Four secondary school students working through practice papers together at a long study table

Term 4 timetable is open. Trial seats remain for Sec 3 Maths and JC 1 Chemistry.

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Primary 4 — JC 2 · Groups of six

Split the
problem
into light

We diagnose where a paper is actually losing marks, then teach that one band of the syllabus until it holds under timed conditions.

Diagnose first

Every new student sits a short topic audit before being placed in a class.

Six to a room

Small enough that every answer is read aloud and corrected in the lesson.

Marked weekly

One timed set each week, returned with the working annotated, not just scored.

A tutor's handwritten algebra working filling a classroom whiteboard
Worked solutions stay on the board for the whole lesson so students can compare their own method against it.

How a term runs

Three passes over every topic

A mark lost to a careless transcription and a mark lost to a missing concept need different fixes. We separate the two before deciding what to teach, and we repeat the same topic in three different formats before moving on.

  1. Diagnose

    A 40-minute topic audit, taken on paper. We mark it by error type — concept, method, arithmetic, or reading the question — and the result decides the class and the first six weeks of work.

  2. Drill

    Weekly sets built from the student's own error profile. Questions are sequenced from the clean textbook form to the awkward phrasing that real papers use, and nothing is set that the student has not been shown how to attack.

  3. Demonstrate

    One timed paper a fortnight under exam conditions, then a rewrite of only the questions that were dropped. Topics are signed off when the student can produce the method cold, without prompting.

Subjects & levels

What we teach, level by level

We only open a class when there is a tutor who teaches that syllabus as their main subject. If a level is not listed, we will tell you rather than place your child in the nearest thing.

Subject coverage by level. On a narrow screen the table scrolls sideways.

Level Mathematics Science English Standard format
Primary 4 — 5 Foundation build Core topics plus heuristics as a named toolkit Combined general science, experiment write-ups Comprehension and composition planning 90 min weekly
Primary 6 PSLE year Full revision cycle with timed paper practice Open-ended answer structure and keywords Situational writing and oral practice 2 × 90 min weekly
Secondary 1 — 2 Bridging Algebra, graphs and the jump in notation Physics and chemistry split, lab reports Essay argument and register 2 hr weekly
Secondary 3 — 4 O-Level E-Maths and A-Maths taught as separate classes Pure Chemistry and Pure Physics Paper 1 and Paper 2 technique 2 hr weekly + fortnightly paper
JC 1 — 2 A-Level H2 Mathematics H2 Chemistry and H2 Physics Not offered 2.5 hr weekly + tutorial clinic

Weekly timetable

When the classes actually sit

Classes run on the same slot every week for the whole term, so a student keeps the same tutor and the same group. Slots marked as open still have room in the group of six.

  • Monday
    16:30 — 18:00Primary 5 Maths 18:30 — 20:30Sec 3 A-Maths
  • Tuesday
    16:30 — 18:00Primary 6 Science 18:30 — 20:30Sec 4 Pure Chemistry 19:00 — 21:30JC 2 H2 Maths
  • Wednesday
    16:30 — 18:30Sec 1 Maths bridging 18:30 — 20:30Sec 3 Pure Physics
  • Thursday
    16:30 — 18:00Primary 6 Maths 18:30 — 20:30Sec 4 E-Maths 19:00 — 21:30JC 1 H2 Chemistry
  • Friday
    16:30 — 18:00Primary 4 English 18:30 — 20:30Sec 2 Science
  • Saturday
    09:00 — 11:00Sec 3 E-Maths 11:15 — 13:15Sec 4 English 14:00 — 16:30JC 1 H2 Physics 16:45 — 18:15Primary 5 Science

Term notes

  • Terms run eleven teaching weeks with a one-week break in the middle. Fees are quoted per term, not per month.
  • The tutorial clinic is a free drop-in hour before every JC slot for questions from school work.
  • Paper weeks replace the usual lesson, so bring a calculator and a watch rather than notes.
  • Exam-season slots are added for graduating levels and published to enrolled parents four weeks ahead.
  • Rooms seat six. Once a slot fills we open the next one on the same day where a tutor is free.

Formats & fees

Three ways to sit with us

Most students need the weekly group. The intensive and the one-to-one exist for specific situations, and we will say plainly if we think you are paying for one you do not need.

