Nancy Punia Physics Tutor

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09/17/2026

Two unit tests. MCQ and FRQ on both. He's a sophomore, and he reads the numbers out the way you'd read a receipt, no pause, no big deal.

But the scores aren't why I'm posting this.

Watch his dad at the end: "He's doing better, feeling confident. That's what we wanted."

That's it. That's the whole ask. No parent has ever called me and said: "I need a 5 in May." They call me because dinner has gotten quiet, because their kid says, "I'm just not a physics person," because the homework takes three hours and produces a 62.

Confidence in this subject isn't a personality trait. It's a byproduct. You get it by walking into class having already seen the material, already having gotten it wrong somewhere safe, and already having fixed it.

He's not confident because he's gifted. He's confident because by the time his school got to kinematics, he'd already been tested on it.

And when his dad thanked me, I meant it: I did my part. He did the hard work.

👉 Comment 100, and I'll send you the details of what I start every student on.



A mom thanked us this week. The line she chose wasn't the one I expected.Not "his grade went up." Not "he finally gets f...
09/10/2026

A mom thanked us this week. The line she chose wasn't the one I expected.

Not "his grade went up." Not "he finally gets forces."

She wrote: "The way you teach with so much patience and attention to detail is incredible."

And then she mentioned something that isn't teaching at all. During a mock test, her son didn't have a calculator. My partner, Prabhjot, got on the phone and got one for him before the clock ran out.

That's the part I want to talk about.

Any tutor can look good on a good day. A kid shows up rested, the topic is kinematics, the problems are clean, everyone leaves happy. That tells you almost nothing.

What tells you something is what happens in the twenty minutes when it goes wrong. The mock test is starting, and the calculator is missing. The kid got a 74 and won't say why. It's 9pm on a Tuesday, and Unit 4 starts tomorrow.

Those twenty minutes are the whole product. Everything else is a formula sheet your child could have found online.

So before you hire anyone this year: me or not, ask four questions:

1. Who answers when something goes wrong at 8pm the night before a test? A person, or a portal?

2. What do you send me, unprompted, when you spot a problem, and do I hear it before the report card does?

3. Can you tell the difference between my child not understanding physics and my child not understanding the question? Those need opposite fixes.

4. What happens in week 6 if this isn't working?

If a tutor can't answer those in plain language, the patience isn't there. It's just availability.

I keep a small number of families on purpose, because the answer to question one is my actual phone.

I have a few 20-minute calls open this week. No charge, no pitch. Bring one graded test or one assignment.

I'll tell you whether you're looking at a foundation gap, a test-taking problem, or a kid who is genuinely fine and doesn't need me, and I'll say the third one out loud if it's true.

Comment "100" or DM me "CALL," and I'll DM you the booking link.

09/08/2026

First physics quiz of the year: 100.

Not because they’re “math people.” Because they didn’t start on day one, they started six weeks before day one.

Listen to the end: “It seems pretty easy. Some other people are struggling, but it’s good so far.”

Same teacher. Same textbook. Same quiz. The only difference is who was already warm when the year started.

Physics compounds : forces feed energy, energy feeds momentum. A student who’s behind in September doesn’t feel it in September. They feel it in January, as “I don’t know where to start.”

These two are never going to feel that.

Comment 100 and I’ll send you the booking link to book your Child’s physics success session with me. 👇

09/08/2026

Two weeks into the school year, their first physics quiz came back a 100.

Not because they're "math people." Because they didn't start on day one, they started six weeks before day one.

Listen to what she says at the end: "It seems pretty easy. Some other people are struggling, but it's good so far."

That's the whole thing. Same teacher, same textbook, same quiz. The only difference is who was already warm when the year started.

Physics compounds. Forces feed energy, energy feeds momentum. A student who is behind in September doesn't feel it in September; they feel it in January, when they think, "I don't know where to start."

👉 Comment "100", and I'll send you the details to book a Physics success call for your child with me.

09/02/2026

First kinematics quiz done. He hasn't even seen the score yet, and he's calm about it.

That calm is the whole point.

The messages I get in October sound nothing like this. They sound like "he says he understands it, but the tests keep coming back in the 70s."

The difference usually isn't intelligence. It's when the work started. Kinematics looks like the easy unit, so families wait, and then forces show up in week 5 using every habit the student never built.

Comment PHYSICS 1 and I'll send you my free first-6-weeks checklist for AP Physics parents.

08/30/2026

Most schools run quiz 1 in the next two weeks. Let us bring the same result to your kid’s first quiz or test.
7 slots this week. 20 minutes. No charge.
Comment “100” and I will send you the booking link.

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A 100 on Test 1 is not luck.It is six weeks of work nobody saw.Most schools run Test 1 in the next three weeks. Let us b...
08/25/2026

A 100 on Test 1 is not luck.
It is six weeks of work nobody saw.

Most schools run Test 1 in the next three weeks. Let us bring the same result to your kid's first test.

12 slots this week. 20 minutes. No charge.
Comment "100" and I will send you the booking link.

08/24/2026

Testimony Sunday 🤗🤗🤗

She got every question right. Then I asked her what acceleration means.Silence.Not "um, let me think" silence. Point-bla...
08/24/2026

She got every question right. Then I asked her what acceleration means.

Silence.

Not "um, let me think" silence. Point-blank. She had just solved three motion problems correctly and could not tell me, in her own words, what the thing she solved for was.

That is not a bad student. That is a very good pattern-matcher.

Here is the strategy from the inside: read the problem, spot the variables, scan the formula sheet for the equation with those variables, plug in, solve. It works. It works on homework, it works on practice sets, and it works right up until someone asks her to explain.

Homework is built to hide this. Ten problems from one unit, notes open, no clock. She never has to decide what kind of problem it is, because the worksheet already told her.

The test makes her decide. Mixed units, closed notes, 50 minutes.

Then the AP exam does it again, harder. Half that exam is free response, and one of the four question types is qualitative/quantitative translation: explain in words why the math does what it does. You cannot pattern-match "justify your reasoning."

So we stopped. Definitions before problems.

An explanation means you are fine. A recital, or silence, means you found it in August. That is the good version of this.

I have 12 slots this week to talk to families. 20 minutes, no charge, no pitch. Bring me one graded assignment or one test, and I will tell you which of three things you are looking at: a pattern-matching habit, a real foundation gap, or a kid who is genuinely fine and does not need me.

Comment "Pattern" or DM me, and I will send you the link to the book.

08/10/2026

Help them to learn not to memorize it. Comment “AP Physics” and I will share few tips of studying this subject.

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