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agentdirk
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 Posted: Sat Nov 18, 2006 3:46 pm Post subject: GMAT demand in asia??? |
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does anyone have a feeling for the level of demand for GMAT instruction in asia? say tokyo/osaka seoul shanghai? i will be making the jump in the next 12 months and would like to give gmat lessons on the side.
i mean, if i put an ad in a paper or something, would the response be:
a) 
b) 
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c) 
thanks guys... |
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saint57
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| Posted: Sat Nov 18, 2006 5:04 pm Post subject: |
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| I always wondered why someone with an MBA (not from Bob Jones University) would waste their time giving GMAT lessons. Can you give me some insight? |
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agentdirk
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| Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 3:56 pm Post subject: |
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most don't. those that do have different reasons.
1) enjoy teaching, explaining stuff
2) meet people, which can be difficult in a large city
3) money. it blew my mind when i learned what some people's parents are willing to pay to get johnny (or mortimer, or tarik) a decent score on test xyz... stupid me, that one, being from the midwest and thinking one gets ahead by one's own effort...
as for myself, i am finishing up grad school (math, not mba) and got a good enough score on the gmat to qualify for some instructor positions. i also have the itch to do the kind of gap year tefl world seeing thing before i 'get a life'. so i thinks to me self, why not teach the gmat at the same time? the gmat is required by most programs, and is given in english, so there should be some demand in the large asian business centers, right? or so i hope...
so my plan is to do a trinity cert, land some minimal hours contact in seoul/tokyo/osaka, start posting ads, and work on my rain dance...
btw saint, i like your posts.
some sanity in a sea of crackheads and nutcases...  |
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Glenski
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Why not just get on the JET programme for Japan, and get supplementary English teaching lessons on the side? Tokyo and Osaka would be out, but if you are in this for the money, who cares?
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| got a good enough score on the gmat to qualify for some instructor positions. |
Says who? (no offense, but to teach regular ole English requires little more than a pulse and a BA degree in any subject for most countries) |
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agentdirk
Joined: 18 Oct 2006
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| Posted: Sun Nov 26, 2006 8:58 am Post subject: |
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says:
a) my mommy
b) the voices in your head
or
c) the hiring organization (kaplan, etc...)
hmmmmm... 
glenski, you're in hokkaido, huh???
how is the hiking up there??? a la suisse or ... not? |
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Miyazaki
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| Posted: Sun Nov 26, 2006 3:31 pm Post subject: |
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[quote="Glenski"]Why not just get on the JET programme for Japan, and get supplementary English teaching lessons on the side? Tokyo and Osaka would be out, but if you are in this for the money, who cares?
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| got a good enough score on the gmat to qualify for some instructor positions. |
Says who? (no offense, but to teach regular ole English requires little more than a pulse and a BA degree in any subject for most countries)[/quote
I think you could find a pretty big demand for tutoring GMAT / LSAT in China, Taipei. I think Tokyo and Osaka would be a similar situation.
Try looking into Princeton Review in some of the big cities like Seoul, Taipei, Beijing, etc. they specialize in tutoring on GMAT, LSAT and GRE. etc.
There are foreigners tutoring local students GMAT and LSAT in Tokyo. I know of a guy who graduated from Thunderbird Univ. in Arizona and he makes pretty good coin teaching GMAT. |
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