“During my tutoring, I learned a lot. I learned about grammar, writing, punctuation and a lot more. I learned about adverbs and two different types of verbs and how to use them in stories. It helped my story writing because it made me use my imagination to write narratives and it also helped me on the persuasive essay. It helped me by knowing how we do the structure. I feel really glad and happy to have come to tutoring.”  

- RW

“My tutoring with Crystal has been awesome. Before I started the programme I was getting low marks at school. Since doing the tutoring, my English has improved and I am now getting high marks. I got better at my persuasive writing and narrative writing with this programme and my English skills are really good now! I did the advanced grammar programme that has helped me so much with tenses, state of being verbs and grammar. Now after nearly a year of reading, writing and learning, I feel much more confident with my grammar. My tutor Crystal is the best teacher ever! She is very pretty and awesome.”  - QA

“Dear Ms Alison

It has been a pleasure for you to teach and tutor me to my now superb English level. You are arguably one of the nicest teachers I will ever meet. Throughout my wonderful experience, my knowledge has paid off in somewhat extraordinary ways. My comprehension, vocabulary, punctuation and grammar have all significantly rocketed up north. I will never forget you, Ms Alison, and I pass on my thanks to you for tutoring me at your highest level. I also wish both Crystal and you a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.”  - JC

“In my tutoring I learned the proper meanings of the words like adverbs, verbs, adjectives and much, much more! I also learned how to get my ideas on paper easier and learned the difference between to, too and two. I learned grammar and the meanings of words I didn’t know. I learned the meanings of punctuation marks as well. I got better with my persuasive and creative writing. I’m happier now because I think my writing is good and I like to read my own stories. I like Crystal and Alison because they are nice and funny. They also like it when I come here and I like it too.”  - CF

“I now know my nouns, pronouns, adjectives, adverbs, conjunctions, verbs, state of being verbs, articles, interjections, present tense, past and future tense. Learning my grammar has helped me to write sentences better and I am no longer confused with my English. I feel better now that I learned my grammar and I thank Alison for teaching me.”  -  AM

“Hello! My name is Khalid and I have just passed the punctuation programme. Now I can write essays and stories properly using all my punctuation marks. I can use full stops, commas, apostrophes, capital letters, quotation marks, question marks, colons, semicolons and start a new person talking on a new line. I’m proud of myself and I worked really hard to achieve this. Thank you Alison for believing in me.”   - KA

“I have been coming to tutoring with Michelle and she has helped me through everything, especially spelling. My spelling has improved a lot since I first started and I have also learned the basics of English like nouns, pronouns, verbs, adverbs and adjectives, all because of Michelle. I have also learned how to write many different types of essays and stories as well as learning that words can have more than one meaning. I wouldn’t have learned all these things if it wasn’t for Michelle.”   - SD

“In my comprehension tutoring I learned a lot of things. I learned a lot of difficult words and I was glad I did it. I had to find words I didn’t know in the dictionary to understand what I am reading about. I also had to answer the comprehension questions in full sentence answers.” - CT

“Today I finished my maths tutoring. I have learned so much about maths like how to simplify and change fractions into a mixed number and an improper fraction, as well as how to change fractions into percentages. I learned how to add, minus, divide and times fractions too. When I first came here I HATED fractions but now it’s kind of my favourite maths equation. 

I also learned about place value and decimals and had to do lots of word problems for fractions, decimals and percentages. I learned about new words like ‘tournament,’ ‘interest’ and more. I would like to thank Alison and Crystal for helping me.”  - BL

“During my Maths tutoring I learned place value, arithmetic (plus, minus, multiplication and division) and how to sketch out word problems.  I also learned fractions in a fun and easy way.  I developed new skills and I am a lot more confident in solving my maths difficulties at school.  Coming to maths tutoring really boosted my confidence in class.  Thank you so much Alison for everything.”  - VD

“From having limited knowledge on fractions to fully understanding advanced algebra, this tutoring programme has significantly improved my mathematics. Although being a maths tutoring programme, this course has allowed me to further expand my knowledge on how to study efficiently. In the tutoring sessions, we covered and learned many complicated concepts such as linear functions, trigonometry and financial maths. Also, I am now in the advanced maths classes at school with straight A’s.  I’d like to thank Alison for patiently teaching and assisting me with this tutoring programme. It has really helped me with my education.”  - TN

“Before I started this course I thought it would be easy – because of the look of the actual ‘Learning How to Learn’ book – it looks like a kid’s book.  So after I started the course I was surprised to discover how difficult and challenging it was.

To be honest, I have learned a lot.  I have learned how to deal with misunderstood words and lack of mass.  This course has helped me to study and to actually know what I am studying about.

Now I know many words and the definitions of these words.  Also, I have gained so much confidence when I am studying or helping someone else to study.

I recommend this course to anyone.  I think that so many of us study, not knowing HOW to study, and we do it incorrectly.  I am now planning to continue my courses at Applied Scholastics and my next course is the ‘How to Use a Dictionary’ course.  – DB

“I am grateful to have finished the course Learning How to Learn even though it has been a struggle for me. But in the end the hard work paid off. 

