<p>Hi,
Just thinking about starting to tutor for Kaplan for SAT/LSAT & wondered if anyone had any experience w/this? I'm looking for a very flexible part-time job (young child still at home).</p>
<p>I did v. good on the SAT/LSAT but that was eons ago (lol) & I'd have to re-study & re-test for both to qualify as a tutor (& it's only $18.50 an hr). </p>
<p>Just curious if anyone had heard anything about this... fun? Worthwhile?</p>
<p>Not loving the idea of spending weeks relearning all that LSAT stuff..then again, I've been working w/my son on the SAT for months so have the whole 'tutor' thing down (although he wishes I didn't...)</p>
<p>I have been seriously considering doing this, as well. However, it seems like it requires many hours of prep time outside of the paid hours. I am getting the idea that it isn't such a sweet job. I checked out some forums that discussed it. If anyone has actual experience, I would appreciate your thoughts, too!</p>
<p>D did it last summer and liked it. It's definitely flexible and the pay is quite good. You might think about looking at PR, too - I could be misremembering but I think they pay a little better than what you're quoting for Kaplan.</p>
<p>My mom used to teach LSAT for Kaplan from the time I was about 5 until she went to law school when I entered the 4th grade. My little brother entered kindergarten the year she started law school, so he was very little when she was doing it. </p>
<p>Given that most classes are in the evenings or on weekends, it should work out pretty well. </p>
<p>I taught MCAT for Kaplan a couple years ago, so I can give even a little bit more insight. Prepping lessons for the first time usually took me about 2 hours or so, maybe a little more, for a lesson that was suppose to run 3 hours in length. As I got used to prepping, and developed a better understanding of getting through the teaching guides and the things I knew I wanted to make sure I hit thoroughly, it got a little faster. So you need to make sure that you can set aside a little bit of time when doing that. Once I started teach lessons I had taught previously, it was about a half hour or so of prep, just to make sure I knew where things were headed. I didn't have a whole lot of students ask me questions outside class time, but I've heard that tends to be very center dependent, and some places Kaplan instructors actually have to have scheduled office hours to accommodate. My center was exceedingly small, so I don't know how that necessarily worked out.</p>
<p>Jolynne and kelsmom, I don't know if this counts as a thought but.....I am amazed and impressed y'all would even consider it. The way my brain works these days I couldn't pass a driver's license test open book. The SAT is bad enough but the LSAT again? My head would explode right there in the room. </p>
<p>Go for it and report back. I hope y'all kick their butts. And be sure not to sit too close to anybody. Just in case.</p>
<p>Another thought might be to become a private SAT tutor. My friend is paying her tutor $125/hour to tutor her daughter for the SAT in Math. True, they live in a wealthy New York suburb, but if you live in the right place, there may be a big opportunity. Maybe it's something you can do after a year teaching SAT classes to get some professional sounding credentials.</p>
<p>"I did v. good on the SAT/LSAT but that was eons ago (lol) & I'd have to re-study & re-test for both to qualify as a tutor (& it's only $18.50 an hr).</p>
<p>Not posting this to be nasty but because it caught my personal and professional eye. Grammar is important on those tests and that sentence contains a basic grammatical error that is either careless or indicates a lack of good grammar skills. You either do well or get good scores--grammatically speaking, you do not "do good" on a test--the only way you "do good" grammatically is by performing acts of mercy and charity and such--literally doing good, with good as a noun. In the OP context, good was an adjective used incorrectly as an adverb to modify "do." In know in real life this may not matter (you can't eat grammar or use it to fill your gas tank. after all), but for a tutor or teacher of any kind I believe it does matter and that small errors are not acceptable in that professional context.</p>
<p>Thanks for the thoughts! Curmudgeon..there is a likely chance that my head will, in fact, explode doing the LSAT and this entire exercise might be a time-consuming method of revealing cognitive decline! Oh well!</p>
<p>mattmom---they make you retake the SAT & the LSAT so those of us whose grammar may have declined since our youthful test-taking years won't slip through! Fortunately, I've been studying the SAT w/son & have a pretty good (wait...maybe "accurate"??) idea about my skills in that area. :-) If I do it & take a re-test I guess that will reveal whether those perceptions are delusional! lol.</p>
<p>PS Using my 'internet colloquial exception' for the good/well usage in original post. Is that good? :-)</p>
<p>Right - in order to charge fees like that, you need the credentials, which usually (though not always) means working with one of the test prep companies first. Do be aware that most will have a noncompete clause, under which you agree not to hang out your own shingle for a specified amount of time after your training with them.</p>
<p>I think this might have been mentioned on another thread, but it's worth noting again: Within the test prep companies, your pay as a private tutor goes up and up as your students' scores go up and up, and they and their parents give you good reviews. And although the company may say you can't do private tutoring until you've taught classes, they're willing to bend the rule if someone requests you. So anybody who wants to do this would do well to start spreading the word once they're fairly sure they are going to make it through the training. Then friends/friends' kids can request you specifically as a tutor when they call the test company.</p>