Five questions to ask before you pay for a term
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Copy these into an email or ask on a call. A decent provider answers plainly.
Tutoring is one of the few purchases where you hand over money and access to your child's confidence. These questions filter the good from the vague.
1. How will you figure out my child's level?
Not "what subject and year" — how. What do you look at? What do you ask the teacher? What happens in the first session?
2. What changes by session five?
Name a skill. "More confidence" is not an answer.
3. What should I practise at home?
Specific task, specific duration. If they can't tell you, you won't do it — and progress will stall.
4. Are you still teaching in schools?
Which years, which subjects, how recently.
5. Can we try one session first?
See try one session first for why this matters.
We built enrolment around these answers: Diagnostic first, term plans second.