Comparing Tuition Centres

[breleow]

homebunny:

me too me too, got bad experience with LL, too proud already. i sent my kids to a centre that is not mention by anyone here but all is so far so good at cck

hello, mind sharing the name of the centre at cck? thanks!

[lee_yl]

Wandi_flora:

Joyfulheart:

I sent my daughter for The Learning Lab p5 Math tuition

for the past 2 terms after she scored only 65%
for her mid year exam. I am so disappointed that her recent
SA2 result acrually dropped by more than 10 marks to 53%
I will not continue with TLL which charges $100 per lesson.

TLL is an ENRICHMENT center and some parents may have mistaken it as TUITION center.

Enrichment center means TLL does not teach the fundamentals and basics but more advanced stuff beyond their current school level. So if a child who scores 65% goes into TLL (at P5), he/she may get even more confused. Join only if you think you want your child to be stretched further, like hoping to see an A becoming A*.

Ai yo...are they teaching her correctly?? Heard all the stories of LL that's why i didnt send my kids there.

I know of two mummies who kept complaining about the TLL Maths and Science prog :slapshead: (i suspect because of the high fees, parents expected more). In the end, friends' ds (who took maths) and dd (who took science) both scored A* !

[happymum40]

Hi Dinomum, I had decided to go with SmartLab too after seeing their students' review about them on

https://www.facebook.com/SmartLabEducation

[newparentontheblock]

Hi everyone,


Anyone else has a child coming home with a difficult homework problem that you cannot solve? Besides the tuition centres, has anyone tried using those online tuition and reliable?

[Estherhunting]

If you are staying near Gombak MRT or Bukit Timah, can try Fun Learners school. Their lessons are quite interesting & challenging. My son looks forward to their lessons every week. Try search: fun learners school in google and you should be able to find their website. I personally think its not bad but their lessons are quite limited. must have luck to have a suitable timing for dd.

[BlazeTheWeed]

To be frank, I dont see what all the buzz is about tution. This might be slightly offensive to some people so if you are easily offended, look away now! This is your last warning! Ok, now that that is out of the way, let us start. Frankly speaking, I never had tuition and yet scored 270 for PSLE, the same goes for many of my friends. I realised that in my school, those top scorers never had tution and yet did so much better than those with tution and I think I know why. For those parents who sign their children up for multiple tution courses, I am afraid to tell you that there is little use. No matter how good a tution teacher is, if the child is unwilling to study, than you are just wasting your money and time. Centres such as mindstretcher might be producing students with good grades, but they are so single minded and "stubborn" as they were taught via a rigid structure of teaching that does not allow for any creativity which is very important and useful in their future. For those parents who jam pack their childs schedule with tution classes, I have a question for you, "Are you sure that this is good for your child? All you see is his acedemic grades but not his emotional development. Have you tried stepping into their shoes before? Has your child become more of an object that you use for bragging rights and is no longer your flesh and blood?" I would like to end of by saying to all parents : Please cobsider your childs feelings and give them a more holistic development than to just hammer them into just studying because one day, which is soon, they would, break down and let’s see how you deal with the situation then!

[BlazeTheWeed]

Please don’t use singlish, it is very annoying.

[jaskwek]

minniemusic:

I have very bad experience with this centre located at Tampines.

Centre changed class schedule and only informed last minute on the 2nd last of the lesson for the term 4 (but verified with my girl and she has not received their time table sheet or been informed the change of schedule at all) I came to aware only when I called them up. Was informed new P6 term to start only on 15th Nov (sat) - new class time. I informed centre we couldn't make it at the new class time.
For beginning stage when I registered for the class, I have already informed the centre that my girl is only available on Fri evening, so they clearly aware but centre told me they dun remember so much.( i feel that this is a centre that do not bother to understand about the student.)

Also the centre admin told me their teacher (owner of centre) is only available to teach on weekends and since the teacher (owner of centre) is taking over the P6 class and she is only available on weekends for teaching however when I registered for the class, they only told me that the teacher will take over the class in Sept but never said that only teach in Weekends.

Now we cant make it only the new class time. I request for refund since fault is not at all, so it is very right for the centre to do refund. But the centre doesn't want to refund and insisted that their policy stated no refund.

They are also twisting their words now and told me there is no change of schedule in Nov only, class as usual so insist that I attend 4 lessons to offset the deposit. The centre way of management is only putting the student at risk. My girl is already in P6, I need to find another tuition centre and not waste time to attend just 4 lessons for new P6 term with a centre that she will not be attending anymore class.

The centre now insist not refunding and is at no fault. I can understand centre collect deposit and will not refund under normal circumstance, but at this case, the centre is at fault for not informing earlier, the admin girl even told me that my expectation as parents, hence you can see what kind of management the centre has. Also the admin girl told me that the new class time is based on student agreement but we are not aware at all even the p5 terms come to an end, until I called up the centre to check whether any class in holidays.

Pls be aware of such centre. I am holding up the case with CASE to get my deposit back now.

Any suggestion or advice may assist me further is very appreciated. Thanks.

Which centre in TampinTampines?

[Wandi_flora]

understand your worry as there is not much time in P6 year itself…got to start preparing this year already.

[Happy75]

Thanks for your post blazetheweed. I agree with you on having many tuitions will only be more harmful to our children. It does not produce results which I tried before and situation got worsen. Our children need to set their own goals and achieve them which then reminds me of my school motto: perseverance, honour and success. They have to learn to love studying. Revise what they have learnt everyday. However, most parents will not sit down there, wait and do nothing when they received poor results. The only solution is to find better tuition centre or tutors, no matter how expensive the tuition fees cost. Most children may not be as mature as you and your classmates, they need a little push, then they work hard. Most parents cannot teach their own children as they are too stubborn. Children usually turn to deaf ear. What parents can do are to provide moral support and try to low down their expectation. Spend more time understanding what are the topics that the child does not know well and help.This will be more effective.