Tutor.com Offering PaidTwice Readers 50 Free Minutes
I am a tutor for Tutor.com, an online tutoring service that offers help for students in a variety of subjects including Algebra, Geometry, Physics, Biology, Chemistry, Social Studies, Calculus, English, and more. The service is pretty neat in my opinion, students log on to an interactive classroom environment where they talk online to a tutor in the subject they chose for that session, and they talk via an instant message type window that has a whiteboard attached to it where you can work out examples in real time. Tutors in each subject are available 24/7 so the students can get help when it is convenient to them and use as few or as many minutes as they need.
One of the Tutor.com staff is a reader of this blog and contacted me to offer an exclusive trial to readers of PaidTwice - if you’d like to try out Tutor.com for yourself (or have your 6th to 12th grade child try it) instead of the normal 25 minute free trial, by using this link you can get 50 minutes free from Tutor.com. You can also use the promotional code PDTWICE to redeem your 50 free minutes. You don’t have to use your 50 minutes in one session - any unused minutes stay in your account for later use.
Generally, when I tutor, I have sessions ranging from a student who has already worked out a problem and just wants me to check it, to students who are completely lost on a particular problem and need me to help them understand it step by step. Tutor.com is not an answer service - we’re trained to help students through guided questions to understand concepts themselves so they can apply them to further problems down the line as well as solve their questions. I really enjoy tutoring and think that this service is an efficient way to do so - you use time in increments of minutes, so if it only takes 14 minutes to work through a problem, you still have the rest of your time bank to work on something else down the road.
Tutor.com also gave me a free trial to try the service from the perspective of a student, which I did this weekend. I found my tutor helpful and useful, and I was able to go through a complex chemistry problem with them by preparing much of it beforehand in only 22 minutes. That is another thing I like about the service - you can prepare what you already know beforehand as to not use up extra time in the session.
So if you are interested in trying the Tutor.com service - use my link and you’ll get twice the normal free trial minutes: 50 instead of 25. And if for any reason you’re not satisfied with your session, you can get a session credit to refund your minutes. Good luck and have fun!
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May 19th, 2008 at 9:17 pm
Many readers may not know it, but a large number of public libraries offer Tutor.com or a comparable service called Brainfuse for free, either in the library using library computers and/or from home. All you need is a library card!
May 19th, 2008 at 9:31 pm
Wow thats really cool. I was actually thinking of becoming a tutor at my college but they only would give you 4 hours a week or so. I am going to look into this and see if I can be a tutor. 6-12 grade everything is easy! I have had calc 1,2,3 and diff. eq. I am a math/science wizz.
May 19th, 2008 at 10:31 pm
Gosh i spoke too soon. I should have reviewed first. I failed 2 tests already Algebra 2 and physics, they are surprisingly hard. I kinda just quit on the physics b/c I didn’t feel like taking the rest. I may try calc(my strong suite) tomorrow. What do you teach and how much do you get paid? This just part- time gig for u?
May 19th, 2008 at 10:36 pm
The tests to become a tutor are indeed harder than I thought they would be.
I tutor chemistry. The other subjects I qualified in they didn’t need tutors for at the time I signed up and I am busy enough with just chem tutoring. It is indeed part time for me.
May 20th, 2008 at 5:11 pm
what a cool deal! wish they’d had this service when I was in high school. they didn’t even have computers, then!
TM
July 3rd, 2008 at 12:51 am
Hi guys:
Tutor.com is an amazing service. Tutors not only help you with your question, but also lead you overcome your difficulties so that you can solve a similar problem by yourself.
You don’t have to schedule a session, just connect and get helped in the subject you need. You pay for the time you use, there is not a fixed duration for a session, and you rate the sessions, if not satisfied, you will get your money back.
They are really leading the online tutoring services
enjoy the service!
September 22nd, 2008 at 4:26 pm
I am thinking about signing up with them myself as it would be a good way to reach out and help more students.