is college that much difficult require you to have a tutor?

sopranokitty
Wed, 31 Jul 2013 19:24:09 +0000

Colleges/universities will often have a tutoring center where you can get tutoring for free, and tutors have experience in the course they’re helping people with (at my university, you can only apply to be a tutor if you have a 3.0 GPA average and if you got a B or better in the course you want to tutor in). These tutoring centers have several tutors, so if you don’t like one tutor you can go to another tutor. Professors have office hours if you have any questions, but just know that if there are a lot of people lined up to speak with the professor during their office hours, you won’t be able to ask your professor for detailed help.

Whether you need a tutor in college HIGHLY depends on how well you grasp the material that you learn in class. I personally went to a tutoring workshop every week for O-chem in addition to going to office hours back when I took it because I knew I needed it since I’m not good at chemistry, and office hours wasn’t enough for me because they were always only an hour long (I could only go to one of my professor’s office hours) and because there’s always a group of people crammed into my professor’s small office and so you have to be respectful of other people who also want to ask questions. The specialist who ran tutoring workshops (unlike drop-in or group tutors, which tend to be fellow undergrads or graduate students, tutoring workshops are run by specialists) was very familiar with test formats of all the O-chem professors and even had access to their old sample tests.