After Assessment Review

We spend too much time preparing for an assessment and too little time reviewing the assessment. In the tuition centre, teachers would provide mock assessments during English tuition.  The review that is carried for these assessments would be both thorough and detailed. During the preparation stage of the assessments, the areas to be tested would be reviewed and briefed by the secondary tuition tutor.  He or she would emphasise the knowledge areas to be tested. However, the actual question would not be revealed. Typically, after the assessments and the marking of the papers, there is a report that is written Read More…

Should we spot questions in examination?

Yes, all students do that. In fact, schools and tuition centres do that as well. There was a year that the English PSLE question was spotted by a tuition centre conducting English tuition. So how do you go about spotting questions. Commonly Tested Areas There would be areas that would be tested year after year. The concept is always tested but framed in different forms of questioning or embedded in long structured multi-topical questions. Iodoform test is a commonly tested area for JC tuition students reading chemistry. In every A level tuition revision assessment, the chemistry tuition tutor would put Read More…

How do I know if I have mastered that topic and that I am ready for an assessment?

Honest Learning When learning a new topic, students need to learn about a new concept and the basis of how such a concept comes about. Understanding how the concept comes about is important, as it gives you clarity based on the concept and how it is derived. In science tuition classes, the first principles approach is how teachers would conduct the class and expound the importance of the underlying principles. However, there are occasions where such first principles thinking would not be able to be done, as certain concepts involving advanced mathematics or science concepts are difficult to explain to Read More…

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