Asim Qureshi Late Again for Physics Class

Really, I'm absurd with kids playing video games.

I devoted my life, from the age of vii until 15, to video games, afterward which I gave up to focus on my exams. I've non bought a video games console since because I know it'd take over my life.

Revs, Chuckie Egg 2, Super Mario Brothers were games that my babyhood existed for.

The toll? I have a really short attention span. If a moving-picture show isn't great I'grand itching to get out half-way through. Besides, I struggle in long meetings.

Big bargain!

On the other hand, I reckon video games increased my intelligence and upped my grades. These studies don't indicate causality – Smart kids proficient at video games and Video games hateful improve grades – just my estimate is that causality exists.

When you're desperately manoeuvring your machine to squeeze past two others, your encephalon'southward CPU is in overdrive. It's intense.

In fact, there were 3 other physicists in my college at Oxford, and all 3 of them were video game junkies. Now that tin't be a coincidence.

It's of import to stop playing in the run-up to exams, but video games are great in moderation…

1. Inquire them if they're happy!
2. Ask them why they are or aren't happy. Heed.
3. Practise something about it.

Then on the drive here I asked my kids how happy they were – a mark out of 10.

Maryam gave a 7. Danyal and Sabeen gave 9s.

The kids love our cafe-hopping lifestyle. And some friends stayed over for an entire week last calendar week.

So then I had a conversation with Maryam to understand her fairly neutral score. She said her mathematics mark wasn't improving and she felt she'due south going to neglect her Further Mathematics A-levels – that was her only big issue.

So I told her that information technology's that very fearfulness that will make her work, and I'm glad she has information technology. Not having fear, or some deep motivation, is the path to failure. When I was heading for a straight neglect in my degree, the fear of failure turned it around. And it wasn't a time in my life I enjoyed.

If she wants success, it will exist on the back of struggle. Life is easy only for those who achieve piddling.

It's great that she is well outside her comfort zone – that'south where she needs to be.

Likewise, if she's not set up to take Further Mathematics next year, she can just do Mathematics. Then the pressure is now off.

Anyway, she raised her happiness-mark from 7 to an 8. No college because she'due south still got one heck of a tough challenge ahead of her…

This is where the traffic for this website comes from…

Surprisingly, Germany, where homeschool is illegal, is pretty loftier. Of form these numbers are affected past the fact I'm in Malaysia, was built-in in the UK, and the linguistic communication the blog is written in is English.

Anyway…

Nigh three years ago I convinced two friends – a married couple – to pull their two kids out of 1 of the all-time UK-curriculum schools in Asia and homeschool them.

Their kids, a boy and daughter, were 9 and 7.

The boy was average in his school year for virtually subjects including maths, according to his parents. Looking at the school'due south exam record that would mean he was heading for an A in his GCSE Maths at xvi.

Fast forward to today.

He's achieved an A* in his Maths GCSE. He's 12, and thus one of the youngest in the world to take e'er done this.

He didn't work especially difficult and his family spent much of the twelvemonth travelling enjoying their new-found freedom. Oh, and he'due south learning 4 languages, and a really confident young boy.

This is what happens after you drib out of atop school, imagine the improvement in boilerplate schools…

I am thinking of starting a school pod, city to exist decided. Information technology would school around 20 children of diverse ages with 2 total-time teaching administrators (ane of which would be an Oxford, Harvard, Cambridge, Stanford, Yale, or MIT grad), supported by many specialists teachers that come in or teach via Skype. It would be run from a super-cool residential unit.

The plan is to somewhen have 1000'south of pods around the world, making them the almost revolutionary pods since the iPod.

I am looking to talk to:

• Parents who accept a child between the age of 4 and 9 that:
  • Are willing to pay at to the lowest degree US$12k per annum per child for a vastly better education, and ideally US$20k.
  • Want the school to work around their child, rather than their child work around the school.
  • Believe it's important their children get the best grades possible.
  • Want their child to speak several languages.
  • Want their kid to specialise and achieve excellence in certain extra-curricular activities (e.one thousand. sports, music, debating), rather than have office in many and achieve excellence in none.
  • Are concerned virtually the negative influences of school, such every bit bullying and pornography. And desire their child to be influenced past graduates from the globe's pinnacle universities.
• Graduates from the world's pinnacle universities that relish didactics and want to be part of what could be the biggest revolution in education since school began.
• Anyone else that wants to get involved.

