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MATHS TUITION · SECONDARY & IP · BEAUTY WORLDMATHS · SEC & IP · BEAUTY WORLD

We teach the working,
not the answer.

Marks are awarded for the steps, not the answer. Small-group tuition beside Beauty World MRT: classes of five, every line of working marked against the scheme, and a method your child can show on the day.

Headstart & Accelerator →

Mr Cameron Kheng, Academic Director, teaching at the whiteboard
Mr Cameron Kheng, Academic Director

P6 TO SEC 1

Start Sec 1 Maths
a step ahead.

A MORNING OF SEC 1 ALGEBRA

Headstart

10am–1pm · 3 hours · one day

Time to work through the foundations of algebraic manipulation, step by step.

  • Expansion and factorisation
  • Substitution
  • Algebraic fractions
  • Linear equations
S$255per student
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A FULL DAY, AT A FASTER PACE

Headstart Accelerator

10am–5pm · one day · lunch included

All of Headstart at a faster pace, with more of the Sec 1 number syllabus.

  • All Headstart algebra topics
  • Factors and multiples
  • The real number system
S$530per student
including lunch
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5
students at most in every class, for 2 hours a week
$0
registration fee or deposit
1 trial
a paid 2-hour lesson, with no obligation to enrol
DT5
beside Beauty World MRT, on the Downtown Line

WHAT’S CHANGING · 2026 TO 2028

The O-Level becomes the SEC. We already teach for it.

Today’s Sec 3 students are the first to sit the Singapore-Cambridge Secondary Education Certificate, in 2027. SEAB keeps the standard and the grades. What changes is the name on the paper, the syllabus codes, and how much each maths grade counts towards junior college.

What changes in 2027

  1. 2026

    The last O-Level

    This year’s Sec 4 students sit the GCE O-Level. Results come out in January.

  2. 2027

    The first SEC

    Maths and A Math at G3, the O-Level standard, carry new codes: K310 and K341.

  3. 2028

    Junior college counts L1R4

    Four relevant subjects instead of five, so every maths grade carries more weight.

OUR SYLLABUS

Taught to the G3 papers

Our Sec 3 and Sec 4 classes follow the K310 and K341 syllabuses. Past O-Level papers are still good practice, because the standard is unchanged.

OUR METHOD

Problem solving, not question-spotting

MOE’s syllabus puts problem solving at the centre of secondary maths. We teach students to plan a solution and show it, so an unfamiliar question is still one they can start.

OUR MARKING

Every mark protected

With one fewer subject in the score, a lost method mark costs more. Working is marked line by line, so students keep the marks they already know how to earn.

Inside a lesson

THREE THINGS YOU WILL SEE

01

Marked like an examiner

Homework comes back annotated against the mark scheme, so students learn where the marks live, and where they leak.

02

Five to a room

One table, five students. The tutor sees every line of working, in every lesson, for every student.

03

Time-pressure practice

Timed sections from Term 2. Knowing a method and producing it in 90 seconds a mark are different skills.

OUR MISSION

To teach every student a method they can show on the day, in a room small enough that no line of working goes unread.

OUR VISION

Students who can mark their own working the way an examiner would, and so no longer need us.

Good tuition should make itself unnecessary. A student who can find the lost mark in their own paper keeps finding it, in every paper after ours.

WHO HOLDS THE RED PEN Tutor Student
  1. 01 · AT FIRST

    The tutor marks every line. The student learns where the marks live.

  2. 02 · THEN

    The student marks, the tutor checks. Most lost marks are the ones you award yourself.

  3. 03 · IN THE END

    The student finds it alone. No red ink needed. That is the point.

HOW WE CHOOSE TUTORS

We hire tutors the way we mark papers. The answer counts, and so does the working.

A tutor’s results are the answer. How they got there, and how they treat a student who is stuck, is the working. Mr Kheng, our Academic Director, sets the method every class is taught by, and every tutor who joins is weighed on all three before they teach one.

A1 · RESULTS

They have moved grades

We look at where their students started and where they finished, and ask what changed. A tutor who cannot say why a student improved cannot make it happen again on purpose.

M1 · ALIGNMENT

They teach the way we teach

Every line of working read, homework marked against the scheme, one topic ahead of school. A tutor who teaches shortcuts to the answer is not right for this room, however good their results.

B1 · DEMEANOUR

They are patient with a wrong step

A student who is afraid of being wrong hides their working, and hidden working cannot be marked. So we hire tutors who stay calm, never hurry a student and are honest with parents. Like a B1, it is marked on its own: no result makes up for a tutor students are afraid to ask.

ACADEMIC DIRECTOR

Mr Cameron Kheng has coached Olympiad teams, taught Secondary and JC classes, and worked on NIE’s study of adolescent development.

As Academic Director he designs the method behind every Method & Mark programme: how a lesson runs, how far ahead of school it goes, and how homework is marked against the scheme, line by line. Every tutor teaches to it, whichever subject your child takes. He also teaches A Math, E Math and IP Maths himself.

More about Mr Kheng

THE CENTRE

Five to a class, on level 4 of Beauty World Centre, beside the MRT.

Address
#04-12 Beauty World Centre, 144 Upper Bukit Timah Road, Singapore 588177
By train
Beauty World MRT (DT5, Downtown Line) is beside the building
After class
Quiet study tables open to enrolled students until 21:00
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Questions parents ask

How are classes grouped?

By level and by current working grade, not by school. A class never exceeds five students, and we re-group at the end of each term if a student has moved ahead of or behind their group.

What happens in a trial class?

Your child joins a regular lesson at their level and works the same problems as everyone else. The tutor marks their working against the official scheme, and we go through it with you afterwards. There is no obligation to enrol.

What does a trial class cost?

The trial is a regular 2-hour lesson, and it is paid. Message us on WhatsApp for the current fee. There is no registration fee, and no obligation to enrol afterwards.

Do you follow the school’s pace or your own?

Our own, one topic ahead of most schools, so lessons at school become revision. We adjust for IP and O-Level or SEC tracks separately.

Are you teaching for the new SEC exam?

Yes. Students who are in Sec 3 in 2026 sit the Singapore-Cambridge Secondary Education Certificate (SEC) in 2027 instead of the O-Level. The standard and grading of G3 subjects stay the same as the O-Level, and our Sec 3 and Sec 4 classes follow the G3 syllabuses. From 2028, junior college admission uses an L1R4 score of 16 or less, with every counted subject taken at G3. What changes with the SEC.

What are the fees?

Fees are charged four weeks at a time. Message us on WhatsApp for the current fee for your child’s programme. There is no registration fee or deposit. Missed lessons can be made up in another class of the same level within the term.

Start with a trial class.

Sit in on a real lesson: same tutor, same class size, same marked working. You will see exactly how we teach before you decide anything.