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Intensive Chinese tuition

25% >50% > 75%>95%

1 YEAR G'TEED IMPROVEMENT

*8/20 tailor-made lessons

by local ex-sch teacher

(30 yrs experience)

*Change negative attitude

& enjoy learning

 *Learn oral,comprehension,

writing skills,cloze passage,

summary,proverbs via exam paper 

internet,newspaper,webcam,skype

*Learn to write book/

newspaper reviews

*Analyze top-school/

psle/"o" level past yr series

*2-4 pax per group/1-2 pax for home tuition

*P4-S4

S1-3 higher chinese

mon-sat 9.30am-12.30pm@myplace(1.5 hour/lesson)

mon-fri 2pm-930pm-yr place(1.5 hour/lesson)

 + Results G'teed +

(Marine Terrace) Since 1980

Mr. Kok 9764-1616

chinesetuitionsg.blogspot.com

Who are my target students this tuition?

1)Students who have failed their Chinese.

2)Students who passed the Chinese exam but do not have confidence to breakthrough from a borderline pass.

3)Very easily distracted type of students;hyperactive etc.This hinder their academic progress.(tutors hired need to be extremely patient and have ways to engage them)

4)Have attempted enrolling in tuition classes or even private individual tuition but no improvement can be seen,whether in terms of attitude or results.

5)Paper 2's marks is nowhere near good,composition pieces reflect poor language expression and no fluent during Oral examinations

6)Students with flair in other subjects except for Chinese.They wish to invest more time on Chinese to bring up their overall marks or attain all As etc.

What will I cover with my students:

1.Revise 5A/5B Vocabulary list for PSLE(it's still half of PSLE syllabus)

2.Use a advanced program,iflashbook,an animation form of textbook,to teach 6A,6B in advance.(inclu. challenging tailor-made comprehension questions to improve their inferential and comprehending skills)

3.Analyse PSLE past year paper.Impart exam techniques suited for different question types in the midst of it.

4.Use PC,Videos,Webcam,DVD and CD-roms.These form of multimedia helps to directly improve their LC skills,oral expressions,composition and comprehension skills

Note: The lessons will only be benefical when over time they are willing to put in effort and concentrate during lessons. Working hard have to go with working smart. I will try my best to provide guidiance and techniques. It's only when they follow they will achieve improvement within 6 months(2012 SA1)
See Example testimonial:SJI student from 47 to 67 marks(4grades) in one year.

        

Why P6 Yuan Zhen can speak so confidently

2011 PSLE Picture Discussion

Done by: Fairfield Methodist P6 top student

2011:Video of Gifted P6 girl from Nanyang,Cheryl

My Students' O level/PSLE 2010 results

Shi En


Methodist Girls' School


B4 for "O" lvl Chinese

Jeannes


Orchid Park Sec Sch


B4 for O lvl Chinese


Alicia Chong Li Yan


Methodist Girls School(Pri)


Aggregate:239


Chinese Grade:A

Tan Yong En

Kong Hwa Sch

Aggregate: 232


Chinese Grade: A

Vanessa Tan Wen Jing


Tao Nan Sch


Agg:231


Chinese:A
Trisha


Northland Pri Sch


Aggregate:218


Chinese Grade: A


Tan Yi Cheng


Raffles Girls School(Pri)


Chinese Grade: A

Testimonial from P6 RGS Yi Chen

RGS Yi Chen came to my tuition when she was still P5 and has improve greatly over the few months with me. She lives in Yio Chu Kang and has great difficulty coming over my house in the east for 1-to-1 tuition.Nevertheless she still managed to come at 8am in the morning consecutively for 5 days during the holidays.This intensive program was to make up for not being able to attend my lessons during school term as she's busy with her supplementary classes and other tuition. She is very intelligent and could pick up the main points and techniques of my teaching very well. This is partly due to her basic foundation in Chinese. When she entered, little push and she was able to improved greatly.Her prelim Oral scored a shocking 46/50 marks, pulling her overall marks up to a high A.

Here are the videos one in English and next one in Mandarin:

 

  

  



Is PSLE Chinese difficult?

