Establishing a non-judgmental and open relationship between tutee and tutor is crucial to effective tutoring. Individual tutoring tends to be the norm. Improving grades is the primary motivation for students to request tutoring. Special effort is made to provide tutoring for OLS students. Since students enter courses with unique backgrounds and academic preparation, each student has special needs and learning requirements.
Most students improve their success rate in courses for which they are being tutored.
In addition to course-oriented tutoring, the Tutoring Center can sometimes accommodate special learning requests. These might include intensive language practice through conversation, external examination preparation, special project preparation, or even high school Regents examination preparation. Such tutoring is circumstantial, however, and the Center may not be able to meet such requests.