We have finally approach a brand new year and this is definitely a brand new beginning for students and parents. For many, it will be the year you take your Qualifying Examinations (PSLE, GCE ‘O’ Levels, GCE ‘A’ Levels, etc).
Looking over my facebook account for December period, it seems like many of the O Level Students (2009) has made a New Year Resolution to study hard and do whatever it takes to improve their grades tremendously in CA1 and the Mid-Year SA1 exams, in order to be confidently prepared for the Aug/Sep Preliminary and GCE ‘O’ Level Exams. I congratulate this group of students for having such a goal! Many of my ex-students and workshop participants would have heard me emphasizing ?Goal-Setting? umpteen times. =)
Recapping on Year 2008, SimpleChemConcepts.com has gone through a couple of exciting moments and changes.
Having been coaching GCE ‘O’ Level Chemistry for the last 10 years in Small Group Class settings (less than 10 students) and some Individual Setting, using ?Consultative Coaching? methodologies, I have effectively transformed it to Seminar /Workshop Setting which proves to be so much more effective for students to grasp those Chemistry Concepts in a FUN way.
With a seminar / workshop setting (just like any other adult?s Motivational and Self-Improvement seminars and workshops), I managed to get students to learn Chemistry more effectively and efficiently using Accelerated Learning Techniques (system I learned personally and adopted from US), Focus Learning and Group Dynamics! (* Analogy: Playing basketball in a team of 5 is definitely more fun and effective than playing it alone or in a pair, isn’t it? *)
Of course, my core methodologies of 4 A?s is ever present, in order to link ?abstract boring Chemistry Theories? to ?Interesting Everyday Life Examples and Phenomenons.?
- Associations with Everyday Life
- Applications in Real Life & Industrial Examples
- Analogies for abstract Chemistry Theories
- Accelerated Learning Techniques?
Since March 2008, we have helped hundreds of students (from Singapore Government Schools as well as International students that flown from other countries) to develop the interest in Chemistry and score the marks they desire academically, through the following Chemistry Programmes:
- March Holiday 3-days Intensive Revision Bootcamp
- June Holiday 5-days Intensive Revision Bootcamp
- Mole Calculation Mastery Workshop
- Redox & Electrolysis Mastery Workshop
- Organic Chemistry Mastery Workshop
- Chemistry Final Leap Programme (Effective Crash Course)
- December Holiday Essential Concepts Revision Workshop
Due to numerous requests from parents and students to provide more academic subjects to help them, SimpleChemConcepts.com has also invited SingaporeOLevelMaths.com (#1 website for ?A-Math Tips? in Yahoo, Google and MSN search engines) to become our learning partner. This gave birth to Winners Education Group – providing quality coaching services to GCE ?O? Level students in both Chemistry and Mathematics (A- and E-Maths).
Also due to avalanches of requests for the past months, we have started our Chemistry & A-Math Ultimate Leap Programmes. These are weekly tuition lessons coaching sessions using the same effective techniques employed in our workshops and bootcamps.
For those students (and parents) that has attended our chemistry coaching before and been referring students to us, i would like to take this opportunity to say THANK YOU!
In 2008, i have also written my first chemistry book for GCE ‘O’ Level students known as “Up Your Chemistry Grades Now!“. It is NOT a Ten Years Series or Assessment books with questions and answers. Think you can get dozens off the shelves in bookstores. It is a book that i have written based on the experiences of students that i have coached for the last 10 years – it shows the mistakes that majority of them made over-and-over again, so that students can be aware to avoid them in exams. It also include a section on what Examiners are looking for in your answers in exams. This section shows you the key words and phrases that gives you the full marks, contrary to many students belief that Chemistry is a memorising subject. You can download a F-R-E-E copy of the Sample Introductory Section here.
PS: By the way, the Friday class for Chemistry Ultimate Leap Programme is already full and we are going full steam this coming Friday for some fun and actions. If you have missed out on it, do contact us for alternative classes.
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