Subject Overviews

Term Time

  • Rotate through 5 main components of Papers 1 & 2
    • Students tend to struggle most with these components
    • Components also take up the highest number of marks
      • Situational Writing
      • Continuous Writing
      • Narrative Comprehension
      • Non-narrative Comprehension
      • Summary
    • 1. Go through steps and strategies
    • 2. Guide class to practice applying them over 2-3 sessions

School Holidays

  • Sessions tailored to target each class’ weaknesses based on recent assessments
  • Go through various narrative and non-narrative reading materials to improve their language foundation
    • Affects a large proportion of their English marks
  • Cover remaining components
    • Editing
    • Visual text
    • Oral

Every Session

  • Case studies and key concepts for different topics at local, regional and global level
    • This is as 30 out of 50 marks for essay is for content
      • Society & culture
      • Economics
      • Politics
      • The arts and humanities
      • Science and technology
      • The environment
  • Rotate through different assessment components
    • Essay
    • Comprehension
      • Different question types
      • Summary
      • Application question
    • 1. Go through steps and strategies
    • 2. Guide class to practise applying them over 2-3 sessions
  • Sessions tailored to target each class’ weaknesses based on recent assessments

Term Time

  • Rotate through all source-based question types and structured response questions
    • Constitutes all assessment components for Social Studies
    • 1. Go through steps and strategies
    • 2. Guide class to practice applying them over 2-3 sessions
      • Source-based questions
        • Inference
        • Purpose
        • Comparison
        • Usefulness
        • All hybrid combinations
        • Assertion
          • Including evaluation
      • Structured-response questions
        • Content for all chapters is revised through structured-response questions
        • Explanation
          • Strategies
          • Causes
          • Factors
          • Perspectives
          • Including evaluation

School Holidays

  • Sessions tailored to target each class’ weaknesses based on recent assessments

Term Time

  • Rotate through all source-based question types and essay questions
    • Constitutes all assessment components for History
    • 1. Go through steps and strategies
    • 2. Guide class to practice applying them over 2-3 sessions
      • Source-based questions
        • Inference
        • Purpose
        • Comparison
        • Usefulness
        • All hybrid combinations
        • Assertion
          • Including evaluation
      • Structured-response questions
        • Content for all chapters is revised through essay questions
        • Explanation
          • Including evaluation

School Holidays

  • Sessions tailored to target each class’ weaknesses based on recent assessments