Another ex-tutor here and this so incredibly accurate. You're only missing the genuinely sweet, hardworking B student trying their best whose perfectionist parents are slowly giving them a complex

“You should check your inventory for the bag of fucks I lost earlier”😆😆

As a Chinese-speaking Eng literature tutor I can tell you the psycho parent + kid that absolutely doesn’t need tutoring is one of the most horrifying combination. I’ve seen a 5th grade who has more vocab than me and uses semicolons correctly. And his parent thinks he’s behind because he hasn’t started learning essay-writing 2 years in advance.

I feel so bad for “the ones who shouldn’t have made it this far.” Because there’s obviously been teachers who have totally ignored them all throughout their schooling, so now their parents need to hire private tutors

“So what are we learning?” “Math.” “NO FUCKING SHIT.”

“Good job on the units” was extremely funny

Oh boy. "The one with insane parents." Yep, that was my mother. She pulled me out of school because the math teacher was teaching us exponents. My mother had never seen them before, so she concluded it was all a sham and that I should have better education. Began homeschooling me where she basically had me read from the book and teach myself while she mowed grass. I am very lucky to have not grown up dumb as shit. Became a programmer.

Sadly, I am the student of the “the ones who shouldn’t have made it this far.” I've been in so many situations where I was the only one who got the weakest grade, stuff made me tear up a few times when I was younger. But more importantly, I feel embarrassed and generally bad for the people who teach me Math. Tho, there was one tutor, just a few years older than me, she was amazing at math, and always encourage me, "as long your doing best, I'm proud of you" Man, such a small thing with such huge impact for me.

The screaming dysfunctional family is terrifying 😂 At least the student actually pretended to be happy to see the tutor though

You know what's worse than having one of these students per hour you're tutoring? Having all these students in one class for two hours at once.

I tutored at a college for a couple years. The college had a GED program in the room next to mine. If I wasn't busy sometimes I would help out the GED students that were having a particularly difficult time. One day this little old lady in a wheelchair came in, and I come to find out she was basically starting her education from square one. She was barely literate, and wanted me to teach her math. When I say square one I mean it. I had to teach her basic addition and subtraction. It really threw me off because I normally taught college level math. It was difficult for her but she got pretty good at it. She had an extremely difficult time with multiplication though, and I can't remember if we even made it to division while I still worked there. I don't know if she ever got her GED or not, but I thought the fact that she still wanted to make a genuine effort in at least attempting to very admirable. One funny side note is apparently I was one of the very few people she was nice and friendly to. I guess with the overwhelming majority of people she was grumpy and short tempered. It really shocked me because I didn't find that out until after having several sessions with her. the GED program teacher who told me about his experiences with her was equally shocked by mine.

With undiagnosed dyscalculia and ordinal synesthesia I was definitely the one who math tutors wondered how I got so far in school.

That student who shouldn’t have made it this far is WAY too accurate

As someone who has to tutor people in math, I can confirm the 0x5 part is 110% accurate.

