Tutor.comReviews of tutor.com

I went to this site at the recommendation of my university since the writing center did not have any slot times that would work for me. I reached out to book with multiple different tutors because each one cancelled on me. I understand that I would not have been a recurring student for these tutors but I don’t think it’s acceptable to be on a tutoring platform and not hour the time slots that you have posted.

The only two responses that I have received were scams. Both claimed that they wanted to prepay for a set of sessions. They claimed that due to a pending divorce, their lawyer had to send an E-check. The first time I accepted $450. The check was returned for no funds/closed account. Before I knew that, they claimed something had come up and asked for it to be refunded. I Venmo’d back the amount before knowing the check actually was no good. The second response was the same, this time I said no to the payment.

If you're thinking about signing up as a licensed Tutor --- DON'T. Their "testing evaluations" are bunk, or very poorly sustained. I'd taken their English, Science, and Math testing evaluations which I've personally tutored AND Sub / Taught for nearly 6 years. For them to 'score me' 60% or failing, when I KNEW the correct answers! The site stating at the top "Congradulations you passed" While the mid-page reads 'Sorry, but you scored at 64% and need an 87% to pass' Laugh my butt off. Whatever - - - Don't bother emailing their Support about it. You'll get dumb runaround.

I was given the wrong paper. I am not even sure my paper was reviewed. I have had papers lost. I have had papers reviewed and not been able to access the feedback. I have had very inconsistent reviews after submitting the same work to two different tutors. I have had submissions for review that disappeared completely after submitting and getting on screen verification.

This is the worst website when it comes to giving information and providing bad tutors. When making a complaint, they make it impossible to speak out. I think this is one of the worst tutoring websites I have used.

well I never get to tutor I try 1 to 50 times I think that right

If you are contemplating joining Tutor.com, be warned that it is an over-administered organization that is not necessarily staffed with people who are qualified to evaluate tutor perfomance in certain areas, at least not in mathematics (calculus). My performance was criticized for "doing too much work" while tutoring students who were struggling with basic concepts and simply needed to be guided once through the process of applying a technique for solving a problem. After this stage, practice is the key. And fixing all session durations to either 25 minutes or 60 minutes to help a first-year calculus student to derive a formula (e.g., for things such as the Economic Ordering Quantity Model) is worse than short-sided, it's counter-productive. For $15 an hour I, as a retired electrical engineer, considered this more a labor of love than a source of income. The Tutor.com management obviously invests far more money in administrative things like their labyrinthine and un-navigatible website as well as for their staff of performance review agents who have questionable backgrounds in the areas that they review, at least in math/science. Also, be prepared to receive emails from administrators who explicitly list their pronouns with their signature...however if that's the kind of organization you want to work for, this is the place for you.

What a terrible company with terrible support who take no ownership over issues that I've raised to them!