Tutoring

This is so funny,

I wanted to do some tutoring as well, but I didn't know how to go about finding students. I'm going to be doing Princeton Review instruction instead. PR is a test prep company designed to help high school and college students do well on the SAT's, LSAT's, GRE, MCAT, etc. I hope to be doing SAT's and LSAT's, and MAYBE some GRE stuff.

Pay is pretty OK. I think about $20 an hour. You have to show some qualifications and pass a short test. You also have to pass a teaching try-out.

Judd

Algers,

Have you seen "L.I.E." or "Capturing The Friedmans" this week or something?

I hope you don't tell clients using your accounting services about your arithmetic needs as a child.

Juddstin,

The route I'm exploring is through a local tutoring agency, but it's simply the first thing I came across. Pay is $12-18 depending on credentials. Given your comments, I'm now interested in pursuing the GMAT or GRE tutoring thing a little.

However, if patience is a requirement as JeremyD suggests, this might be a bigger challenge than expected.

A few years ago I tutored in both physics and calculus...but for gratis. My reward was seeing people who thought they were unteachable in those disciplines go through a series of 'eureka moments' that have literally changed their life course. The problem was that I had no formal studies in those fields since my Pure/Applied/Physics A-levels circa 1977 which made it a little intimidating at first, although I was amazed by how much I could remember and convey.

Ron
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Alex,

The Princeton review stuff is all classroom instruction, which takes place at thier facilities or at a college or highschool. Hell, I'm not even sure elementaty schools do background checks on thier teachers.

Judd

Judd,

When I took the GRE, I read the PR study guide -- it was great. Totally put the GRE in perpsective for me, i.e. it's not a test of intelligence, just a test of how well you can take the test. I looked through their vocab list and wrote out words I did not know on 3x5s which I carried around for a week or two. Sure enough 2 or 3 were on the test (had to be worth a few percentiles). Similarly, the math shortcuts came in handy too.

Good luck with it, but I must say that $20/hr seems low to me. How much do they charge for the course?

cheers,

Dan

yea,

they charged me $1350 for the MCAT course (which I did not do well enough on to teach for them- but I did get into my first choice med school). Assuming it's the same for GRE, that's 10 people per class. Assuming 20 sessions for class.

They make 1350 x 10 = $13,500. I get paid 800 for my 20 sessions (each session is 2 hours). They do OK. That's the nature of the business, I guess.

If I had gotten a 36 on the MCAT, I could advertise as my local university for private MCAT tutoring and easily rake in $100 an hour. There is an entire class of premeds who would just assume kill themselves than not get into med school. BELIEVE me on this.

judd

Where I am, postgrads charge about £35 an hour, or £150 a day for contact time, and about £15 an hour for marking. However, we suggest that if a few students want to get together to split the cost, so long as they agree the material they want covered beforehand, that is fine. Tutors are expected have a MSc or have successfully transfered from MPhil to DPhil in the subject that they are tutoring.

Feel free to PM me for general tutoring tips.