Here are the key differences between our pods vs conventional schools:

• Children in pods will outperform those in conventional schools, in term of grades, by miles (and miles). I am 100% confident.
• No terms/semesters. Pods run all year around. Children take upwards to 12 weeks off when they want, only no fourth dimension off in lead up to exam. Range of times children tin exist dropped off or collected to the pod to accommodate parents' schedule.
• Children learn at their own step. No classes. Regular tutorials.
• Potent accent on motivating the children, explaining why grades are of import, and the role of hard work.
• Focus on maths and languages until effectually 6-9. Then focus on public exams until around 13-16 (when they do 18+ exams). Then a combination of:
  • Learn a few more languages
  • Becoming astonishing at a sport
  • Starting a concern
  • Learning to code
  • Go to university early – entrance examination training for the very height universities.
• Using applied science to teach. E.g. Khan University, teaching via Skype.
• Monthly independent assessments to ensure child is progressing well.
• Academic teaching geared towards exams.
• To get best grades possible, 1 or two public exam (eastward.1000. GCSE) are taken at a time when the child is set, rather than all exams being taken at some predetermined time.
• All pods to have CCTV, with parents having full access.
• Older children make their ain lunch every day, cleaning up themselves.
• Extra-curricular activities to be taught by pinnacle professionals.
• Teaching administrators rewarded on excellent grades and children'southward achievements.
• School fees to be reduced if grades below expectations, bonuses if certain goals accomplished.

If you know anyone that might be interested, for case anyone with kids younger than ix that isn't happy with their school, please forward this to them…

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Some rather shockingly proficient news!

Both Maryam's and Danyal'southward Physics A-level results were revised from a B to an A.

Definitely no resit at present!

Just wanted to share a clip of Maryam and Danyal learning maths via Skype with a tutor we have recently hired, Janice, who we pay US$12 per hour (hired via UpWork.com).

So far I experience she'southward been brilliant and it's working out nicely.

The kids do their maths questions that I set them, if they get stuck they adapt a session with her.

Nosotros've scrapped all goals for this year, except one – Maths & Farther Maths A-levels. If you read my mail about the kids' A-level results you lot'll sympathize why.

And so I've decided that the programming, business concern, sport and language goals are scrapped. They're still going to do the sports and languages, but without goals. No programming or business organization at all until they finish their Maths A-levels.

BTW the girls accept given up badminton and are playing squash instead.

Sabeen is struggling to go along up with the maths with the other 2, so she's now doing it her own step. She may well just exercise the Maths A-level in 2018 without doing the Further Maths A-level. I want her to relish information technology, not feel under any pressure – she worked hard for the last 2 months of her IGCSE Maths and it wasn't fun.

And then Maryam and Danyal are teaching Sabeen her maths. Information technology'due south quite funny watching Danyal struggling to teach Sabeen. He once said "she never understands annihilation" in frustration. I said "Danyal, she'due south the youngest girl to have always got an A* in her GCSE. Have yous e'er idea that possibly you're non education her properly?" He didn't take an reply to that!

One last thing, I've hired a tutor in the Philippines to help Maryam and Danyal with maths. Basically, I'm too busy with my business to aid them. The tutor charges U.s.a.$12 an hour, and whenever the kids are stuck on a question, they prepare up a Skype session with her. And if they're stuck with whatsoever topic they can adjust one-to-ane sessions. And then it's pay-as-they-need. This seems to be working out very well, but early days equally they've only had one session.

Sabeen, who's still eight, got the A*!!! That puts her in the tiptop 6% of UK 16 year olds for maths.

She is probably the youngest daughter in the history of the GCSE to get an A*. At that place have been two of boys that have done information technology when they were 7. And there could be a couple of kids that haven't publicised their results.

And very honestly, it really wasn't very difficult work.

Anyway, a smashing issue, and we're all charmed!

The A-level results are out!

Maryam got an A in Biology and B in Physics. Danyal, a B in Physics.

[EDIT: The physics results were after revised]

Maryam had a nightmare biological science newspaper, and so she's charmed with that.

Both were initially disappointed with their physics, every bit was I, in part because they were both 1% from an A. Having let the results sink in, I've realised disappointment is totally nuts. B'southward in Physics A-levels, anile 10 and 12, are incredible achievements (and they did them in 5 months flat of self-study).

Their results are possibly globe-records for science A-levels (excluding maths), and if they're not, they tin can't be besides far off.

There are two lessons learned…

1. A-level Physics and Biological science are tough subjects for young kids. Scientific discipline A-level questions can be circuitous and many of them are only too difficult for young kids to understand and then explicate even when they understand the concepts. And common sense and experience both help, both of which come with age.
2. Perhaps, and I'm non sure of this, I should accept been more than involved with the physics. While I will continue to allow them cocky-teach their Maths and Further Maths A-level, I'm going to add together a weekly tutorial on the weekends to become over the material they've covered.

If the kids want to get to university they'll probably redo their Physics A-levels at some point, just if they're going to go into concern, which is their most likely path, I don't come across the point in wasting time and attempt…

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