Tutoring

[notguilty]

Do you guys think it would be beneficial if I got a tutor for Literature (please don't say, everyone is different!)?

[shinny]

Same deal here as in your Chemistry thread. With a language, it'd also help to know your level of motivation with the subject. Lack of motivation without a tutor in itself justifies getting a tutor in my mind.

[EvangelionZeta]

Yes.  With Literature, it's always beneficial to have somebody to look at your essays and to bounce ideas off.

[Envisionation]

If you wanna save on some cash track down your day teacher and ask for extra time, or hand them more essays. It's really good to have someone you can engage with one-on-one though.

[VivaTequila]

Personal preference. Just think of it logically... if you're paying someone to correct your essays, collaborate, and help you with conceptual work, then really it would be hard to go wrong unless the tute has no idea what he's doing. Thus paying for a reputable tute will incontrovertibly increase your score.

The question is really just how much can your score increase through the use of a tute...

Like Envisionation pointed out there are many other alternatives that are also bound to get you a better score. Opting for a tute happens to be one, which, in my view, puts your responsibility to learn and absorb on someone else. This is only my opinion, but there are much better ways to attain higher scores than by getting a tute.

[t35t]

They're also quite...expensive... I really want a lit tutor but as of the state of things, I don't see it happening. Group tuition tends to be much, much cheaper- but given the diversification of texts to be studied across the state, it poses a very worrying dispersion of the tutor's attention- it's possible, I worked with one such group last year, however, one thing I always ended up noting was that he'd spend a hell of a lot of time on one person (due to the amount of attention+detail required by literature) and then a lesser, more rushed amount of time on another literature student with a different text. End point is, someone always get's neglected unless you *all* happen to be studying the same text.

And then there are private, 1 on 1 tutors which is about as beneficial as can be- there exists though, the very expensive drawback of a high pricetag; one-to-one tutors are very expensive and I'd say it could even be around 60-90 dollars per session. For me, I can't afford that much each week.

However, you could, as I intend to, view your own teacher as a tutor- I've taken towards the habit of e-mailing her and it seems to be working very well whenever there's a certain passage I don't understand. I suppose, if your short on funds, you could always hold your teacher at year 12-gun point(not literally) and force her to correct your essays in excess; then bother her with student portal emails until she responds to your queries.