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Individuals who have excelled in a particular subject can use their expertise to tutor others looking for some extra help. Interviews typically consist of subject-specific questions that will assess your academic proficiency. You should also expect to answer some behavioral and situational questions, such as how you would motivate a disinterested or discouraged student. Skills that are sought after include interpersonal, problem-solving, and goal-setting abilities.

Top Tutor Interview Questions & How To Answer

Question 1

Question #1: Why do you want to be in child/student education?

How to answer
How to answer: Here is where you can talk about your passion for education and fostering growth in children or older students. Being a tutor takes dedication to education, and this is when you can share why you're dedicated to the field.
Question 2

Question #2: What is your tutoring style?

How to answer
How to answer: This type of question allows you to explain how you take on your work as a tutor. You can talk about you personalize your approach with each student, what you do to make learning more fun, and so forth. This is where you can really sell yourself and your teaching skills as a professional tutor.
Question 3

Question #3: How would you motivate a student to be interested in something?

How to answer
How to answer: There are many ways to answer this question, but each answer should deal with your ability to reach out to and capture the attention of your students. Whether that's through reward, appealing to their current interests, or any number of other tactics is up to your personal teaching style.

10,715 tutor interview questions shared by candidates

First of all, I thought I was applying to twosigmas for an online tutoring position and found the reviews were lacking--so I couldn't do my research on the company. Later, I found out that they were working with 51Talk. Anyway, I was granted an interview (with 51Talk via twosigmas?); well, they were a no-show. After a lot of technical difficulties (on their side of things they admitted to) and countless emails back and forth resulting in a seeming pending resolution, I opted out of the interview process.
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Online Tutor ESL

Interviewed at 51Talk

3.3★
Jun 30, 2017

First of all, I thought I was applying to twosigmas for an online tutoring position and found the reviews were lacking--so I couldn't do my research on the company. Later, I found out that they were working with 51Talk. Anyway, I was granted an interview (with 51Talk via twosigmas?); well, they were a no-show. After a lot of technical difficulties (on their side of things they admitted to) and countless emails back and forth resulting in a seeming pending resolution, I opted out of the interview process.

He asked the general questions, who am I, what is my age, what am Icurrently doing/studying and why I want to be a tutor. He then said that he would give me a scenario, to which I’d have to comment on and provide feedback in ways to solve the problem. I believe that it was randomised, but I was asked: If you were the tutor, and my student was struggling with the harder questions who refused to do them, what would you do? He asked a second question, where I was the tutor speaking to the student. The question was: How would you respond to a parent who wants their child to attend after school lessons with their teacher?
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Private Tutor

Interviewed at Ezy Math Tutoring

3.8★
Oct 10, 2017

He asked the general questions, who am I, what is my age, what am Icurrently doing/studying and why I want to be a tutor. He then said that he would give me a scenario, to which I’d have to comment on and provide feedback in ways to solve the problem. I believe that it was randomised, but I was asked: If you were the tutor, and my student was struggling with the harder questions who refused to do them, what would you do? He asked a second question, where I was the tutor speaking to the student. The question was: How would you respond to a parent who wants their child to attend after school lessons with their teacher?

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