Primary School Science Tuition
Our primary school Science tuition programme helps students achieve top PSLE grades by teaching them essential concepts and key words utilising personalized learning strategies, building their confidence for success.
Unlock Excellence with our Proven Science Tuition
Tailored for PSLE success, our science tuition programme emphasises essential concepts and targeted practice to achieve top grades. We provide a streamlined curriculum, aligned with the latest syllabus, and focus on essential exam skills, personalised strategies, and habits for consistent academic excellence.
We Empower students with confidence and self-awareness with comprehensive preparation for the PSLE.
The Essential Virtuous Circle
Essential Education fosters a virtuous circle for students by promoting effective study practices that lead to improved academic results. Our curriculum and techniques are designed to help students break free from any vicious circles they may be in, where poor performance leads to low confidence and ineffective habits.
With teacher-guided analysis of results, students develop self-awareness, allowing them to identify and correct weaknesses. As they progressively gain confidence in their ability to improve, they are encouraged to develop strong, consistent habits. Over time, this positive cycle of practice, confidence, and habit formation helps students achieve sustained academic excellence with less stress.
Essential Science Tuition
A proven formula to achieve success in PSLE Science
Our weekly lessons are crafted to unveil the proven strategies essential for success in Science examinations. Your child will gain invaluable insights into effectively and accurately applying Science concepts and key words to tackle examination questions with confidence and precision.
Results You Can Expect
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Effective and Targeted Practice in Science
Students will acquire vital strategies to effectively address all question types featured in the PSLE. Through consistent practice, they will develop mastery of essential keywords, ensuring they maximize their scores without losing marks on tested questions. This streamlined approach will facilitate a smoother learning journey which will bolster your child's confidence in tackling examination queries with precision and assurance.
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Rapid Improvement in School Science
Our proven Science curriculum delves into the intricacies of examination trends and question types by analyzing a multitude of past year examination papers. To expedite mastery of the Science syllabus, it's imperative for your child to grasp the nuances of common question types, the strategies for addressing them and the keywords to utilise when answering.
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Gain Strong Understanding of Science Concepts
Through our programme, your child will learn to decipher each question effectively, accelerating their ability to process queries quicker than their peers. Our experienced instructors will provide guidance on tackling Science questions, accompanied by visually-rich notes and targeted exercises meticulously designed to facilitate easier, more efficient learning.
Our Essential Science Tuition Methodology Explained
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Through a comprehensive curriculum tailored specifically for the PSLE, students will learn effective techniques to approach difficult Science questions. Our experienced tutors will guide them through step-by-step methods, ensuring they understand the intricacies of each question type.
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Through engaging lessons and hands-on activities, our approach enables a deep understanding of science principles.
Students are expected to apply their knowledge through intensive and targeted practice. This reinforces their understanding and helps them develop proficiency in applying science concepts to solve problems.
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Motivation-driven practices can be inconsistent, especially for children, as maintaining high motivation consistently is challenging. In contrast, habits offer greater reliability. Our teachers diligently instill two crucial Math habits in students:
Allocating a fixed 1.5-hour time slot weekly, consistently at the same time and day for 100% focused Math self practice.
Incorporating mental math calculations into daily activities.
The first habit ensures that our students engage in sufficient and consistent Math practice regularly, as consistency contributes to building long-term memory. We mandate a continuous, fully focused 1.5-hour session to train our students to sustain mental focus for the duration of their Math Paper 2 (which is 1.5 hours long).
The second habit assists our students in recognizing the practical applications of Math in daily life while simultaneously refining their mental math speed and accuracy—skills crucial for PSLE Math. (Hint: Our students use cash instead of the POSB Smart Buddy watch for canteen purchases.)
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With regular practice and targeted instruction, students will become adept at identifying key concepts and applying them to solve complex problems. They will also learn to spot common pitfalls and avoid errors that could cost them valuable marks.
