I would like to share with readers of SimpleChemConcepts.com an Organic Chemistry mindmap I’ve drawn for my coaching classes when we were doing a summary of the topics.

Go to the bottom of this blogpost. You may download and print it out, put it in your notebook and use it for revision. Click on image to have a bigger view. =)

Quick Announcement:

I’m conducting my annual event : Organic Chemistry Mastery Workshop on 31 July, 7 & 14 Aug 2010 (830 am – 1230 pm) to help students (Pure Chemistry or Combine Science) to

• Understand this easy-to-score major Chemistry topic step-by-step (which many schools rush through)
• Link up the various chapters & Identify the inter-relationship for effective understanding of the concepts
• Be able to apply concepts on real exam questions to earn additional of 20+ marks in ‘O’ Levels
• Expose themselves to the variety of possible Organic Chemistry questions which can be asked
• Avoid common mistakes in Organic Chemistry

This workshop is for students:

• Who haven’t been doing well in Chemistry all along and want to improve themselves in the remaining 15 weeks. It’s possible since Organic Chemistry is an independent topic from the rest of Chemistry.
• Who wants an overall revision just before their prelims & ‘O’ Levels, focusing on the essential concepts in Organic Chemistry.

Click here to register now & enjoy up to 30% off usual workshop fees (for Early Birds only):

Testimonials

Organic Chemistry Mind-Map:

(Click Image for larger view)

Hi Students (and Parents),

With GCE ‘O’ Level Examinations coming in less than 5 months time, how many of you are prepared for it?

Not sure? Take a look at your Mid-Year Examination Paper + Sec 3 End-of Year Paper + Continual Assessment Tests recently.  If you are not scoring B3 and above, it might shows that you are not that ready for ‘O’ Level Examinations.

Click HERE for Early Bird Price registration!

Some would argue that you do not have enough time to revise and memorise all the materials before you have gone for your Mid-Year Exams, and thus the not-so-good results you are getting.

But is that true??????

Now, Chemistry is a abstract subject of Science (as compared to Physics and Biology) and you need good understanding of the essential concepts in order to score. Only about 10% of the marks are awarded based on recalling of facts (i.e. memorising itself might help here), with the rest (90%) all based on your understanding and application to challenging questions.

More importantly, ALL the Chemistry Topics are inter-related and it is the norm this days that a structured chemistry question is based on 3-4 topics. As such, it is of paramount importance to have a strong foundation of essential concepts in all the chemistry topics! SORRY you cannot skip topics and expect to do well in Chemistry!

Every June Holidays, we have groups of students that came to our June Holidays Intensive Revision Bootcamp to master their Chemistry concepts. These students realised that June is perhaps the last chance for them to really master Chemistry – and they continue to do well for the ‘O’ Level Examinations in 5 months time

[98% of our 2009 batch scored 'A's or 'B's from 'D' - 'F' grade]

[97% of them achieved minimum 3 grades jump]

This June Holidays, i will be personally coaching you on the following key essential chemistry topics: (more…)

Announcement:

In the last 1 week, you should have noticed on the right-hand-side of this blog, a new banner on Recommended Resource for GCE A-Level H2 Chemistry Tips! Yes, we have gone live with that new blog to provide unconditional resource and a platform for Advanced-Level Chemistry Students.

The new blogsite is dedicated to help:

• Chemistry (A-Level/IP/IB) Students – source of Advanced Chemistry Tips & Exam Strategies
• Educators (Teachers/Tutors) – platform to discuss & learn effective Coaching methodologies
• Parents/Guardians – tips to help their child to achieve the Chemistry grades they truly deserve

If you find the information available on SimpleChemConcepts.com to be too basic for you – do check out this new blogsite for Advanced Level Chemistry Students.

Why a new Chemistry Blogsite?

Back in 2006, i observed that (more…)

Hi Readers (both Singapore as well as Overseas),

In the last week, you might have noticed the red square banner on the right hand side of this Chemistry Blogpost.

