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Take A Moment To Consider: Are These Learning Challenges Familiar?
Your child has difficulty understanding Science concepts.
Given that Science was only recently introduced to Primary 3 students in school, a lack of prior knowledge has made it daunting for some Primary 3 students.
Despite reading the textbook diligently, your child may find it tough to relate to the Science concepts illustrated in the textbook.
Your child does not know how to answer Science questions accurately, despite understanding the concepts.
Your child loves Science as a subject and understands how various Science concepts work in reality.
However, he/she struggle to produce scientific answers when attempting open-ended questions. Besides, your child’s teacher has also remarked that there are missing keywords in the answers.
Your child is often careless when attempting multiple-choice questions.
Carelessness is often a result of a student’s inadequate understanding of the subject matter.
Not only does your child need to know and understand how to apply the Science concepts within the Primary 3 syllabus, it is important to understand the common misconceptions that students often have around certain Science concepts.
Like many students, your child may get tricked by examination setters easily if he/she does not know how to proactively seek out common conceptual traps.
If these challenges sound familiar, your child is not alone.
Well, many Primary 3 students are facing these exact same challenges. After all, Science (as a subject) is something new to them and they don’t know exactly know what to expect.
 
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Take A Moment To Consider: Are These Learning Challenges Familiar?
Your child is struggling to adapt to this new learning environment.
While some topics covered in the Secondary 1 Science syllabus build on existing prior knowledge learnt in primary school, most of the other secondary school Science topics are completely new.
In secondary school, Science is taught as three independent subjects: Biology, Chemistry & Physics.
Your child will need to know how to digest a lot of new content in Biology, be familiar with the chemical terms used in Chemistry and complete mathematical calculations in Physics.
This may be disorienting to some students who are not comfortable with change.
Your child has trouble understanding new keywords, question structures and answering styles.
What has worked previously in primary school may no longer be applicable in the Secondary 1 Science context.
Your child has to re-learn most of the content from scratch and develop his/her own problem-solving skills. Application questions are even more common as compared to what they are used to in primary school.
When being presented with so much content, it can be challenging for students to keep up with the pace of learning in secondary school.
Your child is uncertain about how examination questions can possibly be tested.
It is tougher to gain access to past year examination questions for a particular Science subject because schools tend to teach these three Science subjects in their preferred sequence.
This is further made complicated with Science associated with different academic streams (IP/IB/Express/NA/NT), thereby translating to questions of varying difficulties depending on the depth of the syllabus.
As a result, most students typically rely on topical assessment books from bookstores. Unfortunately, most assessment books are not comprehensive enough to cover a wide variety of question types that may possibly be tested.
If these challenges sound familiar, your child is not alone. Well, many Secondary 1 students are facing these exact same challenges.
Like these students, your child may be struggling to adapt to this new learning environment. It is undoubtedly tiring, stressful and frustrating trying to figure things out on your own.
 
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How We Can Help Your Child
Onsite & Digital Classes
S3 Chemistry Grade Accelerator Programme
Pick From These Two Distinct Tracks:
(i) O-Level (Express) Track:
Pure/ Combined Science (Chemistry)
(ii) IP/IB/IGCSE Track
Help your child strengthen his/her thought processes & answering techniques across a spectrum of Secondary 3-4 Chemistry topics on a weekly basis.
Keep a close pulse on your child’s academic performance by engaging in regular graded assessments.

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