Weekly group of six

From $58 per lesson · billed per term

The standard class. Same tutor, same six students, same slot for the whole term, with a marked set every week.

  • Suits a student following the school syllabus who is dropping marks in one or two topics.
  • Includes the topic audit, weekly marked sets and the fortnightly timed paper.
  • Materials printed in-house and kept in a centre folder.

Exam intensive

From $420 per four-session block

A short block in the weeks before a national paper. Pure technique: question triage, timing, and the marks most commonly thrown away.

  • Suits a graduating student who knows the content but runs out of time or loses method marks.
  • Includes four three-hour sessions and two full papers marked to the official scheme.
  • Runs only in the two terms before the examination.

One-to-one focus

From $110 per hour

Booked in blocks of four hours against a named list of topics. We finish the list and stop, rather than keep an open standing slot.

  • Suits a student rejoining after a long gap, or sitting a syllabus we do not run as a group.
  • Includes a written topic plan you keep, updated after each hour.
  • Scheduled around the group timetable, including weekday mornings.

The teaching team

Who stands at the board

Four tutors, one subject each, and the person who teaches your child's class is the person who marks their paper. No rotating assistants.

Portrait of Rina Haziq, mathematics tutor

Rina Haziq

A-Maths · H2 Mathematics

Teaches the Sec 3 to JC 2 maths ladder and writes the centre's question sets. Known for making students narrate their working out loud before writing a single line.

Portrait of Daniel Oyelaran, chemistry and physics tutor

Daniel Oyelaran

Pure Chemistry · H2 Physics

Runs the science classes and the pre-lesson tutorial clinic. Marks open-ended answers against the official scheme so students can see exactly where a mark is awarded.

Portrait of Marcus Ibarra, English and primary tutor

Marcus Ibarra

English · Primary programme

Handles comprehension, composition and the primary classes. Teaches writing as a set of decisions to be made before the first sentence, not as inspiration.

Small group of students and a tutor seated around a study room table with notes and laptops
Trial lessons sit inside a real class, in the slot your child would join.

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Sit one lesson before you commit

A trial is a full lesson in the real class, not a sales meeting. Tell us the level and the subject and we will reply with the two nearest slots that still have a seat.

  1. Your child takes the topic audit in the twenty minutes before the lesson starts.
  2. They sit the full lesson with the group they would join, and take the week's set home.
  3. You get the marked audit and a short written note on what we would work on first.
  4. If you enrol, the trial counts as the first lesson of the term. If not, nothing is owed.

A tutor reads every enquiry and replies with two dated slots. We do not pass your details to anyone.

Questions parents ask

Before you enrol

The six things that come up in almost every first conversation, answered the way we would answer them in the room.

What happens if my child misses a lesson?

Every lesson is logged with the topics covered and the set that was given, and we hold two make-up slots a week for exactly this. Tell us before the lesson and your child sits the same material with another group in the same week. If no slot fits, the tutor records a short walkthrough of the worked solutions and the set is marked as usual.

Is six students really the limit?

Yes, and it is a room constraint rather than a policy we can bend. Six is the number at which a tutor can read every student's working during the lesson instead of discovering the mistake a week later. When a slot fills we open another on the same day if a tutor is free, and we tell you honestly if the wait is a term.

How much homework comes with a class?

One set per subject per week, built to take about forty-five minutes. It is deliberately shorter than school work because its job is to test whether this week's method survived the trip home. A fortnightly timed paper replaces the set in paper weeks, so the total never stacks up.

Can my child move between classes mid-term?

If the audit was pitched wrong or your child outgrows the group, we move them and transfer the remaining term fee across. It usually happens in the first three weeks, which is why we review every new student's placement at week three rather than waiting for you to raise it.

Can we join after the term has started?

Up to week five, if the group has a seat and the audit shows your child can follow where the class has reached. Fees are prorated to the lessons remaining, and we give a catch-up pack covering the topics already signed off. After week five we would rather place your child in the next term than have them chasing.

How will we know whether it is working?

You get the marked audit at the start, then a written progress note at the midpoint and end of every term listing the topics signed off, the ones still open, and the error types that keep recurring. Tutors are reachable in writing between lessons, and if a topic is not moving we will tell you before you ask.