diff --git a/source/tutorial/model-tree-structures-with-materialized-paths.txt b/source/tutorial/model-tree-structures-with-materialized-paths.txt
index 399c0520f4e..5580e5f4e64 100644
--- a/source/tutorial/model-tree-structures-with-materialized-paths.txt
+++ b/source/tutorial/model-tree-structures-with-materialized-paths.txt
@@ -89,3 +89,7 @@ storing the path in the field ``path``; the path string uses the comma
     For these queries an index *may* provide some performance
     improvement *if* the index is significantly smaller than the
     entire collection.
+   
+    However, these queries can have similar performance by retrieving
+    the sub-tree's full path (e.g. ``/^,Books,Programming,/``) as this
+    will make use of the index efficiently.