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Guide to Choosing a Tutor
3. How Familiar is the Tutor With Your Curriculum?
It is absolutely crucial to your academic success that your tutor be totally familiar with your subject curriculum. If not, you will inevitably miss out on important material that is relevant to your studies.
This may seem an obvious point, but alarmingly there is a number of overseas tutors currently teaching in Sydney who are unfortunately unfamiliar with the Australian curricula. Some of these even go as far as teaching directly from overseas texts.
When teaching a foreign language, there are 3 general areas that your tutor should cover effectively. Firstly, they should ensure that you know the basics of the language. This includes grammar, vocabulary, sentence structure, etc, across all of the 4 language disciplines: reading, writing, speaking and listening.
Of course this is a large part of what you learn at school, and it can often also be learned quite effectively from books and tapes. Fortunately, most tutors are quite capable of covering this point reasonably well.
Secondly, your tutor should teach you to perfect your pronunciation and general speaking quality. This was covered earlier in Question 1.
And thirdly, it is crucial that your tutor ensures you achieve a high academic grade in your studies. This can only be achieved by being very familiar with your curriculum and covering specifically what is relevant to your coursework. Also, your tutor should be able to indicate exactly what to expect in exams, and to instruct you on what and how to prepare for them in order to score high marks.
For a student aiming at high academic grades, hiring a tutor who is not capable of providing all these points would be an unfortunate waste of time and money. Be absolutely sure therefore, that your tutor knows exactly what to cover for the coursework and exams of your level of study before hiring them.
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