My mom thinks that if I get tutored in a group, I’ll be able to learn from the other’s student’s mistakes. However, my friends all tell me to do one-on-one tutoring. What worked for you?
One on one was better for us but it costs a lot more.
One on one is probably most effective - it’ll tailored specifically to your needs. Not to say that your needs won’t overlap at times with a group’s, but some of the time they will not. One on one is likely to be more expensive. Regardless, it’ll be up to you to study and practice between sessions.
What score are you starting with? If you’re relatively middle-of-the-pack and need help with content, then group preparation may work well for you. On the other hand, if you’re already scoring very well, the group class will probably spend a lot of time going over things you already know and may skip or gloss over the very hard topics that you most need to work on.
Be sure to compare the two options cost-wise. It may be that an hour or two of one-on-one is roughly equivalent to the cost of the group class. I got about two hours of one-on-one ACT tutoring (in addition to significant independent studying) and I think that did more for me than an 8 hour class would.
We did one-on-one for both of our daughters. A good tutor will coach you in your weak areas and give you individualized test strategies for each section of the test. I don’t think you can get that as effectively in a group setting.
Private tutor here. I personally think group tutoring is almost a complete waste of time. You will not learn from the others’ mistakes because group sessions simply cannot focus on an individual’s particular issue. Whatever someone else got wrong is mostly relevant to that person only.
Yes, private tutoring is expensive, but you can have a few sessions that probably won’t cost any more than group sessions. Two or three sessions of one on one can make a big difference.
My son said that what helped him most was just taking many, many practice exams. He ended up raising his score a lot that way.
Do some tests. See what your weakness /strengths are then find a tutor to refine those if you can afford it. Much cheaper then we thought and depending on your local should have tutor websites for college students that do this. We got a graduate student from University of Chicago doing brain research at a major hospital in Chicago that did tutoring, some online also, and was wonderful with my son. This was 2 years ago and I think the sessions were like $60.00/hour but like he really didn’t clock watch and we did 1.5 hours at a time. I think he ended up doing packages of like 10 for less then $600, which is much less then group sessions at any of the major companies and honed down a very specific issues my son needed to fix /improve on.