Those are all reasonably accurate. I mainly tutor college students, so I might add a couple of extras. 1. The student who is extremely curious. This student is usually great to work with, since they want to learn the subject. They easily get distracted though and will often ask questions beyond what is needed for the class. If you are not careful, it is easy to accidentally teach ahead or to give this student information beyond what they wanted to cover. (For example, one of my introductory physics students often asked a lot about how problems would change with air resistance, how they would change in a black hole, ect.). 2. The student who never shows up. This student is always desperate for last minute sessions to cram for an upcoming test. Even when you schedule a session on short notice, they always seem to double book themselves or they seem to no call no show. 3. The adult learner/grad student. These students are in difficult classes or are here because they are genuinely curious about the subject (and they aren't worried about their grade). They are like the curious student but they ask questions pertaining to their research or work. They are hard to get a consistent schedule with, since they are usually very busy. After a few sessions, they usually learn enough to get started with a topic, and are able to continue on their own the rest of the way. 4. The student who wants you to do their work for them. These students will happily provide homework problems. When attempting these problems, they will immediately answer every question with "I don't know" or "How do you do it", no matter how simple the question is. When you break a question up into small steps, they will drag their feet every step of the way. They are different from the student who shouldn't be this far in school, since they will not guess or make any attempts to answer the questions or help with the smaller parts, no matter how simple. These students frustrate me the most. Thankfully I have only had one or two students like this in all my years of tutoring. 5. The friendly student. This student will ask about your day and will try to have conversations about things besides tutoring. This isn't to stall. They genuinely care. If you talk to much about social stuff you won't get any work done. If you socialize a little bit at the start or end of a session, the student will usually focus throughout the rest of the session. The best way to tutor these students is to learn about their interests and to relate the math/physics problems back to their interests. For example, one of my students is a musician. When we talked about waves in physics, I brought a guitar and demonstrated harmonics on the guitar strings. They were able to grasp the subject much more quickly afterwards, and we had extra time to talk about music at the end of the session. 6. The student who is too formal. This student doesn't know how formal to be, so they will treat you like a teacher or professor. They will write every message like a formal email. They will dress up in business casual clothes for online tutoring. They will always use titles like "sir" or "Mr. Lastname" when addressing you. 7. The cheater. This student will explicitly ask you to take an online test or to do their homework for them. Some will even offer to pay large amounts of money for you to do so. Usually if you refuse the student will realize you are a tutor, not someone who is cheating for them. Sometimes students will try tricking you into cheating by meeting during an online test or a quiz and having you help with the problems (this is for online tutoring). The times this has happened, I ask them explicitly if they are taking a test currently. Sometimes old tests are provided are practice tests. If I still suspect they are taking a current test and are cheating, I will end the session and reach out to the professor to confirm. I have zero tolerance, since it isn't fair to the other students and I could get in a lot of trouble if I help a student cheat. Don't be this student. There might be more, but those are the ones I can think of off the top of my head. I should add, my current students are great. I stop working with the no call/no shows and cheaters quickly.

5:07 i lost it on gummy vitamins XD

You missed the student who skipped every class the entire semester and shows up the day before their final to learn everything in the 1-2 hours they signed up for tutoring. Sometimes failure is a more effective tutor.. (College Tutor)

Now if riemann's hypothesis is true we gotta give half of the money to Zach

I used to work as a math tutor at my university’s peer tutoring center and this made me soooooo glad I didn’t have to deal with parents. I’d say the main types of students I had were: 1) The one who doesn’t show up 2) The bright student with a dumb professor 3) The one who’s clearly stoned 4) The one who thinks you’re their advisor 5) The regular who is always prepared (my favorite) 6) The regular who is never prepared (my least favorite)

