What actually changed

Not a wall of percentages. Three journeys, described by the families who lived them, and the evidence on why good tuition moves a grade at all.

At a glance

AS Maths: Three grades up in three months
GCSE maths: From a D to an A in twelve months
School maths set: Up two sets, then an A at GCSE
Source: Quoted from the families’ own words

Muhammad Ali taught each student at Mathematics and Science Tuition.

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Families who wrote about the teaching in their own words

2010

Teaching in Islington since, and online worldwide

National press: the Guardian, the i, the Daily Express

Three students, and where they moved to

Each family measured something different — a grade, a set, a run of mock papers — so each is drawn on its own scale rather than flattened into one average.

A Level · maths

Three grades, in three months

Grades moved between the AS mock and the public exam

“In just 3 months Muhammad helped Lois increase her AS Maths mock marks by 3 grades in the public exam.”

— Lois’s family

GCSE · maths

From a D to an A in a year

GCSE maths grade, twelve months apart

“Muhammad helped to move Cameron’s performance in maths from a D grade last summer to an A grade in his examination 12 months later.”

— Cameron’s family

School · maths sets

Up two sets, then an A

Maths set at school, a few months apart

“A few months after he started to see Muhammad, my son moved up two sets in maths at school, from the 4th to the 2nd set. Ultimately he received an A grade at GCSE.”

— His mother

Why tuition moves a grade at all

The Education Endowment Foundation ranks classroom interventions by the extra months of progress they buy an average pupil in a year. Tuition sits near the top — and the two forms below are the two MST teaches.

What MST teaches Other approaches, for context

Source: Education Endowment Foundation, Teaching and Learning Toolkit — months of additional progress for an average pupil over one year. Figures as published in the Toolkit, checked October 2026.

One to one tuition buys about five months of extra progress a year — roughly half an academic year, bought back. Group tuition, which is what the pay-what-you-can classes are, is not far behind.

The reason is unglamorous. In a class of thirty, a misunderstanding can sit undetected for weeks. One to one, it surfaces in the first ten minutes, and the next hour is spent on the thing that was actually wrong rather than on the syllabus in general.

It is also why Muhammad teaches every lesson himself. The effect in that chart is an effect of attention, and attention does not survive being scaled.

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