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That's true. Rishi came 1st and he didn't go tutoring at all. I know many SR's that didn't go tutoring.Don't choose a tutoring place based on how many state ranking students went there. (And don't choose to get tutoring just because some state ranking students do.)
Most SR students would get SRs or close to, regardless of what tutoring they received and indeed whether or not they received tutoring at all. (Indeed most of the SR students I know personally did not receive any tutoring.)
Make decisions on whether tutoring is the correct choice / which place or person to go to based on evidence more indicative of their value. (Reviews by people who know what they are talking about or were in a similar situation to you in a previous year / credentials of teachers / just talking to the teachers and getting the vibe of the place.)
That's the thing though, you shouldn't just be absorbing the solution techniques you read in books. When you come across hard problems you should bang your head against them for a bit and try to come up with clever ways of doing them yourself. Success or failure, this way you get a MUCH better feel for what sort of techniques work in different situations than if you are simply told a collection of tricks that worked for tutor X.hmm ok..
But I am just curious to whether tutoring centres teach you things that you self-studying won't. For example, the various tricks to solve different problems. I mean surely if you want to state rank, you should be able to know certain problem solving techniques that textbooks don't explicitly tell you. All these textbooks tell you is solutions to problems, but nothing other than that.
Some people are smarter than others. If you have the brains, you don't need tutoring; you can self-study. Compared to my days, you have access to a wealth of books, resources that was unimaginable. But not everyone has the same intellect. Otherwise everyone wiil have about the same IQ.That's true. Rishi came 1st and he didn't go tutoring at all. I know many SR's that didn't go tutoring.
But does Dr Du really improve your problem solving skills? From what my friend (who went to him) told me, he would give a fkload of homework with hard questions, and then next lesson people would mark it, tell you what you got right and wrong, give you the solution to it, and that's it. Yes hard questions challenge yourself, but I strongly believe doing that doing that alone won't do much in improving the average person's problem solving skills.Dr Dew
YeBut does Dr Du really improve your problem solving skills. From what my friend (who went to him) told me, he would give a fkload of homework with hard questions, and then next lesson people would mark it, tell you what you got right and wrong, give you the solution to it, and that's it. Yes hard questions challenge yourself, but I strongly believe doing that doing that alone won't do much in improving the average person's problem solving skills.
goodness me.. whatever then