Why You Shouldn't Hire An Inexperienced GMAT Tutor
The only situation in which you might be ok hiring an amateur is if you are within 50 points of your target score, which is under 550. Otherwise, hiring an amateur is a bad idea for the following reasons:
-First and foremost, an inexperienced tutor does not know the shortest path from here to your target. You will wander around GMAT-land without a map and compass, and in all likelihood will not reach your destination on time, if at all.
-You do not learn the correct exam strategies. The GMAT is a very specific test which requires very specific strategies, not only exam strategies that exam-takers must learn to apply during the exam, but also teaching strategies that GMAT instructors must apply while teaching their students.
-You use poor materials which waste your time and energy, and give you a poor sense of what it takes to do well on the GMAT.
-You pick up bad habits you will have to unlearn (both of which take up your self-study and later tutoring time).
-Your inexperienced tutor at best only shows you how to answer the questions, but not the fastest way to do so (the Official GMAT Guide is also guilty of this). At worst they don't even know how to solve many of the questions. They also waste a lot of time trying to figure out how to answer the question, rather than teaching you how to do it.
If you do decide to hire an amateur GMAT tutor, whatever you do, do NOT waste OG and GMATPrep questions+exams on them. These are the materials you finish your studies with. Doing so wastes a lot of your time, energy, motivation, and especially compromises your verbal materials and official practice exams. You also waste money when you don't hit your target on time and, with your broken motivation, make it a lot harder for us to optimally assist you.
-First and foremost, an inexperienced tutor does not know the shortest path from here to your target. You will wander around GMAT-land without a map and compass, and in all likelihood will not reach your destination on time, if at all.
-You do not learn the correct exam strategies. The GMAT is a very specific test which requires very specific strategies, not only exam strategies that exam-takers must learn to apply during the exam, but also teaching strategies that GMAT instructors must apply while teaching their students.
-You use poor materials which waste your time and energy, and give you a poor sense of what it takes to do well on the GMAT.
-You pick up bad habits you will have to unlearn (both of which take up your self-study and later tutoring time).
-Your inexperienced tutor at best only shows you how to answer the questions, but not the fastest way to do so (the Official GMAT Guide is also guilty of this). At worst they don't even know how to solve many of the questions. They also waste a lot of time trying to figure out how to answer the question, rather than teaching you how to do it.
If you do decide to hire an amateur GMAT tutor, whatever you do, do NOT waste OG and GMATPrep questions+exams on them. These are the materials you finish your studies with. Doing so wastes a lot of your time, energy, motivation, and especially compromises your verbal materials and official practice exams. You also waste money when you don't hit your target on time and, with your broken motivation, make it a lot harder for us to optimally assist you.
