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Receive Effective Academic Advantage For History and Geography

Mdm Yu’s History and Geography tuition otherwise known as Combined Humanities Tuition sessions are well-known for their effectiveness.  They are all-in-one sessions designed to save time, maximise learning and cost for parents and students. Her untiring and  extensive reading and research into topics in the syllabus and well-prepared teaching materials will ensure that there is depth and width of the content covered.

In a nutshell, History tuition sessions consist of the following:

  • Deep delving into relevant content: Helping students delve into historical events to gain valuable insights into consequences of human motivations and actions. We look at timeline, milestones, turning points, watershed events, main causes, supporting causes, and the different aspects – economic, social and political impact of events.
  • Reinforce content through information-gap activities, construct mindmaps and graphic organisers as well as model answers on selected questions as part of our scaffolding.
  • For the two essay questions, Mdm Yu will role-model answering techniques from unpacking the questions, coming up with the points, and organising and writing the answers.
  • For the source-based questions, Mdm Yu will guide students on how to read and interpret sources, annotate accurately and relevantly to come up with the answers.
  • We give useful examples and provide interesting anecdotes that spice up the lessons, adding a human dimension by bringing up individual and eye-witness accounts to enhance the sessions.

Mdm Yu appreciates that Geography can be technical with all the topics and sub-topics and types of questions tested. As a result Geography can be a challenge for beginning and relatively new learners. The concepts in Geography are many ranging from those related to space and place to the different types of causes and consequences in both human and physical geography. The numerous case studies form an essential part of the written answers for many Geography questions.

In a nutshell, Geography tuition sessions comprise the following:

  • Additional notes and practice questions are provided to highlight important issues and points of each topic. All efforts are directed to provide maps, diagrams and graphic organisers, photos some of which are in colour to engage students and help them remember better. We always relate as much as possible to current occurrences to improve and reinforce important concepts and points in both human and physical Geography.
  • Imparting techniques for all type of questions such as questions on geographical investigation, data-based questions, structured and LORMs questions.
  • Provision of practice questions to build answering techniques and reinforce better understanding of content.
  • Extensive scaffolding is carried out to help students acquire in-depth understanding of the content, remember what they have been taught and apply their acquired knowledge appropriately to answer the different types of questions.

 

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Happy when My Students Do well at the O levels

More than 80 percent of my students scored A2 and above with a few scoring B3, usually from a C5 or C6 from the mid-year or their prelims.

Some of the happy feedback I received just yesterday:

Mother of Sec 4 student (2019) from  CCHM
“Hi Teacher, a big thanks for your help and tremendous effort and worry for the boy.”

(The boy Jia Qing scored an A1 for Combined Humanities and A1 for Pure History)

Meera for St Margaret’s Secondary (sec 4 in 2019)
“Hi I got A1 for my English and Combined Humanities. Thank you. :)”

Jaryl from ACS Barker (sec 4 in 2019)
“I scored A2 for my Combined Humanities”

Mother of Kay Sim from Zheng Hua Sec (sec 4 in 2019)
“Dear Mdm Yu, thank you very much for your help with Kay Sim’s Combined Humanities. He has attained B3 for Combined Humanities.” (He managed only a C5 for his Prelims)

The Difference between A-level & O-level Literature

It is about time an A Level Literature tutor enumerates and elaborates the differences between O level and A level Literature.

“Understanding the differences is the first step to doing well for
this wonderful subject.”

As an experienced and dedicated A level Literature tutor, I have realised the importance of  ensuring students know the contexts to improve and deepen our understanding of the texts.  This is one of the open secrets of doing well. It is also one of the major difference between A-level and O-level Literature. As an A Level Literature tutor, I am committed to helping students understand the text in a perceptibly profound manner and interpreting questions to know what are expected and the way to writing out the answers.

Crucial Differences

The Importance of Contexts

Having an A-level Literature tutor who knows the socio-economic contexts makes the key difference between an effective and a non-effective A-level Literature tuition session.

Answering Techniques

The “Peel” method which is so ingrained in our students does not apply to questions for Literature in English. Students have to give that up, letting go the usual repetitive linking sentence at the end of the elaboration for each point.  Analysis and interpretation replaces mere explanation.  Mdm Yu, the Literature tutor will spare no efforts to role-model and provide scaffolding to enable students to answer the question in such a way to score.