Agree with Lica and JossCruz. Tuition was not always a success for my children until I chanced upon 2 good tutors, after many tries. Dedication and professionalism aside, I think that the most important factor would be to have a tutor whose teaching methods fit the learning style of your children. Every child learns differently. I can naturally see that the tutors cater to my children's needs based on the constant improvement in their results and the vast improvement in my DS & DD's learning attitudes.


I believe that tuition does work, especially for most of us parents who are working and don't have much time to guild our children academically. If you find a good tutor, the tutor can be your children's academic guild during your absence. A few hours of dedicated revision per week is still better than none at all, especially if the child is academically weaker.

As parents, I think we also need to do our part in guiding our children on a daily basis. After all, tuition is at most once or twice a week; definitely not enough if the child is already not doing well in school. As much as possible I liaise with my children's tutors & see how else I can help my children. In the past, my DS & DD could not sit down and do any homework by themselves. If I told them to start doing homework and left them alone, they would sit for 5-10 minutes, then walk away for another 15 or I would find them daydreaming. So no matter how tired I was after work, I would ensure that I sit down with them, and guide them through their homework at night. If their tutors revised past topics with them during tuition, they would let me know what was taught, then I would help to ensure that they do their homework on for revision non-tuition days. I don't need to do much of the teaching since the school teachers and tutors do it. I just sit down with them and do my own work, while making sure that they concentrate on completing their work before going off to play.

Habits are built over time. My kids are now older, more motivated, can concentrate better in class, and are willing to do revision work by themselves already. So just sch lessons and weekly tuition for subjects they are weaker in work very effectively for them. I think my efforts have paid off cos they are doing well in sch now, no need to worry that much anymore.

Hi all


I’ve got a very good tutor to recommend. She’s very experienced and committed. My girl (p2) was initially failing her subjects last year, but after she started tuition with this tutor, her results improved greatly. She started tuition in early October and sat for her end of years at the end of October. For her EOY, she got band 2 for all her subjects–English, Math, Chinese. Not the best, but a great improvement, considering that she was still failing her tests in September. My daughter is now in p3 and for CA1, she scored band 1 for all her subjects.
I’m really glad that I found this tutor. She is very patient and also does her best to make her students interested in the subjects. She now teaches both my son(p5) and daughter (p3) and they like her very much. My kids even look forward to her tuition classes.
Very dedicated also, tuition is 2hrs/session but she only ends after making sure they have finished learning what they need to learn for the day. Keeps me updated on my children’s progress too.

PM me if you would like her contact. Thought of sharing this here since it’s so hard to find a good and dedicated tutor these days. I managed to find her after changing many tutors throughout last year. Wished I found her earlier.

I’m looking for a good piano teacher, does anyone have any to recommend? Thanks.