Justin Tan

Tuition Centre Takeover: New Owners Bring Exciting Changes If you’re looking to invest in the education industry, a tuition centre takeover might be a wise move. Singapore is home to a thriving education sector, and tuition centres are in high demand. By taking over an existing centre, you can save time and money on setting […]

Primary English is not one skill. The paper spreads marks across composition, comprehension, grammar and vocabulary, situational writing, listening and oral — and the components most parents worry about are frequently not the ones losing the marks. Getting the breakdown before choosing help is the whole difference between useful tuition and expensive reassurance. Where the

Lower secondary science is broad and forgiving. From Secondary 3 it splits into separate sciences, the depth increases sharply, and the assumption that the Sec 1–2 foundation is secure becomes absolute. Most students who need help in secondary science need it because of what that split exposes, not because of what it introduces. What actually

Most students losing marks in A-Level Chemistry can recall the content perfectly well. What they cannot do is explain — set out why something happens, in the sequence and precision the question demands. Chemistry at this level rewards reasoning made visible on the page, and a student who understands a concept but describes it loosely

The jump from O-Level to H2 Maths is not mainly about difficulty. It is about pace and about how much is assumed. A good JC maths session therefore spends less time demonstrating and more time watching the student work, because the failure mode at this level is rarely “never saw it” — it is “saw

Almost every struggling H2 Economics student can define elasticity, draw the diagram and explain market failure. They lose marks somewhere else entirely: in evaluation, in applying theory to an unfamiliar context, and in structuring an essay that answers the question actually set. Economics is a writing subject wearing a theory subject’s clothes. Why students who

H2 Physics students rarely fail because a concept was never explained. They fail because the mathematics underneath is not fluent, or because they cannot decide what a problem is about before starting it. A session that works spends its time on those two things — and most of it watching the student attempt, not watching

A tuition assignment is a specific job — a named student, level, subject, location and time — matched to a tutor, usually through an agency that takes a cut of the early lessons. Understanding how the matching and the commission work before you accept your first one saves a good deal of frustration, because the

Online tuition removes travel and widens your choice of tutor. It also removes the tutor’s ability to see a child drift, and it asks the child to supply the self-regulation a physical room used to supply. For a self-managing teenager that trade is often clearly worth it. For a distractible eleven-year-old it frequently is not.

Science is the subject where a child most often knows the answer and does not get the mark. The marks go to three different failures — not knowing the content, not writing it in the form the mark scheme wants, or not transferring a known idea to an unfamiliar setup — and they need different

The real difference between one-to-one and group tuition is not price — it is who sets the pace. One-to-one follows your child’s reasoning and stops where they stop. Group follows a curriculum and moves whether or not your child is ready. Which is right depends entirely on whether your child’s problem is personal or shared.

Maths marks are lost in four distinct ways: the concept was never understood, the concept is understood but the method is wrong, the method is right but execution slips, or the question was never attempted. Only the first two are taught away. The other two need different fixes, and paying for teaching to solve them