How to tutor students properly - Righttolearns ABC Tuition Method
- RIGHTTOLEARN LTD
- Jun 6, 2017
- 3 min read
The ABC method:
Before reading this breakdown it’s important to have a shallow understanding of how many academic questions work. In a question you can be given a scenario and some information. The question will want you to find a solution based on the information it has given you and the nature of the words involved in the question. Many students fall behind as they don’t know the techniques used to address normal questions. Your job as a tutor for Righttolearn will be to teach them how to answer any question they are presented with. You can use your own method or the method we suggest, the most important thing is that the student understands and can apply what they have been taught to a test situation.
Part A
A is what the question gives you.
This part of the question can present one of the hardest challenges, this is because many people who have information for a question are unsure how to use that information. The student reading the question will be unsure what relevance the information has to the question. For this reason, many students perform badly as they are not taught, they are not trained on how to identify important and relevant information. Apart of your job will be helping students to understand what information is relevant and what information isn’t relevant to the question presented. Part A therefore is all about identifying what information can be used to help the student solve part B.
Part B
B is what the question wants you to work out in order to calculate C.
Part B takes up 90% of the time and energy required to find C. This is because part B may involve using the information from part A and an equation. Part B can also involve using the words from the text to formulate rules. For example, you may have to know that if you’re working with a right angled triangle that Pythagoras Theorem can be used, or if a question states that two people travelled separately from London to Birmingham then we can say they travelled the same distance. Part B is hard because the student must recognise that a higher level of thought and concentration is required to address the question. The student needs to be trained to look out for words that carry meanings and the student must be trained to identify the relevant time to use a different range of rules or equations in order to solve a problem.
Part C
C is what the question asks you to find. C is the actual answer to the question. Many people ask why C is important. Part C is important on two levels, the first and most obvious being that the question may give you a unit or level of accuracy it wants the questions answered to. For this reason, we want tutors to train our students to be accurate and not miss the last mark or two from slackness.
The second level is that knowing what you’re looking for in the answer can help you work out B and A as it will give you an indication of how you can use the information in A to work out B and hence C. So knowing what you’re looking for in C is really very important and can help speed up the time it will take to answer the question.
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