Tutor Profile

Schedule

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Tuition Areas [...]: Punggol, North East, South, Ang Mo Kio, Bishan, Bukit Merah, Bukit Timah, Central (City), Hougang, Potong Pasir, Queenstown, Sengkang, Serangoon, Toa Payoh, Yio Chu Kang, Buangkok, Kovan, Harbourfront, Marina Bay, Outram Park, Redhill, Tanjong Pagar, Tiong Bahru, Boon Keng, Braddell, Woodleigh

Tuition/Teaching Experience: 3 years of teaching JC students math and chemistry. One H2 Maths student in 2018, improved from a U grade in her mid-years to a C in prelims; feedback that methods were tailored best to her ability.

Education [...]

Hwa Chong Institution (2016-2017)
- General Paper - B
- H2 Physics - A
- H2 Mathematics - A
- H2 Chemistry - A
- H2 Economics - B
- H3 Pharmaceutical Chemist - Distinction
- Project Work - A
Catholic High School (Secondary) (2012-2015)
- English - A2
- Chinese - A1
- Higher Chinese - C6
- Mathematics - A1
- Additional Mathematics - A1
- Physics - A1
- Chemistry - A1
- Biology - A1
- Geography - A1
- Combined Humanities (SS, - A2

Tutoring Subjects

Upper secondary level - A Maths Bio/Chem Biology Chemistry E Maths Physics Physics/Chem
Junior college level - Chemistry Maths Physics

Commitment / Other Details: Am able to start as soon as possible, can commit to 1 or 2 2-hour sessions per week (negotiable). Tutor availability, preference: Saturday (1000-1230 and 1400-1630) or Sunday (1000 to 1300).

Rapport Building: When tutoring, a tendency to be more informal could be adopted, and I always adopt a diplomatic attitude towards discussing matters with my students and their parents. I place an emphasis to be less cordial and formal, albeit still treating them with respect.

Keeping Up with Curriculum: Consulting the notes of my students, cross-referencing them with other notes allows me to understand what lies within the boundaries of the syllabus and what is additional information. Constantly studying the examination papers of late and reading the syllabus documents also help me to keep in touch with the patterns or shifts in paradigm of question-setting. This always allows me to prepare my student better to answer these kinds of questions by allowing them more practice and confidence in these question types. For my subject specialties in physics, chemistry and math, it is understood that application-type questions are popular of late, so I always plan to explain how to get around them and understand them, from a logical perspective as opposed to rote memorisation of formulae which might not necessarily apply to these questions which requires students to be adaptive.

As a Good Tutor: To get students to be less afraid of questioning what they learnt, not telling them what to think but rather, how to organise their thoughts, is a means of offering them advice to improve, allowing them to gain more confidence in their ability. I strongly believe in customising my teaching style and questions to offer better focus on patching their weaker topics and means of learning. This engages students better and the active learning makes it more encouraging for them to absorb knowledge and eventually improve.

Assignments Taken

Nil

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