Who doesn't have a tutor?

[EvangelionZeta]

Feeling of security, basically. 

[UprightMan]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but tutoring adds a lot more work onto your already stringent workload for VCE?  I think all of my friends are going to Jack's for tutoring, and I seriously think they don't believe me when I say I don't have a tutor.  Besides, my parents' and I  haven't really got money trees yielding large crops money to be throwing at tutors anyway.

[shinny]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but tutoring adds a lot more work onto your already stringent workload for VCE?

Honestly, you should be taking control of your own work loads and only do what is actually good for you. I'm pretty sure we've all had homework tasks and things like chem pracs which we could say have no educational value whatsoever, and in those cases, please, just skip it and copy off someone or something. Luckily none of my teachers checked things like exercises so I'd skip them if I already knew how to do it and allocated the time elsewhere to places such as English essays which you basically can never do enough of. Basically, don't do homework for the sake of doing homework, but for what you're getting out of it.

[Fyrefly]

Never had a tutor...

Was gonna get 1 4 Methods coz I my teacher was... yeah... but when I went there 4 the 'interview'-type thingy it jst put me off.
The place had no windows, no posters (like, educational), plain walls.... and the tutor sitting there with the student @ the table jst seemed so uninteresting.
It looked so torturous and boring -.-
Also, the lady basically said that I had a poor attitude and that I was gonna fail coz I didn't do Yr10 maths and went straight in2 methods.

My Dad paid 4 some sessions, but I never went.

So: been a tutor, but never had 1.

[Fyrefly]

Its not good to try and solve a problem by yourself for 1 hour plus especially when SAC's/EXAMS are coming up.. its not like you're going to have 1 hour in an exam to solve the question. Its better off just learning the concepts and if that doesn't work then technique may be of problem?

The above advice is for year 12 students in year 11 you can try things like spending 2hrs plus on some hard questions like me.

A friend and I spent ages trying 2 solve this 1 Spec question.
It was an absolute killer... but I made a break-thru, then he made a break-thru.
Took an hour, but we solved it.

It felt great 2 finally get there in the end.

I spose plenty of ppl could argue that it was a waste of time, but I think it was time well-spent.

[shinny]

Its not good to try and solve a problem by yourself for 1 hour plus especially when SAC's/EXAMS are coming up.. its not like you're going to have 1 hour in an exam to solve the question. Its better off just learning the concepts and if that doesn't work then technique may be of problem?

The above advice is for year 12 students in year 11 you can try things like spending 2hrs plus on some hard questions like me.

A friend and I spent ages trying 2 solve this 1 Spec question.
It was an absolute killer... but I made a break-thru, then he made a break-thru.
Took an hour, but we solved it.

It felt great 2 finally get there in the end.

I spose plenty of ppl could argue that it was a waste of time, but I think it was time well-spent.

I agree with Fyrefly. Too often nowadays, as soon as people get stuck, they just ask a friend or tutor or come to VN and fetch the answer. I actually don't think this is the best way to do things as there's pretty much bound to be a question style you've never seen before to come up on the exam. If you can't do a new type of question now with no pressure and time constraints, I don't see how you're going to cope in a exam scenario. The best way is to actually learn the thinking processes behind approaching exam style questions as they will ALWAYS use material that is within the syllabus, and it is up to you to work out which concepts are relevant. I've personally spent up to 3 hours on a single question, but I'd say its definitely more value for time than just doing exercise questions, getting the first wrong, checking the answers, and then copy-pasta'ing the same method to the next subsequent 30. I'd say that the ability to think like this is what often separates students in the 45-50 range as those who can't approach new style questions won't be able to scrape those extra few marks they need.

[UprightMan]

+1

Which is why I choose independent learning for studying over mentors and tutelage; like shinny said, if you can't learn to learn, or teach yourself, coping in an exam and with life in general will be a monumental effort.

[brendan]

I had an English tutor, and that was it.

[Noblesse]

Never had a personal tutor, although I went to a couple lectures which were helpful. The subjects that I went to lectures for were my best While I didn't learn anything that radical in the lectures, they gave me confidence which I thought was invaluable.

[chris1991]

Naah dont have any

[KazeRyu21]

Lol i'm one of those who don't have a tutor. Should i get one though? i'm relying on my independant learning, which is going pretty okay. anything i don't get i just ask a friend or the teacher.

[dreamz]

i dont have a tutor but is anyone. but is anyone willing to be my tutor on this site for further maths or english or psychology. anyone that has full experince n r excellent. plz help me

[dcc]

The internet was my tutor for every subject in Year 12.

[ryley]

Never had a tutor(dads a maths teacher , may look into one for english as my sister was serving as a very occassional english tutor, but she moved on campus at melbourne a few weeks ago, and I cbf calling her every time I have an issue(yes, I'm that lazy).

[Aqualim]

Never had a tutor(dads a maths teacher

Same here, actually he is an Accounting teacher at Swimburne Uni in Lilydale.. and on the other hand, mum is a contract reviser, so there is my English tutor.