Watch this before paying for a Maths Tutor

hey guys hope you're having a wonderful summer holidays so with September approaching I decided to ask you guys what you thought when I about when I asked the question what do you think about the tuition so I wanted to get some responses just to see what your guys's thoughts were and the response is kind of surprised me some of you have a somewhat negative view of it now of course at first I was kind of hurt took a bit personal so I thought you know what let's address each one of these concerns in order and see if there's any kind of truth to it because a few of them are indeed misconceptions so I thought we'd go spend some time today to go through exactly what the different misconceptions are about tuition and try and debunk them so to speak step by step so without further Ado let's get into it the first misconception that you would come across is that it's for dumb or weak students now part of this actually came from a place of kind of a good kind of place where you guys said that essentially it's just to get up to like a grade seven or an eight they won't push you to get the highest grades possible but what I did notice is that a few of you guys actually she said this in reference to school interventions now School interventions and tuition are not the same thing even if your school words it as such the purpose of interventions is to either make sure you pass or make sure you reach your target grades beyond that they don't care that much because they just want to make sure that you get a solid grade and if you are referring to a tutor I'm just going to put it out there you've got a bad tutor good tutors will always try and push you to get the highest grades possible if you want to think about it a it's a good reference if a student says they got higher than they could ever believed that they could have achieved that looks good on the tutor but also you should just look for tutors that are actually ambitious and are willing to push you and don't be afraid to ask them to push you as well in my personal experience a lot of the students that I've had well not all a lot but there was a good chunk of students that I had that were either doing exams early doing grammar school entry exams doing entry exams for University and even doing additional a levels now all of this was because they wanted to get to the highest possible level okay so it's not just for weak or dumb students sure those people you know people that are weak are going to get tuition to help become strong but even if you're strong you can benefit from tuition especially because schools tend to go at a fairly slow pace they want to make sure everyone passes they don't particularly care if you all get a hundred percent or not so you write in school you may be kind of held back a bit because the school teaches to an average but with tuition it's either one to one or small classes that means that average can be a lot higher which means they're aiming a lot higher so I thought this might be a good time for me to advertise my own actual tuition that I'm going to do so from September the first week in September I'm going going to run GCSE maths a level maths and a level physics group classes no more than six they're going to take place on the weekdays and the weekends if you are interested in this I have my email in the description and you can also join the Discord either one of those and just register your interest let me know what you think let me know what questions you have I also am going to be doing those YouTube live streams to offer a cheaper alternative so these are going to be 10 pounds a month YouTube members but you're going to get a lesson for GCSE maths and a lesson for due to a level maths as well where Jesus is on Tuesdays from 6 p.m 7 p.m and of course a levels is going to be on Thursday 6 PM 7 P.M but the idea is that way you get at least an hour of tuition every single week for about two pound fifty which makes it a lot lower you'll be able to submit questions you'll be able to kind of do all that normal stuff that we did before so I thought I just want to mention that just in case you want to kind of note that in your Diaries or whatever again you can't email or comment any questions you may have the next point is actually pretty hard for me to argue with that it's expensive of course I do good to tutor can charge upwards of 30 pounds an hour 40 50 60 pounds an hour some people even pay over a hundred pounds an hour however I found a few studies that actually show that that improving your grades will save you and earn you a ton more money then tuition will ever cost you so don't rather do this get into those studies right now so one uh kind of study done by the Department of Education the Link's going to be in the description but I've also got it on screen somewhere probably showed that for every grade that you go up at GCSE corresponds to 23 000 pounds in lifetime earnings that's for each individual grade now it should be noted that this is only for past grades and above so anything from grade four and above so going from grade four to grade 5 23 000 extra pounds and then if you go up to a six another twenty three thousand pounds and so on and this works for the core subjects with so what they're including there is science maths and English they found with the additional subjects that there was a lot of variation in how much more money that it would gain you but it will all gain you money is noted that this is after tax one last factor I want to point about this kind of study in particular is that the median annual income is 27 000 pounds so effectively a bit rough calculation but effectively every grade you go up at GCSE you are earning about a Year's extra salary just to put that into perspective so if you've gone from a grade five to a grade nine that's four times twenty three thousand pounds that you've managed to make or in other words four years of median income extra so that kind of pays the tuition in and of itself another report done this is for you a level guys showed that these average salaries for people that have attended universities versus Russell group universities were markedly different with for example um universities like lse and Imperial offering far higher starting salaries after graduation than ones like that aren't in the Russell group itself and it was also shown that for things like medicine and stem you know the highly competitive Fields this increase could be over 20 percent for the starting salary so this shows that if you do get good grades at a level you can go to these top universities this is Russell group universities and earn a lot more than people that didn't go to a Russell group University so I know there's a common thing that the university you go to doesn't matter and to an extent that's true but that's a whole another topic that I can go and speak hours on but in short they found that people that attended Ross group universities earned markedly more money than the people that did not attend Russell group universities especially if you're doing things like medicine engineering or anything related to Stem or economics as well you would get around but again on average 20 increased starting salary and lastly but not least we have a London Economics Report which reported that for each grade a to c a level that you get your average yearly