Yes! I am working on a new chemistry blogsite for students that have passed their GCE (Ordinary) O-Level Chemistry Exams, and moving on to GCE (Advanced) A-Level Chemistry Exams.

With many batches of my own students going for higher education in College and studying Advanced-Level (A-Level) Chemistry, a new website to discuss more Advanced Chemistry Concepts is required . This prompted me to start a new Chemistry blogsite to provide support for (more…)

If you are taking Additional Mathematics (A-Math) or are learning Quadratic Equations, do check out the following blogpost by Ai Ling, Ong (author of singaporeolevelmaths.com) – my colleague who is the Math Master Trainer for Winners Education Group.

Here she shares her thoughts (via a 5 mins video) on:

1. Common Mistakes made by students when it comes to Quadratic Equations & Discriminant
2. Strategy that you can used to score the marks you truly deserve for Quadratic Equations in Math

Click HERE to view the video!

Hope you benefit from it! =)

PS: If you do not learn Quadratic Equations, do not fret! Stay tuned for the next post here where i share with you some important Tips on Chemical Bondings!

With 1-week March School Holidays in Singapore coming to an end, we have also successfully conducted our 3 Days annual Mole Calculations Mastery Workshop 2010 during this holiday period.

The 3 days was fun-filled with plenty of activities, participation and discussions. I am very proud to say that this current group of students that had just completed the said workshop is one of the best batch i have ever coached. They didn’t know much about Mole Calculations (some call it Mole Concepts) when we first started, but their enthusiasm and willingness to learn makes it a joy to coach them. They were so responsive and highly motivated to do well for this voted No. 1 Killer Topic in GCE ‘O’ Levels (and IP and IGCSE) Chemistry. Students were from the following secondary schools:

• Cedar Girls’ Secondary School
• Clementi Town Secondary School
• Dunman Secondary School
• Junyuan Secondary School
• Outram Park Secondary School
• Raffles Girl’s School
• St. Andrew’s Secondary School
• St. Hilda’s Secondary School
• St. Margaret’s Secondary School
• Tanjong Katong Girl’s School
• Whitley Secondary School

It is wonderful to know that we have coached students from more than 80 Secondary Schools in Singapore as well as a couple of them from overseas ie, malaysia, indonesia, mauritius, etc – making a difference to their lives through our coaching.

It is always great to know that the participants felt good excellent motivated & confident after the completion of each workshop. Here is  a few thoughts on recent Mole Calculations Mastery Workshop:

“Personally I feel this workshop has helped me a lot as before I started if I was lost in the chapter of Mole Calculations. But now after attending this workshop, it has gave me a lot of confidence to face Mole questions. I would be happy to recommend this programme to my fellow friends as I think it would help them out too!”

Jedaiah Gwee, St. Andrew’s Secondary School

“Through this programme, I have literally had tremendous improvement for Mole Calculations =) In the past, I really couldn’t get a single questions on (more…)

Quick Announcement for Singapore Readers:

Extension to Early Bird Price Registration for Mole Calculations Mastery Workshop 2010

We received a handful of requests for us to extend the bird early registration for the workshop as many schools in Singapore have yet to announce their March Holidays schedule.

We hear you and would want to help committed students to join us at this important (Number 1 killer topics for Chemistry) revision workshop at the special early bird workshop fee.

After much discussion, we have made the decision to extend the early bird registration to 10 March 2010 for all our March Holidays workshop.

Click here for the registration:
http://www.SimpleChemConcepts.com/molecalculations/early-bird.html?r=1

However, do note that we will close registration early once all seats are taken.

We look forward in meeting your child at the workshop!

Cheers to your academic success,
Sean

PS: I was informed that there are only 5 4 seats left. Act now!
http://www.SimpleChemConcepts.com/molecalculations/early-bird.html?r=2

PPS: Want to ace your E-Math? Circles Mastery Workshop is available during March Holidays also. Click on this link to find out more: http://www.singaporeolevelmaths.com/emath-circles.html