ExcellentTut -- Meeting Expectations and Needs

Introduction

2009-07-12T23:59:00.000-07:00

Tired of tutors being late? Tired of ineffective tutors that are more interested in your pennies than to really improve your child's results? Here is your one-stop solution. What differentiates us from the countless tuition agencies out there is simply because this is a student startup. We understand the needs of students and the expectations of tutors.

1: We charge LESS commission (for tutors) than competitors simply because we understand the frustration tutors face of having half of their first month payout taken away as commission. This has also given rise to a "heck care" attitude by the tutors in their first few lessons due to the fact that they are "not paid".

*Please click on the relevant For Student/ For Tutor Tab on the right coloumn to access more information. Thanks. :)

I am going to elaborate more on our personalised services that set us apart from our competitors.

1: We match our tutors with assignments that are no further then 3-5 MRT stops away. This will result in a more effective tuition session as less time is spend on travelling and the incidence of tutors being late will be greatly reduced.

2: We aim to provide the most suitable and qualified tutors for our students. We assess our tutors' abilities and qualifications to ensure that they are fully capable of delivering useful lessons for the students that will result in improvements. (All qualifications of our tutors are verified by us with all the relevant documents. Copies of the documents will be forwarded to parents who wish to verify.)

3: On hand, we already have a large number of undergraduates who are currently studying in NUS, NTU and SMU, ready to take up assignments. They are extremely competent in their academics and come from top JCs and secondary schools.

4: We have a large database of exam questions and tutorials that are being contributed by our tutors, ourselves and friends. All these materials are from reputable schools and will be handed out to tutors as useful aids when they attend tuition sessions with your child.

5: Our tutors are not only intellectually competant; they are also active and outgoing which will serve to build rapport with your child so as to create a more interactive tuition environment. This will allow your child to be more comfortable with the tutors and thus, more willing to learn from them. Our tutors play the role of a big brother/sister.

6: A SMART tutor doesn't equate to a GOOD tutor. A good tutor must be one that can communicate effectively with your child. If your child enjoys listening to his/her tutor, they will be more willing to learn. More often than not, many students do not enjoy their tuition and really dread them. This is one of the main factors that hampers the improvement of your child's grade.

*Please click on the relevant For Student/ For Tutor Tab on the right coloumn to access more information. Thanks. :)

For Tutors

2009-07-04T16:00:00.000-07:00

Interested in joining our family of tutors? Please email the following to our email address ExcellentTut@gmail.com together with the following details.

1: Particulars -- Name, Age, Gender, Email, Area of residence, Handphone Number (required for faster response and interview)

2: Qualifications -- Grades for the relevant subjects that you are interested in teaching
("A" levels / "O" levels. GRADES FOR ENGLISH AND GP are compulsory.)

3: Education History -- Schools attended before, including current one.

4: Teaching experience. -- Past experience in tuition/ relief teaching

5: Subjects and levels interested to give tuition

6: Fees and Availability -- Please quote reasonable and competitive rates. Our commission is guaranteed lowest.

7: About yourself -- Short and Sweet (anything from CCAs to your interests) (photos optional)

1: OUR COMMISSION

Strictly 3 hrs for first month of assignments only. (Meaning 35% of first month of Normal 8 hours/mth assignment. For assignments with more than eight hours per month, commission is also 3 hours for first month. :)

2: BONUS REFERRAL SYSTEM

-- If you refer two tutors who successfully took up assignments.
Refund 1 hr of commission.
-- If you refer four tutors who successfully took up assignments.
Refund 2 hrs of commission.
-- If you refer five tutors who successfully took up assignments.
Refund 3 hrs of commission. (That means we don't take commission at all)
-- Referral of five or more tutors private message us for special rewards.

3: Basic Calculation.

Please quote us the best rates for our students. With the low commission that we take, it is more than enough to offset the slight difference in tuition fee.

For Students

2009-07-04T15:30:00.000-07:00

Interested in finding a tutor through our service? Please cut and paste the template below (*Delete where appropriate) and Email to ExcellentTut@gmail.com

1: Student's gender*: Female/Male

2: Level of education:

3: Subjects that need tuition:

4:Number of lessons per week:

5: Number of hours per lesson:

6: Preferred time of the week:
(By having more available timeslots, it is easier for us to find you a tutor. )

7: Starting date:
(When you want to start tuition)

8: Area of residence:
(District: Ang Mo Kio; Bukit Timah; Toa Payoh etc.)

9: Contact number and email:

10: Additional requirements:
(Eg: Tutor must be a male/female)

Note Of Assurance:

All the academic qualifications of our tutors have been verified to be accurate by us. Copies of their educational results will be provided upon request.

