Tuition centres should be: Specialist or General? (1 Viewer)

[HarryDC]

Hello BoSers

I'd like your opinion on specialist vs general HSC tuition centres. Would you prefer:

a) a general tuition centre which offers tuition for all HSC subjects (i.e. all sciences, all maths and all english, in addition to history, economics and other popular courses), or

b) a specialist tuition centre which only offers tuition in its area of expertise, such as maths, where the centre is famous for retaining the highest quality teachers, but does not offer tuition in any other subject.

Also if you have a specific opinion in this matter, could you please elaborate on whether you think students these days prefer to go to a specialist over a general tuition centre? Do students prefer to customise their tutoring needs nowadays? i.e. going to place X for Chemistry, person Y for 1 on 1 English, and place Z for maths?

Thanks for your input.

 

[shaon0]

Hello BoSers

I'd like your opinion on specialist vs general HSC tuition centres. Would you prefer:

a) a general tuition centre which offers tuition for all HSC subjects (i.e. all sciences, all maths and all english, in addition to history, economics and other popular courses), or

b) a specialist tuition centre which only offers tuition in its area of expertise, such as maths, where the centre is famous for retaining the highest quality teachers, but does not offer tuition in any other subject.

Also if you have a specific opinion in this matter, could you please elaborate on whether you think students these days prefer to go to a specialist over a general tuition centre? Do students prefer to customise their tutoring needs nowadays? i.e. going to place X for Chemistry, person Y for 1 on 1 English, and place Z for maths?

Thanks for your input.

I think most ppl would like it if there was tuition available for: Maths, Chem, Physics and English and some humanities.

 

[HarryDC]

Thanks but I'm more asking about whether there's a preference for specialisation within centres

Anymore opinions? oh and a big bump to this thread

 

[jessi90]

I'd definitely go to a specialist where, like you said, can offer their expertise in a particular subject. I think it's important for students to know what they want for themselves but ultimately in my opinion, specialists can offer a much more in-depth knowledge to the course and hence that's why I believe students will really excel (not saying they won't if they don't go to these tutors).

A "general" tuition centre speaks for itself.

 

[HarryDC]

Thanks for the input jessi, are there any others?

 

[lindaguo]

I think the specialist model will do more good for most students. Personally I would prefer a private tutor for subjects like English (due to the sheer amount of different modules out there) but wouldnt mind going to a place for maths/sciences as they usually have proper teachers and materials.

 

[anythingisright]

Isn't there enough tuition centre out there? A lot of the tuition centre is really not effective as they have teachers that don't know the material well enough. It's just a waste of parent's money. I have been to a lot of tuition centres previously and majority of them don't help and are just for profit only.