I thought having private tutoring was only confined to school children caught in the rat race of wanting to excel in public examinations. So I was taken aback when a colleague I was working with in 1988 in Malaysia told me he engaged a private tutor to coach him to pass his medical examinations as a medical student in India. No, not passing medical tests but to secure a pass in his exams as an undergraduate. Until then, my understanding of tuition was that it was for weaker students who could ..