Choosing the Best JC Math Tuition

There are so many JC Math Tuition to choose from, ranging from private to small groups and you may be clueless as to where to begin searching. Usually, a quick keyword search on Google will provide you with a list of JC Math Tuition centres. Some of them appear as advertisements at the top of the page as these Tuition centres pay for advertising so that more traffic will be attained. They hope to attract more students to their centre. Tuition is, after all, a profit-making venture. Tuition centres compete against each other to attract students to sign up for classes. How then do you differentiate between the different H2 Math Tuition and select one that is beneficial to you? Effectiveness of a JC Math Tuition can be measured by the time taken for improvement and the percentage jump in grade after attending tuition classes. Of course, this should be considered in light of the number of lessons you have spent with your JC Math Tuition Teacher. One cannot expect to see a miraculous jump in grades after spending only a number of lessons at the tuition centre. This article aims to help you identify some key characteristics you should look out for in your JC Math Tuition Teacher before deciding whether you should continue committing to further lessons at the centre (or with the tutor if it is a private lesson).

1. Your JC Math Tuition teacher should be enthusiastic about the subject

It makes an entire world of difference if your H2 Math Tuition teacher shows exceptional interest in getting information across and making sure that you truly understand what is going on. Most students take up tuition because they need the extra boost. Rarely do students take up tuition for a particular subject if they are already performing well for it, unless they are “kiasu” about securing an A for ‘A’ Levels. A passionate teacher is sure to be a better tutor than a tutor who is disinterested in the subject and only views lessons as a daily task and something to “get it over and done with”. To these teachers, students are nothing more than paying customers and their agenda is just to carry out lessons without concern as to whether their tutee actually grasps the material or their performance at school.

Teachers should be interested in their students’ progress and try as much as possible to keep track of your grades for your assessments at school. By doing so, they will be able to gauge your standing and identify how much more extra support you need. You will want to find a teacher who makes the effort to get to know you, by this I don’t mean that they should know you as a person, but rather your weaknesses in certain topics and your strengths, so that they will be able to shift their focus towards your weaker topics and help tackle those areas. This may be difficult for group JC Math Tuition teachers, as compared to private tutors, but at the very least, your tuition teachers should be open to answering any query you may have, whether those questions are external to the tuition centre materials or not. Some tuition teachers go the extra mile and offer free consultations on top of the lessons already conducted and it will be extremely beneficial for your learning if you manage to source a JC Math Tuition who is like this.

Your H2 Math Tuition teacher need not be a veteran in the subject but should not be a fresh graduate from Junior College (not to be mixed up with University), who may not have sufficient exposure to the nuances of the subject. These tutors may not have access to a wide range of materials and do not have the luxury of time in their arsenal. Hence, they may not be the most effective tutors. However, this is not to say that it is not worth a shot, although we advise you to choose otherwise if possible.

2. There should be room to make mistakes

Your JC Math Tuition teacher should not be completely derisive of mistakes made. It is common to make mistakes, especially in the subject of Mathematics. You should not beat yourself up over making mistakes and mistakes actually teach you what not to do in the future when attempting similar question types. It is through mistakes that you realise the necessary steps to take and the steps to avoid.

Your teachers should be encouraging and should help to correct your mistake by providing you with more questions if need be. When careless mistakes are made, they will be quick to point it out and will gently remind you of your repeated errors.

Your tutor should be patient and willing to explain your mistakes to you as well. They should go through the steps with you and render a more detailed explanation if you fail to get it the first-time round.

However, do note that if your H2 Math Tuition class is in a group setting, there may not be enough time to go through every single mistake made by all the students in the class. The teacher is likely to go through common mistakes. If you have questions about the mistake you made which may be peculiar to you, do not be afraid to raise your query in class, or look for your tutor after the class is over to clarify your doubts. A good teacher should not disregard your query without hearing you out and taking the time to go through your doubts with you.

3. Your JC Math Tuition teacher should provide you with plenty of resources

Your JC Math Tuition teacher should have his hands on a plethora of resources, be it examination questions from the different Junior Colleges or questions he has set himself over the years. By exposing his students to many different question types and being able to provide practice papers on request, this will be very helpful to students as the best way to excel in Mathematics is to practice questions as much as possible. There is no other way to ace Mathematics, unless you are natural at the subject.

Your JC Math Tuition teacher should encourage timed practices as much as possible and this should be self-initiated. You should have the responsibility of doing timed practices yourselves. Your teachers can only go so far and encourage you to set time limits when you attempt questions. This will be a big help during examinations.

4. Present alternative methods of solving the same questions

For a subject like Mathematics, there is usually no one set way of getting to a common answer. This is especially the case for topics such as vectors. Your JC Math Tuition teacher should as much as possible, demonstrate the different possible methods that can get you to the final answer. Different students think differently, and some methods may be more intuitive to you than others. You should not berate yourself for using a method that most the class did not reach as it may be correct nonetheless. Your method may even be more efficient than the set method.