Matrix Education or Dr Balan.... Chemistry tuition? (1 Viewer)

[wiliaamnguuyen]

Could anyone who went to these tuitions tell me what it is like? And how their teacher was qualified?
I heard Dr Balan from Homebush teaches Chemistry, pretty good but I don't have his contact information. If anyone has it, could you please leave a reply with it! Ty

Also, do Matrix Education give you a booklet for the rest of the term to work on? Or? What resources do they give you on the first week for CHEMISTRY?

I'm trying to see which tutor provides the best resource, so anyone could recommend a Chem tutor for that!

William,

 

[faisalabdul16]

Could anyone who went to these tuitions tell me what it is like? And how their teacher was qualified?
I heard Dr Balan from Homebush teaches Chemistry, pretty good but I don't have his contact information. If anyone has it, could you please leave a reply with it! Ty

Also, do Matrix Education give you a booklet for the rest of the term to work on? Or? What resources do they give you on the first week for CHEMISTRY?

I'm trying to see which tutor provides the best resource, so anyone could recommend a Chem tutor for that!

William,

Balan is a great teacher! He knows his stuff and can teach in a unique and comprehensive manner. If you do attend his tuition, you will learn the chemistry course in depth and properly. He also provides adequate resources along with past papers. The only issue with Balan is that his classes consist of a large number of students. You can ask him questions, however you will get little student to teacher time. I don't think he owns a phone lol, he teaches on sundays at homebush boys from like 12-6 (he has multiple classes)

With Matrix, you probably know everything about it and their success stories blah blah. I can't say much about Matrix as i haven't been tutored there, however in regards to resources, I am aware that you receive two separate books (textbook thickness). One is for theory and the other for homework.

 

[Futuremedstudent]

Balan is a great teacher! He knows his stuff and can teach in a unique and comprehensive manner. If you do attend his tuition, you will learn the chemistry course in depth and properly. He also provides adequate resources along with past papers. The only issue with Balan is that his classes consist of a large number of students. You can ask him questions, however you will get little student to teacher time. I don't think he owns a phone lol, he teaches on sundays at homebush boys from like 12-6 (he has multiple classes)

With Matrix, you probably know everything about it and their success stories blah blah. I can't say much about Matrix as i haven't been tutored there, however in regards to resources, I am aware that you receive two separate books (textbook thickness). One is for theory and the other for homework.

i can confirm that this is true

 

[Carrotsticks]

Could anyone who went to these tuitions tell me what it is like? And how their teacher was qualified?
I heard Dr Balan from Homebush teaches Chemistry, pretty good but I don't have his contact information. If anyone has it, could you please leave a reply with it! Ty

Also, do Matrix Education give you a booklet for the rest of the term to work on? Or? What resources do they give you on the first week for CHEMISTRY?

I'm trying to see which tutor provides the best resource, so anyone could recommend a Chem tutor for that!

William,

Matrix gives you two booklets to work on throughout the term, during your first week as you said. One is a book containing theory (divided week by week), that you go through in class with the teacher. It has blanks in it etc for you to fill in.

The second book is a homework book that contains relevant questions divided accordingly with the theory book. The homework is not marked, but the solutions are provided at the end of each week for you to mark it yourself.

 

[kalstar]

Yeah balan m8, homebush represent

When i was doing hsc chem at homebush boys, joined a few of Balan's classes outside of normal classes with my friends, hes the best, 200% better than any other commercialised tutoring.

 

[wiliaamnguuyen]

Does he teach at Homebush Boys High School? Or at another centre?

 

[kalstar]

Does he teach at Homebush Boys High School? Or at another centre?

He's at teacher at Homebush Boys m8, he's a bushy boy.

 

[nightweaver066]

I went to Matrix for chemistry tuition and also had Dr Balan as a teacher at school.

He uses the same material in class as he uses for tuition (i think) so I can confidently say that he has a lot more material (module notes, module workbooks, experimental write ups, past papers, past paper questions sorted by topic, and he tracks HSC questions every year to predict the next years) that he's willing to share with you as his student than at Matrix. He's also a great teacher able to break things down clearly and keeps the class fun

Matrix's workbooks are thorough, the homework booklets & the solutions are definitely helpful, the teachers are very good and the classes are relatively small (some of my classes had 10+ students, although maybe it was because we had *arguably* the best teacher). However the only real downside is the $.

Dr Balan's chemistry tuition is something you should seriously consider if you don't mind the large classes!

 

[Fiction]

Not sure what Dr Balan is, but Matrix doesn't seem to be that great of a tutoring place in comparison to their prices in terms of chemistry. My classmate does tutoring at matrix and she has an extremely poor grasp of chem. According to her, they teach at a relatively ~fast~ speed? Maybe that's just her, but it's somehting to consider.

This might not be an indication, but I've tutored with Matrix at maths rather than chem, and their theory books are not exactly helpful. Someone above mentioned worked solutions - those weren't avaliable in the time I spent with matrix. I had an awesome teacher, but hated the way Matrix presented the info. Idk, I personally wouldn't recommend them based on the above mentioned. (Generalised view ik, but it's enough for me)

This is somewhat off topic, but I attended some holiday workshop for a place called project academy (in chatswood). Their maths sucked (teacher put me to sleep) but their chem is extremely thorough. Would recommend, but I only attended the class for a 3 day workshop Just something to take into consideration.