About me

Although it’s not a compelling reason for you to come to me for tuition, I’ve done the GMAT and scored 780. The GMAT happens to be something I can do well; more important to me is that I’m a qualified teacher with years of experience helping those who find words and numbers challenging.

I am available for tuition at your convenience. I’m more or less a full-time GMAT tutor; I also design GMAT resources and offer some free and reduced-rate tuition to secondary school students.

My ideals are to help you ~
1. Acquire the tools to prepare efficiently and effectively for the GMAT, and
2. Explore a range of strategies so that you can decide on the approaches that suit you, while remaining reasonably flexible

My Qualifications

• Experienced private tutor: GMAT, English, Maths, French, Latin
• Qualified secondary school teacher / fully DBS (formerly CRB) checked
• First Class degree from Oxford University
• English and Maths A level Grade A
• Excellent references

I taught both English and Maths in a north London secondary school, and as a Special Needs teacher I often had to explain the fundamentals of literacy and numeracy to those to whom they do not come easily. The Quantitative and Verbal Reasoning sections can appear intimidating, but if you are properly prepared you need have no fear.

No one expects you to get full marks. Over the course of four hours you are bound to make mistakes. But with the right approaches and strategies you can be confident of having a good go at every single question and getting most of them right.

I was Chair of Governors of Tyssen Community Primary School in Hackney for 4 years. If you’re interested in education and would like to make a positive contribution to your community, I would highly recommend that you consider becoming a school governor.

My favourite testimonials

“Thanks so much for your thoughtful note. I found your advice, particularly about focusing purely on the OG  and trying to articulate my answers in slide-form to be right on the money. With only a couple of weeks’ studying I turned my 62^nd percentile Quant score to an 81^st percentile and 730 score overall.

Thanks again for being such a stand-up guy – if any of my personal or professional colleagues are taking this awful exam in the future I’ll be sending them your way” ~ Farhaz

“With Chuck’s help in a couple of months I managed to increase my Quant score from 8% to 28% and this was instrumental in me achieving the score I needed for a very generous financial scholarship so my investment in tuition certainly paid off (by a factor of ten). Chuck was a patient tutor and although I will never be Einstein, Quant no longer scares or bores me!” ~ Hugh

“I want to congratulate you on your chapters!! 🙂 I have been through the theory for number properties and statistics, which I have found very straightforward due to the fact that you have made them so intelligible! Very good job!!” ~ Gemma

“You’re so much better than the other tutor [who charged £80/hour]… but he wasn’t a teacher” ~ Louisa, up from 490 to 530 after two sessions

“And the award for best GMAT tutor goes to. . .
Legend, thanks.
As a total aside, if you ever need a reference from me – as people do need from people from time to time – never hesitate to ask.” ~ Owen

“I got a 680!! which is a 140-point increase from my last score. It automatically satisfies the requirement for LBS. Thanks again for all of your help.” ~ Jim

“Thank you so, so much for your help. I really enjoyed our tutoring sessions and it helped me a huge amount” ~ Julie, who improved from 660 to 720 with five sessions

“I really appreciate both your teaching and your wisdom” ~ Jannine, who improved from 600 to 650 after a free trial and 3 sessions and was accepted at Harvard

And the rest… (I’m not very good at updating this bit)