Regular class reviews provide opportunities for students to reinforce their learning and gain valuable feedback from their peers and tutors.
With our proven approach, your child will develop the skills and mindset needed to tackle difficult Science questions with confidence and ease, ultimately achieving success in the PSLE and beyond.
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This is about being exam smart, potentially influencing a 3-7 mark difference, which can mean an improvement of up to two AL levels. We teach our students on:
Making smart and fast verification of their solutions correctness (Hint: it is not by redoing the entire question one more time).
Identifying questions worthy of checking.
Knowing when to skip a question to save time.
Making intelligent guesses with heuristics when unsure.
Using their unconcious cognition to help solve the “challenging problem sum”. (Based on latest neuroscience research)
Science Tuition Classes
Fees shown below are for one month (4 lessons)
Frequently Asked Questions
Insights to empower you in making informed decisions to realise both your and your child’s aspirations
Primary Science Tuition
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The most common reason is that your child isn't utilising the right keywords when answering the exam papers. Examiners mark using an answer sheet and it makes it so much easier for them to give your child the mark when the keywords used matches that of the answer sheet.
The second most common reason is that your child isn't answering to the question with the right answer structure. There are specific keywords to look out for in the questions (e.g. identify, name, state, describe, explain, why, etc) to understand what the question is asking for.
In internal examinations, the school teacher would have the discretion to accept alternate answer. Given the huge workload of teachers, most teachers would very much prefer it when students use the right keywords to make their marking smoother.
During PSLE, there is a process for markers to raise and discuss possible alternative answer. Again that means an additional step for the markers.
At Essential, we help students learn and use the right structure and keywords when answering to make it easy for examiners to give them the marks.
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It is possible if your child:
has the right reference materials to guide him and
Has the time and analytical strength to decipher the required structure and keywords
Has the discipline to to utilise the keywords and structure during exams and tests.
At essential, we take care of the above for you. Our revision notes highlight the keywords. Students are taught how to read the questions and answer with the right structure. And multiple rounds of practices help students internalise the keywords and structure such that they will naturally do it correctly during exams and tests.
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Most students dislike Science because they are scoring badly in school. It is an unfortunate vicious circle which is commonly seen in our Singapore MOE Primary Education which is pitched at a very high level from a very young age. It is a common psychological coping mechanism for young students (in fact, this applies to adults too). Emotionally, it feels so much better to attribute not scoring for Science to a lack of interest rather than their natural learning capacity for a given subject.
What most students and parents do not realise is that studying and exam technique plays a significant role in success in the PSLE and that can be easily taught and picked up.
At Essential, not only do we help our students understand the Science topics and learn the keywords and structure for answering questions, our teachers also build their confidence in their own ability to learn. Our educators will work hard to turn the vicious circle into a virtuous circle of better score leading to greater interest in Science.
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Yes, our group class will be able to help.
We understand your concerns that in a group class, the pace might be too fast for your child's current Science level. Our curriculum and Science teaching method is is designed to overcome this.
Firstly, most students whose parents thought that they are "weak" in Science isn't actually weak. They are usually scoring badly in school tests and exams because they have not been trained on keywords and answering techniques. (See the Q&A on "My child is able to understand all the Science topics but is just not scoring in WA and SA. Why?"). Our curriculum focuses heavily on equipping our students with the right answering techniques.
Secondly, our teaching materials being highly structured and concise, allow our students to quickly grasp science concepts. Making use of funny analogies and silly stories, we make it easier for students to remember Science facts and concepts.
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Congratulations! Please keep it up!
A heads up regarding Singapore Science syllabus to help you with the preparation: There is a jump in the difficulty in P4 and P5. Many students who did well in the current year don’t do well in the following year. The jump from P4 to P5 is especially great and many lose confidence after their poor WA1 results and enter into a vicious circle of poor results leading to disinterest and disinterest leading to even poorer results.
We will help to prepare your child for this jump in difficulty level and maintain their grades and confidence.