Did tutoring help you with school work? (1 Viewer)

[irenefu]

Has tutoring outside of school paid off?Did tutoring boost your school marks by a lot, or was the improvement only minimal? Because I know a lot of my friends who are forced to tutor, and they get mediocre marks (60-70%), yet they still go to the same tutor, whilst people who don't do tutoring get higher marks than them.

 

[petermeetswendy]

At the start of this year, I had tutoring for Japanese. It was horrible but reasonable price ($30 for an 1 1/2 hrs). The tutor just gave me the answers without telling me what sentence constructions there were and I didn't learn from anything. We did 3 questions then her talking in fluent Japanese and expecting me to translate it, and when I couldn't, she gives me this weirdest look. T.T"

In other words, it didn't help me at all, just made me totally clueless.

 

[Aerath]

Yes, tutoring did help me. But you need to put in the hard yards yourself as well. Tutoring isn't the magic silver bullet.

 

[pacman911]

It really depends on whether your doing it for yourself, or your doing it for your parents. I started standard english tutor in term 1 of year 12. In the preliminaries, I came out with an overall mark of 56%. After 1 term of tutoring, that jumped to 95% and hovered around there for the remainder of the year. In my opinion, tutoring IS the magic bullet. You just need to get a tutor who knows what he is (or she is) doing

 

[4025808]

Tutoring did help me, especially for English, but not as much in maths. Tutoring didn't help me for physics on the other hand. That being said, I put 0 effort into physics.

I recall that I was learning the 3U and 4U content on my own, even before my tutor and teacher started the content. I believe that tutoring only helped me just to get in touch with the much harder concepts and the exam technique.

I recall I got a lot of help through bored of studies instead

 

[irenefu]

Hahah oh i see.. for the people whose tutor didn't help them - did you stop going when you started to notice you weren't improving? Because I don't think I have the balls or heart to say "I don't want to tutor anymore". D:

 

[slyhunter]

Definitely helped.

 

[pacman911]

I kept going, I didnt want to stop in fear of my marks falling again <>
But in my experience that would only apply to english

 

[irenefu]

I kept going, I didnt want to stop in fear of my marks falling again <>
But in my experience that would only apply to english

lmao, what about in 4U maths?

 

[Skeptyks]

I do tutoring in a class of about four people for 4u and for the past few years (9, 10, 11), I had around 10 people in my class. I found it extremely helpful because they provided units of work that was way in front of my school and the teachers explained things very well. We would cover a multiple of things per topic once every week and the questions they chose for examples and homework were really nice, ranging from easy to challenging. I guess if you have the motive to look at the topics that are ahead of your school and have the ability to understand it from reading the text without any explanation from a person, I guess this wouldn't work out too well.
Overall, it has definitely boosted my marks as I have had time to understand the work and master it by the time our school reaches it. :]

 

[someth1ng]

I was rank 20/150 in English at a rank ~500 school and moved to a rank 30 school about the same time a term after I got a tutor - my rank became 47/150 at the rank 30 school.
Considering the massive jump in school - this made a huge difference.

On the other hand, I do Chemsitry without a tutor and it's been quite easy and I'm near the top against several people with tutors.

 

[pinkiipromise]

I didn't get a tutor, as my teacher told me not to get one.

I regreted it so badly.

 

[Aerath]

I didn't get a tutor, as my teacher told me not to get one.

I regreted it so badly.

As if you believed your teacher when he/she said this....

 

[effylove]

Helped heaps. Kept me from being lazy as well.

Went from 48% --> 83% in a term for maths

 

[irenefu]

Yes, it really helped me. I only got a Band 4 in School Certificate English. After getting a tutor, I came first in Advanced at my school.

wowww awesome. how much did you pay an hour?

 

[effylove]

I forgot to add, I'm now beating at least 1/3 of the 3U maths class in 2U

 

[irenefu]

I forgot to add, I'm now beating at least 1/3 of the 3U maths class in 2U

hahah omg congratz -gotta love that feeling

 

[eat_well]

The most a tutor can do is boost your mark up at most 20-30% than what it currently is for an inattentive student. That is for an absolutely BRILLIANT tutor.
It really all depends on the student. I know that for English it has really helped me because I worked hard and I did all that they asked from me. With that being said, finding a good English tutor is extremely difficult. Tutoring helps more for objective subjects such as maths. I often don't do the homework and that laziness shows up in my test results.

 

[goobi]

wowww awesome. how much did you pay an hour?

$40/hour

 

[lil_pembo]

my bio marks lifted at least 20% (went from 15th of the class to 4th)
my chem mark lifted about 30%