I’m very happy today, not just because I have no teaching and no tutoring at all on Mondays. It is because my one of my tuition students smsed me her Sec 3 A. Math common test result, for which she obtained 31/40. Not bad at all for someone who has been struggling with her Algebra and Indices since last year.
This is what I mean when I talk about hard work. You don’t have to be an overnight success story. Neither do you need to score 100/100. You just have to be persistent in your quest for improvement. It’s ok for success to come in small doses. If you stick to your goals, the Big Success will come some day.
I also tutored her two elder brothers, from sec to jc, both of whom have obtained places in our local universities. The amazing thing about them is that they were ‘average’ students from ‘neighbourhood’ schools who simply refused to give up on their studies. They did a lot of work, asked many questions along the way, and took quite a lot of flak from me for being careless and forgetful. But that’s how things go for most of us. We are not perfect people who can understand immediately what we see or hear.
My main point is: Success is a personal choice.
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The correct word to use …
What is the correct English word to use to describe individual tuition, one-on-one or one-to-one? Let me tell you what the Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary say about it:
one-on-one: (1) A US adverb used in sports to mean that each player from one team is matched to a single player from the other team. (2) A US adjective to describe an activity in which one person is teaching or giving information to another person.
one-to-one: An adjective to describe an activity in which one person is teaching or giving information to another person.
Happy Chinese New Year!
Singapore Learner would like to wish all Chinese a Happy Lunar New Year. There will be no lessons at Singapore Learner on Monday (23/1) and Tuesday (24/1).
If you have done poorly at the O-Levels, …
it’s time to forget the past and move on. Remember that you cannot change the past but you can influence the future. Here’s a recent meaningful quote from American Idol finalist Danny Gokey:
“No one can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.”
: )
We would like to wish all O-Level graduates …
We would like to wish all O-level students ALL THE BEST on your exam results tomorrow. As for students of Singapore Learner, please don’t forget to call or sms to tell us about your results yeah.
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Singapore Learner provides Group Tuition, Individual Tuition, Intensive Revision, Enrichment Workshops, Headstart Classes, Holiday Classes and Crash Courses at the Primary, Secondary and Junior College levels in the areas of Math, Pure Physics, Pure Chemistry, Science, Economics, and General Paper for the Singapore A-Levels, O-Levels and PSLE.
I think the O-Level results will be released on ….
Well, some say on the 9th of January, which is a Monday. Personally, I think it will be on the 11th or 12th. I may be completely wrong of course. But what you do with the results is more important. The soon-to-be O-Level graduates right now need to do some serious thinking, and even soul-searching, about what they want to do as a career, what they are good at, and what they are passionate about. It is a scary yet exciting part of life.
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Singapore Learner provides Group Tuition, Individual Tuition, Intensive Revision, Enrichment Workshops, Headstart Classes, Holiday Classes and Crash Courses at the Primary, Secondary and Junior College levels in the areas of Math, Pure Physics, Pure Chemistry, Science, Economics, and General Paper for the Singapore A-Levels, O-Levels and PSLE.
There’s always gonna be another mountain …
“But I gotta keep tryin’
Gotta keep my head held high
There’s always
gonna be another mountain
I’m always gonna wanna make it move
Always gonna
be an uphill battle
Sometimes I’m gonna have to lose
Ain’t about how fast
I get there
Ain’t about what’s waitin’ on the other side
It’s the
climb
The struggles I’m facing
The chances I’m taking
Sometimes
might knock me down, but
No I’m not breaking
I may not know it,
but
These are the moments that
I’m gonna remember most
I’ve just gotta
keep goin’, and
I gotta be strong
Just keep pushing on, but
There’s
always gonna be another mountain
I’m always gonna wanna make it
move
Always gonna be an uphill battle
Sometimes I’m gonna have to
lose
Ain’t about how fast I get there
Ain’t about what’s waitin’ on the other side
It’s the climb”
– Miley Cyrus, ‘The Climb’
How to remember important stuff? Read this …
I found the following in a certain college handbook. I’ve read something like it before and I believe it’s based on some research work:
You remember approximately 10% of what you read, 2o% of what you hear, 30% of what you see, 50% of what you see and hear together, 70% of what you say, and 90% of what you do.
That’s why I insist that my students DO a lot of high-quality work because that IS the best way to prepare for exams. I also like to ask students to summarize or re-phrase their understanding of a concept and SAY it out. People who teach others are also continually reinforcing their knowledge, thus it is a good idea to share your knowledge with friends. 🙂
If you are choosing a sec school, ……..
I realise that the green MOE booklet, “Choosing Your Secondary Schools”, only lists the cut-off aggregate score for a particular school. This is helpful to some extent, but you also need to consider the MEDIAN aggregate PSLE score of the Sec 1 pupils of that school for the past 3 years or so, to estimate your chances of getting in, or the probability of being selected for good additional learning programmes provided by the school.
To put it simply, the median is the “average” PSLE aggregate score of the Sec 1 students. So if your score is lower than the median, and you still manage to get into the school because your score happens to be higher than the last student accepted into the school, you’ll find yourself enrolled into the “bottom class” of that school. For some schools, this MAY mean getting “less capable” teachers or less enrichment programmes.
You can find out a school’s median PSLE aggregate score through this link provided by the MOE; http://app.sis.moe.gov.sg/schinfo/.
Of course there are other considerations in choosing a school, such as school type, academic band and distance from home. Well, I wish all of you post-PSLE students all the best in your secondary school selection.
Rgds,
Please double-check your exam timetable!
My student arrived 28 mins late for his H2 Econs exam because he thought the paper was in the afternoon. But he told me he did not panic and calmly completed the paper within the allotted time, a result of being well-prepared. (Btw, I’m not his Econs tutor; I only tutor him in H2 Math and H2 Physics.)
The moral of the story?
(1) Always double-check your exam schedule.
(2) Be well-prepared for exams, even over-prepared if necessary.
(3) Try not to panic in any situation; control your breathing.