<p>Any help/advice/tips on signing up for Covel tutoring, or any other tutoring program would be much appreciated! :)</p>
<p>No special tips - you should get an email about it. Sign up early in person since I believe it is first come-first serve.</p>
<p>Is covel tutoring really that helpful? During orientation they said it’s in high demand, but does it produce results unobtainable from just self-study?</p>
<p>Covel sucked - I took it for 31a and really didn’t get anything extra out of it - I found it to be more of a chore every week rather than something I looked forward to to get help. I screwed it for 31b and ended up with a B in 31a (with tutoring) and an A- in 31b (with no tutoring).</p>
<p>Are you required to attend after signing up? Does it cost anything?</p>
<p>If we sign up for it, do we HAVE to go? Or can we just go when we need help?</p>
<p>You can only have a certain # of absences for Covel tutoring (i think like 2). After that, you’re blacklisted from tutoring the next quarter. (so lets say you get tutoring for fall and you have enough absences. You would not be able to get tutoring winter, but you could sign up in spring)</p>
<p>Doesn’t cost money to enroll.</p>
<p>Best case: extra problem sets solved during sessions, sometimes homework problems
Worst case: waste your time by reviewing things done in class (may be beneficial if you never study after class or never show up to lecture)</p>
<p>Oh, I see. Makes sense. When/where do we go to sign up? I haven’t received any emails or seen anything around campus for it.</p>
<p>I thought covel helped a great deal in chemistry for me… math noooot so much especially if you’ve taken calc ab/bc… i don’t see how it’ll help for LS series… i mean it’s just memorization… oh and it didn’t help me for physics 6a… It was just a waste of time.</p>
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<p>A Covel tutor will make an announcement about it during one of the first week lectures. If not, you’ll find out by word of mouth from colleagues or your friends.</p>
<p>The signups are in Covel, 2nd floor, where the tutorials are held.</p>
<p>It’s really dependent on the tutor, since everyone who teaches is a student. In my experience though, it was a waste of time.</p>
<p>It was alrite imo. it depends on the class/teacher. my 14A tutor had a different teacher when she took it. she didn’t really know how to answer our questions. it was basically a rehash of a TA session where she told us the fundamentals and gave us basic problem types, except it was nowhere near as effective because she wasn’t as experienced. if you can, it might actually be better to just try out different TAs and find some whose teaching styles work well with you. for the most part, though, learning (anywhere, not just LA) is independent, so it’s best to view tutoring as supplementary</p>