On an accelerated path to A Level H2 Chemistry, IP Chemistry students are required to master additional chapters such as Atomic Structure and advanced Chemical Bonding. In addition, IP Chemistry students are expected to possess skills in critical thinking and data analysis. Having a structured IP Chemistry tuition program will ensure that students acquire the necessary exposure to do well in their school examinations.
IP Chemistry can be considered a hybrid of O Level and A Level Chemistry concepts that are heavily inter-linked. While IP Chemistry students learn additional contents as compared to O Level students, their level of understanding may not be as deep and complete as compared to H2 A Level students. This often results in misconceptions that snowball into other chapters, affecting the student’s ability to grasp the full concept and thus unable to effectively apply into examination questions.
There is too much content in IP Chemistry and too little time. Students struggle with major topics like Acid, Bases and Salts, Electrochemistry and Organic Chemistry.
Majority of the commercially available resources are geared towards the more popular O Level Chemistry syllabus. While O Level Chemistry resources have their merit, they are often insufficient for IP Chemistry students to ace their school examinations. The limited resource that a school can provide will hinder students’ progress to effectively transit into A Level H2 Chemistry. In short, IP Chemistry students simply do not know where to find quality resources and questions that can challenge them to the next level.
A critical thinking framework put together by top experienced IP Chemistry tutors
Dedicated IP Chemistry Classes IP Chemistry students require a different rigour and intensity to keep pace with their counterparts in schools. Grouping IP Chemistry students together enhances the learning experience and allows the tutors to go at a pace for faster learners and set higher-order thinking questions.
IP Chemistry ResourcesWe strive to develop top-quality teaching materials that are perhaps more comprehensive than that of the top schools. Every year, we invest a huge amount of time reviewing and enhancing our materials, drawing relevant examples and concepts from our signature A-Level H2 Chemistry programme. Materials provided include concise notes, power summaries, effective worked examples, and quick tests questions.
Exposure To Higher-Order Thinking IP Chemistry QuestionsOur tutors engage in multiple brainstorming sessions, hold intense discussions and review tons of examination scripts to scout for the latest trends to popular questions. Students from top schools such as HCI, RI and NYGH often lament about the exceedingly high standard and difficult questions that we set for them, but they are all smiles when they receive their school examination results. We strongly believe in the notion of “The more students get stuck in our tuition class, the less they will get stuck in exams”
Key Focus on Exam Skills And Answering TechniqueA student may be extremely hardworking and invest all their time studying and revising. However, if the key words are missing in their examination scripts, there is simply no way of scoring distinction. At Making Sense, our tutors are coached to handhold students, showing them step-by-step analysis of the question, helping them to develop their chain of thoughts, giving them guidance on keywords to look out for, and pointing out mistakes that students often make in exams.The key idea is to impart IP Chemistry students the skill of thinking like a marker and secure the marks to score distinction. With 80% of curriculum time spent on higher order thinking questions, students are trained to apply concepts in unfamiliar contexts. This will also stretch their thinking as they are more flexible in application and reinforces their understanding of concepts.
With more than 7 years of tutoring experience under his belt, Mr. Leong has much to share with his students. Understanding that many students may not use Chemistry in their future, he constantly ponders about how he can value add to his students as a partner in education. As the saying goes “give a man a fish, you will feed him for a day; teach a man to fish, you will feed him for a lifetime”. One of Mr. Leong’s guiding teaching principles is to teach students how to learn. Undoubtedly, learning is now a necessary life skill. Not just only knowledge, Mr. Leong aims to demonstrate how the vital skillsets in Chemistry (such as comparison, inference, critical thinking, problem solving, analysis) can be applied to their future education, training students to be independent lifelong learners.
Mr. Leong’s lessons are often touted by students to be fast paced yet clear and concise. From the likes of common careless mistakes students make (so you will not make them) to tips and tricks up his sleeves to maximise score in exams, students will always exit the classroom feeling that they have absorbed knowledge that they did not pick up in school. Why not give yourself (or your child) a chance to experience a different kind of learning today?
The teaching approach here focuses on higher-level thinking by challenging us with application questions which helped me to improve my results. Within a term, I was able to improve from failing to topping the class!
Joining Making Sense is easily one of the best decisions I have ever made in my life. I was blown away in that one lesson by the ease in which you helped us to realise concepts, link topics together and remember things. I think it’s safe to say that if you lectured in a school, no one would be skipping lectures ever again.
