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I have always wanted a tutorial ONLY environment for my future Physics study. I believe I can grind through the textbooks by myself but I need some tutor, pref
by markus_zhang 2y ago
I have always wanted a tutorial ONLY environment for my future Physics study.
I believe I can grind through the textbooks by myself but I need some tutor, preferably a PHD to answer my batched questions and guide me through exercises I cannot figure out.
Do PHDs of good universities do this kind of things? What hourly rate should I expect?
- catsabound 2y agoTo grossly oversimplify, this is the teaching model of Oxford and Cambridge. The primary method of instruction is the tutorial/supervision, usualy one tutor to two undergrads.
- markus_zhang 2y agoThanks, that's not feasible for me. I wonder if it's easy to find PHDs who are willing to do this. But I know good PHDs are generally very busy.
- n4r9 2y agoThey can sometimes become less busy in the face of a sufficiently lucrative offer.
- markus_zhang 2y agoYeah I'm trying to figure out a good price for both sides. I'll probably try locals first. We do have a couple of good universities -- definitely not MIT/Berkeley league but I don't need it.
- ska 2y agoThis is how typical courses in eg physics are supposed to work. You read the material before a lecture, the lecture gets everyone on the same page and hopefully answers some or all of your questions, then you solidify by a) doing all the exercises and b) attending the tutorial and/or office hours to resolve questions you still have.
- michaelt 2y agoThere are one-to-one tutoring services that target university students, and I doubt they'd have any problem with a paying customer who wasn't a student. Some of them offer tutors who have PhDs. From what I can find on Google, prices range from "affordable for a student" to "affordable for a student with rich parents if they only need a few hours".