Has tutoring increased your grades?

[turley]

tutor.... hmmm - useless
it comes down to how much work u personally put in

[IntoTheNewWorld]

hm I so wish I got a chem tutor after results >_>

[brightsky]

LOL obviously. If your grades are THAT gud that ur grades cant be improved, then why would you get a tutor.

just outta curiosity, what english tutor was that?
I didn't say "THAT gud".
I mean if you're already achieving like 90%+, you won't be able to see much of a change even if you get a tutor. You will still run into problems, need explanations for certain things and get stuck on questions so you can still get a tutor. It's only when you performing badly ( C's) that a tutor would really help improve your grades.

Not true. There's different levels of tutoring. For example, Dr. He in Box Hill only accepts students that pass a pretty difficult maths test, but he definitely is able to improve someone from like a 90% level to higher than that. I had a similar thing with English where I was chucked into a high level class and the tutor spent all year on fine tuning minor things.

[ItsSKC]

Well i only had proper tutoring for chemistry, but i believe indubitably that it was beneficial. I was already pretty able in chemistry, (with two A+ sacs behind me) but my tutor helped me minimize the effort required to reach that A+ level. He also taught me a gazillion shortcuts to minimize working out (Most the time i could calculate the pH off two mixtures in my head . But then again my chem tutor was absolutely brilliant!!

tutor.... hmmm - useless
it comes down to how much work u personally put in

It is not always about how much work, but rather how smart you are about doing that work. With a tutor you can save valuable time that could be spent doing something else, that is smart!

[kyzoo]

I never did one-on-one tutoring, but I went to Jacks for Methods and I found it boring =(

[Ilovemathsmeth]

Never did one-on-one tutoring either.

[jimmy999]

I only ever had tutoring for year 11 English in which I was averaging Cs and had one D+ that year. The tutoring helped and by the end of that year I had Bs and As on my report with one A+

It helped out a fair amount and prepared me better for year 12 English, in which I used my teacher to help me outside of class.

If you're not doing well in a subject, tutoring can help a fair bit. I tutored a couple of friends in the year. One I helped to get an A in their SAC, another I helped improved their mark from 20% to 50% in which they were proud of.

[physics]

i nvr had a tutor =D but i did well.... i suppose i think

[slothpomba]

To be honest, i was doing pretty terribad in methods in semester 1 i think i failed the exam but passed the unit. So, i got a tutor after that, in semester 2...and still failed. I COULD FAIL FOR FREE!?!

Although, being perfectly honest i didn't really ask much questions in tutor, i could of went as many times as i wanted to for free, we pay $40 for one lesson then between that and the next lesson you can come in for free whenever you want. I should of really taken advantage of that.

Plus, i didnt really do all that homework overall... *shrugs* who knows.

[dejan91]

Depends for what subject. I found English tutoring utterly useless, whereas my Japanese tutor was extremely beneficial.

[IntoTheNewWorld]

my Japanese tutor was extremely beneficial.

yesh I've had a Jap tutor since year 11. Learnt more with tutor than I did during the week at school. That's probably more to do with the poor teaching at school though.

[enwiabe]

Without my english tutor i'd have had 35-37

with english tutor i got 44

I cannot stress enough that English tutors (good ones) can REALLY help.

[silva112]

My english tutor is invaluable to my grades, being a marker of English and Literature exam papers she helps me get straight A+'s in almost every essay I've ever written (in any subject) since I started going to her.

My math tutor is really good with helping me understand the theory and what not, but in tests it all comes to do good preperation. 

[akira88]

Without my english tutor i'd have had 35-37

with english tutor i got 44

I cannot stress enough that English tutors (good ones) can REALLY help.

Hearing this makes me relieved for having an English tutor XD

[enwiabe]

Without my english tutor i'd have had 35-37

with english tutor i got 44

I cannot stress enough that English tutors (good ones) can REALLY help.

Hearing this makes me relieved for having an English tutor XD

Mine was basically a person who sat down with me and said, "this sentence is retarded. fix it."

Or, "this idea doesn't hit the mark. There's x, y, z you're not considering. Also you're not arguing it effectively. Make this point instead of that point"

In English, you want as MUCH critique as possible. It's how you learn. Don't be afraid of making mistakes, you're 100% supposed to (and then learn from them).