Home tutor or a batch for Class 11 physics after a weak mid-term?

linen_kettle_238810 Oct 2026

Son is 16, Class 11, CBSE, and his physics mid-term was poor. Not a disaster, but well below his other subjects, and he admits he lost the thread somewhere in the middle of the term. The coaching centre near us in Chandanagar runs a batch three evenings a week. A home tutor would cost more but fit around his bus timing better. He wants the batch because his friends go there, which is either a good reason or the worst one. I can't decide. If your child had a weak first term in Class 11, what helped?

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umber_sparrow_402311 Oct 2026
different board, my daughter is 16 and in IB, but physics in the first year was the same story. we tried a batch first, she sat at the back and never asked a thing. switched to a tutor who came home twice a week and the main difference was she actually asked questions. friends in the batch can go either way, depends if they're the studying kind
- rose_veranda_332311 Oct 2026
  the asking questions part is the real issue, batch or tutor. what i see go wrong most at work is the tutor teaching chapters in a different order from the school, and the kid ends up behind in both. whoever you pick, ask them to follow the school's sequence
- sunny_compass_409011 Oct 2026
  Replying to @rose_veranda_3323
  this happens even at 8. her tuition teacher insists on joined-up writing and her class teacher wants print, so her notebooks are a mix of both and she gets told off in each place. hadn't thought of it as the same problem till i read this
- basil_badminton_808111 Oct 2026
  Replying to @sunny_compass_4090
  Did you mention it to either teacher? With my son, the tuition teacher simply switched to the school's way once we showed her his notebook. A five-minute conversation. We had assumed it would be a bigger issue than it was.
- plum_moon_681511 Oct 2026
  Replying to @basil_badminton_8081
  Similar for us, though the step that helped was asking our eight-year-old first which way he found easier. He had a clear answer, and it wasn't the one either adult would have picked. We passed his preference to the tutor rather than ours.