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Am I an idiot?
stonecold:
i think you should just not worry about it and go about school as normal, put your head down and work as hard as possible, and by years end your hard work will pay off and you will be like i can't believe i was worrying at the start of the year.
red bull:
--- Quote from: ghadz7 on January 27, 2010, 03:14:38 am ---Well some private schools are cheaper than $16500.
You said you don't concentrate in class so how does it matter if the teacher is good or bad?
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i said i find it hard to concentrate, but a good teacher can make alot of difference. I used to go to extra schooling outside of school when i was in yrs 8,9,10 and the teacher was trying to teach me about polynomials and i didn't know what the hell she was going on about. So on monday morning i asked my maths teacher and he explained it to me in 5 minutes and i instantly knew how to do the questions
kenhung123:
Well as you say, they seem to help you a lot so I guess it would be good to stay with them. Work together with your parents by studying hard and use them for motivation. Don't let them down.
kyzoo:
I don't know enough about your situation to make a judgement, but if they really help you, then keep them.
My opinion of tutors is the same as Akirus' - it's delusional to think of them as a failsafe catalyst for good results. Don't buy into the conventional wisdom that the mere fact you have a tutor will help your scores; tutors aren't magical beings who bless you with their very presence. IMO, a tutor hinders top students.
ninwa:
--- Quote from: red bull on January 27, 2010, 03:16:35 am ---
--- Quote from: kenhung123 on January 27, 2010, 03:08:18 am ---I think there are cheaper tutors out there. If your willing to study, have confidence that you can get into monash :)
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yeah, but what i have found is most tutors around the $30 range are mostly students with little experience in tutoring. My parents want 'teachers' to tutor me if u know what i mean. They believe teachers know how to make students understand concepts coz they do it for a living whereas a student may know the course very well but it doesn't necessarily mean they know how to teach
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That's not true, have a look at the "advertising" board of the tutoring forum, there are so many talented students out there with excellent scores and tutoring experience who don't charge $60/hour - which is frankly a ridiculous amount to charge, you could get the same quality tutor for half that price.
Also, students have certain advantages over teachers. To steal a quote from the XLL revision lectures, as recent graduates we've gone through the process, we know what areas are difficult to understand, and we can still remember the pathways we took to understand those topics - whereas teachers generally did their degrees decades ago and most can't remember what it was like to learn and struggle.
You already have teachers at school, sometimes it's useful to get assistance from a fellow student's point of view.
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