Here is the answer to the question 3:00 Coefficient of Friction (μ): The value of 0.3 will primarily affect the traction of the bike on the surface, influencing acceleration and maximum speed. This coefficient applies regardless of the shape of the tires, but in a real-world scenario, the shape of the tires (triangular and heptagonal) would create a highly irregular and impractical ride, leading to inefficiencies in power transfer and likely reducing speed significantly. For simplicity, we'll overlook the detailed dynamics these shapes would cause and assume a uniform circular tire model for calculations. Distance from a Black Hole: Being 923 km away from the event horizon of a black hole introduces a fascinating context but without specifying the mass of the black hole, it's challenging to calculate the gravitational effects accurately. Nevertheless, the gravitational influence at such a distance, unless it's an extremely massive black hole, might not be vastly different from being in a low-gravity environment for the purposes of our simplified model. We'll proceed without considering relativistic effects or significant gravitational anomalies, focusing instead on the mechanics of biking. Leg Strength Disparity: Having one leg π times stronger than the other would create a highly asymmetrical pedaling force. In a realistic scenario, this would lead to inefficient biking, potentially causing the bike to veer or requiring Bob to adjust his balance constantly. However, for the sake of calculation, we'll consider that Bob can still maintain an average effective force on the bike pedals, albeit with an unusual rhythm. Rainbow Road from Mario Kart: The length of Rainbow Road varies across different Mario Kart versions, but for the sake of a baseline calculation, let's assume a version of the track that's approximately 2 km long. The track is known for its lack of guardrails, sharp turns, and jumps, factors which in a real-world scenario would significantly affect speed and safety. However, we'll abstract from these details and focus on average speed. Given these considerations, let's make a very simplified calculation. Assuming Bob can maintain an average speed, the key factor would be the power he can exert through pedaling. The friction and tire shape would primarily affect acceleration phases, but without detailed physics simulations, we'll approximate using average biking speeds. Typical biking speeds range from 15-25 km/h on flat terrain for casual to moderately fit individuals. Given Bob's unique circumstances (including the leg strength disparity and the highly unconventional bike design), maintaining an average speed at the lower end of this spectrum would be optimistic. Let's calculate the time it would take Bob to complete a 2 km track at an average speed of 15 km/h, ignoring the additional complexities introduced by the scenario's unique factors. Under the simplified assumptions, it would take Bob approximately 480 seconds, or 8 minutes, to complete the Rainbow Road track at an average speed of 15 km/h. This calculation doesn't take into account the numerous complexities and unusual conditions of your scenario, but it provides a baseline estimate based on conventional biking speeds and a simplified approach to the physics involved.

As someone planning to take up volunteer math tutoring this is terrifying. Thanks Zach.

You forgot the kid who just arrived in the US and can’t speak or understand you so you have to speak with him using math.

The missing units part is ACCURATE. I was so annoyed because I would’ve gotten really good marks, but I forgot to add the “$”, “cm” or “units”.

Logical problems like 0 * 5 are actually things students with A’s mess up on. A lot of the time schools focus so much on teaching in a way that prioritizes memorization that they don’t learn how to use their brain to piece things together. This is why a lot of kids struggle on word problems but not when they are given the set up straight up. I know a kid with an A who prioritized memory and they would make similar basic mistakes on little things in the equation. Kids aren’t dumb they just weren’t taught how to use the brain they were born with effectively. And of course grades in school are not a good indicator for intelligence.

How about the one with the rich parents from another country who got their kid admitted to this top 20 graduate business school because they were willing to pay full price and probably know a Senator or State department aide, but the kid should not have got this far at all, and also argues with his girlfriend loudly in the hall before he comes into your office, then tells you omg he's discovered this amazing concept in finance called present value (that he literally should have learned in high school econ). Oddly specific experience I know, but trust me more common than you think.

I had a student who literally didn’t know what a 90 degree rotation was. It wasn’t like she couldn’t do the calculation, she just physically didn’t know how much a 90 degree rotation was. The funny part was that she was normally pretty good at math.

No idea what my old maths tutor thought of me, but i was definitely the anxious type. Terrified of doing anything wrong, or embarrassing myself by getting the answers wrong lmao Crazy how far I’ve come, currently studying A level maths and kind of enjoying it, aiming for an A*, and banking on it to have a shot at Cambridge! If i make it in, it’ll be partially thanks to my old tutor (Not that I will get in, but it’s worth a try if if got the grades)

As a biology professor I see this all the time, though the issue usually stems from the students not having learned the prior material. They always remember what the mitochondria does though….to my chagrin.

As a former tutor this brought back some memories. Also, a lot of overlap here with being in charge of student interns.

I died at the triangular wheels problem

1:48 "Student who shouldn't have made it this far" I know this is blown out of proportion for comedic effect but as someone who only got diagnosed with dyscalculia at 23 there's some kind of severe problem in the global school system :/

3:44 i love how they censored the word ‘moron’ in the captions xD 😂

As a private tutor this is the most accurate shit I've ever seen!

I think you forgot the one who just wants you to give them all the answers :P

great can’t wait to be utterly terrified how stupid I look to all of my teachers from now on, hyper analyzing my every move 👍

4:41 actually that would be a pretty normal thing for parents to do with each other

Jesus the fucking helicopter parents man used to get on my nerves. Especially as an online tutor during the pandemic when parents were wfh.

