The benefit of 1:1 teaching and private tutoring isn't just "saving time" or a way to get notes for something, it's prime for understanding how to connect what

The benefit of 1:1 teaching and private tutoring isn't just "saving time" or a way to get notes for something, it's prime for understanding how to connect what you know and then how to apply it (synthesis and application). Also helps you know what your known knowns and unknown knowns are (and often revising something with your mentor will enlighten you to something that used to be an unknown unknown) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom%27s_2_sigma_problem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom%27s_2_sigma_problem > Bloom's paper analyzed the results of University of Chicago PhD students Joanne Anania and Joseph Arthur Burke who, through their dissertations' research, found that the average student tutored one-to-one using mastery learning techniques performed two standard deviations better than students educated in a classroom environment with one teacher to 30 students, with or without mastery learning. As quoted by Bloom: "the average tutored student was above 98% of the students in the control class".[1]: 4 Additionally, the variation of the students' achievement changed: "about 90% of the tutored students ... attained the level of summative achievement reached by only the highest 20%" of the control class.[1]: