When To Hire An Expert Private GMAT Tutor
Hiring a GMAT tutor is like driving a vehicle to get from A to B instead of walking (or crawling, as the case may be!). The question is what is driving distance and what is walkable? There are plenty of resources in print or online for you to study with, but you have to spend a considerable amount of time researching your options and you won't make all the best choices while reinventing the wheel. Besides, you could do all the practice problems in the world and still plateau far from your goal. (Every year a few students making this claim seek my help). To keep climbing, you need to change the way you think. Self-study, classes, and mediocre tutors will not help you do that.
Unless you're under 660, within 30 points of your goal, and have more than 60 hours (and plenty of unused, quality materials) left to study, you should definitely consider retaining an expert. The average student spends 2+ hours of self-study for every point increase (and from 2-10 hours per point above 700). An expert tutor can make that go several times faster, and you have more important things to be doing with your time (like the rest of your application!). My students increase their scores at a rate between 3 and 7 points per hour we meet (the fastest in the world).
In GMAT-land, the spectrum of instructor abilities is quite vast. You may be wondering how to recognize an expert an expert GMAT tutor Well, here is a checklist to help you identify one. An expert will possess all of the following characteristics:
-Knows and publishes the typical student score increase rates resulting from their tutoring
-Offers specific quantified score increase guarantee, backed by the confidence from their proven methods.
-Taught more than 10 students from start to finish, all of whom hit their target on time
-Has taught multiple students how to score 730 or above
-Has mastered the GMAT (scored above 760)
-Has mastered teaching
-Has mastered teaching the GMAT
Unless you're under 660, within 30 points of your goal, and have more than 60 hours (and plenty of unused, quality materials) left to study, you should definitely consider retaining an expert. The average student spends 2+ hours of self-study for every point increase (and from 2-10 hours per point above 700). An expert tutor can make that go several times faster, and you have more important things to be doing with your time (like the rest of your application!). My students increase their scores at a rate between 3 and 7 points per hour we meet (the fastest in the world).
In GMAT-land, the spectrum of instructor abilities is quite vast. You may be wondering how to recognize an expert an expert GMAT tutor Well, here is a checklist to help you identify one. An expert will possess all of the following characteristics:
-Knows and publishes the typical student score increase rates resulting from their tutoring
-Offers specific quantified score increase guarantee, backed by the confidence from their proven methods.
-Taught more than 10 students from start to finish, all of whom hit their target on time
-Has taught multiple students how to score 730 or above
-Has mastered the GMAT (scored above 760)
-Has mastered teaching
-Has mastered teaching the GMAT
We do not recommend group classes unless everyone is at your level and there are fewer than 4 students, or you lack the discipline and motivation to study and just need some external structure. If you already have the motivation to study, you won't get a whole lot more out of taking a class than you would from self-study, at least not anything you couldn't get from a few hours with a good tutor.