The arguing family is 100% accurate.

3:19 bro deadass Solved that While Missing multiple variables

4:57 cool wall

“How do you have friends? I have a dog that barely likes me, so let’s make it make sense” is something I have literally questioned about too many people too many times

At the end of the day theres only 2 types the ones there by there own will and those forced

2:55 This is impossible to solve as the size of the black hole is not given, nor is the version of rainbow road being played.

You forgot the student who has serious math anxiety and has a full blown panic attack whenever they're even slightly pressured or confused.

‘Capital O’ I just fucking can’t 😂😂😂

I propose 23.18 dollars for that paper towel.

For the first one, I think there's a disconnect from expectations of parents towards traditional trained tutors, which is to advance the child in something they are good at, and the reality of most tutors today being students or recent graduates, who are only helping with hings the kids are not good at, whether it's homework, teats, vocab study, etc. Traditional tutors are like a higher level class outside of school 🤔

4:31 Why didn't you get an A??.... BECAUSE HALF MY GENES COME FROM YOU DAD!!😂😂😂😂

Haha that’s so spot on 😂 Don’t forget about the student who wants to talk about everything except the work lol

When I was explaining a math problem to a fellow student in the last years of highschool I used an imaginary number and she straight up didn't believe me imaginary numbers were a thing, despite dealing with them for a couple of months just a year before that conversation took place.

😂😂 The subtle "holy shit..." here at 2:07 sent me LMAO cause it really put into perspective how clueless the student is

I shouldn't have gotten through school lmao. Some math things literally could not compute in my mind. No matter how you would explain it, my brain could not make it click.

“What’s zero times five?” Honestly, that’s most of my students and sometimes it takes some willpower to not scream at them (or just, you know, tell them the answer). It takes patience to work with adult college students (as in, haven’t been to school in 10+ years). A lot of patience.

That final quick smile and chipper, "I sure am!" Oof! Feels too close to home.

I am not that bad at math, but sometimes in tutoring I just forget the most basic concepts of math (because I'm tired mostly). one time we were doing integrals the whole hour, so I had to primitivate a lot. at one point I had to primitivate 4, which is easy as fuck. But my mind just went completely blank. My tutor helped me by saying 'what would you have to differentiate to get 4?' I still had no idea. It took me a few minutes and then he had to tell me the answer.

Had to have a tutor for latin and greek when I was like 16-17. I was the kind of student who didn't study cuz I couldn't care less and also I had poor trust in my tutor and teachers in general. I still clearly remember him saying "for next time study this part and ONLY this part" and I studied a bunch of other stuff too cuz I was convinced it was a trap and he was going to ask me a bunch of questions about stuff I didn't remember... what a great time it was

"How do you have friends?" "My parents can afford you. DUH."

My friend tutored a guy over zoom who was on vacation during during one of their sessions and was just packing up and talking to friends most of the time - didn’t have his notebook. Another time he was in the car with friends, however he did have his notebook. The only reason he was going to tutoring was because he was on a sports team for the school which required students to go to tutoring if their grades were a D or below.

This shit is so real is hurts to know so many people go through it, and at the same time, I’m happy I’m not the only one. I wish you had included some of the good ones that are actually eager to learn and 9/10 times just need a bit of a push to break through a topic

This is insanely accurate. Adapting to these differences when tutoring is half the challenge within itself!

My intro chemistry class in college had an exam question where we had to divide two numbers with the same base but different exponents (without a calculator). If you're only marginally smooth-brained, you'd realize that all you have to do is subtract the exponents and you're done. The professors ended up giving everyone the points for that question because the majority didn't know how to do the calculation (and some people wrote ERROR because that's what the calculator said when attempting it). I can only imagine what tutors go through.

