Tuition Articles

Want to make the most of the June holidays? Besides finally booking your flights for a quick getaway (hurray!), you’ll also want to ensure the little ones are still learning and stimulating their minds through the month-long break. We have several math-themed June holiday programmes for those who need help with PSLE Math, or those [...]

Singapore’s Primary School Leaving Examination (PSLE) is traditionally seen as THE way for students to determine which secondary schools they can qualify and apply for. However, did you know that there is another popular way to get into good secondary schools in Singapore? A small portion of primary students enter a secondary school through the [...]

Ask us about tuition trends in Singapore, and one interesting fact stands out: There have been more students looking for IB tuition in Singapore! Although the number of local high schools that run the IB programme is still very small compared to those that prepare students for the A Levels, the newer implementation of integrated [...]

If you’ve got a little science wizard on your hands, sending them to a science Olympiad competition or two should definitely be on your mind. Why Science Olympiad, you may ask? Well, science contests and competitions give students valuable opportunities to stretch their thinking and cultivate their love for the subject. If they manage to [...]

Heard about DSA, but not so sure how it works? Thinking of securing your child an early spot in a good school? Already planning to apply for DSA, but want to know how to increase your child’s chances of getting in? If these are some questions on your mind, we have just the thing for [...]

We get asked this question a lot: Why open a tuition centre in Bukit Timah when there are already so many of them? Why compete with some of the best tuition providers and star tutors who have open up shop there? Despite the huge concentration of tuition centres in Bukit Timah, we still see good [...]

Scrutinise the timetable or list of subjects of an IP student, and you’ll find one stark difference. There’s no ‘English’ on their list of subjects. Instead, they take something called ‘Language Arts’. Most of the time, teachers simply describe the subject Language Arts as a combination of Literature and English. However, the difference goes beyond [...]

Thanks to a sharp-eyed reader, we were alerted to a news article on Channel News Asia (CNA) which featured comments by our head tutor, Ms Yvonne Chen! The feature article takes a closer look at the tuition industry in Singapore, its current and future trends, as well as how it has been impacted by the [...]

Since our inception, Future Academy has seen a steady flow of students from IP schools such as RGS and RI – this is especially since our co-founders and head tutors are ex-teachers who taught in IP schools for many years. Students and parents trust us to know the demands of the IP curriculum well, and [...]

Math competition season is here! Yes, you heard it right – the months of April to July make up the peak period for Math competitions and contests, with some already in full swing this April. For primary school students, this means being just in time for their competition results to be counted in their DSA [...]