How to study, and the tips and strategies to help in scoring.
Three marks available, five lines of correct physics written, one mark awarded. Nothing in the answer was actually wrong, which is what makes that kind of script so deflating to get back. At A Level the concepts themselves are manageable. School notes and the textbook cover them properly, and a…
Physics graphs have a funny way of looking simple until the exam paper asks you to explain what a gradient actually means. Many students can plot a velocity-time graph beautifully, yet freeze the moment they’re asked why the area under it gives displacement. That gap between drawing a graph and…
Most marks lost in H2 Physics have very little to do with a student not understanding the concept. Far more often, it’s a slip in the working. A wrong prefix, a bracket left out on the calculator, a value that should have set off alarm bells but didn’t. These are…
Every school has that one student who seems to ace every exam without breaking a sweat. But here’s the truth: behind every consistent A1 is a set of quiet, unglamorous habits practised day after day. It is rarely about being the “smartest” person in the room. More often than not,…
Model-drawing is one of the most powerful techniques in helping our children understand complex primary school Math word problems. It could help them visualise primary school mathematics problems easily. Using boxes or rectangles to represent numbers, it enables them to compare numbers, fractions, ratios and percentages easily. This method is…
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…
The open-ended questions (OEQ) in the science paper carry a weightage of 44 marks. It is common for our children to be scared of doing OEQs because they do not know what to write. Hence, they typically put all hope in the multiple-choice questions, hoping to score at least 52…
Over the past many years, both as a student and a tutor, I noticed there have been many students who were really hardworking, but still unable to score well. Yet… There are students who spent lesser effort (still hardworking) and score excellent results. I was one of them. As a…
*This is especially applicable for both Secondary and JC Maths and Physics students which I specialised in. I often noticed hardworking and conscientious students having the best of everything… the best school notes, a very helpful school subject teacher, and maybe a really good environment to study. But they just…
Often, I find my tuition students constantly forgetting what they had just learned in school. Too many of them give up too early and too easily in their attempts to score, and losing confidence in their ability to score. It isnt the fault of the students; its actually human nature…