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Book Smart Tutors

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Book Smart Tutors Overview

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AI insights based on reviews

Mixed sentiment in Book Smart Tutors reviews: some customers praise quick matching and value Location and Website, but many report high price and inconsistent tutor quality.

Key Takeaways for Future Customers

  • Expect variable tutor quality; some customers recommend for short‑notice help.
  • Be prepared for a higher price level compared with other tutoring services.
  • Check tutor credentials and ask about licensing before committing.

Negative Feedback / Risk Areas

  • Recurring customer complaints about unlicensed college kids teaching and weak subject knowledge.
  • Reports of booking difficulties and slow or poor customer service response.
  • Allegations of fabricated or duplicated reviews that affected trust.

Positive Feedback

Some customers found the service responsive and able to provide tutors on short notice; location and website are noted as strengths.

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Anonymous

Book Smart Tutors - Tutoring Service Review

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AI Highlights
  • Impressed with David; signed up on a payment plan.
  • Could not get tutor; they had unlicensed college kids teaching.
  • Barbara Rausch Tutoring Center; daughter will go back.

Horrible....my dsughter needed a tutor. We went to booksmart and was impressed with the owner David.

We signed up, made a payment plan and started. Wham....thats when it started. I was unable to get the tutor i requested. The girls that helped my daughter didnt understand the math.

Ridiculous !!!!! Everytime I called to book a time...they said they were booked. Annoying!!!!!! EVERYONE READING THIS SHOULD BE AWARE OF BOOKSMART...THEY HAVE UNLICENSED COLLEGE KIDS TEACHING.

GO TO BARBARA RAUSCH TUTORING CENTER.

MY DAUGHTER IS DEFINITELY GOING BACK. THATS A REAL GENUINE TUTORING SERVICE

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Guest

Interesting how much was the rate? I am assuming the rate was low for a community college student?

Anonymous
map-marker Toronto, Ontario

Excellent tutoring service

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AI Highlights
  • Used service on an as-needed basis for 2+ years, with quick tutor placement.
  • Tutors: Adnan (8th math), Tony (9th math), Ashley (9th English), Johanna (10th English).

We used their service on an as-needed basis whenever my daughter needs the help. This is over 2 years of time. They were very responsive and was able to get us a good tutor in a short notice. I will recommend them to my friends.

The names of the tutors as far as I remembered...

Adnan for grade 8 math

Tony - for grade 9 Math

Ashley for grade 9 English

Johanna for grade 10 English

We are in the Richmond Hill area in Ontario

Pros:
  • Tutor
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Viveca Lmt

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Poor Service

AI Highlights
  • Found online; phone-tag before tutoring; rate reasonable.
  • The first tutor explained little; the second spoke fast and unclear.

It is really too bad I did not receive the previous complaint about them faking their reviews. It explains the lack of professionalism I received from Book Smart Tutors.

I have to say that my experience with this company has really left me not to trust companies that I have not heard of. I found them by searching on the internet and they were one of the adds I clicked first. Called them. After several phone tags they called my wife and we set up some home tutoring sessions for my daughter.

The rate was reasonable and we started the tutoring sessions. The first tutor they sent us only understood some of the chemistry equations and actually told my daughter that she would take the other equations home and give her the answers the next tutoring sessions. They sent us another tutor a week later and he had a very strong accent and talked very fast. My daughter was not able to fully understand how he got the answer and when she asked him how he got the answer he did not really explain himself well.

I was very displeased and tried to speak to a manager but received no response except a voice mail 3 days later.

Not impressed. Rate was great but I guess that is why they say you get what you paid for.

Loss:
$400
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15 comments
Guest

Called them about my son who is special needs and had to explain to them the current special education process. They wanted to offer me an unqualified tutor for my son.

In the end I realized that I was not dealing with educators. It appeared like I was speaking to my teenage daughter, and not a professional educator. The price was good but , like they say you get what you pay for. Also to note the other complaint was that book smart tutors faked their own reviews.

