricks for your money, then you will want to sign up with me at Dreaming Spires Revision right now: I take only 15 students per course, and I'm nearly full before it's even December. The tuition fee of £75 for 9 sessions includes marking a mock exam -- most tutors charge upwards of £25 per paper for this service, if they agree to do it ...

Dreaming Spires Revision topped out at twenty student this year! Dreaming Spires hit the maximum this year! Dr Patrick taught the twenty iGCSE students from her home-town of Texas over the fortnight of Easter holidays, using the break from her other tutorial classes to visit her ailing father at the same time. However, the internet allows people to attend from all over -- Austria was on the list, too! Except for the threat of a thunderstorm and a powercut, the ten daily lessons went without a hitch. Dr Patrick even worked out how to record each class and load it onto the unlisted YouTube channel. (It helped that the house where she was staying had super-fast broadband.) Some of the famous sayings from the course were "Rolling on the Bed Laughing", "That's just the say it is," and "I know! That's bonkers!!!". ROTBL Now all the students have taken their mock exams and Dr P has returned them. Some really great work, including two per...

If you want to prepare your child for the CIE iGCSE English Language (First Language) exams -- known as the 0500 syllabus -- then what better way than to sign up for an online two-week crammer course over the Easter holidays with an experienced CIE examiner? For the third year, I'm offering my ten-hour crammer course where we meet online daily for an hour's live webinar, plus you get email contact, short homework assignments, and a marked mock exam -- all in good time for the early May exam dates. Best of all, I have frozen the course fee at £75 for 2015, and siblings get a 50% discount. Referrals get a 10% discount. Space is limited to fifteen students, eight places of which are already booked up -- so don't delay in contacting me and reserving a place for your child. Details of Easter 2015 Crammer Course for CIE iGCSE in English Language: Dates: 30 March - 10 April, daily Time: 3-4 pm BST Cost: £75 Dr Kat Patrick has a PhD and PGCE in English, examines fo...

In the past, Dreaming Spires Revision has been run as a crammer course just before the exam season -- a 10-day, one-hour-a-day intensive blast of all the tips and tricks that I, as an experienced examiner, can throw at a student. The success rate of As and A*s for Dreaming Spires students have been more than 90%, so I'm convinced that the formula and format work. However, due to popular demand, Dreaming Spires Revision will be offered as a one-hour weekly online course instead of a crammer course starting from this September. All the same tips and tricks, but at a more leisurely pace! The day and time is to be determined, but likely to be Friday or Wednesday morning. Classes need a minimum of 5, but not more than 15, and enrollment works on a first come-first served basis. Cost is £75 per person, with a 50% discount for siblings. Referrals also receive discounts. Please contact me at dreamingspiresrevision@gmail.com ASAP to reserve your space. Important!  Dreaming Spir...

This is my first foray into running Dreaming Spires as a short course -- that is, over a 2-day tutorial rather than the usual 10 days. My clever attempt to show Dreaming Spires as a "short" course Needs must when students are otherwise booked up and unable to fit the usual schedule, and that, of course, is the beauty of dealing with an individual tutor rather than an institution that's not flexible. If you were hoping to sign up for an iGCSE tutorial but just couldn't fit it in, then why not either jump on tomorrow's two-day version, or talk to me about setting up the short version for yourself and some friends?