income goes up by seven thousand pounds that's every single year now I'm going to put this out that if you're spending more than seven thousand pounds on tuition that's that's quite a lot of money so effectively in one year from graduation you'll be earning a lot more money this actually takes place immediately after your A Levels so I know that the previous kind of two studies that I spoke about were talking about working income which is after you've finished education so you've went on to University it's not going to affect you until after University this even shows for jobs that you get during University you get paid more than the people that don't have a levels and again seven thousand pounds per a level is a big amount I mean just think about it and that's every single year on average you're going to be doing three a levels so it's 21 000 pounds if you get all grade A stars to C's so overall what does this show well for me this provides a fairly good kind of basis that tuition is worth the money will actually make you money in the long run because it improves your grades which is shown as a link to actually earning more money now is it the case that if you go to tuition you're guaranteed to earn more money of course not what it does it drills in work ethic what it does is it helps you understand the material these qualifications although they may seem pointless teach you skills that are useful in the work environment and of course we can't ignore the fact that good grades look good on CVS and applications so you get access to more opportunities all of these added together will grant you more money in the future and of course this is the last thing relating to finances when you have a tutor chances are they have connections they may know someone at a top university they may know someone at a good Law Firm or something like that in which case you have that entry where you have someone that can write you a very personal reference per personal references always do better last one that I wanted to go through is kind of a two for one because I kind of want these companies together that it's time consuming and boring now with boring look if you've got a boring teacher I completely understand that's the worst thing ever because you just lose all motivation you can't listen to their droning on voice Etc so again look for another tutor that's the part that's why tuition is so good you choose who you want to employ and they are your employee they do what you say and if they don't fit the bill you can find someone else at school you're kind of stuck with who you have if you get the bad math teacher or the bad English teacher you're kind of screwed there's not much you can do about that however with tuition you can go through 10 different tutors and it won't affect you negatively you can do free trials with a hundred tutors and pick the one that you like best there's no harm in doing it in fact it's something that I would encourage I know that I advertise my tuition earlier on in the video but only consider it if you think my teaching math would work for you if it doesn't I'm not offended go ahead and find someone else that's completely fine but with the time consuming thing this also is counterproductive I know that being dragged into effectively second school on a weekend or after school or during a half term is probably not the thing you want to be doing but I want to put this out there you shouldn't always do what you want to do okay a lot of the times the things that help us improve are things that we don't like doing most athletes don't like training most really intelligent people don't like studying okay it's just a simple fact most people at work don't want to work but we have to do it in order to improve now the reason why this actually will save you time is because it's high quality learning first and foremost you're in a small group so you have well if you're in a small group you have this competition between each other and if you're on your own it's even you know there's another benefit but in a small group or on your own you have this attention from a tutor you can't slack off they're going to be asking you questions they're going to be talking to you I mean seriously if you're not in a conversation if you start zoning out I'm going to notice immediately and quote it's very hard to zone out when someone's told into it directly face to face or even online so in a small group you're kind of pressured by other people in order to interact and actually understand the material and of course you also have this greater attention you can't slack off in a classroom you can fall asleep this is 30 of you intuition it's not but not just that you have someone a professional who is watching you do questions who is teaching you stuff if you don't understand you can get instantaneous help and if you're doing a question on their notes you're doing something wrong they can understand your thought process and correct that so you're learning at the highest possible level you've got the active learning and I will point out that the best tutors are not ones that just lecture to you the entire time which is why my videos can sometimes be a bit wonky because I'm basically lecturing you they will wait they'll let you attempt it they'll watch what you do they'll listen to what you say and point out where you're going wrong where your misconceptions are which means it's the highest quality the most efficient thing you can do with your time because you're getting the most amount of learning for the smallest amount of time not just that but the fact that you don't want to go shows that you probably wouldn't study at home and I know a lot of people say I can just learn this at home are you though you you could I don't deny that but are you going to though probably not if you're anything like I was at a levels I slacked off a lot I slack off a lot of University too but I paid for it by having to like do 10 hours a day months before my exams in order to catch up going to weekly tuition even if it's an hour a week or two hours a week will force you to do learning every single week and regularity has been shown as one of the top kind of methods or mechanisms or vectors for learning if you do something repetitively you'll learn it better than trying to cram it all in at once okay this is why if you play piano once a week versus doing it all in one week you will learn more doing it regularly than you boil if you try and cram so that kind of goes over almost all of the misconceptions that I got given but if you have any others please leave them in the comments maybe we'll make a part two maybe I'll just answer you in the comments but either way I hope this kind of addresses some of them and kind of encourages you to take the plunge again the majority of tutors offer free trial lessons and tutors like me have videos on YouTube so you know how we work so you know if it's going to work for you but not just that if you have a tutor and you it seems a bit pointless we don't like it tell them to go away hey get another tutor look out for yourself okay now I want you to enjoy the rest of your summer holidays I know there's not much left before we get started with the gcses or the a-levels but again take this time to relax a little bit and get ready for the new year I hope you have a wonderful day and I'll see you in the next one