Look at the other complaint.

They actually have pictures of two Web pages with the same exact review but using a different name. Looks to me this place is not run by educators.

Guest

I have never heard of Book Smart tutors. I have lived here all my life and I am 50.

Must be a spanking new company.

Stay away from these new companies unless you hear a review from a dear friend. Or i Would go to your child teacher and see who they recommend.

Guest

Called them and did not find them professional at all. I felt I was speaking to a child.

Would not recommend. Seems like some high school students opened up this business.

Guest

After the first call I called them back but they would not respond to my calls or messages. I thought that was rude.

Guest

I had a similar issue. The took a week to find my son a tutor.

The first tutor was horrendous and I was very shocked at who they hired. She had a horrible speech impediment and she was teaching my son English. She told me she was at York University and has a learning disability herself. I felt bad for her because it was Book Smart Tutors fault for hiring her.

Apparently she I asked her if they had interviewed her in person and she said no she only had a phone interview.

A week later they found someone else but he was yelling at my son for making simple spelling mistakes. Just do not want to say anymore because my son was hurt emotionally from this ordeal!

Guest

When I called them I found them very unprofessional in the nature of their speech and sales approach. I felt like I was speaking to a teenager???? Did not proceed with them.

Guest

Thanks for the reviews for Book smart tutors. I am glad I read a few of these reviews and the one about them faking their own reviews does not shock me at all.

Some companies are known to make their own online reviews just to get more business.

I just do not know who to trust anymore.

Guest

Found this agency on Google and called them in the middle of August. They told me that they would have a tutor for my son before September.

So I trusted their word. Come September, I decided to look elsewhere.

The called me yesterday to tell me they found my son a tutor and I told them that I already went to another agency that found a tutor for me last week. Good grief!

Guest

It is a good thing I read some of the reviews here. I was about to pay for a tutoring package when I read from a previous review that they write their own reviews and there was pictures to prove it.

I just can't trust any company that would do something like that.

Guest

I was also left hanging. They said they would find me a tutor for my son.

After 3 weeks of waiting they could not find me a tutor. Went with Kumon instead.

Guest

At first they told me the tutor they got for me was not available. Then they sent a tutor we did not like too much.

The sent another tutor who was not much better. They paying the tutors very low to keep low rates. When I asked one of the tutors how a much they were getting paid. It was very low for tutoring.

The company should raise the tutors hourly rate for their tutors so you get better tutors. Not happy with tutors.

Guest
reply icon Replying to comment of Guest-831146

... Or, you could just hire one of the tutor companies that pay their tutors a fair wage, right?

Instead, you want to pay the lowest rate possible, but want the quality of the higher paid tutors.

I'm sure you would also like the first-class service that a well-paid tutoring service would provide in matching, scheduling, and handling your tutoring needs.

These cost $$, of which you wish to pay the least amount of.

So, either suck up the *** service and *** tutors your getting for your cheap payments, or go with a tutor company that pays decently for decent people.

Guest
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I thought they were good company. The rate was very good and they tell me that tutor is good. We went to a center near our home and center is a little less money and teacher better.

Guest
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Funny, I thought this was suppose to be reviews on the company, not the customer. You must work for them too.

So typical to blame the person genuinely trying to help their child.

There's nothing wrong with trying to find the best deal. THAT'S WHAT THIS SITE IS ALL ABOUT!

Guest

I too wanted to hire a tutor from this company. They said they would find a tutor within a week.

It turns out that three weeks later I am still without a tutor. I believe their is a one man/women band.

I went with another company instead. I did not know that they faked their own review but that is pitiful if they did that.

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Iona Ixw

Company Faked Reviews

AI Highlights
  • Searched for Book Smart Tutor Reviews on Google.
  • Reviews seem written by the same person and appear under different names.
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I wanted to get tutoring services from this company. I simply typed Book Smart Tutor Reviews on Google.

