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Tuition in Singapore comes in four shapes — tuition centres, private tutors who come to you, online tutors, and subsidised community programmes. They differ in cost, in how much individual attention your child gets, and in how much of the arranging falls to you. Knowing which shape fits your situation is most of the decision.

Tuition Centre COVID Measures: Keeping Students Safe and Learning On! If you’re a student or a parent, you’re likely wondering how COVID-19 has impacted tuition centres in Singapore. The pandemic has forced many of these centres to adapt to a new normal, with some opting for online classes while others have implemented strict safety measures

AEIS is the Admissions Exercise for International Students — the route by which an international student is considered for a place in a Singapore government school. Two things matter more than anything else about it: it tests English and mathematics against Singapore standards, and passing it does not by itself secure a place, because placement

The most common problem for IB Maths students in Singapore is not finding a tutor who knows the mathematics. It is finding one who knows how the IB assesses it. A tutor trained on the local syllabus can teach entirely correct methods that lose marks, because the two systems reward different things in the written

Private Tuition in the Time of Covid: Singapore’s Best Options Private tuition has long been a popular option for students in the UK seeking additional support in their academic studies. However, the COVID-19 pandemic has brought about significant changes in the way private tuition is conducted, with many students and tutors now turning to online

Tuition Advertisement: Find Your Perfect Tutor Today! Crafting an effective tuition advertisement is an essential part of any education business. It’s important to reach out to as many students and parents as possible, and to do so in a way that is engaging and informative. With the right approach, you can create a tuition advertisement

Biology has the largest gap between effort and result of any science, and the reason is consistent: students revise it as a memorisation subject and it is marked as an explanation subject. A child who can recall every stage of a process and cannot say why each stage matters will lose marks while working harder

Students who can explain every concept on the syllabus routinely cap out well below the top grades. The marks that separate outcomes come from evaluation — weighing policies against each other, saying which matters most under what conditions, and justifying it. That is judgement, and it is assessed separately from knowledge. Most students who feel

English is scored across four largely independent components, and a child can be strong in two and weak in two. Comprehension failure is a reading problem. Composition failure is usually a planning problem. Oral is a fluency-and-confidence problem. Grammar is a rules problem. “Weak in English” tells you nothing until you know which. Start with

Most Primary 1 children do not need English tuition. They need reading at home, time, and a year to settle into formal schooling. For the minority who do need help — usually a genuine decoding or phonics gap — a good session is almost entirely the child reading, speaking and being corrected gently, with very

Chinese is the subject where the diagnosis matters most, because three genuinely different problems present identically on a report card. The child may lack exposure, may have exposure but weak exam technique, or may have quietly decided they are bad at Chinese. Tuition solves the second one well, the first one slowly, and the third