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No, though what is achievable narrows from here. November to May gives roughly six working months once holidays and mocks are removed, which is enough to repair exam technique, rebuild two or three weak topics properly and improve internal assessment work that has not yet been submitted. What it does not allow is a full reconstruction of Grade 11 content alongside Grade 12 teaching. A tutor should tell you which of those you are facing after reading a marked paper, and should decline to promise a grade either way.

It should get shorter and more frequent rather than longer. During mocks a student has limited capacity, so forty-five focused minutes on the paper sat yesterday is worth more than a two-hour session covering new ground. Useful work in that fortnight is almost entirely reactive: go through what went wrong this morning while it is still fresh, then practise that specific question type. New content in mock weeks tends to be wasted. Afterwards, the marked mock papers become the most valuable planning document of the whole year.

That depends on the family and the tutor, and both should agree it in advance rather than assume. Winter break is genuinely useful for Diploma students because the internal assessment drafting period sits right beside it and there is uninterrupted time to write. Longer summer breaks are better used lightly, with a weekly session to hold the habit rather than a full schedule. Younger students usually benefit from a real rest. Tutors often travel during holidays themselves, so confirm availability before planning around it.

Yes, and short focused engagements of this kind are common. A tutor can help tighten a research question that is too broad, sort out the structure, check that the data or evidence supports the argument being made, and read a draft critically before the school supervisor sees it. What they will not do is write sections, supply the analysis, or work against the supervisor's instructions. Three weeks is workable. Three days is mostly damage limitation, and the tutor should say so plainly.

Less so than in October, and it is better to plan for that than to be surprised by it. Morning fog on the northern corridors makes long evening drives slow and occasionally unsafe, so tutors travelling from the older parts of the city cancel more often in December and January. Somebody already teaching inside the same township is far more reliable in those weeks. Many families in this sector keep a home slot for the milder months and switch to online for the winter, which removes the problem entirely.

Monthly during the Diploma and roughly termly for younger students. The natural review points are the ones the school already provides: the first reports, the end of an internal assessment cycle, the mock results and the start of the revision period. At each of those, ask whether the frequency, the mode and the person still suit the months ahead. Plans that were sensible in September are often wrong by February, not because anything failed but because the demands changed underneath them.

Yes, and many families do exactly that. A Grade 11 student who has finished the year's examinations often takes a genuine break and resumes in late July or August, which is a reasonable rhythm. Do tell the tutor your intention early rather than at the last session, since they plan their own schedules around returning students and may not hold a slot indefinitely. If you expect to return to the same person, agree roughly when. Restarting with a familiar tutor saves several weeks of re-diagnosis.

Anything cumulative, which mostly means the mathematics courses and the sciences. Math AA HL in particular punishes delay, because Grade 12 content assumes fluency that a struggling student never built. Chemistry is worth starting before organic mechanisms arrive rather than after. Subjects that reward long practice rather than content coverage, such as Economics evaluation or English A analysis, also benefit from an early start because the skill accumulates slowly. Subjects that are largely content recall can be addressed later without the same penalty.