3:14 That was straight every math class at my high school. What's more, the teachers practically prided themselves on the class being "difficult." It's not that only the best students pass, it's that they're just bad teachers... They didn't and don't seem to understand that though... Even when other teachers point(ed) that out to them... (my dad is a special ed teacher, apparently all the problems are still there, if not worse...)

I think i nearly put all my math teachers on the brink on despair, only to be diagnosed with discalculia in my last year of high school 👁️👄👁️

Though I've had quite a few of these types I still enjoy my job a lot. I love the moment when my students start understanding something or when I see them improve over time and I love getting them to the point that they hopefully won't need me anymore. Can't wait to be a teacher and not only do tutoring on the side while studying.

That family fighting hit a little too close to home for me. It's not that I'm not smart, I just didn't ever really have to try in school. So study habits? What are those? Anyhow, caused a lot of friction between me and my step-father. Problem was, he also was my teacher.

The one who should not have gotten this far in school is basically me. My tutor had a very rough time. I think she probably wanted to kill me at some point.

These are so much funnier than sketch channels with ten times the subscribers. Hilarious work, you're gonna blow up, I'd bet money on it.

would love to see a “types of private tutors”. as a private tutor, i’ve encounters all of these scenarios but have never once responded anything like this 😂

Hi, I'm the professor that goes off-book. Most of my students enjoy this; it means they pick up interesting facts, anecdotes, a bit of history as to why math is so weird, and sometimes get a laugh. Every once in a while I take a question a little too far. The last one was...three or four years ago. Trigonometry. We'd had countless exercises in figuring out right triangles based on lengths and angles but apparently trying to find the distance between the sun and Venus during maximum elongation is too much for students to see the right triangle inherent in the problem. And no I didn't write the problem like that! Later in the class I had a word problem about my two nephews fighting over a little red wagon with a rope tied to it. That one redeemed me.

Dude I had students who had teachers that went 'off book' I was teaching these 7th graders how to multiply matrices

3:06 Easy, we all know rainbow road is impossible to complete, so no real solutions

0:53 my man just became a millionaire within the minute

What about the tutor that solves the hw questions for the student that barely tries.

As a tutor for my school's engineering department, I can confirm every single student listed above exists. The only discrepancy between real life and this video is that none of the students look the same. EDIT: I didn't see the last two vignettes LOL.

*Just a reminder to some fellow students and educators!* Typically the behaviors of the second student is an indication of issues outside of academics, usually a large indicator of not-the-best to poor mental health conditions. While it can be incredibly frustrating at times, keeping this in mind to help better approach them both as a student and as a human being can be incredibly encouraging and helpful for them/us! ♡ Also, yes, I understand this video is just a silly bit! :)

I was the one that should not have gotten that far in school except I have a learning disorder, autism, adhd, distracted by bullys, and my struggle to see a math problem and only see numbers half the time. Boy I’m so glad I’m done with school and not able to remember most of the big maths.

I'm the one who is bad at math, but still tries. One time at my old school, I went afterschool to get help in geometry. My teacher had a couple of the smarter students come in to help tutor us for volunteer hours (we were required to have 100 of them to graduate) and one of the tutors helped me with what I needed help on. The other had to deal with the girl who had a very loud mental breakdown. When she left, my tutor had mentioned that he was glad to not have had to deal with her. I honestly can't agree more- I have mental breakdowns and anxiety attacks myself, but I'm able to hide it and calm myself down because I hate causing a scene in public.

Watched this for self discovery. To prep for going back to school. I'm leaving feeling better about myself. It was the good laugh. Thanks!

I love your channel keep up the great stuff!

I had a private tutor back when I was in the fourth grade. He was a total prick. Always used to bitch slap me whenever I got something wrong. And always used to have me wash my face and stay an extra twenty minutes for the redness in my eyes(cause of all the crying) to go away.

