ATAR Notes: Forum
National Education => Tuition and Education Services => Tuition Advice => Topic started by: Sense on December 17, 2013, 08:31:05 pm
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I was just wondering if paying for a tutor that hasn't completed VCE themselves going to work ?
I will be moving to Canberra but still completing VCE via Distance Education, and I have found a tutor who has a PHD in Chemistry and offers tutoring for both Biology and Chemistry. Would I be better off doing it through Skype with someone who knows the curriculum even though I find it a lot easier to learn face to face?
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Learn face to face. You tell them what you need to know for VCE, they teach it to you. Skype learning sucks and it's a poor trade-off.
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I was just wondering if paying for a tutor that hasn't completed VCE themselves going to work ?
I will be moving to Canberra but still completing VCE via Distance Education, and I have found a tutor who has a PHD in Chemistry and offers tutoring for both Biology and Chemistry. Would I be better off doing it through Skype with someone who knows the curriculum even though I find it a lot easier to learn face to face?
I had skype tutoring at one point and I can vouch for it. There wasn't actually a whole lot difference to interacting in person. This was for humanities though - I think the process could be more difficult if you're learning chem. However - and I'm just speculating - I think skype tutoring for biology would work fine.
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If you give the tutor with the PhD a copy of the study design and a few VCAA past exams, I doubt there'd be much of a difference between him/her and someone who teaches or has done the course themselves =)