Let me give a shot to this question. Purpose of life is either to advance the human race or to maintain the human race. Some of us are given the roles to advance the human race through research and technology development, eventually to enable human to explore outer space to find new planets to live in. And some of us are given the roles to maintain the human race, like being a cook, teachers, managers, factory workers, civil servants etc.

So basically we all live and die for one entity: Homo Sapiens.

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Just to get some advise.


I have a math tutor who is very friendly and good. After teaching my son for one year. My son result SA1 was 30, and SA2 46.5. There is improvement but still fail.

1. Should I find another new tutor

2. continue with this tutor for once a week and find another math tutor for once a week also.

If two different tutors to teach math. Are there any issues?

Hi, I have a mum who have quite similar experience this year. She has a sec4 daughter who have been consistently failing in Physics tests and exams in her school. The mum has hired quite a number of Physics tutors for her. the first Physics tutor taught her at beginning of this year and after 3 months of tuition her daughter still failed in her school test. Immediately the mum terminate the tutor service and get another Physics tutor, who is an ex-MOE teacher. Then after 2-3 months the daughter had her SA1 and failed again. So the mum terminate the tuition service. She hired another tutor and this time is a small group tuition at the tutor's house. The daughter also got her friend to join the tuition. While the daughter finds the tuition quite ok, her friend feedback to her mum the tuition is not good. So the mum started to look for another tutor.
Then came August when she heard about me from her friend and engaged my tuition service. Believing her friend recommendation and her daughter's friend's feedback about the 3rd tutor, she terminate the 3rd tutor service and got me to help her daughter.
I have only less than 2 months to work on her Physics before her school prelim exams. If she failed again, I am quite sure I will be sacked too like the other tutors. We had 6 lessons within the 2 months. I gave her crash courses and practicing challenging questions on all 22 topics. She put in lots of effort herself doing the many worksheets, other school prelim papers and assessment books etc I told her to do, and during tuitions I will go through those questions she got wrong or don't know how to do.
I do see remarkable improvement in her physics skills based on the practices she did and I have the confidence that she is not only going to pass but will score distinction. So I told the mum just before the prelim exam that if her daughter did not get A1, I will refund her the fee for 2 lessons. and if she get less than A2, I will refund her 4 lessons fee. The mum rejected this idea but I insisted. In the end, the daughter got A2, and of course the mum rejected my giving back of the 2 lessons fee.

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So what I am advising is you may want to consider changing tutor now, but get only from recommendations from your friends or relatives, or someone who have strong track records.