GCE O level Tuition & GCE O level Full Time Programme SmartLab GCE O level programme is designed to help students achieve their goal so that they can move on to the next stage of their learning. You need a goal. Whether it is for advancement to GCE A level or polytechnic or other tertiary education, a goal serves to direct your efforts to ensure that the subjects you are reading meets the entry requirements and prepares you for your future endeavours.   Free feel to contact us and we have a team of educators who can provide you the advice and Read More…

“Black hole” Question In science, we learn that time slows down near a black hole. Some questions have the same characteristics and are able to draw the students in to focus all their time and effort working on them.  The outcome is the commitment of too much time and effort on those questions while other easier questions are not attempted due to lack of time or effort.  Students have limited time and focus during an examination and these should be invested wisely. In the tuition centre, when a mock assessment is given, there will always be a few such demanding Read More…

Exploration, Strengthening, Consolidation   Exploration is a stage when the focus is to teach to develop interests of students in the topic. Students will be taught the basics and concepts before demonstrating how this knowledge can be applied to questions for solving science questions during science tuition or math questions during maths tuition. Thereafter students would have to solve basic level questions to exercise the application of the newly learnt concepts. Strengthening is a learning stage when key areas of a topic or knowledge are covered before focusing on knowledge application and problem solving in preparation for formative assessments. The Read More…

Group tuition and customised tuition: Is one superior over the other? They each have their pros and cons. During primary tuition in a group setting, students can feel the comfort and familiarity, not dissimilar from what is happening in a school classroom setting, where you have a tutor or teacher leading the entire learning session instructing what the students need to memorise, how to dismantle the question using tools and concepts, and what need to be practised and how the students should approach the solving of question and presentation of an answer. The student benefits from the familiarity and smaller Read More…

Overload With guidebook, textbook, school notes, learning videos and elearning contents, students are now bombarded with an overload of learning materials. As students plough into these learning materials to prepare for assessments, it would be useful for them to be able to distil what are more important.  These areas of focus can only be identified if students understand the focus of the assessments. Science tuition and maths tuition should therefore serve this purpose. An effective tutor should be able to present to the learners what are the commonly tested topics and sub-topics.  Experienced tutors would be able to pinpoint a Read More…