1.   What is our one-to-one, personal complete email courses?

It is one-to-one and personal because the teacher interacts with one student at a time by email. Each student receives individual attention and instruction on how to improve whenever the teacher marks their assignments.

But more than that, the teacher is able to devote as much time and instruction as each student needs, which other forms of tuition are unable to do because of limited time and too many students. The teacher is able to do this without incurring expensive tuition fees.

Our goal is for students to become independent learners so that they are confident doing the exams by themselves. The teacher therefore trains each student to answer each question according to the requirements of the subject and to check and edit their own work for grammatical and other errors.

Each course is complete because we first lay a solid foundation of mastering the basics before we introduce advanced techniques for scoring higher marks. This is why we can guarantee students will score higher marks or we'll refund the full fees.

2.   Who is the teacher?

The teacher is K Rajamanikam (Raja). He is a trained NIE teacher with over 18 years of teaching experience. He has developed all our courses and has also written over 60 English Supplementary Books for Primary 1 to 'A' Level, including three Composition Writing Books, published by TriLife Communications. His books can be purchased at Popular Bookstores. Click here to read more about him.

3.   How do students learn?

Just like students read their story books or text books and understand them, so too do students read the lessons, understand them, follow the examples given and complete the assignments.

Students can also ask the teacher any questions by email at any time. So far no student has asked ask to explain anything in the lessons as they are written in a simple and clear manner. We even have P2 students scoring higher marks in our Composition Writing and Comprehension courses.

Students are given a lesson at a time to complete. After they complete the assignments to the satisfaction of the teacher, they are then given the next lesson. Sometimes students are asked to redo some exercises in the assignments because they are not done to the the teacher's satisfaction. (Teachers in classrooms have no time to do this for their students.) After students have completed the assignments to the teacher's satisfaction, they are sent the next lesson.

4.   How often should students complete a lesson?

It is up to the student, but we suggest students complete a lesson a week to keep up the momentum of learning. But if their schedule permits they can complete more lessons per week. If they can't do a lesson a week, we suggest students do at least two lessons a month, so that they can remember what they have learnt.

We suggest that students fix a convenient day and time (setting aside 45 minutes to an hour) during the week to complete the lessons.

5.   When during the week should students complete a lesson?

Students can complete a lesson and assignments any time they want to. Some students prefer a fixed date and time each week, other prefer do so a lesson when they have free time each week. It is up to the student. (For younger students, we suggest parents initially help them to fix a schedule suitable for them.)

6.  How do students send in their assignments?

Students can send in their assignments in one of three ways:

a)     By emailing us their assignments after typing them in the assignment booklets on the computer/laptop.

b)     By faxing their handwritten assignments to us

c)     By scanning their handwritten assignments into their computer as pdf, tiff, bmp or jpeg files.

Students can choose to receive their marked assignments in one of the three ways too. Students assignments are returned within 3 days.

7.  How are students’ assignments marked?

The teacher focuses on motivating students to do better every time, by giving encouraging and positive feedback and giving suggestions for improvement.

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