Tutoring

[kegkilla]

anyone here ever work a tutoring position for a tutoring company? tomorrow i am interviewing for a job with a tutoring company tutoring high school kids in the SATs (i scored a 740 on my math and 640 verbal... i think i would just be doing the math part). anyone ever done this? to be quite i have no idea what i am getting into, i just know i need a job for the summer that doesn't involve a lot of moving around because i could be undergoing ankle surgery. what is the pay like? the lady said i would probably get 10ish hours a week. is it frustrating or fun working with these kids? is it a good resume builder? obviously i'm not trying to do this for a career.

[Cad]

Originally Posted by kegkilla

anyone here ever work a tutoring position for a tutoring company? tomorrow i am interviewing for a job with a tutoring company tutoring high school kids in the SATs (i scored a 740 on my math and 640 verbal... i think i would just be doing the math part). anyone ever done this? to be quite i have no idea what i am getting into, i just know i need a job for the summer that doesn't involve a lot of moving around because i could be undergoing ankle surgery. what is the pay like? the lady said i would probably get 10ish hours a week. is it frustrating or fun working with these kids? is it a good resume builder? obviously i'm not trying to do this for a career.

I got offered this from Kaplan for the LSAT, I think it's like 10-15 bucks an hour and it's shitty work.

[Snugglebear]

Screw that, MCAT tutoring is $40/hr or more!

[Gauss]

Do you actually have any ability to TEACH? If not, I'd pass.

P.S. Damn I had no idea people getting offered to teach this shit didn't ace their respective SAT sections.

[Fog]

Originally Posted by Gauss

Do you actually have any ability to TEACH? If not, I'd pass.

P.S. Damn I had no idea people getting offered to teach this shit didn't ace their respective SAT sections.

This post, no kidding.

[Cad]

Originally Posted by Gauss

Do you actually have any ability to TEACH? If not, I'd pass.

P.S. Damn I had no idea people getting offered to teach this shit didn't ace their respective SAT sections.

I think they do have actual teachers, but then they have people who scored really high on sections to talk about those sections as well.

[Vinen]

What a low score...
/got a 1540 (screw English!)

Anyhow, the SAT's are a joke. Anyone should be able to teach a standardized test imho-

[Menoz]

Back when I was in high school I tutored hot chicks for the ACT. Loved every minute of it, but I could be selective about who I tutored.

[kegkilla]

had the interview today everything went good. they gave me some lil math quiz that i knocked out pretty hard. they pay $20 an hour to start with raises every 6 months which sounded pretty good to me, even if i am driving to these people's houses.

as for you knob jobs bagging my test scores.. i'm sure they would love to have all tutors who scored 1600s but it seems these people are too busy playing WoW and writing snide comments on online gaming message boards. also, the job calls for good communication skills in person- not the kind over ventrillo or with a keyboard. they're gonna have to settle for the guy who scored a mere 1380 and is very likely to make passes at attractive female clients.

[joeboo]

Originally Posted by Gauss

Do you actually have any ability to TEACH? If not, I'd pass.

P.S. Damn I had no idea people getting offered to teach this shit didn't ace their respective SAT sections.

I interviewed with such a place many years ago in college. For the interview, I was to take the full Math SAT portion of the test, which I completed in 15minutes, and scored perfectly on. After this, I was asked to help the interviewer solve a problem as if he knew nothing. They never called me back. Obviously they are looking for people with teaching ability, not just test taking ability.

[Gauss]

Originally Posted by joeboo

I interviewed with such a place many years ago in college. For the interview, I was to take the full Math SAT portion of the test, which I completed in 15minutes, and scored perfectly on. After this, I was asked to help the interviewer solve a problem as if he knew nothing. They never called me back. Obviously they are looking for people with teaching ability, not just test taking ability.

That's how it should be too. I know far too many people with good brains but think people are abjectly retarded if they can't grasp concepts on the same level as them and have no skill in demagogy as a result.

[Shanter]

I think the job mainly entails telling kids the tricks to do the math portion of the SAT (cutting down time to do the rest of the portion) and choosing the longest answer for definitions in the english part.

[Zarcath]

There's so many things wrong with Kegkilla tutoring I don't even know where to begin.

[Kuriin]

It's always the same people on these forums that seem to have a superiority complex. Seriously, shut the fuck up.

[Ronne]

Originally Posted by Zarcath

There's so many things wrong with Kegkilla tutoring I don't even know where to begin.

This.