Adam Khoo Learning Centre - Discussion

[VisualTextEducation]

Hi,


One thing to note is this:’ If it sounds too good to be true, or sounds like a miracle, it probably is’

These are all marketing strategies. Adam Khoo is a businessman talented in marketing, totally. He has the ability to package and utilizes the economies of scale to ‘trick’ parents into signing up with them.

My apologies to Neo, but can you elaborate further on your DS/DD who enrolled into Adam Khoo?

There are posts that are replied in favour to tuition centres that are generated by the same person. So please do some checking like the no. of posts that the person has made and whether it is leaning toward something. Yeah.

I am not saying that Adam Khoo methodology is no good or anything, but it definitely sounds too good to be true. Miracles don’t happen over ten weeks or few days, they require a combination of work and encouragement. And all these will take time. Doesn’t happen overnight. Perish that thought.

Regards,
Visual Text Education

[unity123]

I agree with you. In this forum there are also people promoting brain training with all kinds of claim like able to read blind folded. Feel sad for mummies that have paid hard earned monies to there operators.

[VisualTextEducation]

Thanks unity 123 for your support!!!

[lesaviour]

I was proscatinating on wheather should I send my P1 girl to the camp. I know now the answer is NO, i should better save up the money for some motivational seminar in the future for her.

My girl is just a normal child who doesn’t like to do school work, but she continue to do the work whenever I press her without complain simply because she doesn’t want to see me angry. I know her lacking is on motivation and not so much on educational as like some forumner mentioned here, if it is the educational factor, we should look for tuition centre.
I guess at the end of the day, it’s still boil down to how much time are we willing to spend with our child plus how patience are we when we’re faced with our own child.

[mahes_gopal]

My son attended it last year before PSLE. His verdict Scam. He said he did not learn much and said it was a waste of time. They just make them repeat phrases like brain washing Neuro linguistic programming. By the way my son has dyslexia. All the way was failing maths . Being a desprate mother I sent him. But after the programme no other improvement. Untill during PSLE he broke down under pressure refused to do anything. So no use. Somehow he cleared PSle with Eng B Maths C and Sci B. :nailbite: He could choose Exp or N(A). We chose N(A) at a neighbourhood school. It was his choice. This SA1 he scored 95/100 for maths, 89/100 science 76/100 for english and all A1 for the other subjects. How ? No tuition. Not adam khoo. Self motivation, right pace stress free environment. Happy Child = Good results.

[headache1969]

Thanks for sharing.

[babylion]

I just enrolled my daughter for Maths Mastery.

Will see how it goes....

How long has your DS been with AKLC ?

jtparent:

Hi,

any1 sent the kids to Maths/ English mastery class in Novena. DS in P5 cant cope with the challenging question. Will it be good to send him there or JEI/PSLE MATH.

Pls advise.

tks

[VisualTextEducation]

I agree with Gopal, Happy child=Good results.


Hi, Jtparent,

If your child has specific problems that needs addressing, sending your child to tuition centres that conduct 20 students classes WILL NOT HELP. Just imagine, your child cannot do challenging questions. There are 10 students who don’t know what is going on in school and 5 who already know everything. the other 4 are just like your child.

Worse, if the teacher they hire are inexperienced (most of the time) they just dangle the fundamentals, ask your child to do some worksheets that everyone has the exact same copy and call it a day.

The tuition centre earns $240.00/month/child = $4800.00/month/class
The inexperienced teacher earns $30/hr = $60/2hr class = $240.00/ month /class
Your child = NOTHING (Just sit in through the motion and waste time)
You = Hard earned monies GONE.

Parents who have been through this SCAM. Please HAIL with me. Thanks. STOP this crazy money making groups. We all know who are the big players in this industry: Ada- Kh–, Stal—d… who else?

Sigh. Parents, please take note

[sydney]

Math is a subject that cannot be learnt effectively in a big class for students that need help - period.


Like investments, we may not know for certainty if the investment will reap the expected return but at the minimal it must have the ingredients of a good "stock". Three criteria to assess if the "stock" is worth investing.

1) Student teacher ratio (This one can verify easily)

2) Programme (This one can verify somewhat easily. Ask to view the samples, ask them about their programme strategies and what concrete things they will do to achieve the strategies. e.g. if they say they will help the children to improve challenging Math, ask them how they will do it. To avoid being blinded by marketing bullshit, ask to see concrete examples.)

3) Teachers (This one is the hardest to verify. A phd in Math may not be a good primary math teacher. A diploma may not necessarily an ineffective teacher. A full time teacher do not provide more certainty than a part time teacher. My DS is in TLB and over a period of 1 year they changed three full time teachers. If the centre tell you that their teachers are current school teachers, you can be certain its not true because contractually its not allowed. If the centre tell you their teachers are ex-school teacher, make sure the teacher teaching your child’s time slot is that teacher and not another. Even if it is indeed that teacher, the teacher may still change one month later.)

At the end of the day, if the manager tell you a story that is too perfect to be true, its probably not true. I am more convinced by a story with some flaws than one that is too perfect.

[VisualTextEducation]

Thanks Sydney for the support!