[Grammar] I can teach you better.

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Here, extra classes after school or extra-curricular learning centres would simply be called something like "extra tuition". Neither of them expresses the specific idea of "cramming" for an exam. As shown in the previously-linked definition, it refers to intensive study for an imminent exam.

I would expect a "cram school" (I keep putting it in quotes simply because it's not a term commonly used in my variant of English) to accept/tutor only students who are due to sit an exam in the next two to three weeks.
 
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[...] (I keep putting in quotes simply because it's not a term commonly used in my variant of English)[...]

If you don't mind, should it be 'putting it in'? :)
 

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If you don't mind, should it be 'putting it in'? :)

Yes, it should have been. Thanks for pointing that out. I've corrected the error.
 

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Actually there is another meaning which she probably doesn't mean! She could be saying, 'I haven't taught you very well, but I can improve.'
 
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But that's quite an admission of guilt. ;-)
 

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I haven't done it very well so far, but I can do better.
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I lived in a country where the teachers wouldn't teach the syllabus properly unless students coughed up some extra cash.
 

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I lived in a country where the teachers wouldn't teach the syllabus properly unless students coughed up some extra cash.

:shock:
 

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. . . . However, does the slogan sound (grammatically) OK and natural to native speakers? . . . .
To me it's a little ambiguous but not unnatural.
 
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