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My daughter has benefitted from TCH's writing lessons since her Primary school days. And these past 2 years, the teacher has guided her through her challenging General Paper years in JC.... Read more guided her through her challenging General Paper years in JC. She knew she needed help when her GP essays were not scoring well. Her thoughts were neither well-planned nor well-thought out. I'm not sure what her TCH tutor did - but it certainly helped my daughter to think more coherently & more deeply about issues before penning them down on paper. She also enjoyed their stimulating discussions. The tutor also emailed regular reports to us,parents, so we know how they are progressing in class & how we can support them from home.

Lessons at TCH were very beneficial and very helpful! The teachers engage the students a lot in thinking about the issue itself, rather than focusing on memorising sample essays or... Read more issue itself, rather than focusing on memorising sample essays or treating GP/english as just a subject to be taken at an examination level. They really care about the development of students as a critical thinker and in their interest for the subject by relating the topics they teach to real life events — especially for General Paper class. My teacher, Ms Chin, taught us to evaluate a lot in our writing to give it more depth and go beyond superficial description, so that our essays/AQs could stand out to the markers and readers. She also could give us a lot of good advice about how to improve in our writing ability to prepare us not only for the A levels, but also for our future endeavours in Uni, etc. Every lesson was different, and we would have lots of class discussions and feedback sessions for us to learn as much as we could from one another and to gain new perspectives through our conversations in a meaningful way. It made lessons much less boring too, and brought out the essence and the joy of learning english and about current affairs — to be able to think, critique, and communicate our views in a clear and succinct way, in a thoughtful way so that we can be prepared for the working world and whatever lies ahead.

The teachers curate their lesson plans according to the pace of learning of the students as well as their weaknesses. This greatly helped me to improve in areas i was... Read more This greatly helped me to improve in areas i was lacking in. Teaching of skills such as question analysis was done in very concise manners that helped me to easily grasp these skills to prepare me for my exams

Lessons are always engaging as student inputs are required frequently to help them stay on track with the topics covered during lessons. The topics are relevant and may delve into... Read more during lessons. The topics are relevant and may delve into more unique and interesting topics that are not usually covered in schools.

Lessons are very engaging and helped me to think critically. Topics discussed in class are very current and relevant to our lives. Teachers are very interactive and knowledgeable. Thank you... Read more our lives. Teachers are very interactive and knowledgeable. Thank you for helping me score a distinction in my O level exams! :)