IB TUITION

Our IB Mathematics programme is designed to build firm foundational understanding of the content for each topic, following which we will focus on problem solving techniques and sharpen each student’s familiarity with the syllabus through practices. We believe that memorising notes are an inefficient approach and we help weaker students to build a strong foundation, and the stronger ones to score well in exams.

We work to enhance understanding and use real-life examples in our teaching. By simplifying core concepts, we hope to not only aid students’ understanding but also application of formulae and methodology. With proper guidance and understanding of techniques, practice would be doubly effective. Our  classes have developed simple yet effective problem solving techniques to help students through the process of answering questions.

Classes are also supplemented with advanced materials, intricately designed to help students gain exposure to a widest range of questions.

Our IB Chemistry programme is designed to enable students to achieve excellent academic performance in the subject. To excel in IB chemistry, students are required to attain a comprehensive understanding of the core concepts within the syllabus, and be proficient in the application of these concepts when attempting exam questions.

The primary focus of our chemistry tutors is to ensure that students thoroughly understand the syllabus content. We believe that memorising notes is an inefficient approach to chemistry because students often face problems retaining the knowledge in the long run, and get stuck once questions get complicated. Instead, through comprehending the WHY and the HOW for each chemistry concept, our students find themselves having to memorise less yet knowing more.

After ensuring that students have a solid grounding in content knowledge, our tutors turn their focus onto techniques for answering exam questions. Practices are tailored to each individual student’s weaknesses and needs. These questions are carefully selected to reflect IB exam questions, and assess their competency in the topic.

Classes are also supplemented with advanced materials, intricately designed to help students gain exposure to a widest range of questions.

Our IB Physics programme is designed specially with the needs of our students in mind. Each class places a strong emphasis on building a strong foundation in core Physics principles and concepts. We believe in developing the right foundation concepts so that students can always work out their solutions from first principles. Each class is carefully designed to ensure that students master contextual knowledge and retain them in the long run. Our tutors  spend extensive amount of time to craft customised curriculums suited to the needs of students struggling with the subject, by producing notes that break down complicated theories and apply them to real world situations. Students are hence able to identify how Physics concepts relate to daily phenomenon that occur around them, and better appreciate its importance and relevance in real life.

Additionally, our tutors work to improve students’ answering techniques through thorough practices on past IB questions. Trend analysis, key question review, and intensive practices across a broad range of past IB questions are key features of each class. Questions are specifically selected based on the answering skills required, thus exposing students to a wide range of question types.

Each class works on addressing the unique, individual weak points of students and hence provide them with personalised assistance that can best help them to respond to challenging Physics problems.

Our IB Biology programme is designed to help students excel in the subject. The IB Biology syllabus is extremely content heavy, and IB students often struggle to cope with the sheer quantity of information they are expected to know, in order to do while for the course. This is why our tutors focus heavily on techniques to help students compartmentalise and retain their biology knowledge.

Unlike the school classroom where learning takes place mainly through audio processing, we believe that the best way for students to learn and retain information is through kinaesthetic and visual processing. Students are often encouraged to explain biology concepts through drawing instead of narrating. This helps us ensure that the students have comprehensive understanding of the content. This approach to learning biology has been proven to help students in dealing with the heavy content, and hence score better for their exams.

Other than a strong focus on the subject’s content, our tutors also train students in answering questions that are not content based, such as inference and data-based questions. Analysis of experimental data is a key component of the IB biology course, and learning the correct techniques to approach these questions will definitely give our students a competitive advantage.

Our IB Economics programme is designed to help students excel in the subject through developing analytic and evaluative minds, and the ability to present these economic ideas convincingly through essay writing skills.

QE’s classes focus on ensuring that students have an accurate understanding of core economic concepts. Thereafter, our tutors deconstruct each question type systematically and help students to examine and contextualise key economic content in a clear and concise manner. Each class adopts a focused approach to understanding question trends and patterns, with rigorous review of essay writing skills and critical thinking abilities designed for all students.