"But I took an extra gummy vitamins today and now I'm feeling some extra efficient blood flow"

When I was an exchange student in the US I had to do community service and as part of it I did volunteer tutoring on Spanish (since its my first language) , I helped 2 people, one came from a latino family and actually spoke fluent spanish (although with a strong Caribbean accent), I never knew exactly why he was there and we basically just chatted in Spanish, the other one was a Japanese guy that barely knew how to speak it but already spoke French, Japanese and English, and apparently he had to speak a 4th language decently fluently before finishing high school, but as I understand it was not because of his parents pressure but because of his own will

It is unbelieveable how accurate this is

"How do u have friends" most mysterious query

In my experience there is exactly one type of student. That student is the, “the exam is in two days and I haven’t even bought the text book yet” student.

so nice to know how accurate and universal these experiences are 💀

My dad used to make my math tutor from middle school do the note writing thing. He also made me go during my hour *and* my sister’s hour once, because I didn’t do my science homework w the *math* tutor. I feel bad for her looking back on, and it didn’t help that I had some untreated behavioral issues when I was younger that she had to deal with (she wasn’t trained to do so in any way). Props to all the tutors out there.. it can’t be an easy job

I would've absolutely murdered to have had a tutor growing up, lol. I did decent in most subjects, excelled in English and Litetature, and everything came crashing down in math or math-adjacent sciences, like Physics. I used to watch these commercials for something called Sylvan Learning Center and would feel so damn depressed my mom couldn't afford that. Schools always have to rush things to prepare for the standardized tests at the end of the year and so when I inevitably failed to understand something in class, the next day, something new would be piled on top of the prior lesson and then it would keep going until I had little idea of how to do what were being taught. I always took notes, but it was like looking at Greek. I just wanted someone who could work with me more personally and we could go back to the start of the lesson and walk through things slower so I could grasp it. As for asking the teacher for clarification...most always had this attitude of "Please, god, I know I asked if anyone had questions but PLEASE don't actually ask me anything!" Math teachers especially always seemed so impatient. Also, they look at your bad grades and think you're a lazy or careless student when that just wasn't true. I was quiet in class, I hardly talked. And like I said, I took notes (though I had bad vision. If I asked to come up front to write things down, there was a general air of annoyance, even from the teacher, or I'd have nowhere to sit and would have to sit on the floor, staring straight up at the wall, which then everything looks like the Star Wars scrolling and what's at the top is hard to read). Always that undercurrent of annoyance from the teacher when needing more time to write. Maybe they should stop putting the visually impaired student(s) at the back of the class, perhaps? For those who actually had parents who paid for them to be tutored, how terrible to squander such a privileged opportunity...

I remember my parents hiring a private tutor for me in college because I kept failing my math classes (though the very first time our math teacher was very incompetent). I spent most of my time doing the exercices that I barely did because I was spending most of my time doing my programming homeworks so with a private tutor I was forced to spend more time on math and I had someone to explain to me. In college, if you want to be good at math, you need to do all the exercices the teacher gives because you can't have a sheet to remember your formulas compared to high school.

My grandmother once got me a tutor for math. I was doing well at it and didn’t signal having any issues with it. She only did it because we had an exam coming up. Fortunately the guy quickly realised I didn’t need tutoring and explained it to her.

The accuracy on this is absolute gold!!! 😂😂😂 🤙🏽

Brought back some memories, especially the kids talking to their parents. Here's another one: The one with the pet that distracts during the lesson. E.g. a cat uses the cat box mid lesson. 😆

I fear that my kids one day will be one of these

I once had a student who was in a Calculus 1 course in uni and he genuinely had never heard of the quadratic formula… I wrote the formula down and he said he’s never seen it before. A *calculus* student

This is the absolute best video I have ever seen on youtube!

1:26 sounding like my anxiety no cap 🥲

As a tutor, this was extremely relatable.

Quality content bro keep up the good work

You’re a comedic genius. Usually these types of videos aren’t this funny

"The one who should not have gotten this far" that works in my company as well I had one women 60 years old in Finance she have litterly never used excel ever. How is that even possible? An other women she didn't know how to restart her computer. An old guy he didn't know how to close down a browser window.... I'm like press the X upper right... these people have good pay.