A friend's child is in middle school and has average academic performance. They enrolled in a tutoring class with a teacher for less than a thousand, which includes a meal, and the teacher tutors alongside his own child. When the kids were younger, it was fine, but later, a friend of a friend heard about the progress and also joined. The new kids had many issues, chatting and playing small games together, and the teacher's own child started to behave the same way, even their academic performance declined. The teacher noticed the situation was not good; he initially wanted to dismiss the last child who joined the tutoring class and not take responsibility, but after thinking it over, he decided not to take responsibility for any of them, treating them all equally.
Without the tutoring, this friend, who is not a typical test-taker from a small town and doesn't know some of the questions, found a mobile app for over twenty yuan a month to help with exercises. This price is a promotional rate for the first year. For renewal, it would be over two thousand for three years. At first, it seemed quite expensive, but she thought it was still cheaper than the tutoring. However, for someone like me who prefers free options, it still feels pricey. By registering with a different phone number, one can get the promotional price again or find other free alternatives.
I had seen reports that when ChatGPT came out, it directly impacted many online problem-solving training companies. So I recommended it to her. Those apps are also products optimized with AI. I tried out 360 Nano and Kimi and found they all have problem-solving functions. It makes sense. Cursor can handle simple programming in just a few sentences.
Additionally, the tutoring app, whether it's Yuan Tutor or something else, has a function to erase test papers that works better than using Photoshop myself, and another blogger 飞絮落叶雪 – 今天的点滴积累 明天的丰厚回忆 sent me a photo of the YuanBen that was bleached well. I estimate it also has AI layout and test paper search functions. It is indeed much stronger. Free for ten times each month, which is enough. Sometimes I am lazy and just scan to check homework. I never deleted this app and later found the test paper eraser useful, but handwritten test papers can't be used; once you use it, it turns into a blank sheet. Haha.