Our targeted focus on a range of topics encompassing real-world examples ranging from EU monetary policies to Japan’s negative interest rates, and pressing economic issues across the world. This helps to develop strong application skills to prepare for out-of-context questions and analysis.

Our economics curriculum is critically designed and committed to helping students achieve the best possible grade in economics.

Our IB Literature programme equips students with the critical skills and literary finesse to achieve excellent academic performances. QE’s curriculum ensures their proficiency in understanding the nuances of literary texts, critically analysing them, and articulating their thoughts coherently.

Firstly, our teaching philosophy includes the inculcation of universal skills needed to excel in literary analysis. An acute sensitivity to literary techniques that underscore prose and poetry is trained through practice, and nurtured by experienced tutors. Our materials are specifically curated based on past IB questions, and feedback on students’ work is given by tutors well versed with the IB marking criteria.

Secondly, QE’s curriculum instills knowledge and skills unique to the Set Text component of the formal examination. Students are taught to identify literary conventions specific to their text types, seamlessly incorporate them into their analyses, and explicate their literary functions. QE’s customised curriculum immerses students in the socio-cultural backgrounds of their texts, and such enhanced understanding adds depth to their written analyses.

Thirdly, students master the English language through our rigorous programme. Regular feedback from tutors on students’ written work elucidates areas for improvement in linguistic proficiency and argumentative flow, ensuring that students write with lucidity.

Our IB Language & Literature programme helps students to achieve excellent academic performance through a three-prong approach. To do well for this subject, both the language and literature component requires the same set of skills – the ability to understand, analyse, and write coherently.

First, our tutors supplement students’ understanding of the text beyond mere literal analysis. We stimulate our student’s interests by framing the social, historical and cultural context of the written work, which is also a crucial component to help our students stand out from others.

Second, we provide our students ample practices in both the language and literature component. Our tutors believe that studying smart triumphs studying hard. Our materials and practices are specifically curated based on past IB questions and the IB marking criteria. By providing our students ample practice pegged at an appropriate IB exams standard, we help our students maximise their academic performance and optimise their studying time.

Last, comprehensive understanding and regular practice is never complete without knowledge of exam techniques. At QE, we help our students to polish up their writing skills by teaching them how to incorporate key phrases and keywords into essays, giving frequent feedback, and exposing them to a broad range of texts and materials.

Our IB Psychology programme critically examines how psychological knowledge is generated, developed and applied. This will allow students to have a greater understanding of themselves and appreciate the diversity of human behaviour.

The holistic approach reflected in the curriculum, which sees biological, cognitive and sociocultural analysis being taught in an integrated way, ensures that students are able to develop an understanding of what all humans share, as well as the immense diversity of influences on human behaviour and mental processes. The ethical concerns raised by the methodology and application of psychological research are also key considerations of our IB psychology course.

Our classes are designed for in-depth analysis, evaluation and consolidation of learning. The overall aim of our course is to give students a deeper understanding of the nature and scope of psychology. Each class is crafted in best ways of delivery that are most relevant to their students’ interests and allow them to evaluate different psychological theories and arguments.

Our students will develop the capacity to identify, analyse critically and evaluate theories, concepts and arguments about the nature and activities of the individual and society and develop an awareness of how psychological research can be applied for the better understanding of human behaviour

Our TOK classes adopt a focused approach to learning key ideas in various areas of knowledge. Each class is critically designed to enrich with principles of essay writing and critical thinking designed for high-performing students. With targetted focus on knowledge acquisition and critical analysis, our programme features engaging content to explore key insights and ideas to help question various topics in the TOK syllabus.

The QE curriculum is streamlined to prepare students to excel in both methods of assessment: the oral presentation and 1,600 word essay. Students are equipped with the argumentative skills to develop structured analyses, and to articulate their opinions coherently and succinctly. They are also exposed to a broad range of pertinent real life situations, and trained to relate them to knowledge questions. This imbues depth into students’ analyses and ensures their insights remain relevant, well-informed and objective.

Our TOK programme is both academically rigorous and comprehensive with a strong focus on developing a clear framework for students to understand the subjects, different ways of knowing, areas of knowledge, and apply their understanding in a thorough and systematic manner.