The Primary School Leaving Examination is one that every student must take to move on to Secondary school. How well one does in this examination will determine which school he/she will enter. Is PSLE Chinese difficult? It depends on your child's foundation, and his/her exposure to the language. They will be tested on areas like writing, listening, and comprehending. Steps have been taken by MOE to adjust the marks allocated for each segment to decrease difficulty and increase relevance.
Some would question the importance of the subject in the overall aggregate score. A question frequently heard from parents is,"Why don't I allow my child to concentrate on English, Mathematics and Science first rather than Chinese?" The answer is the weightage of all the subjects are equal, and therefore a drop in Chinese will bring down the total aggregate score. I have students who missed out by one or two points to enter their desired schools of choice like ACS, Victoria they end up regretting not putting enough effort into Chinese.
Getting a huge improvement in grades is something that cannot be done overnight. To achieve the desired result, one must prepare for at least a year.  Students should have a sturdy foundation and familiarise themselves with most of the common words by Primary Five. This is because during Primary Six the teachers will be too busy doing intense revision of the past two years to go through the basics. A deadly and unfortunately common mistake are students who prepare for the Chinese Examination at the very last minute. Students will not be able to study properly under the pressure and will likely panic on the day of the examination, which is not recommended. I strongly urge parents who have Primary Five children to send them for tuition classes during the upcoming November to December holidays if they are weak in the subject. Prepare early and you will have no regrets.

                             Dunean Sec 4 Ming Zhen

    Chung Cheng High School (Main) Sec 4 Jin hua

SJI student with improvement of 20 marks!

Samuel Lim ,Sec 2
47 to 67 percent,
41.5/50(Oral)(2nd in class)
53/70 Compre

  He is actually a typical student who has not much interest towards the language. With a relatively weak foundation,I still recall his struggle in completing "Journey to the West" novel review. I started teaching him from January this year.During the SA1, he scored 47% overall for Chinese. Although disappointed, Samuel's parents did not quit the tuition halfway. They continued to have faith in me. Samuel's poor performance could be due to the limited number of lessons which 1 per week. However he is one who is "academically-conscious". Nearing the exams, I increased the number of lessons so as to prepare him.(Started work 6 weeks prior to exams). This led to his remarkable improvement from 47 to 67. This shows that sometimes the result do not come as fast which may instead take 6 months to one year to surface. If their parents had stopped the lessons 6 months ago, they may not be able to see Samuel progress.  Normally he is not fluent in speaking Chinese, speaking in bits and pieces and afraid of making wrong  tonation of pinyin. Surprisingly, he did exceedingly well for the Oral component this year even standing out as second best in class. From this year onwards, the syllabus for Chinese Oral took a turn to picture discussion rather than the usual topic discussion. Due to intense practice with me, he probably sat for the exam with new found confidence, with knowledge of what to expect. Thus, this gave him favour with the examiner amongst his peers who could be uunfamiliar with the new syllabus.

Usually a jump of 4 grades need a time of two years. However Samuel has surpass normal expectations and make vast improvement within half the time. Hence, students with weak foundations need at least two lessons per week to be able to improve. Another alternative will be to go for intensive lessons during the holidays.


James,Sec2
Overall: improved from 48 to 54(in 3 months)
  Although James has a stronger foundation, he is the type who has lower expectations . Nevertheless, he  improved,due to the pull up in paper 2 component.

Fairfield Methodist Sec: outstanding result of 82percent/ diligient,improving student

     Jun De from Fairfield Methodist Sec Sch has outdone himself and achieved outstanding result. He scored 82 percent overall for his Chinese making him the best and most improved student i have among the rest. Even Jun De was apalled by his results this time round as it was his first time getting so high during his years of schooling. His paper 1 component was his forte this time round with 17/20 for situational(公函）and 32/40 for composition. I feel that the main factor for his success is due to of his diligience. During the holidays, he did alot of Chinese related assignments which consist of books"非常阅读" that the teachers personally written for the syllabus. Every page consists of interesting passages and innovative questions specially catered for their age to catch their interest and attention. These painstakingly written worksheets are aimed to polish their comprehension skills. Those who may want to purchase the book for your children, it is not for sale anywhere at all unfortunately. The school is very strict about their publications. I would like to applaud Fairfield Methodist dedicated team of teachers for this first-of-its-kind education material which no other school elsewhere has done it.

  On the other hand, i got another student, Zhen Wei who has not reached Jun De's pinnacle in Chinese. He does not have interest towards Chinese. Due to little exposure to the language, he has tremendous difficulty in writing especially. But much to my delight he made improvement and for the first time passed his paper 1. Although with the increased demand put upon by the school to restrict the situational writing to formal"gong han" but he still managed to pull it off with the news article review as his preferred composition question. It is heartening that he put what i thought him about the organisation techniques of writing article review into the exam. I hope that this little result will serve as a stepping stone for him to do better.