The working relationship between a Year 12 student and their teacher should be a professional, supportive and collaborative one. For many students it's quite a change from the way they interacted with teachers in years 7-11.
Students who excel in VCE almost always view their teachers as a trusted resource and communicate with them regularly. But, like all relationships, the rules of that relationship need to be negotiated by both parties.
Whether or not you should get a tutor should be discussed with your teacher. It is your teacher who will be assessing your SACs, and so it is their feedback that is most important to help you improve your work.
If you do decide to employ a tutor, it's important that you let your teacher know. It's also really important that if any advice your tutor gives you seems to contradict your teacher's instruction that you check in with your teacher straight away. Otherwise you may be putting a lot of work into changing your work in a way that your teacher doesn't believe is beneficial, in which case you are unlikely to be well rewarded in your SACs.
Some other thoughts about tutors:
1. A tutor may be helpful, but your teacher should be your main source of information and feedback
2. The best tutors are generally Year 12 English teachers from other schools
3. Your teacher may be able to recommend a good tutor for you, based on your strengths and areas of weakness
4. In 2017 the Study Design is new, so make sure your tutor is familiar with it
5. Previous students can be helpful, but they are not qualified teachers and so may not always be able to "teach", even if they did well in their own VCE
6. Previous students have not completed the new Study Design, so are not ideal tutors in 2017
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