Re: Experienced & Affordable ENG ADV (96) tutoring | Free upcoming seminar at Parrama
Don't mean to be rude, but I'm not sure if anyone has received the same experience as me :/ I went for about a term
Not very good. Not bad at tutoring, but has poor time management and bad organisation skills.
Also not often willing to help outside of class hours!
For this price, there are better tutors out there!
I thought I was the only one unfortunate to have one of the most memorable and traumatic experience in my life. For the past two years, I had contemplated whether to share my experience-because on the one hand, I do only want to ever say good things about other people, but I think I am going to just share what I experienced, no added salt, no added drama, just what i experienced through a whole year of tutoring with this guy in my HSC year for English Advanced.
I won't write an essay, I will say straight off this guy helped me to get a band 6 in Advanced English, he knew his texts-at least when I did my HSC so there was no question about his expertise, and for that, I am thankful. But however this same guy taught me how educationally immoral a person can be, and you, the reader, will no doubt laugh at just why I suffer myself through an entire year-I was too desperate to get a band 6 for English I guess at all costs and thought he was the only tutor around my area that's decent for Advanced.
Throughout the year, vivid as it were almost yesterday, I remembered countless times where he could cancel our lessons five minutes before it was due to start-often I was walking from my home to the library where he tutors (it was a 20 minute walk) and i would have to walk back when I am just a mere 5 minutes from the library, and it felt like he had me in his hands and could rearrange his students whenever he feel like it. Cancelling a lesson 1 hour or 1 day before-I might understand, but 5 minutes?-and for countless times-it breaks my heart now to recall it. There was also many times where he could rearrange lessons 20 minutes before so that he could tutor a selective school kid before me-if that's called bad time management-I am not sure whether I was unlucky enough to suffer through the brunt of it all in my HSC year. He could offer no reasonable explanation or even an apology when he was more than 20 minutes late to the lesson-perhaps his time was precious, my time during the HSC wasn't so much.
Then of course there was every Friday where he could cut our two hour lesson short by one hour-without prior notice-just so he could play soccer with his friends-at that moment in time-I certainly felt he didn't really care about my HSC at all-and really cared much more about making as much money as he can-that sentiment is understandable.
But then there was a time where I remembered I wrote an essay, and he transformed a significant part of it into a feature article, and then had the guts to tell me I should learn from the feature article, and talked about it as if he wrote the entire article-when I so evidently see huge chunks of paragraphs I have written in there-that was a fun time.
And of course, he promised me he won't share the fact he was tutoring me with any other student in my school at the start of our arrangement, but there were many times where he contacted me through another student-and basically let all the student he tutored from my school knew he was tutoring me.
But I guess the thing I struggled with the most was during every single lesson that I could remember, save for the very last lesson, he spent so much more time on his phone texting other people than on our essays or content-it was so hard to make him focus on the lesson-sometimes I wondered whether I was the tutor or he was-I felt like I was disrespected for paying him to tutor me when he is always constantly distracted and overall had a really laid back attitude that made me questioned whether he really cared about my HSC-perhaps it was too far away for him to remember its difficulties or cared.
Maybe he won't care anything about what I said, I don't expect him to. But I think after two years of thinking whether I should disclose my experience or not, I should. I know there are a lot of positive testimonies on here-and I will let them speak for themselves-I have always hoped he was a good guy to absolutely everyone else, and that I was the only unfortunate one to suffer through it all. And if he rebuts it by saying it was all a misunderstanding-then I guess it must have been a pretty big misunderstanding considering I am a very hard working individual-during my HSC and beyond-and others can testified to that.
I hope you really had improved in your time management from two years ago as you said you have. I know you have really good knowledge in English-but I really hope you now treat all your students with a genuine heart and a lot better than the treatment I endured two years ago. I was stupid for not leaving you earlier, but the experience toughened me beyond what I could imagine and it was a reason why I was really glad when the HSC was over. I genuinely do wish you all the best for whatever you do-I trust you have changed-but you might be comforted by the fact you have changed my life for the better-for I have learnt so much from this experience and what I have now couldn't have been possible without this experience. So to this date, I am very thankful for it.
On another note, in the title of your tutoring thread-you mentioned you have a free upcoming seminar in parramatta-but you have put this for the past half a year and to the best of my knowledge and involvement with parramatta library, you have no plan or have hosted a free upcoming seminar any time soon-so I think perhaps you should stop deluding others from thinking you have plans to help when you really have no plans to.
