The Best GP Tuition in Singapore To Ace Your A-Level Subject
Key Features of our General Paper Programme
Our General Paper tuition program in Singapore covers all the essential skills and GP syllabus content requirements with efficient step-by-step instructions, intensive consultation support and academic monitoring to ensure progress. Our approach of two teacher mentors per student guarantees that each student will always have access to the best supervision, teaching and resources.
Our dedicated educators also analyse and investigate the latest issues and trends so students can have enough room to prepare and handle all the content difficulties for General Paper. We constantly provide our enhanced and updated notes, which are simplified for you to apply them seamlessly during any examination. With our General Paper tuition in Singapore, you can spend your time more effectively and wisely in preparation for your A Levels.
Achieve Excellence in your Paper 1 - Essay Writing
Many students often find themselves stuck within the 23-29 mark range in terms of their essay scores, with no clear strategy on how to do better for paper 1. They find content preparation a bit too time-consuming. They lack mastery of the skills (or even awareness of the skills they need to do well). Most importantly, they feel frustrated with the lack of a clear and comprehensive strategy and framework to accelerate growth and make tangible improvement in their results.
If you have had such experiences before, you are not alone. Many of us teachers have also had similar experiences before, both as a student and also later on, as MOE teachers teaching at junior colleges in Singapore. The broad-based nature of the General Paper subject makes GP teaching a very subjective affair.
This is perhaps why having a comprehensive strategy that effectively tackles all the skills required for each component of the paper is of paramount importance. As ex-MOE teachers (or top tuition center teachers) with years of experience, we have constantly seek to refine our strategies to attain maximum efficiency. Being graduates from top universities (e.g. Cambridge, Oxford, King’s London) also means that we are high-achievers who are seeking for sophistication in our materials, and also for perfection in terms of lesson delivery and to ensure that our students work towards effective application of skills.
To get a decent grade for GP, you will need to get at least 35 marks for Paper 1. While examples are certainly important, one needs to develop the right cognitive ability as well as more sophisticated writing ability to work towards a more complex and nuanced response for General Paper. We have divided the Paper 1 requirements into three major components:
Master your Paper 1 Skills - Essay Writing
Part 1: Developing the Right Cognitive Ability to Address Questions
To develop the right cognitive thinking, our teachers implement a thinking framework to ensure that 1) you do not wrongly interpret the question, and 2) you can work towards a more sophisticated level of analysis. There are four main aspects to this:
- Polarity
- Variable/topics
- Conditions & Contexts – master the answering frameworks for the 9 different question types
- Developing Complexities – The ‘GERPBLC’ Approach
As a student, you will master the strategies required to unpack question statements (e.g. to apply limits to the perimeters of the debate, or engage in broadening of key terms and issues), so as to have a fitting analysis that is both broad-based, complex and accurate.
Part 2: Having Good Points, Analysis, Philosophy and a Wide-range of Useful Examples
Macro Content Lectures: At TTT, we provide a monthly macro lecture with points and examples covering a key GP topic/issue. The notes also include some of the latest key theories and trends and this is especially useful for students who are aiming for 40+ in their essay component.
Micro Essay Outlines: Each year, we also provide about 30-50 micro content essay outlines to our students, which provide the points, examples, structure and analysis for popular GP questions. The micro outlines also serve to enhance the content picked up by students in the macro content notes, by looking at other possible questions or angles that can be tested for each topic.
Model Essays: We also provide model essays written by our teachers and top ex-students, for our current students to reference.
Summary Sheets: We also provide summary sheets for key questions, to help students to save time when preparing for their examination.
Part 3: Mastering the Skills needed to showcase Superior Technical Writing Abilitya
All students at The Thought Tailor will master the skills required to write an efficient paragraph, both in terms of organisation, clarity, and flow, as well as also analytically in terms of organising arguments for maximum impact. We also provide a high-impact vocabulary list (for the introductory, body, counter-argument and rebuttal paragraphs) to enhance your language.
