<p>There's this kid in my neighborhood who scored a 2350 on his SAT and wants to start tutoring kids who have difficulties with the SAT.
Do you think that's even possible ? Would anyone take an 18 year old tutor seriously ?</p>
<p>I think if the kid has a knack for teaching, they could do just fine. My daughter was a summer school high school teacher at the age of 18 with her own classroom through the Breakthrough Collaborative (not SAT prep, but running a classroom).</p>
<p>I am an 18 year old tutor but I teach high school subjects. The only thing an 18 year old tutor is good for is helping people that are seriously struggling. You definitely wouldn’t want to hire an 18 year old tutor if you were trying to get ahead (a 4.0 gpa), but it wouldn’t be a bad idea if you needed to get caught up.</p>
<p>Personally, I wouldn’t hire one because any one of the hundreds of prep books would teach you more. However, I would make an exception for the essay. I would consider getting him to help me with that.</p>
<p>The guy is charging $250 for the classes till July (he leaves for university in September) .
Is that reasonable ? Considering other places charge $1000+ ?</p>
<p>How much time does $250 get you? Don’t pay him more than $15 per hour if it’s one on one, and even less if it’s group tutoring.</p>
<p>If he’s charging that amount, he does not have the experience to back it up, despite his score and the insight he may have.</p>
<p>I would. Considering that this person recently took the test vs a school course.
But 250? No. I pay 50 for a test and at least 11 just to send scores. I can understand the 250 because of college</p>
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<p>My daughter has been studying with a guy who’s now 19. She really enjoys working with him which makes a big difference. And he is brilliant.</p>
<p>Can you ask for a sample lesson? Pay for it, of course, but see if he knows what he’s doing.</p>
<p>Considering he scored pretty well, 250 is reasonable because it seems like he knows what he is doing.</p>
<p>He said he’s taking one-to-one classes . Not group.
He will take 2 classes a week (1.5 hrs each) or till the kid thinks he requires up till August … He’s gotten into an Ivy school so he needs to prepare for it in august .
Now with all this information… $250 doesn’t seem like much…
Let’s say he was charging $15 per hour … That’s already $300 for 20 hours. Won’t $250 be cheaper ?</p>
<p>There’s a big difference between being able to score 2350 and being able to teach it. I wouldn’t commit to that much time and money without a sample lesson.</p>
<p>He’d probably have more luck if he charged a cheep lesson by lesson fee rather than a lump sum. I’d want to see some good stuff in the lessons before committing.</p>
<p>Good grief, I made more than $15 an hour tutoring Geometry one-on-one 25 years ago. And I was 15, with no identifiable skill other than “doing well in the same Geometry class as the other kid.”</p>
<p>I agree that it sounds too cheap. His first tutoring endeavor? We have used a high school student, now a sophomore at Yale. I pay him $45/lesson (often more than an hour) but I know he charges more to other clients.</p>
<p>From what I know , he’s tutoring for a fee for the first time, he used to teach juniors math and physics for free . And $15 is just what I said per hour to show that its actually costlier than $250 in the long run … I’m pretty sure it’ll be more than $15/hour.
Anyway , I asked him about a ‘trial’ and he said he’ll take me on for an hour and he’ll charge $30 for that.
I think I’ll give it a shot … What say?</p>
<p>I would say if you can afford it why not as a trial ask him all sorts of questions on technique and see if he is just really smart kid or does he have some useful insight to the test and strategies which you can apply</p>
<p>I don’t think the age of the person matters so much as how well they can teach and if they actually know good SAT techniques.
I know my cousin taught a SAT prep class the summer before he went off to Princeton and I heard that people in his class did extremely well on their SAT’s, even giving him unrequested or non-stipulated bonuses because they did so well.
Some of the best SAT advice/strategies I have ever gotten was from one of my friends, and it helped me improve my SAT score by ~150 points.
Conclusion: Does the tutor have a deep understanding of the SAT(it looks like they do) and can they teach it (to be determined it looks like)</p>
<p>definitely, an 18 years old tutor is even better that an older tutor for, the younger tutor has been through the SAT as a student and his advices will be much better than anybody.</p>
<p>I’m 16 and I’m an SAT tutor lol adults haven’t taken the test recently and can’t connect to younger students as well.</p>