Essential Learning Method
Our Essential Learning Method focuses on 6 Keystones to help your child excel in PSLE
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“Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out”
— Robert Collier
Essential Curriculum for PSLE Success
Focusing on only the essentials to achieve top grades in PSLE.
Our curriculum is meticulously crafted with the singular aim of guiding our students towards top grades in the PSLE, leaving no room for extraneous complexity. We prioritize the Essential, omitting superfluous and overly challenging materials irrelevant to securing AL1. This intentional focus empowers our students to attain success with significantly reduced stress, ensuring a streamlined and effective learning experience.
We invest extensive hours staying current with the latest PSLE trends, meticulously aligning our curriculum with the most recent syllabus updates to ensure optimal relevance and effectiveness. We meticulously assess details, strategically selecting vital study materials for our students. Confident in the effectiveness of our curriculum, our students and parents can pause to savor the richer and more meaningful facets of their educational journey and personal growth.
Our curriculum development principle: “Only the Essentials to achieve AL1”.
Essential Exams Skills and Strategies
Tailored Skills, Personalised Strategies, Exam Taking Mastery.
Acknowledging the inherent imperfection of the PSLE as an assessment tool, we understand that competence doesn't always translate to exam success. To address this, we enrich our students' exam performance by teaching tailored Essential Exam skills, specifically designed for the PSLE.
Collaborating with students, we help them formulate personalized exam strategies, derived from their self-analysis of strengths and weaknesses. This approach ensures a comprehensive preparation, empowering students not just with knowledge but also with the tools to navigate exams successfully and showcase their true capabilities.
Through numerous mock exams and dedicated practice sessions, students perfect and fine-tune their personalized examination strategies, ensuring excellence in the PSLE.
Our Essential Exam Skills and Strategies principle: “Excel at the PSLE game by knowing the game rules well”.
Essential Practice
PSLE aligned targeted drills to achieve speed and accuracy.
Achieving success in the PSLE requires more than just understanding; it necessitates extensive practice to develop the essential speed. Our Essential Practice goes beyond comprehension, incorporating meticulously crafted targeted drills. These exercises are precisely aligned with the PSLE syllabus. By engaging in purposeful and focused practice, students not only enhance their comprehension but also cultivate the proficiency and efficiency crucial for excelling in the demanding context of the PSLE examination.
An illustrative instance highlighting the significance of speed is found in Mathematics Paper 2, featuring 5 short-answer and 12 problem-sum questions to be completed in 90 minutes. If time is distributed proportionally to the marks, students only have 6 minutes per problem sum!
Regrettably, the PSLE is not an ideal environment for exceptionally creative thinking. Success in the PSLE requires thorough practice to reach a point where answers come instinctively and autonomously.
Our Essential Practice principle: “Focused practices provide the speed and accuracy needed for AL1”.
Essential Habits
Installing routines to drive sustained actions for PSLE success.
Sustaining children's study motivation poses a common parental challenge. While a parent's persistence often leads to their children's continued motivation, expecting this level of dedication from parents who are also busy working professionals is both unreasonable and unhealthy.
At Essential, we solve this problem by focusing on developing habits. Habits hold greater significance than motivation as the latter often fluctuates, while habits drives sustained action. We empower students to cultivate their personalized Essential habits tailored for PSLE success. Our methodology instills disciplined study routines, effective time management, and self-discipline, ensuring a consistent and structured approach toward academic excellence.
By prioritizing the development of positive habits, we guide students to navigate challenges with resilience, fostering a foundation for long-term success in their academic journey on top of being successful in PSLE.
Our Essential Habits principle: “Install habits to drive sustained actions for PSLE Success”.
Essential Self-Awareness
The foundational insights to develop personalised habits and exam strategies.
While every Singaporean student undergoes the PSLE, the truth is that each child is unique. Consequently, personalized strategies, tailored and optimized for each child, are critical. The journey begins with cultivating the ability to be self-aware of their strengths and weaknesses.
By instilling Essential self-awareness in students, we empower them to discern their unique strengths and weaknesses. This foundational insight serves as the cornerstone for developing personalized Essential Habits and Essential Exam Strategies, fostering a customized and effective approach to their PSLE success journey.
Our Essential Self-Awareness principle: “Self-awareness leads to personalised habits and strategies to PSLE success”.
Essential Confidence
Empowered confidence for triumph in both PSLE and life.
Confidence significantly influences a student's success in the PSLE. A confident student approaches all the PSLE papers more efficiently, eliminating subconscious rechecking due to self-doubt.
Believing in their inherent capacity for success motivates our students to put in more effort in studying, assured that their diligence will yield improved academic grades.
Our dedicated educators employ a dual strategy, instilling not just subject-specific prowess but also Essential Confidence. This approach, complemented by the Essential Habits, cultivates a mindset where students believe in their potential to excel and recognise the importance of diligent studying.
Beyond excelling in the PSLE, students will also achieve enduring success in their lifelong journey.
Our Essential Confidence principle: “We believe in the potential of every student. With effort and practice, our students will excel in PSLE!”.
Start Preparing your child for PSLE Success
More than 70% of Singapore students attends tuition by the time they are in P4
English (P1 to P6)
Students are exposed to current affairs and general knowledge articles which are specially curated for our classes, building a strong foundation and curiosity for knowledge. Students will:
develop a flair for writing compositions with a good plot
be familiar with the common themes for PSLE composition
build up the essential grammar and vocabulary required to ace the cloze passage
develop the essential techniques needed to tackle comprehension
Mathematics (P1 to P6)
Recognising that with the right practice, achieving AL2 and above in PSLE Mathematics is attainable by most students, our programme focuses on helping students:
Develop the necessary speed required
Minimise careless mistakes
Develop the right techniques needed to tackle the structured/long-answer question (commonly known as problem sums) comfortably and quickly.
Science (P3 to P6)
Our Science programme is designed to help our students attain AL2 and above in PSLE Science by focusing on helping our students:
Answer with the right keywords and structure
Answer questions involving multiple topics comprehensively.
Develop the right level of understanding of the PSLE science topics.