Advice to common questions parents or students may have every year
By the time Secondary 4 students finish covering the syllabus in July, most schools build in August as a dedicated revision month before prelims. On paper, that sounds like more than enough runway. For a lot of students, Physics is the subject that causes the most last-minute panic, not because…
Vectors have a reputation. Ask any JC student which topic in H2 Mathematics makes them break out in a cold sweat before Paper 1, and vectors usually tops the list, right alongside complex numbers. It’s not that the concepts are impossibly hard on their own. The trouble is that vectors…
Working through real exam questions year after year has become almost second nature for students preparing for their O-Levels. It’s the go-to method, the one revision habit nearly everyone shares, and it’s easy to see the appeal. Past-year papers offer a feel for timing, question phrasing, and the kind of…
Ask any JC student which part of H2 Maths feels the most unpredictable, and Statistics usually comes up fairly quickly. It isn’t because the maths itself is harder than calculus or algebra. It’s because Statistics asks students to read carefully, interpret context, and apply the right concept at the right…
Starting secondary school maths can feel like stepping into a whole new world. The numbers are still there, but suddenly there are letters mixed in, and the questions look nothing like what you were doing just months ago. For many students, algebra is the first real hurdle, and how they…
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…