Some of the things that we work on include learning how to:
- write an effective introduction comprising of a hook, definition, debate and thesis statement
- avoid writing terrible thesis statements (black or white, all or nothing type of reductionist statements). Students develop a nuanced statement that is more representative of the complexities of reality.
- introducing interesting and complex structures at the macro (essay-wide) and micro (intra-paragraph) level.
- connect your explanation and examples together in a coherent manner.
- present examples in a sharp and effective manner for a better analysis.
- use different combinations of examples for maximum effect – we teach 12 types of examples.
- Introduce complex evaluation in your body paragraphs and final analysis to show depth and breadth in understanding.
Strengthen your Paper 2 Skills - SAQs, Summary & AQ
At The Thought Tailor, we provide students with the thinking approaches and answering framework to help students develop accuracy in their responses for the short answered questions, comparison questions (for the new JC1 syllabus 2023), summary and application question.
We provide a mixture of focused drills targeting each question types, as well as regular micro timed-practice to ensure that students are able to apply the skills under timed condition. Especially given that our recent ex-MOE teachers have taught at a range of schools including RI, HCI, NYJC, TJC, VJC, SAJC, DHS, TMJC, CJC, MI, we are also able to draw on varied school experiences, to develop the most accurate answer key for past-year A level comprehension questions.
Short-answer and Summary Questions
Learn the step by step strategies (including the thinking approaches, the text reading strategies, checklist to identify accurate contextual clues and answering frameworks) needed to address all 6 question types – IYOW, Literary Devices, Writer’s Craft, Author’s Purpose, Tone and Inferential Questions. With comprehensive scaffolding (e.g. discussing the 14 types of writer’s craft and the 6 types of author’s purpose questions), you can be assured of attaining perfection in your response.
We also provide useful strategies and a list of common words for paraphrasing to ensure that our students are able to tackle the summary component effectively.
For JC1 students, our recent ex-MOE teachers also offer accurate strategies and skills required to tackle the new comparison-type questions (can comparison between text 3 and 1, comparison between text 3 and 2).
Regular drills for each question type are also provided to ensure perfection. With the required MOE school training in exam-setting and marking for the new JC1 curriculum (A level 2024), you can be confident that our in-house drill practices would meet the required standard implemented in MOE schools in 2023.
Application Question
We teach close reading strategies to help students to break down the passages and to select the best application question arguments for your application question essay.
At TTT, students also learn how to respond to both single-text and double-text AQ (old syllabus), and also how to respond to a more general AQ task requirement (new syllabus) as well as the strategies, context, and evaluative strategies required to develop efficient AQ responses. With regular homework and micro timed practices, we ensure that students are able to apply the necessary skills under real exam conditions.
To enhance students’ learning, we also provide useful statistics and local contexts (in our SG Context and Examples Booklet) to help students to generate better examples and application analysis for their application question
Regular Practices and Marked Work
At The Thought Tailor, we provide homework after each session. Our teachers regularly mark the various assignments to help us to understand some of the issues that our students face. We also provide a checklist for our assignments, to help our students to gain a better understanding of the assessment criteria, so that they can augment their responses to perfection.
Testimonials
Lessons at TTT are filled with constant practices and feedback that never fails to sharpen our answering and writing techniques. Dr Chua and Mr Russell always facilitate fruitful discussions in class from which everyone can gain valuable insights. Their unremitting efforts in helping us improve is something that everyone here at TTT is grateful for. With TTT, you will most definitely be able to ace this subject!
Shaun, Hwa Chong Institution
Madhu, Raffles Institution
Wen Xin, Raffles Institution
Meng Xuan, Hwa Chong Institution
Aryan, Catholic JC
Elgin, Raffles Institution
Yu Fan, Eunoia JC
Benecia, Hwa Chong Institution
Kelly, Hwa Chong Institution
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