Home Tuition can benefit students pursuing their Education in Singapore, in many ways.
One of it being the transfer of knowledge from tutor to tutee; knowledge that worked and helped the tutors to do exceptionally well in exams. (See: market tuition rates, 2018)
The 2 most important skills to master, in order to do well in our education system is:
1. Memorising and Understanding Key Concepts
2. Answering What the Question Requires
1. Memorising and Understanding Key Concepts
Key concepts is applicable to every subject; from Demand-Supply analysis in Economics, basic differentiation in Mathematics, to understanding the Krebs cycle in Biology.
Exams in Singapore tests your ability to answer questions under a time-controlled setting.
Understanding and memorising key concepts will certainly give you a good chance at doing well, as you are able to answer questions with ease and without hesitation.
In some cases, just pure memorisation would work!
- For example in JC Chemistry, you don’t understand why different ions react differently to different stimuli.
- However if you memorised the equations, explanations and keywords from your notes/textbooks, you would still be able to answer the question despite not understanding the fundamentals.
Of course, understanding would prove to be better as you would have less trouble memorising when you understand.
2. Answering What the Question Requires
Not understanding the question requirements will cost you greatly as well.
If you do not correctly answer the question according to what it wants, and write a whole load of irrelevant text without the important keywords, you are in for trouble.
- For example in JC General Paper Essay Writing, your entire essay scope and content is based on the 1-3 keywords in the essay topic.
“Is honesty still the best policy?” “The Arts is no longer important in a society that values economic success. Discuss.” - In Science, simple 1-word cues such as “how” (process) and “why” (purpose) determine the scope of the question.
“How do Plants produce food” vs “Why do Plants produce food”
Such analysis of questions will determine between you getting a distinction or a pass.
Trick questions are aplenty for higher level examinations. This is why Parents engage tutors, purely to master the 2 skills above. (See: market tuition rates, 2019)
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How will Home Tuition help me in those two skills?
Firstly, tutors can guide you into understanding key concepts by simplifying it for you.
Identifying concepts that are not applicable is important as well, so students can waste less time memorising something that would not be tested.
They can also teach you memorisation techniques that they previously used, as well as different studying techniques to mug for exams.
A big help that tutors can do is to constantly drill questions.
These questions are usually from the Ten-Year Series, which are all exam-level questions.
Tutors can force you to do similar types of questions over and over again, drilling the essential concepts into your mind, ensuring you remember it for a long time. Whereas if you were to be on your own studying – once you answered the question correctly, you probably would not go back to it again.
Hence there is this lack of memory retention if you do not drill the questions over and over again.
Question analysis. Content is 60%, applying it correctly is what distinguishes the A’s from the B’s.
Home Tutors are equipped with the exam skills and know-hows as they teach their ways of tackling the problems when they were taking their examinations.
Tutors can teach very valuable exam skills and question analysis skills, where you will learn to apply the correct concepts and keywords to each and every question.
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