wat a failure...

gave tuition today... greeted by a 10/30 sec 3 maths common test paper... haizz
looks like i cant teach at all... i'm beginning to understand why young kids need tuition. i've nv believed in having tuition; and till now, my view has not changed. why do parents get tutors for their children? the reason is simple -- they need someone to sit down with the children to make them study for 2 hours a day. actually, they dun really need to spend hundreds of dollars each month for that, if all they need is to get someone to spend 2 hours with the child at the table.

it's an inherent problem, which a tutor can't render any assistance to. if the hundreds of dollars really have to be spent, i'd rather the parents spend it on a counsellor. something muz be done to change the mentality/attitude of the child to studying. i think that's the difference between a student excelling in sch and another which keeps committing the same mistakes over and over again. it's not entirely bcos the A student is smarter, in fact, it's more of the attitude the A student has towards studies. one who does not have the drive to learn/improve, will nv get better.

another major problem would be the lack of fundamentals. sadly, my tutee is being told by his teacher that BODMAS is not good... thus not drilled into him (wtf?!); and his mental calculation and manipulation of equations are simply atrocious. he even needs a calculator to do simple calculations like 7*9... haizz... i wonder what the schools are teaching the kids these days...

i think this is a sign from god for me to start mugging for my finals haha... seriously... alrite, enough of me lamenting. time to get back to my engineering professionalism textbooks :P