A class, a course, a subject, a practice test.
A class is one idea they can use when they walk out. A course is enough hours to finish a unit. A subject is enough courses to master a whole field. A practice test finds the holes before the exam that counts.
Same tutor in every one. You match the size to what they still need to know.
A class
Walk out of one hour able to use an idea.
Not a video to click through. A tutor asks, they answer, and a grader checks the answers against the objectives. Reading, a podcast, and a lecture come with the hour, so the idea has somewhere to live after they close the chat.
A teacher assigns tonight's chapter. A student on their own picks the one skill that is still soft. Either way, they leave able to use it.
For example
- Opportunity cost, first-year micro
- One poem, close-read
- A policy they have to apply, not recite
- The night before a placement
A course
Enough hours to finish a unit, and be done with it.
Intro micro. AP Chemistry. Thermodynamics. Not a folder of files and a due date. A sequence of live classes until they can do the work of that unit. Each class still has a tutor, a pass bar, and the materials for that hour.
A section that needs the same course taught well to every student. Someone teaching themselves a unit they cannot fake on an exam.
For example
- A syllabus you already teach, class by class
- Introduction to Microeconomics
- AP Chemistry: equilibrium
- Spanish A1
A practice test
Find out what they actually know, before the exam that counts.
A scored run through the material. Timed if you want it timed. Passing does not skip the class, the course, or the heading. It is the check, not a shortcut around the hour they have not taken.
A teacher who wants to know before the midterm. Staff who would rather see the holes now. A student who thinks they are ready.
For example
- A midterm they have next week
- A unit they claim they already have
- A placement they do not want to take twice
- The California Performance Test
A subject
Enough courses to master a whole field.
First-year economics. A language through fluency. The California bar. They do not have to walk the list in order. Test out of a course they already have, and spend the hours on what is still soft.
A school that needs a whole field taught, not one unit. A student who is going to live in this subject for a year, not an afternoon.
For example
- First-year microeconomics, start to finish
- Spanish, A1 through C2
- Modern Hebrew, Aleph to Vav
- The California bar
Want to see the hour itself? One class, start to finish