Has anyone heard of Dr. He?

[dekoyl]

Has anyone heard of Dr. He, a maths tutor?
Not that I want him as a tutor, but I've just heard his name mentioned a lot of times amongst peers and even the teachers know him.
I've also heard it's difficult to get him as a tutor as he makes the waiting list sit a test and only tutors the top students. 

[Damo17]

BOS has several threads on Dr. He in methods and specialist forum. That's all I know, only saw the posts yesterday. But there isn't much.

[shinny]

I went there =P

[doboman]

Has anyone heard of Dr. He, a maths tutor?
Not that I want him as a tutor, but I've just heard his name mentioned a lot of times amongst peers and even the teachers know him.
I've also heard it's difficult to get him as a tutor as he makes the waiting list sit a test and only tutors the top students. 

Why would he just educate the BEST students. It's the ones that aren't so good that need him more isnt it? Pretty lame excuse to artificially moderate his scores to gain a better reputation

[dekoyl]

I went there =P

Nice I think one of the top achievers last year at our school went there and the top guy in my methods class went to him as well. He must be preeeetty good.

Was he expensive? And did you have to sit a test like I've heard?

Why would he just educate the BEST students. It's the ones that aren't so good that need him more isnt it? Pretty lame excuse to artificially moderate his scores to gain a better reputation

Maybe he just doesn't have the patience to deal with students that aren't so good. He probably helps the good students perfect their maths instead of making bad students good. I don't know though - making random assumptions.

[doboman]

I went there =P

Nice I think one of the top achievers last year at our school went there and the top guy in my methods class went to him as well. He must be preeeetty good.

Was he expensive? And did you have to sit a test like I've heard?

Why would he just educate the BEST students. It's the ones that aren't so good that need him more isnt it? Pretty lame excuse to artificially moderate his scores to gain a better reputation

Maybe he just doesn't have the patience to deal with students that aren't so good. He probably helps the good students perfect their maths instead of making bad students good. I don't know though - making random assumptions.

Well if his that good, he should be able to help the poor students become good. Considering that they're interested to go tutoring, we can assume that the kids are willing to learn. IDK, but i hate when people accept top students- just for the sake of bragging about how many students got above 'X' score

[shinny]

I only went there for spesh so that's the only course of his I can comment on. The reason why he only lets the top students in is because his place isn't designed to help the lower students get better; there's enough tutoring places which do that already. His aim is to help the potential 45's reach the 50's and so on, and this is easily reflected in his homework. Some of my friends who joined earlier ended up quitting in VCE because they simply couldn't cope with the homework and basically, if you can't pass the entrance exam, you really shouldn't be there anyway because you'll get nothing out of it since you'll just be completely lost every week. Even if you're willing to learn, weaker students just won't be able to cope because his homework is beyond mere textbook stuff. Overall, his stuff is ridiculously hard, but yeh, its basically all in training for the final exam. I can comfortably say his trial exams are definitely the hardest I've done (I've gotten 90%+ on every MHS SAC but I've averaged around 60% on this guy's trial exams; they're seriously nuts) and yeh, it's good stress prep for the exam really.

As for price, he's pretty cheap; $25 for 1 and a half hours or so. And yes I had to sit the test, but if you've done methods already, I doubt it'll be much of a problem. There's just a few ugly questions which involve problem solving (think Westpac) but there's really nothing you can do to prepare for these.

[doboman]

I only went there for spesh so that's the only course of his I can comment on. The reason why he only lets the top students in is because his place isn't designed to help the lower students get better; there's enough tutoring places which do that already. His aim is to help the potential 45's reach the 50's and so on, and this is easily reflected in his homework. Some of my friends who joined earlier ended up quitting in VCE because they simply couldn't cope with the homework and basically, if you can't pass the entrance exam, you really shouldn't be there anyway because you'll get nothing out of it since you'll just be completely lost every week. Even if you're willing to learn, weaker students just won't be able to cope because his homework is beyond mere textbook stuff. Overall, his stuff is ridiculously hard, but yeh, its basically all in training for the final exam. I can comfortably say his trial exams are definitely the hardest I've done (I've gotten 90%+ on every MHS SAC but I've averaged around 60% on this guy's trial exams; they're seriously nuts) and yeh, it's good stress prep for the exam really.

As for price, he's pretty cheap; $25 for 1 and a half hours or so. And yes I had to sit the test, but if you've done methods already, I doubt it'll be much of a problem. There's just a few ugly questions which involve problem solving (think Westpac) but there's really nothing you can do to prepare for these.

Thanks for clearing it up :-)

[bubble sunglasses]

   I've heard he isn't who to go to if you need a confidence boost

[kurrymuncher]

lol. Dr He sounds scary.

[hard]

he sounds like some old mean asian teacher who just lost everything and is letting his anger out on VCE students. (btw Dr.He sounds asian so ya. If it was abdulla muhamoud than it'b be arab and if it was mario it would be italian etc etc for those with sensitive feelings).

[kurrymuncher]

he sounds like some old mean asian teacher who just lost everything and is letting his anger out on VCE students. (btw Dr.He sounds asian so ya. If it was abdulla muhamoud than it'b be arab and if it was mario it would be italian etc etc for those with sensitive feelings).

hahaha, abdulla muhamoud, lololol

[cobby]

he sounds like some old mean asian teacher who just lost everything and is letting his anger out on VCE students. (btw Dr.He sounds asian so ya. If it was abdulla muhamoud than it'b be arab and if it was mario it would be italian etc etc for those with sensitive feelings).

LOL, welcome to stereotype night
I want to see a picture of this Dr. He

[kurrymuncher]

Dr He is probably Derrick Ha.

[cobby]

Dr He is probably Derrick Ha.

Thats what i thought at first, but how could He change to Ha? :S
Im picturing Dr.He to be an old/er man like Kryzzie LOL