Content and Language Mastery

Learn about the requirements and question formats for all components at the secondary level.

These include:

• summary
• literary analysis of unseen poetry and unseen prose
• comprehension
• composition

Students will also be exposed to a new format of editing that requires identifying and correcting common grammatical errors.

Comprehension, summary and critical thinking passages cover a wide range of general knowledge topics and current affairs to help students develop a global perspective.

These topics include:

• education and the environment
• global issues and social trends
• arts and the humanities

Skills and Techniques

Build on reading and writing skills through our weekly lessons.

These include:

• building writing skills by learning how to express thoughts and opinions in an organised and fluent manner
• honing comprehension skills by learning how to identify question types and recognise corresponding question requirements
• improving summary skills by learning how to locate relevant information within a text and summarising content in a coherent manner

Students are also trained in time management through practice tests, and hone skills through workshop-style lessons.

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Content Mastery

• Learn about the classification of numbers based on number properties, and find the highest common factor and lowest common multiple of numbers using prime factorisation
• Explore the concept of variables and learn how the relationship between two variables can be represented in algebraic, tabular and graphical forms
• Use real-life contexts, including travel plans, transport schedules, recipes and see how they apply to the syllabus
• Learn terminologies related to personal and household finance, such as interests, instalments, utilities bills, and exchange rates

Skills and Techniques

• Learn to use algebra and other symbols to represent and convey mathematical ideas
• Master the application of algebraic equations to a variety of problems, and solve problems using a systematic and logical approach
• Acquire basic manipulative skills, such as Rounding Off, Arithmetic and Algebraic Manipulation and Data Handling

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Content Mastery

• Gain a comprehensive introduction to General Science topics such as Laboratory Safety and Apparatus
• Learn more in-depth scientific concepts from topics in Biology such as Cells and Movement of Substances
• Explore in-depth scientific concepts from topics in Chemistry such as Elements, Compounds and Mixtures, and Separation Techniques
• Master in-depth scientific concepts from topics in Physics such as Physical Quantities, and Mass, Weight and Density

Skills and Techniques

• Acquire question analysis skills to interpret information and the provided data appropriately
• Gain exposure to questions that involve experimental skills such as identifying constant, changed or measured variables
• Learn how experiments are conducted and how to write and record experiment procedures
• Be able to compare the concepts and identify the similarities and differences between them. For example, learning about the similarity between a solution and a suspension, and the differences between a bacterium and a typical plant cell
• Cover biological drawing in greater detail and with more precision

School-Specific Classes

Besides our main programme, we offer school specific science classes for the following schools:

• Hwa Chong Institution
• Raffles Institution
• Raffles Girls’ School
• Anglo-Chinese School (Independent)
• Nanyang Girls’ High School

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