Privacy Policy:

All the details that have been supplied to us to facilitate the process of finding of a tutor are strictly confidential. Detailed address will only be requested when a suitable tutor is found.

Satisfaction Gaurantee:

All our tutors are proficient in their academic subjects and have likeable characters. If you find that the tutor is not suitable, we will termintate the tutor's service with you immediately with no questions asked. You will only be required to pay for the session that the tutor has attended.

2008-06-23T01:21:00.000-07:00

Skill-level testing graduates to college
Universities take a page from standardized exams to grade their work but grapple with how the results are best used.
By Allison Sherry The Denver Post

One hundred Colorado State University freshmen will sit down before school starts this fall and take a test to measure how thoroughly they think, how well they write and how deftly they solve problems.
Administrators hope to get a sense of whether the university is adding value to the students' lives.
Increasingly, colleges and universities want to see how well they are doing their jobs — either internally or against competitors — by giving students tests to measure basic college- level skills.
Some call the endeavor the "No Child Left Behind" movement for colleges, but so far, individual student performance isn't studied as much as class achievement.
At the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, for example, engineering professors decided to sprinkle more writing in assignments after an assessment test showed certain majors were lagging in the area.
Though many college administrators agree on the need for some sort of test, academics and policy experts are wildly split on what to do with the results.
Some colleges, like CSU, are pushing for more transparency. They want to be held accountable on student growth and want parents to look at this, rather than the U.S. News and World Report rankings, to gauge whether a college is good.
"People want evidence that their tax dollars and tuition money are being well-used," said Alan Lamborn, a CSU vice provost. "If every institution is focusing on getting better than it is, we'd have a better education system, and it would be better for the country."
CSU president Larry Penley wants his school's efforts to improve teaching but also give parents and students a sense of how well the school stacks up against its peers.
The school has budgeted $65,000 for testing this year. Last year, it gave the Collegiate Learning Assessment to 120 first-year students.
"I think if we make ourselves more transparent, then we increase the faith that the public has in higher education," Penley said.Other schools, like CU-Colorado Springs, prefer to use the information for mostly private purposes. They say the sample sizes are small and that test results are used for fine-tuning general-education course work.
And in the middle of the burgeoning national college accountability movement are many professors who say the true value of a higher education can never be measured with a single test — especially one taken by students who have no stake in the outcome.
At CSU, freshmen who agree to take the test get to move into dorms a day early. At CU-Colorado Springs, they get a $10 voucher to the school cafeteria.
"As faculty members, we're always interested in knowing that our students are achieving as much as they possibly can," said R.L. Widmann, a Shakespeare professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder and chairwoman of CU's faculty council. "But many faculty will be perturbed at the concept of a standardized test that could be used to blame them for inadequate teaching. As if that's the sole factor when a student doesn't succeed."
Some also worry that resources — dollars, energy, time — won't be on tap if a problem is diagnosed.
"I think there's value in this. We should be honest about it and careful about it," said Bill Timpson, an education professor at CSU. "We should have resources available when we identify problems."
Higher-education policy experts and educational consultants, however, say the blossoming cost of tuition has made parents increasingly anxious about the true value of college.
"It's rare if a day goes by that a parent doesn't ask me if a certain school is worth it," said Steve Goodman, a Washington D.C.-based consultant who works with parents and students to help them get into college. "That's what they're focused on. You wouldn't pay for a vacation if it didn't have value to you. You wouldn't buy a car if it didn't have value to you."
Cassy Clayman will head to CU-Boulder this fall. She is 18 and is accustomed to assessment tests — she's been taking them her whole life.
In college, though, she expects to learn without having to prove to the university that she's learning. Testing, she said, is something she's looking forward to getting away from.
"This isn't so much that they're (colleges) doing a poor job," said Patrick Callan, president of the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education. "But that this knowledge-based economy simply requires that we do a lot better than we have in the past. A lot of countries are moving past us."
At CU-Colorado Springs, between 600 and 800 juniors are tested every few years on writing and critical thinking.
Because of test results that showed nursing students needed more international awareness and arts-and-sciences students needed more reasoning skills, professors have made adjustments.
"I can't tell you how much this is influencing the quality of the institution," said Chancellor Pamela Shockley-Zalabak.
The tests given on this campus, however, aren't public. David Moon, a vice chancellor at the school, said the results were posted on the school's website but not in an easy or understandable way.
College consultant Goodman compared that to reviewing his own book.
"I'd be delighted to review my own book," he said, "but if I reviewed my own book we know what it would say."

ExcellentTut -- Meeting Expectations and Needs

Introduction

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** For Students **

For Tutors

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