Tutoring can be beneficial in many ways.  Here are some of the benefits.

• Provides personalized attention
• Improves grades
• Increases knowledge and understanding of subjects
• Increases motivation to succeed
• Provides intensive practice
• Allows progress at own pace
• Leads to better use of study time
• Improves self-esteem and confidence
• Encourages higher levels of learning
• Encourages self-directed learning
• Reduces competition
• Provides praise, feedback, and encouragement
• Provides review of skills not mastered but no longer taught
• (taken from How-To-Study.com)