<p>For anyone who has worked there, how is it ? Also how hard is the placement exam ? I'm pretty good at algebra and geometry but I sort of loose it at trig and pre calc. Some people said that the students who work there don't even really tutor, just grade papers so is the placement test a huge determining factor ?</p>
<p>I used to go to kumon and it looked to me like you really don’t need credentials. The people who I talked to were idiots and looked to the answer book for everything. You’ll be fine</p>
<p>If you’re the kind of person thinking about taking the test, you’re the kind of person who will pass it. </p>
<p>Also, it really is mostly grading</p>
<p>I took the placement test a few weeks ago and it was mostly systems of equations, factoring, and adding/subtracting/multiplying mixed numbers or improper fractions with different denominators. The problems weren’t that difficult but some of them resulted in fractions that had huge numerators and there was no way to further simplify the answer. I have a few friends who work there and they say depending on whether you work with the younger or older kids, your responsibilities are different. The younger kids are tutored one on one but all the older kids sit in one big room and the tutors just walk around and help whoever needs help/grade papers. Also, it really depends on your center location. The centers near where I live really only hire 4.0 students taking difficult classes who all have really impressive resumes but that might just be where I live haha. I’m sure you’ll be fine.</p>
<p>Pretty much what @amylase0 said, but I’ll add that most of the kids working there know the owner and/or went through the program there</p>
<p>I took Kumon classes and if you don’t know how it works, here is the break down:
Students get put into all different math and reading levels, and they do a bunch of packets. Where I went, I did a math and a reading packet for classwork, and 3 pairs of math and reading packets for HW (one for each day I wasn’t at Kumon). You, as an employee either check the classwork, or HW for one of the subjects. You don’t have to know much about the things you are checking bc you are using the answer book 24/7. However, there are few employees that help kids with questions thy have trouble with, but the kids are usually very young (single digits from what I’ve seen). You might have to brush up on the math subjects you are unsure about, but you probably just need to know the basics to pass the exam. I doubt they will have you solve problems that aren’t straight-forward. The math packets only consist of straight-forward questions.</p>