May 2009 – Page 2

We thank you for your patience for our O Level A-Math and E-Math June Holidays Intensive Revision Programme : Be Prepared For Your O Levels This June.

It is less than 24 weeks from the GCE O Level Examinations.

Are your concepts strong or weak?

Are you mentally prepared or not?

Are you afraid of certain A-Math topics like

Trigonometry (Proving Identity, Solving Equations, R-Formula, Sketching of Trigonometry Graphs...), Differentiation & Integration (Very Very Important topics),
Logarithms and Linear Graphs,
Quadratic Equations & Its Applications?

Or are you confused on these E-Math topics like

Vectors
Statistics (Box & Whisker Diagram, Stem & Leaf, Mean, Standard Deviation, Cumulative Frequency, Median, Mode) & Probability
Graphs Mastery (Inclusive of Quadratic Graphs, Distance, Speed Time Graphs, Graphs of Power Functions, Gradient of Curves)
Trigonometry (Angles of Elevation & Depression; Very Very important topic)?

In which is the case, you want to make use of this 'last' holidays to catch up, revise on the topics which you are not strong yet.
Winners Education Group is organizing a June Holidays Intensive Revision Programme for all Secondary 3 & 4s students so that you get prepared with the concepts, strategies to score your distinctions for your GCE O Levels.

Here's the schedule for the O Level A-Math and E-Math June Holidays Intensive Revision Programme:

For more registration details, click here. We will get back to you within 2 days.

“A-Math used to be such an abstract subject for me. I couldn’t make sense of what I was taught and I did not pass any of my A-Math exams or tests previously. Joining this A Math Intensive programme was turning point for me; I wish I was taught the strategies earlier! They were simple and easy to use as I learnt how to “see” A-Math better. Thanks for the belief in me! “ Vanessa Lim, E8 to A2 (3 months), MGS

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GCSEs are too easy and should be abolished. Discuss

Source: TimesOnline, May 5 2009

Asking how GCSEs could be reformed is the wrong question. We are tinkering with a system that was designed for a different age. What we should be asking is: why do we make our children sit these exams at all?

O-level and CSE examinations, the precursors to GCSEs, were introduced at a time when most students finished their education at 16. They provided an assessment of children at the end of their compulsory education and they told an employer something about that student’s ability.

Today, only a few do not go on to study for A levels, diplomas or other qualifications and by 2013 it will be compulsory for all students to stay on in education or training until 17. By 2015 this will apply to all 18-year-olds. What we really need is a sensible assessment system that helps 16-year-olds to choose the right course for the next stage of their education.

We are using GCSEs to do that job now. But that is a hugely expensive and bureaucratic way to help students, their parents and teachers to find the 16-plus course that suits them.The CSE and O-level system was more straightforward and far cheaper.

Today’s GCSEs involve an increasingly complex rubric of assessment and coursework, which lends itself to a flawed system.

One problem with course work is detecting plagiarism; another is the extent to which students may be helped by their parents, which favours the middle classes. [Read more...] about GCSEs are too easy and should be abolished. Discuss - TimesOnline

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