Why Your Child Can Know PSLE Science and Still Lose Marks
Your child explains science at the dinner table and still loses marks on paper. Forty of the hundred are awarded for reasoning about a scenario they have never seen before.
Small Group Tuition or 1-to-1? An Honest Comparison
One-to-one guarantees attention. It does not guarantee engagement, and those are not the same thing. An honest comparison, including when we would send you elsewhere.
What Sec 3 Physics Assumes You Already Know
The syllabus publishes exactly which maths Sec 3 Physics assumes your child already has. Three items on that list decide the first term — and the maths class has not always reached them yet.
Does My Child Need Tuition, or Just Need to Study Harder?
Right but slow is a fluency problem, and you can fix that at home for nothing. Cannot get there at all is something else entirely. Five tests to tell them apart before you spend.
Why O-Level Chemistry Students Memorise the Wrong Things
The two things students spend the most hours memorising are both printed in the exam paper. Meanwhile the topic that actually decides the grade sits untouched.
H2 Math: The 60 Marks A Math Never Prepares You For
The hard part of H2 Math is not the harder calculus. It is 60 marks of statistics that A Math never mentions — nearly a third of the grade, in a subject last met at E Math.
Why O-Level Physics Answers Lose Marks They Should Have Won
“I knew that one. I just wrote it wrong.” Usually true. SEAB defines every command word precisely, and most lost marks are careful answers to a different question.
Why Strong PSLE Scorers Struggle With Sec 1 Math
An AL1 in November, marks in the fifties by March. Three specific restrictions lift in the first term of Sec 1, and nobody tells the student they are gone.