Brain is good as long as you end up with a good teacher (e.g. Chris, Leone - they definitely know their stuff). Although, I've heard from a friend that he regularly disappears from her class during her lessons due to other distractions, which really sucks.
You're allowed to send in English stuff to get marked. I feel like the marking isn't that great. Sometimes, when I looked at the review comments (where it shows when they made the comment), you could see that they spent a very short amount marking it, possibly skim reading it so they can move onto the next essay. If you're paying that much money, I feel like you deserve a bigger effort, as oppose to skim reading essays.
They are really great for resources. He has an abundance!
It used to be very good. But with the significant increase in students, he needed more tutors. He was probably more lax when determining who could become a tutor (what I think, not sure if true). So as an overall, the tutors are not as top notch anymore.
Yeah. Back in year 7, I ended with up a shit teacher who wasted our time. We watched youtube videos because we had o do an analysis of it and then after doing an analysis of it we went on youtube and started watching all these funny videos. Biggest waste of time. I remember having these stupid end of term parties where we watched a movie and then I was like (to myself) hey mate, I don't pay (forgot how much it was but I've heard their prices have risen significantly) money to waste my fucking time. I'm here to learn, not watch stupid movies and eat food. I might as well go somewhere else and do that for like $5 thank you very much.
Yes alot of the markers are uni students and their not even trained or whatever to give you good extensive feedback, in fact a lot of them aren't studing english at a university level so pretty much what their doing is giving your work to some clueless idiot to mark and they can't mark your work to the standard you want them to.
Resource wise I'm not too sure about especially for Senior english since I only went in year 7 and I chucked all my year 7 brain work away so I am unaware of the resources.
I've been hearing rumors from a friend who currently goes to the brain saying that it's good and expensive and not really worth it
IMO I'd say don't go to the brain since the tutors aren't qualified in the area of english. Their other faculties (maths, science, languages, social science/ humanities, industrial technology) are WORSE THAN THEIR ENGLISH FACULTY.
If you really want to spend loads of money and go to the brain, then go to the brain ONLY FOR ENGLISH no other subject
I just want to laugh at the brain staff for their pathetic teaching and want to congratulate them of their achievement of wasting my time and money (Most of them)
Much Appreciated.
