As a past year 12 student who was looking to go to university with a strong English score, ATAR STAR and the team helped me achieve this.
Walking into English language classes in year 12, with average and below average scores did have me quite worried. With the help of my tutor I was able to break down concepts to help remember specific metalanguage and techniques that my school did not provide. This meant I was gaining excess knowledge, sophisticated and clear answers to earn full marks in my responses and provide the best writing I could to my school teachers and assessors during exams. I felt confident and prepared going into each SAC and English language exam. It made me feel excited walking into class feeling confident in what I had learnt from ATAR star. Thank you Luca and your amazing team.
A big YES to all students looking for personal, honest and supportive tutoring!! No regrets!
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Throughout my daughter’s years of high school English was always her weakest subject. As determined as she was, each and every year she’d start with the drive to succeed only to end up realising her efforts were not paying off; so, before year 12, she had asked/stated she needed a tutor.
Not having a post VCE career path already decided as most students already do added to her worry to succeed as she felt she had no end goal to aim for. So it all relied on each subject’s study score, results scaled up and results scaled down and so the jargon goes, giving her the ATAR that would in turn likely decide her fate for her. As a parent I just wanted her to try her best and somehow enjoy the process but to do that I needed to give her access to more tools and resources to utilise. I wanted her to be able to say at the end of the year she truly tried her best and found enjoyment feeling empowered with knowledge and repeated practice to walk into her exam head held high no matter the outcome.
Luca ensured his tutoring aligned with the specific and new 2024 study design for English Language within the VCE curriculum and assessment requirements. It was a fresh and stressful start for VCE English Language in 2024 as it seems schools and everyone was scrambling to understand this new course. Luca was all over it and had been working on materials for the new course since 2022.
ATAR STAR exceeded both our expectations. This was more than just knowledge and critiques, it was about developing a trust in your tutor with such open communication that in the end she developed a real friendship and felt so supported throughout the entire process.
I have nothing but absolute praise and admiration for Luca and his team at ATAR STAR for taking my glass half empty daughter who thought she’d be lucky to even achieve a study score of 25 or above and be given the opportunity to attend university to not even thinking about that number as she focused on each week’s tasks to build on her skill set.
The belief that Luca had in my daughter was evident in our first communications and he made not just my daughter but also myself feel excited about the challenge ahead with the feeling of success within reach. In all her years of education never has she had a teacher mentor her the way Luca did to bring out in her the confidence to believe in the work she’s able to produce.
I am a big believer that the process is worth more than the outcome because that is where you learn about yourself and discover your strengths and abilities to learn, perform and succeed and then apply these skills in real life settings.
On the day that results were released Luca was the first call she received to see how she went, how she FELT and to say how proud and happy he was for her in that moment…. What more can I say 💕
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As a teacher myself, I approached ATAR STAR TUITION with particularly high standards, and they’ve exceeded every single one of them. What immediately struck me was their holistic approach to education – they understand that academic success isn’t just about memorising facts or cramming for tests.
One thing that particularly impressed us is their ability to not just teach students what to learn, but how to learn. The progress tracking they use is sophisticated but accessibility, providing detailed insights into where children are improving, while also celebrating small victories upon the way.
After a year with ATAR STAR TUITION, both my children have developed not just stronger academic skills, but better study habits, improved time management, and most importantly a genuine love for learning.
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ATAR STAR TUITION has been exactly what our son needed to boost his confidence in maths.The tutors are patient, knowledgeable, and always prepared. In just two months, we’ve seen a remarkable improvement in his grades and attitude toward learning. Highly recommended!
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Great experience with ATAR STAR! Their Maths program is structured perfectly – focused practice, strategic tips and regular mock exams all have helped my daughter improve her marks by over 30%! The tutors are encouraging and professional. Worth the investment!
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Switched to ATAR STAR after disappointing experiences elsewhere, and what a difference! Their personalised approach and regular progress updates keep us informed and on track. My daughter’s English grades have improved significantly, and she actually enjoys her sessions!!
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Dive into the changing nature of health and wellbeing, and the various health status and burden of disease indicators used to measure health in Australia. You’ll learn about the benefits of optimal health and wellbeing and appreciate its importance as a resource individually, nationally and globally. Then you’ll consider how health status differs between groups and consider how risky health behaviours such as smoking and nutritional imbalance contribute to health status. Unit 3 will close with consideration of the ways in which we promote health in Australia, with close reference to the Ottawa Charter and Social Model of health. You’ll discover how the biomedical model is responsible for diagnosis, treatment and cure of disease and analyse reasons why the biomedical model is only one of several approaches required to achieve optimal health and wellbeing.
Throughout Unit 4, you’ll learn to analyse the similarities and differences in health status and human development globally and analyse the factors that contribute to these differences. You’ll consider the concept of human development and recognise that access to a decent standard of living is essential for Sustainable Development Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing to be achieved. You’ll come to appreciate the work of the World Health Organisation and consider how global trends like tourism and mass migration impact global health and wellbeing.
A comprehensive 2 hour, 100 mark exam covering all key concepts from both units.
We make complex biology accessible and engaging. Instead of just memorising facts, we help you understand the big picture and how everything connects. We focus on building your key skills and ability to respond to higher-order thinking questions. Health has become very conceptual – our job is to help you master extended responses (6, 8 and 10 markers), recognising that structure is just as important as content for you to demonstrate your understanding.
Every student approaches HHD differently. Some love Unit 3’s Australian focus, others enjoy the big picture view offered by Unit 4. Regardless, we dispel the myth that HHD is easy by giving you scope to work on the stuff that everyone trips up on, and we support you every step of the way. HHD is one of those subjects where given the right practice, and enough work, you can reliably work your way through to brilliance.
VCE Health and Human Development is designed to build your health literacy. Health literacy relates to the extent to which you can access, critique, understand and use health information and services in ways that promote and maintain your health and wellbeing. You’ll develop your ability to navigate and analyse health information, to critically recognise and appreciate the role of health promotion, and to evaluate healthcare initiatives and interventions for their strengths and weaknesses. Whether you’re heading into health sciences, nursing, medicine, or any other field, you’ll benefit from your ability to analyse data, and understand how the healthcare system works and sometimes, just doesn’t.
We know that HHD isn’t easy. It’s not meant to be, and, put simply, it’s just not. We break HHD into digestible chunks, help you get over the huge memorisation overload required to do well in this subject, and then help you leverage your knowledge to write sophisticated, nuanced and coherent extended analysis responses that actually make the difference between you and the next student. We help you see how content from Units 3 and 4 connect, and expose you to different ways in which cross-Unit questions might make their way onto your exams.
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