If your goal is to improve DI quickly, I would actually recommend starting with a comprehensive GMAT course before hiring a tutor.
The reason is that DI draws on a wide range of skills. Weaknesses in Data Sufficiency, Two-Part Analysis, graphs and tables, Quant fundamentals, reading, reasoning, and timing can all show up as a weak DI score. If you need improvement across several of those areas, private tutoring can become a very expensive way to build foundational skills that you could develop much more efficiently through a comprehensive course.
A good course can give you extensive instruction, strategies, and targeted practice for a relatively reasonable price. More importantly, it allows you to systematically identify and strengthen the areas that are actually holding your DI score back.
Then, if you complete that work and still have a few stubborn weaknesses, tutoring can make a lot more sense. At that point, you are paying a tutor to diagnose and fix very specific problems rather than paying an hourly rate to teach you large portions of the GMAT curriculum.
So my recommendation would be:
Start with a comprehensive GMAT course and build the underlying knowledge and skills first.
Then, if necessary, use a tutor later for highly targeted help.
That approach will usually give you much more learning per dollar, especially if you are still building your foundation.
If you want to share your current GMAT score, DI score, target score, and test date, I’d be happy to give you some thoughts on how extensive your DI work may need to be.
Good luck!
Scott
Target Test Prep