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Dr. Mahnoor Ashraf
Tuitional Certified Tutor · Biology & Chemistry Specialist — MBBS, Professor of Physiology
13+ years experience • Flexible scheduling
GCSEIGCSEA-LevelIB DiplomaBiologyChemistry
About the tutor
Dr. Mahnoor Ashraf is an MBBS-qualified doctor who currently teaches as a Professor of Physiology at college level, alongside 13+ years of combined clinical and teaching experience. She has logged over 25,000 hours and led more than 30 student batches.
She teaches Biology and Chemistry across five exam boards. The clinical background means she can explain what a process does and why it matters, which is the difference between reliable recall and rote learning. Teaching senior school students alongside her college post keeps her close to both ends of the syllabus, and she carries a doctor's habit of precision into every lesson: exact terminology, exact reasoning, nothing left vague.
Subjects & levels taught
Biology
Level Exam boards Syllabus code GCSE AQA, Edexcel, OCR 8461, 1BI0, J247 IGCSE CAIE, Edexcel 0610, 4BI1 A-Level Edexcel, AQA, OCR 9BI0, 7402, H420 IB Diploma IB SL / HL Chemistry
Level Exam boards Syllabus code GCSE AQA, Edexcel, OCR 8462, 1CH0, J248 IGCSE CAIE, Edexcel 0620, 4CH1 A-Level Edexcel, AQA, OCR 9CH0, 7405, H432 IB Diploma IB SL / HL
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Education
Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS), a fully qualified medical degree, and currently an active Professor of Physiology at collegiate level with ongoing clinical and academic teaching.
Teaching style
Dr. Mahnoor teaches for conceptual clarity first, then trains the specific mechanics of scoring in the exam.
Understanding before technique
Students learn what a process does and why before any exam method is layered on, so recall under pressure holds.
Command-word precision
Describe, explain, suggest and evaluate each demand something different, and answers are structured to match.
Clinical examples as application
Real medical examples build the applied-knowledge marks that separate an A* answer from textbook repetition.
Diagram and data handling
Every required diagram, graph interpretation and calculation across both syllabuses is drilled until exam-ready.
Past papers marked live
Structured sessions with live marking against official mark schemes show exactly where marks are gained and lost.
Extended-response scaffolding
A step-by-step structure for six-mark and essay questions produces logically sequenced, evaluative answers.
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