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Tutoring standardized tests
09-30-2012, 12:50 PM
You have to get a good enough score on those tests first. Which only 1% or so of people succeed in doing. Then you gotta get the job over others in that 1%. It isn't exactly easy.
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Tutoring standardized tests
09-30-2012, 05:46 PM
I have some experience in this. My scores were either perfect, or close to it, at least for what I tutored in. The hardest part is really getting the clients. You want to charge a lot? Find rich parents (probably doesn't apply to the graduate exams). Once you have that, you have to teach the material confidently, and also make the parents feel like they're getting their money's worth. The pay depends on the wealth of your clients and your volume of hours, and many choose not to report any income to the government. I met a chick off OKC, a Cal Tech grad, who claimed friends of hers made $250 an hour tax free, tutoring. Paul Janka the pickup artist also makes his dough this way. Once you're established among certain schools or communities, people will pass your name around, so you'll get business via referrals.
How do you find work? Talk to teachers at local schools, maybe offer to help them out. Buy pencils with your tutoring business name on it and give them to teachers. Post up fliers at schools and on Craigslist. Offer referral bonuses in the form of free tutoring.
You can find work through an agency as well, but you'll have to make it through the interview, as well as get paid less. I went to one interview and bombed when they asked me to do something I initially forgot how to do - completing squares.
If by 'mobile' you mean 'driving all around the city' well yes, but that's not a good thing. And the client dictates your hours, not you.