To me, studying is as easy as pie now because I have learned the steps for studying and I now have this knowledge for the rest of my life. 

I insist that everyone do this programme because at first I thought this programme wasn’t going to help me, but during and after this course I noticed a change in my studies, I enjoy it! My attitude has become positive towards learning new things and learning new things is now a pleasure!

My thanks to Alison for all her help and patience, especially when I got stubborn, but Alison never gave up. God bless you!

My thanks to Pauline for taking me here almost every Saturday, even though it was out of her way. I love you. Thank you!”   - RR

“I really found the Learning How to Learn Course very helpful.  It taught me what to do when I have a skipped gradient, lack of mass and what to do when I have a misunderstood word.  I would recommend this course to anyone and everyone.  When I study and I don’t understand something, I now know to look the word up in the dictionary and write sentences with it so I am able to understand it.”   - OP

“I finally finished the ‘Basic Study Manual!’ WOW! What a course! Throughout this course I’ve had a lot of troubles and at times I wanted to burn the book into little pieces. Alison has hassled, flunked and bossed me around through this course but thanks to her I have finally finished! Once you understand the material that is in this course it is life changing. It opens your mind to concepts in life that I have never thought before. This course doesn’t only help you with your study, this course helps you with life. This course has helped me with understanding words, how to help people and most of all not to believe everything you hear, to question things, to actually analytically think properly to succeed in whatever I’m doing. This course has also expanded my vocabulary bank. I just can’t thank Alison enough for all the help she gave me through this course. It was tough but I can say that it was definitely worth it.”  -  NR

“Today I completed the ‘How to Use a Dictionary Course.’ This course has helped me so much with my dictionary skills! One of the things I loved learning was the alphabet backwards. I now know how to use a dictionary correctly when I need to look up words I don’t understand. Thank you Alison for being a great instructor!”   - AW

“Today I completed the ‘Grammar & Communication for Children Course.’ This course was fantastic. The data I have learned has been invaluable to me.

I have done many courses and I can honestly say this has been the best for me! In a perfect world this course would be in schools and every child would be getting this data. I have studied this as an adult and found that it cleared up so many misunderstandings I accumulated in school. It even taught me data I should have received in school but did not. I personally feel that in doing this course I became saner as it sorted out confusions and my duplication when studying is now so much better. I cannot wait to put my child through this course as it gives you the basics for grammar and communication. 

Thanks to Alison for many reasons. Firstly, for opening Applied Scholastics and for making this course available and many other valuable courses. Secondly, for all your help, especially at the beginning. I am very appreciative. And thirdly, for just being you!”  - MW

“Today I finished my ‘Communicating is Fun Course.’ When I started this course, I lacked the confidence to confront and communicate properly, yet even before I finished, I noticed that it had become easier to talk to people and now many people talk to me to talk about their problems. To help them, I use a combination of bullbait and Drill 4.

This course has helped me with public speaking. I had to do an oral presentation for English and even though I shook the whole way through, I applied Drill A (confront) and was able to keep a steady voice and ended up getting a good score. I recommend this course to anyone who feels like they lack confidence in communication. 

Big thanks to Steve, Alison and Jesse for getting me through this course.”  - LM

"I have just finished 'The Australian Teaching Modern Phonics Course.' It signifies the start of a new phase of my life. I have worked, raised children and now I am ready to do something that I know will ultimately help people achieve their goals in life.  The specific phonics method taught at Applied Scholastics is unique and successful and I look forward to using this method to help others.

The course itself handled a gradient I skipped as a child. Most of my knowledge of English was self-taught after I left school. Aspects of my English education that were learned by rote during my early years with little accompanying understanding were re-evaluated during the study of this course. I experienced a few intense emotions remembering my earlier schooling and I’m very happy to have these long-standing confusions finally sorted. I have to say that the English language is ridiculous. Although I’m willing to follow the rules in order to communicate my ideas, I’m not the puritan I once thought we should all be. In other words, I realise the English language is a useful tool. I have more understanding of English. Just doing the Phonics course for myself has done me a great personal service.

And on a grander scale, it is my goal to educate anyone I tutor of the importance of clearing up misunderstood words. It’s my goal to teach those that need it to read and write and to provide them with study tools they can use forever.  I know that will help them open their eyes to their own potential in life so they can pursue their goals and dreams. This is a noble goal, so I feel excited about having this knowledge to help others. I can see how this method is helping my children and I am happy for them that they will have this advantage so early in their lives.

Many thanks to Alison, the Director of Applied Scholastics Wattle Grove, for the hours spent delivering this course to me. It is a very well written, thorough course and very easy to do. Thanks to my insightful twins and thorough instructors for all their help and care.  I also want to thank my husband, Mike, because he piloted the course with Alison many years ago when she was developing it. He also baby-sat the kids while I studied, has been very patient waiting for me to finish and has encouraged me all the way.  

The results of clearing words and learning the sounds and letters of the language we speak is amazing.  I’m seeing the results as I tutor and I know this Phonics programme should be taught in schools."  - PM