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You must be joking? Where is your responsibility toward members of your own family? The most you could ask is that your sister introduces a girl friend. I suppose you would rather tutor a girlfriend than your own sister.

Re: Truong's tutoring, any comments? I don't have personal experience with Truong. I always said that he looked like doing very well and very good at what he was doing. I am 1/2 a generation older than him and we do very well ourselves. I would never have personal experience with tutors...

Re: Fairfield Troung's recommendation - English I know what you mean. Truong (or any one else) has his flaws. I have my flaws. Your parents have their flaws. I guess that Truong being educated in Australia is still very Vietnamese in his nature. This is because most of his customers are...

Re: Fairfield Troung's recommendation - English I feel uncomfortable about kids bowing at me because their parents tell them so. I think I would be much more comfortable if they say just say "Hello Uncle". The old mark of respect is demeaning in a sense when kids are forced to bow to some one...

I once read on answers.yahoo.com that the materials out there to prepare for selective school/OC tests were very useful. The coaching places friends' kids went to offer trial tests in a secretive manner. They mark and give the result but never give the questions out or the answer to the wrong...

It's a complex thing. It's what they call "rise to the challenge". Some smart kids are always near the top of every school that they move to. If you put the kid in a poor school, the kid will be at the top. If you move the kid to a top school, the kid will try to rise to the top. Kids also...

As the population of Asian kids in many of Sydney's selective schools get to about 80% or more, I hear outcry from Aussie parents. Of course they always go on about how Asian selective school kids are not intelligent and only got in because of hard work or tutoring ... What I see is that there...

True. Don't they give you formula sheets in the exam? In the USA they give you the formula sheet so you never have to remember. You only need to understand how to use them. They give you hard problem solving that you need to understand what you need to use.

True. But look for a surprise too. My kid scored generally about 90% on the math component of OC practice tests available from shops. When it came to the real test, the kid only got 75% and landed somewhere among the top kids in this OC class! That was above many who went to coaching places who...

Easy or hard depends on how you look at it. It's easy to read a novel. It's hard to imagine if you are to write one. It's easy to solve the year 10 math you are doing, it's extremely hard to try to work out how the past masters discovered the math that you are learning. What I am saying is that...

There are several differences in opinion I note here. The statistics from the DET website shows about 1750 kids got OC placement for 2009. And about double that for selective schools. So the OC number is about 1/2 of selective schools. Most OC kids head to selective schools and the success rate...

You should read more carefully. I said that those who entered and failed OC have lower ability. HSC ranking for schools and entrance scores support my observation and what parents say. James Ruse got the cream and always perform high above the next 4 in the list of top 5. The list of entrance...

Again you miss my point about the natural development of the young minds. The minds of young kids aren't static. They change each day. Without the constant stimulation to force the brain to adapt, it won't develop certain ability. The ability to "sense" is vital for the creation of geniuses. The...

Nothing really, just understanding differences between teaching philosophies and why Aussie kids are not doing great in mathematics. In fact the only reason why selective schools are full of kids from Asian heritage is because these kids do hard math at similar levels to where their parents came...

Correct, but not taught at most primary schools in Australia. The issue is that primary school teachers have to do programming for themselves. If they don't put it in, kids won't learn. This is different from parts of the US and Japan and Singapore where they still use some official textbooks...

There are so many kids who went to coaching colleges in order to be able to get into selective schools. It's the teaching ahead and "military" drilling that help them to beat the competition. Perhaps this is what turn off their ability to self-learn. It may also contribution of the first sign of...

Teachers should not be allowed to teach at all if they don't know their subjects! Full stop! You cannot allow teachers to teach if they don't know what they are teaching. The problem was that people can get a teaching degree without learning what they are going to teach at University in the...

Terrible! My friend is subjecting his daughter to this torture weekly. The little girl has to attend coaching and do trial tests every week. That costs the parents thousands! These silly people believe in a fiction that these blood-suckers have secrets to help the kids into selective schools...

Re: Truong's tutoring, any comments? Wait until you get to University to taste what's like not to use your own effort to find alternative methods. What Truong offers is what drilling sergeants do. That trains you to become fighters with a limited set of weapons. However I agree that it's value...

Re: Truong's tutoring, any comments? The fee looks reasonable but the large class is what expected as he makes money on large numbers rather than high price. The drawback of large class is that you only get canned lessons and probably be asked to push formulas rather than being creative. You...