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The study of studying

30/9/2014

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I was sharing with my students a few days ago regarding the number of hours we should spend studying. She was complaining that there's barely 2 weeks left to the start of the O'levels, and she haven't got the time to memorise the chunks of texts necessary to do well in her subjects. It's just too many and too short a time, she lamented. So I asked her how many hours did she study per day? 

Guess what she said.

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Persistence and Grit triumps Talent

27/9/2014

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I've taught students from reportedly branded schools and students from neighborhood schools. Do you think they the students from these branded schools are smarter and they easily get their As? Do you think that they are gifted so they don't have to work? What's the difference between them and the students from neighborhood schools?
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Infographics on Guessing mcqs

25/9/2014

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Tutors are not miracle workers!

24/9/2014

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This is an old article posted about 2 years ago, but it's as relevant today as it is in the past. Some parents really expect miracles to happen for their kids when they send them over to a tutor. The article attributes this behaviour to the 'fast-food' generation of instant gratification. There's this whole theory how the newer generation are the 'weaker' generation. 

But is it?

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$10k a month as a tutor? Think again. 

16/9/2014

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I think by now you should have read this post about a tutor who earns $10k a month. Most of what is mentioned in the article is quite true and I can vouch for its accuracy. Who don't want to earn $10k/month, given a choice? But here's some comments on it though, before you quit your job to become a Super Tutor.

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Secret techniques to guessing MCQ Choices

11/9/2014

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This guy is really something. 

He crunched statistics of a huge sample of test questions to get some secret code of scoring well for MCQs. The underlying theory is that humans are exceedingly bad at making answers seem random. So, if you can crack the code of a test setter's 'random' answers, you can get a higher probability of scoring higher marks. 

So what's the secret techniques to scoring MCQs?
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