lizzy9981\" post_id=\"2119743\" time=\"1696040341\" user_id=\"173325:The top maths olympiad training centre is OTE - they claim 80% of the Top 20 of NMOS 2023 are their students. Maths Hub used to dominate, but they stopped performing suddenly in the past few years.
Hi parents, can any parents recommend any good coco education maths oly tutors for p4? I am keen to start my child next year.
However, if you are not from China, best not to waste your time and money signing up with Chinese-owned maths Olympiad training centres, especially those who claim their students are top performers in NMOS, APMOPS etc.
The award-winning top performing kids you see featured on their website do not pay to train with these centres. Instead, the centres give these selected kids free training (may even pay them to train with the centre) so that they can claim on their websites that these top performers are from their centres. These selected top performing kids get special training / questions in classes separate from paying students. Also the top tier Maths Olympiad training may not be in English, e.g. it is conducted in Mandarin.
With these top performers' names and testimonials on their websites, these centres use them as the hook to get more business from the large population of unsuspecting and hopeful lower/average performing kids and their parents.
Go read the reviews on these centres. The good reviews (if any) are from parents with PRC-sounding names. It is common practice for these centres to offer freebies, access to talks, learning materials etc if the parents leave good online reviews. The bad reviews are from everyone else.
These centres do not provide the same service to parents and kids who are not from China and/or are average performing. You are just wasting your money and setting your kid and yourself up for heartache, believing that -- by paying for the packages that could cost thousands, sending your kid to and fro, and making your kid put in the hours -- you are buying the same quality coaching that those top performers have benefitted from, for your kid to also have a good shot at doing well at the competitions.
After going through all that, your kid will be inevitably gaslighted into thinking that he is not good enough at Maths, when this may not be true.
So, think through properly whether you want to put your kid through this. Do your own research and find out more about the primary level Maths Olympiad scene, who are the winners, who are the losers... It is not as simple as before.
Other more established Maths Olympiad training centres in SG have not been able to produce top performers in these maths olympiad competitions since these Chinese-owned centres came into the picture in the past few years. Why do you think this is happening?