It appears their reviews were written by the same person. I looked into this further and found that not only does it appear that they write their own reviews, they duplicated the same review from another site and copied it with a different name on Google reviews. See images I attached. Albert King from Google is the same review as Stacey S on the other site.

The deleted Albert Kings review after I posted this! This goes to show who they are!

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Guest

thx

Guest

That is awful, and very misleading. I have heard of businesses actually paying companies to offer reviews on Yelp, and Google.

I am surprised this agency is continuing to operate, the evidence is there.

Guest

It just goes to show what some business will do to rob you of your hard earned money. Shame on this business for faking their reviews. If you cannot get legitimate reviews than you should not be in business!

Guest

I agree I would use the internet as a last resource for trusted reviews. The only reason why companies like Book smart tutors would fake their reviews is very simple.

They must be new and need people to believe they have been around for a while.

Guest

It is better to trust word of mouth rather then the internet.

Guest

Why does this not surprise me??? Business have to bend the rules to make money.

That is the nature of surviving a business. But this is really bad for the consumer.

Guest

This makes me believe that these type of companies are not trustworthy if the do something like this.

Guest

Yep!. Just seems like the reputation of this business just went down the toilet for pulling something like that!

I am surprised a tutoring business in the education full can pull that off. As for this Company Book Smart Tutors stop posting fake reviews.

You can easily tell that all your goggle reviews are faked.

Guest

Awful. Just plain awful! that a company would go to such lengths to get clients!!!

Guest

Why am I not surprised? Simply business like this Book smart tutoring company will use whatever tactic to increase business.

So I am not surprised that they faked their own reviews. Some companies just do that.

Guest

I am glad I saw this before paying for a tutor for my daughter. I found a private tutor instead. If Books Smart Tutors have done this secretly I could just imagine how they would have treated me as a paying client.

Guest

Just awful to hear that companies do this to get more business. Who can you trust now a days.

Guest

I had the same issue with a restaurant I recently visited. The reviews were good.

Too good if you know what I mean. We went there and the food was horrible the service was substandard. When I looked closely at the reviews they seemed too good to be true. I started reading the reviews and found that their reviews were written by the same person.

So when I goggled "companies faking their reviews" for some reason I got this page. Book Smart Tutors company should revisit their reviews and erase the fake ones they created to boost customer sales. I agree with Uri below. You should not trust reviews.

You should trust word of mouth if you can. In conclusion If i was looking for tuition I would definitely avoid this book tutors company.

Guest

This is very sad that this book smart tutor company faked their own reviews. That is why I would research a company and only choose a company that my friends, family, or professional has recommended. Good thing I simply typed book smart tutor reviews and found this.

Guest

This goes to show what some companies will do to get business. Just plain awful.

Guest

Shameful. That is all I can say. Shame on those companies that post lies and fake reviews.

Guest

I am fed up with some organizations that feel the need to fake reviews to drive in more business. What happened to honesty and integrity.

Obviously if they fake their own reviews than this Book Smart Tutoring company should not be trusted.

I came across this page because I was looking for Book Smart Tutor reviews in New York. I do not believe they are affiliated with each other but the agency in New York should follow up and see if they also violated trademark laws for the book smart tutor name.

Guest

Just awful! That is all I got to say.

Guest

That really gets me pissed! I hate online reviews for this reason.

The truth is not in online reviews. There a bunch of BS. I did look at the pictures for book smart tutors and compared them. WOW.

I also looked at their Google reviews and found that most of their reviews sound the same. So it seems like they either payed a company to do these reviews or they did it by themselves. But to have a duplicate review with a different name on another review site.

Regardless the conclusion is that we should not trust online reviews! I am confused is booksmart tutors US the same company and the book smart tutors in Canada these reviews are about?

Guest

This is the reason why no one should trust online reviews. They are a scam.

You just can't trust who wrote these reviews like this book a smart tutoring company did with their reviews. Word of mouth is your best friend.

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