UMAT Tutoring?

[thushan]

Actually taiga, in hindsight, I think you're right. Sorry about that.

@Paul - i only meant constructive criticism mate

[paulsterio]

Anyways, just on the lighter side, that was my 444th post, I'm kinda scared now :\

:O You've made 70 more posts than the second highest poster this week :O

Haha, yeah, let's just say I get very bored when I'm at home on holidays

[paulsterio]

Taiga: Yeah, I think you should change the name of this thread

@Paul - i only meant constructive criticism mate

Nah it's ok, I'm always open to constructive criticism and advice from others, it's how we all grow and I think that it's what makes ATARNotes a good place, at least now I feel as if I understand better why I shouldn't be offering UMAT Tutoring in future

[D27RII]

Mate - as a fellow UMAT tutor, paul I can only encourage you to definitely take up this position. With companies like medentry running an absolute monopoly, there are many people who are looking for and are in need of private one-on-one tutors who are both much cheaper and much mroe effective in giving them the time and attention they require.

To all the critics of "umat tutoring" itself - this is something that can definitely be tutored. I have (and do in all of my first lesson) tought each of my students,  within 3-5 minutes, using the aid of simple drawing styles to solve one of the most common types of pick the middle question. Even in section 1, the logic CAN BE TAUGHT - I have been doing it for a year

I admit - the timing of this ad is rather strage, but I just wanted to let everyone know that the UMAT can be taught. I myself will be posting up an UMAT ad later (waiting for the new year and hopefully for a UMAT category in tuitions to appear) - and I can only encourage you paul to do the same thing.

Consider the criticism the others have posted here - they all have valid points - but go for it - UMAT tutoring is mad fun, there are people who need and want it, and it can definitely make a difference.

[Graphite]

Interesting, out of curiosity did all your student perform rather well this year?

[D27RII]

Interesting, out of curiosity did all your student perform rather well this year?

Nop - there were definitely those who did worse than others, and there were definitely those who did well enough to get their interview offers, and some even betterso

But the leading mistake I did was to focus too much on S3 - as this is the most improvable section and is also the section which most of my students had tremendous trouble with.

As a result however (interestingly) with ALL of my students, their section 3 score was the best score and for most of them they got above 60 for S3 and a lot got within to the 90%ile range for this section (most of them to be precise).

But yeah, I do feel slightly bad about the students who did not do well enough to get an offer, and that is a sense of guilt/responsibility that comes with ANY tutoring, not just with the UMAT - although next year I plan to expand and recruit some friends and other who are specialists in other section to sort of even out the tutoring a bit.

That being said - individual tutors, even if they are only good at one section alone (although both me and paul from the likes of his scores, are S1+S3 Umateers) should be more than encouraged to fill the much required niche of UMAT tutoring in our prospective-med society.

[Russ]

But yeah, I do feel slightly bad about the students who did not do well enough to get an offer, and that is a sense of guilt/responsibility that comes with ANY tutoring, not just with the UMAT

This is true, but it's also in the eye of the beholder. I tutored a girl who got 27 in bio and she was very happy with the help I gave her and her results. Don't hold back from tutoring because you think you'll be expected to deliver top results. Even in an exam as high stakes as the UMAT, there's no obligation on a tutor to guarantee success.

I see no problem with the timing of the ad per se, it's med application season for undergrad entry right now and it's as good a time as any to advertise.

nb, a UMAT/interview tutoring category can hopefully be added to the database, depends when Dan tears himself away from FIFA