Tutor Profile

Tuition Areas [...]: East, North East, Central, Ang Mo Kio, Bedok/Chai Chee, Bishan, Bukit Timah, Central (City), East Coast, Geylang/Macpherson/Eunos, Hougang, Kallang/Whampoa, Marine Parade, Pasir Ris, Potong Pasir, Punggol, Sengkang, Serangoon, Tampines/Simei, Toa Payoh, Changi, Expo, Kembangan, Tanah Merah, Buangkok, Kovan, Boon Keng, Braddell, Farrer Park, Little India, Woodleigh

Tuition/Teaching Experience: I taught H2 Chemistry in a peer-tutoring programme in my JC, and I have tutored some of my juniors upon graduation. In total, I have taught 8 students on a 1-to-1 basis.

Education [...]

Anderson Serangoon Junior College (2023-2024)
- H1 PROJECT WORK - A
- H1 GENERAL PAPER - A
- H1 ECONOMICS - A
- H2 MATHEMATICS - A
- H2 PHYSICS - A
- H2 CHEMISTRY - A
- H3 CHEMISTRY - MERIT
DAMAI SECONDARY SCHOOL (2019-2022)
- ENGLISH - A2
- CHINESE - B4
- MATHEMATICS - A1
- ADDITIONAL MATHEMATICS - A2
- PHYSICS - A2
- CHEMISTRY - A2
- HUMANITIES (SS/HIST) - B3

Tutoring Subjects

Commitment / Other Details: I am able to start tutoring immediately, and I am able to tutor for as long as you need. However, I’d love to see my students gain confidence sooner and not feel the need for external tuition anymore.

Rapport Building: I love adding a sense of humour and comfort to my lessons by using funny/cartoonish analogies to break down complicated concepts for my students to learn. Moreover, I find that this method allows my students to feel more motivated to study chemistry, especially since they will develop a more positive learning attitude, rather than dwelling on their struggles in the subject. To me, showing my students that chemistry is NOT scary, but fun, is really crucial.

Keeping Up with Curriculum: Every day, I spend my free time reading the syllabus document, followed by attempting and going through recent A Level papers as well as JC promos/prelim papers to familiarise myself with the style and nature of the exam questions. Doing this also helps me to find trends in the type of questions asked, which helps me prepare my students better. I also study the answer keys for these papers rigorously to understand how to allocate marks precisely for students’ responses, as well as the concepts that Cambridge are particular about.

As a Good Tutor: As a good tutor, having the patience to teach is important. Every student learns differently and some students require more time to understand a certain concept, but this is perfectly fine. A good tutor should cater to the learning speed of the student and design his lesson plan accordingly. However, an even more important trait that a good tutor should have is the ability to make learning enjoyable. While attending tuition does benefit the student, I believe that my students can consistently and independently study and prepare for their final exams only if they are keen to learn in the first place. Hence, I strongly feel that a good tutor should focus on UNDERSTANDING WHY the student is struggling in the school subject, and then take a different approach from what his/her school does in teaching in order to produce a different (better) outcome.

With that being said, I like to listen to my students speak about their struggles in learning new concepts. From this, I can understand the way they analyse and approach problems, which lets me personalise our lessons. I will go through tougher questions with my students to strengthen their weaker concepts, then have them attempt similar questions on their own before I mark and explain them. These questions will either come from past-year A-level papers, JC exam papers or original questions written by myself.

Assignments Taken

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