Advice to common questions parents or students may have every year
From my interaction with parents over the years, I found that while many of them know the word “heuristics”, the majority of them do not know the finer details. On the other hand, competent educators use it systematically and successfully to help students understand mathematical concepts better, and lay the…
PSLE results will be released on this Wednesday, 24th November 2021. What’s next? My purpose in writing Part 2 of this article is to help parents and P6 children act with purpose. You may want to read Part 1 here. 210 was the number that defined me in PSLE 2000.…
PSLE results will be released on next Wednesday, 24th November 2021. What’s next? My purpose in writing this article is to help parents and P6 children think with clarity. *Mark is an active boy who has been involved in sports since Primary 3. He was the captain of his…
This is the second part to “Does your child really need tuition?”. I urge you to read it before before this article. In the previous article, Jun Wei has written an article about the 4 reasons why your child may not necessarily need tuition lessons. In this article, we will…
As students transit from lower secondary to upper secondary, most of the students are offered Additional Mathematics (A Maths). This is in addition to the compulsory Elementary Mathematics (E Maths) they have to study. Many of the skills gained from lower secondary are still applicable, and teachers expect students to…
Congratulations on your excellent O level results. Before I continue, I would like to remind you that the A level curriculum is among the toughest you would go through. You will need to put in almost five times as much effort for each subject compared to your O level…
The questions that parents ask when their child is enrolling into primary school: Does enrichment lessons really benefit my kids? Does my kid need tuition? What kind of tuition to choose? 1 to 1 or group tuition? Which tuition centre to go? When it comes to tuition, there are two;…
I get this query many times over the past few years from desperate parents. Their children has not been doing well for Pure Sciences in school, and the school has repeatedly advise their children to drop to combined science (or it could be a sudden bombshell by the school, as…
The answer is… it depends. Not all students need tuition. Although we are a tuition centre here, there have been many times we advised potential students to reconsider their decision to take up tuition. It’s not that we do not want the business. It is because effective tuition doesn’t come…