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Anyone know a top notch English tutor around Melbourne?
kenhung123:
--- Quote from: stonecold on January 22, 2010, 02:17:18 am ---probably wastes all of his tuition income on donuts rofl!
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looooooooooooooooooool
lynt.br:
--- Quote from: kenhung123 on January 22, 2010, 02:07:16 am ---Was he worth it?
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I think he is quite helpful but somewhat overpriced. I only went on alternating weeks from about mid term 3 onwards. I also get the feeling he is really busy a lot of the time so I found lessons generally went better if I brought him work and got him to explain how an examiner would mark it and what I could do better to improve the essay.
The thing is though a lot of English tutors don't seem to advertise that much and I found it very hard to find any examiners who held private tuition. I specifically wanted an examiner as a tutor which is why I was willing to pay to see this tutor.
Try to look around and see if you can find a tutor nearby that satisfies what you want from a tutor. Always remember, you should be in control of what you want to learn. Don't be passive at tuition, get your money worth and try to focus each lesson on what you want to improve on. Avoid contracts or pre-paying for a number of lessons. If you don't like a tutor, you shouldn't be under any obligation to continue paying them.
stonecold:
^^^what do you mean by he was really busy?
i would expect that he sits with you for the full hour undisrupted and does cartwheels if you ask him to for the exorbitant prices he charges.
and yeah, definitely no contracts or pre paying for lessons!
lynt.br:
--- Quote from: stonecold on January 22, 2010, 02:40:29 am ---^^^what do you mean by he was really busy?
i would expect that he sits with you for the full hour undisrupted and does cartwheels if you ask him to for the exorbitant prices he charges.
and yeah, definitely no contracts or pre paying for lessons!
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He teaches full time at Xavier as well as tutoring multiple students almost every single day. As a result sometimes he seemed quite tired, especially at timeslots past 9pm.
And I agree the price will probably discourage a lot of people. I'd encourage people to look around first before settling on one tutor. Always try to find one the works for you. As I said before, I went to him because I specifically wanted an examiner as a tutor and couldn't find any others who offered private tuition.
stonecold:
Yeah he sounds okay. But I believe that a good tutor genuinely wants to help students to do their best, and charging those kind of prices to tutor from home is just too far I believe. It doesn't really seem like he is helping anymore. $50 or $60 is absolute max IMO.
Plus, as you said he has a lot of students and other 'stuff' to fit in. I would hate to need to see him leading up to exams. You'd probably have to camp outside of his house lol.
And he claims to know 'texts.' I doubt he knows every one. Would he be willing to read one for you, because i know a lot of other tutors who would do it and for like a third of the price.
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