[Endool]

I'm going to start tutoring mathematics soon, and I want advice and opinions from high school students like you all. I'd greatly appreciate any input for me to grow and improve as a tutor. I don't want to be one of those lame boring tutors like I've previously had during grade school If you could answer the questions I've provided with any extra opinions, it'd be greatly appreciated, thanks!

- Do you like getting tutored? Why or why not?
- Does it seem beneficial to you? What about the tutoring session benefits you the most?
- What do you like about your tutor's tutoring skills? What do they do that helps you the most?
- How did you hear of your tutor and how much do you or your parents pay?
- Can you describe your tutoring session briefly?

[Supremacy]

- Do you like getting tutored? Why or why not?No, because i've been going since elementary school and it's just so annoying to take time out of my saturday to go for tutoring. Also, if i get a lot of homework from school it gives me less time to work on them
- Does it seem beneficial to you? What about the tutoring session benefits you the most?Not really since it's only SAT prep and i can do that on my own. Also, there's like 25 to 30 people in the class so the teacher moves at the pace of the average student of the class, but if you're faster or slower, then you will be annoyed
- How did you hear of your tutor and how much do you or your parents pay?Just a tutoring place in chinatown, its around $1000 for a whole school year every saturday
- Can you describe your tutoring session briefly? Just like regular class, not that much different from it

[xChristineee]

- Do you like getting tutored? Why or why not?
No, I don't. It's like a stab at my ego. Lol. I think its a waste of money because I knew everything that was going on. I just had a tutor for kicks.

- Does it seem beneficial to you? What about the tutoring session benefits you the most?
I'm pushed to study and review more before tests. If not for a tutor, I'd be sitting here on soompi.

- What do you like about your tutor's tutoring skills? What do they do that helps you the most?
Catches small mistakes

- How did you hear of your tutor and how much do you or your parents pay?
No idea. Dad found her. $60 per hour. 1 session a week.

- Can you describe your tutoring session briefly?
I'd sit there, tell her what I was learning, she'll ask me if I have questions, I'll say I have none, we review what I learned, do some hw... basically review.

[MeiNing]

I'm in college now, but I also got tutored in high school last year.

- Do you like getting tutored? Why or why not?
Well, of course I'd prefer not having to need a tutor, but it helps me a lot because I often make little mistakes by myself that make long problems frustrating because I don't know what I did wrong.

- Does it seem beneficial to you? What about the tutoring session benefits you the most?
Yes. Tutoring also forces me to actually stop being lazy and practice doing math, otherwise I'm really lazy/a procrastinator. My tutor also helps a lot in catching my mistakes while I'm in the process of doing a problem. I also feel more comfortable asking about concepts and problems because they have all the time to explain it to me, lol.

- What do you like about your tutor's tutoring skills? What do they do that helps you the most?
Really patient, never gets frustrated even when I do the dumbest things. Helps a lot because he doesn't do the problems for me, I try to do it by myself and then when I do get stuck, he helps until I get back on track.

- How did you hear of your tutor and how much do you or your parents pay?
He's my best friend's older brother, haha. $10/hr for as many hours as I need per week, but if it's say 5.5 hours, he'll still get $60.

- Can you describe your tutoring session briefly?
I work through my homework, and he helps when I get stuck.

[Nomiya]

- Do you like getting tutored? Why or why not?
- Does it seem beneficial to you? What about the tutoring session benefits you the most?
- What do you like about your tutor's tutoring skills? What do they do that helps you the most?
- How did you hear of your tutor and how much do you or your parents pay?
- Can you describe your tutoring session briefly?

1. It was an okay experience for me. I was getting tutored for grade 12 math during my summer break out of free will. My tutor wasn`t too great at teaching.
2. If my tutor actually taught the entire math textbook, sure I would be ready. Overall though, I was a little more prepared than perhaps getting lost like those in my class.
3. I didn`t like my tutor`s teaching style. She kept calling everything elementary and this was for grade 12 math (in Canada) and she kept pacing everything really fast. I was totally lost after each lesson. She helped me out the most on trigonometry (Wheeeee... The fun! Not.) and now I`m currently on that unit and well not too helpful right now.
4. I researched on my own and it was pretty cheap too; 15 bucks an hour (maybe that`s why I got such a lousy tutor).
5. It was just me and a friend (I forcefully brought my friend to get a cheaper deal) and she really focused a lot on each individual. I would have learned more if perhaps, my friend didn`t sign us up for only 8 lessons of about 2 hours. Those really terrible cram sessions...

[love*beat]

Sorry if my responses are kind of discouraging for you as a tutor.
As long as you don't act like a condescending douche, you'll probably be fine lol.

1. I don't really feel any special way about getting tutored.
Honestly I would rather be doing something else (Obcourse), but if I'm doing badly in my class, I need some sort of help.

2. Yes, it seems benefecial if I have the right tutor.
Having my questions explained and answered.
If I don't understand a certain method, she can teach me another method.

3. My fav. tutor answers every one of my questions and always knows the answer. No joke, she even corrects the teacher's mistakes and even corrected answers from the back of the book.
She explains concepts I don't understand based on her knowledge.
But what I like the most about her is that unlike other tutors, she doesn't have a blank "Uhh I forgot what that lesson was about" moment where they look back in the book to an example. Like they just look back inside the book to see if there's an example similar to the question I asked.
Whenever tutors do that, I feel like I'm just wasting my money and time lol.

There's also some other things that irks me about certain tutors.
One of my tutors speaks in a way as if he knows everything and chews gum. He kind of acts like the shizz if you know what I mean lol.
Another tutor texts everytime she doesn't have to be doing anything. :/
(She's a volunteer but once she asked me how much I was paying with a smirk as if she thought it was "Easy work to get money" and that kinda pissed me off)

4. Heard about my tutoring place from a friend of my mom's and we pay like $22-28 an hour.

5. There's a few small rooms where kids sit. Each person gets equal amount of help from a tutor. When the tutor is not able to help a person, they could work on their homework or anything else.

[ParappaRappa]

- Do you like getting tutored? Why or why not?
yes, because now i can understand better what i'm doing in school, haha.
- Does it seem beneficial to you? What about the tutoring session benefits you the most?
yeah, it is. the part where they teach you how to do the things you do wrong i guess haha
- What do you like about your tutor's tutoring skills? What do they do that helps you the most?
umm...well he always understands everything quick or already knows it. what they do to help me most is just simply telling me what i did wrong and teaching me how to do it right
- How did you hear of your tutor and how much do you or your parents pay?
it's my brother that doesn't live here but we still pay him $100 a week. so it's kind of his mini job lol
- Can you describe your tutoring session briefly?
he comes over, i start doing my math homework (or whatever i'm having trouble in) i start to do it until i get to a problem that i have no idea about and i say "i have no idea how to do this." so he looks at it and then shows me how to do it until i understand, then i continue my work. it continues on like that for the rest of the time lol