<p>I go to a very small school (70 or so kids)</p>
<p>Everyone’s spoiled. All the parents think they need to shell out thousands on SAT classes.
In my class, every “smart kid” got a personal tutor and I outscored every single one of those kids. I’ve always tried to tell them that they simply don’t need a tutor.</p>
<p>When you start with this stuff, you really don’t know where to begin. What book should you get? Should you even be taking the SAT? What about the ACT?</p>
<p>I want to give an introductory class in which I teach kids how to prepare themselves for the SAT. Simple. Make every one of them buy a blue book, make them buy the CORRECT vocab book (Larry Krieger’s 300 essential words is the best for us Sunday test takers), and make them learn to PRACTICE THE RIGHT WAY. </p>
<p>The only people who need tutors are those who lack motivation. Everyone else can teach this stuff to themselves. I’m preaching to the choir, I know, this is CC. But the kids in my school don’t know this, and so they turn to a tutor right away. I went them to come to me before the tutor, to learn the right way, and then they can decide if they need a tutor. I am also willing to work one on one with them and explain stuff, but for the most part, I want to show them how Blue Book explanations are online and how millions of their questions regarding specific SAT problems have been answered on this site.</p>
<p>I’m just scared that a 2160 isn’t “good enough” to qualify to teach an intro class. But in my defense, I only took the SAT twice and only practiced for 4 months. After that, I exceeded the score I needed by almost 150 points, so there was no need to re-take (I seriously only need a 2000 or so for the school I wanna go to). But anyways, these kids have a year, and I know that with my help, they can easily outscore me.</p>
<p>So, do you think I’m qualified to teach this intro class?</p>
<p>EDIT: I should mention that a lot of these kids have already come up to me with questions regarding the SAT and what I recommend. It came to a point where I really wanted to go to a girl’s house just to show her more efficient ways to tackle CR questions, but I figured that’s too much of a hassle if I’m not actually tutoring her… that’s how I came up with this idea</p>
<p>I know these kids personally and I’d hate to see them go to a tutor for 3 hours once a week and to “think” they’re prepared, then get a really disappointing score… (happened to every single kid in my class who had a tutor)</p>