We ask for feedback after the six-session review rather than after the first lesson, because early enthusiasm is easy and sustained progress is not.
We had already tried two tutors before this one. The difference was the diagnostic at the start, which found that the problem was actually a gap in the algebra underneath the chemistry. Nobody had thought to check that. Two months later she went from a D to a B and, more importantly, stopped saying she was bad at science.
What I appreciated most was that they never promised a score. They gave us a diagnostic, told us what looked realistic in the eleven weeks we had, and then showed us the trend after every mock paper. The final score landed within thirty points of what they projected at the start.
My son is dyslexic and had begun to describe himself as stupid, which was unbearable to hear. His tutor never once made him feel slow, and used a structured method with a lot of repetition. He reads aloud at the dinner table now, unprompted. I did not expect that this year.
I returned to study at thirty-eight after fifteen years away and was genuinely afraid of the statistics module. My tutor treated me like an adult who had simply forgotten things rather than someone who had failed. Online sessions with recordings meant I could rewatch the difficult ones at the weekend.
We chose the group option mostly for the price and expected it to be a compromise. It was not. There were only three of them and the tutor had each one explain their method aloud, which my daughter says is the reason it finally stuck.
Our problem was never ability, it was that every evening ended in an argument about unfinished work. Moving homework into a supervised session fixed the atmosphere in this house within about three weeks. The revision method he was taught is now being used by his younger brother too.
Feedback is requested at the six-session review, not after the first lesson. A first lesson tells you whether the tutor was pleasant. Six sessions tell you whether anything changed.
Reviews are published as written, with only a first name change where a family asks for it. When a placement has not worked, we would rather hear it in the review and fix the match than collect a polite silence and a cancelled booking a month later.
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