Content and Language Mastery

Improve their grammar knowledge and skills by practising grammar drills, editing and sentence reconstruction exercises. Learn how to review and edit writing for grammatical accuracy and clarity of meaning.

Comprehension, summary and critical thinking passages cover a wide range of general knowledge topics and current affairs to help students develop a global perspective and build their content knowledge for use in their essays.

These topics include:

• politics and economics
• sport and entertainment
• global issues and social trends

Skills and Techniques

Build essential reading and writing skills through our weekly lessons.

These include:

• training literary analysis and critical reading skills by analysing unseen poetry and prose for literary and stylistic devices
• honing summary skills by learning to interpret and rearrange information so that the response meets question requirements
• improving comprehension skills by applying active reading strategies to analyse diction and authorial intent
• building writing skills to include descriptive language and construct cogent responses that meet question requirements

Students are also trained in their time management skills through practice tests in simulated exam conditions.

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Content Mastery

• Learn more complex algebraic concepts such as cross factorisation
• Learn about the properties of similar and congruent figures and how congruency and similarity can be applied in real-world contexts
• Discover how the sides of a right-angled triangle are connected by the trigonometric ratios.
• Be able to incorporate algebra in trigonometry to find unknown sides and angles of a right-angled triangle
• Gain familiarity with the formulae for the volume and surface area of a sphere, a cone, and a pyramid
• Use experiential activities to remember the formulae and full derivations of the formulae
• Discover statistical diagrams, such as dot diagrams, stem-and-leaf diagrams, and cumulative frequency curves
• Investigate and discover how the concept of probability can be used in everyday events, including weather forecast and the performance of stocks in the stock market

Skills and Techniques

• Learn to plot, draw and interpret line graphs and parabolic graphs
• Analyse and interpret the different forms of statistical diagrams using mean, mode, and median
• Master analysing problems and explore alternative ways of solving them, developing metacognitive skills

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Content Mastery

• Learn more in-depth scientific concepts based on topics from Biology such as Human Reproduction
• Cover complex in-depth scientific concepts based on topics from Chemistry such as Acids and Bases
• Manage in-depth scientific concepts based on topics from Physics such as Current of Electricity

Skills and Techniques

• Learn answering techniques involving data analysis, experiment-based questions and application questions
• Gain the ability to use data presented in tables to plot graphs
• Use given data, presented on graphs, to analyse and explain concepts
• Learn how to explain the relationship(s) for concepts such as solubility of a compound or the effects of enzyme(s) at different pH levels in terms of the rate of reaction
• Practise questions on interrelated topics to gain competency in integrating scientific concepts

School-Specific Classes

In addition to our regular Secondary 2 Science programme, we also 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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