Paper Education: K-12 Tutoring 4+

As a student’s point of view, I love paper tutoring because they help in a lot of subjects AT ANY TIME. For many students, it’s very likely that we stay up past 12 am and have nobody around to help me. Paper Tutoring is available 24 hrs a day which is very convenient. They also revise essays which is helpful because they give you LOTS of feedback. The tutors do not give out answers but they do help you get to the answers. The tutors are VERY patient. I once had a tutor stay for 3 HOURS to help me with my computer science homework. HOWEVER, the only BAD THING I have to say about this app is that it works a lot better on the website than it does on the app. On the app, you cannot end the tutoring sessions on the phone so I have to get on to the website just to end the session which is inconvenient.

I’d like to say this app is pretty good for free, I personally don’t like to speak to people in person, so getting online text tutors are a great feature for the ones who have trouble talking! However there are some down sides, the tutors can be either awesome and get straight to the point! But others not so much, they can take up to 40 minutes explaining one part of the problem that I honestly could’ve done on my own watching a quick video, some will make me try the same problem 10 times that I get wrong, I totally believe in 2nd chances, but I’d like if they could explain step by step if I were to have trouble with doing so, I love their cheerful attitudes I think that is a great motivation! However with some certain tutors if I get it wrong their whole attitude changes, I am a slow learner, so I, even noticing in text, someone’s attitude can be deeply noticeable it does not make me feel any better, or make me feel like it’s okay to make mistakes. It makes me feel like it’s just impossible for me to be “smart” which I know is not the case, and this app truly built me out of my comfort zone to ask questions! I love this app, but mentally, for me it can be a bit overwhelming. [I love making things challenging that’s apart of learning, but please don’t do those following constantly as for it can be overstimulating!]

I used this app 2 times, and both times I was left disappointed. The first time, I had a small question about a homework problem. It took the tutor over an hour to explain how to do it, after understanding, I could’ve easily figured it out myself. All the tutor pretty much told me was to use a formula. It took her an hour just to say that. The second time was today. I am sick so I don’t know how to do the homework, I checked out paper again hoping they will help. I told the tutor what was going on, and I sent her everything my teacher linked. She made she’ll try solving them herself first. Then she said she hasn’t solved those type’s of problems in a long time so she’ll ask another tutor for. After making me wait 35 minutes, she then said she’ll transfer me to another tutor. When the second tutor came on, I explained them what was going on and linked them everything as well. The second tutor took like 10 minutes to say that they can’t teach “class” here on tutor. The entire second time I used tutor took 45 minutes to basically tel me to figure it out myself. Yay. The first tutor could’ve told me that Paper can’t teach classes instead of making me wait 35 minutes while she “asks a tutor for help on my homework”. I don’t know why my school suggested everyone to use Paper, but I do not recommend it at all.