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

:shock:
 
. . . . 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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