Happy Children’s Day
Happy Children’s Day! For those who have just finished PSLE, enjoy your last Children’s Day. Next year, you won’t qualify for the holiday anymore because you’ve become a fine young man/lady. 🙂
Author: Wei
Know your hats!
Know your hats!
Learning is for life
The PSLE is over, but we will continue to provide tips. 🙂 This is because we have students who are still taking exams in the other levels and more importantly, we believe one shouldn’t stop learning. Hope the tips are relevant and useful. 🙂
For example
English tip: When you use “For example”, you already refer to a partial list. There’s no need to put “etc” at the end of the sentence if you have used “for example”; it’s redundant. For instance: Bring fruits to the party; for example, grapes and bananas. (correct) Bring fruits to the party; for example, grapes,[…]
When to use past perfect tense
English tip: When to use past perfect tense: 1. Something occurred before another action in the past/Something happened before a specific time in the past. For example: I had never known what love is until I met my beautiful wife. 2. Something started in the past and continued up until another action in the past.[…]
Present perfect
English tip: When do we use the present perfect tense? 1) When the accompanying adverb refers to a period gone by, we would use the simple past. For example: I partied all night last Saturday. 2) With the time period starts from the past and continues to the present, we would use the present perfect.[…]
We’re on the papers today!
We are on the papers today! Thanks to The New Paper and Shereen for their kind coverage. 🙂
Irregardless is not a word
English tip: Regardless of what you have heard, "irregardless" is not a word. Please note dictionaries list it as INACCURATE or NONSTANDARD. Regardless means without regard/despite the prevailing circumstance. The prefix "ir" is negative. So if you add "ir" to a word like "without regard", it means "without without regard". That doesn’t make sense, right?[…]
Last minute tips for PSLE Chinese
“Last minute tips for PSLE Chinese It’s hard to make last minute efforts for languages- for Chinese or English, it’s important to have a good foundation and to practise regularly. It’s not easy to brush up a language in a short time, especially if the Chinese papers are just a few days away. The following[…]
Composition tips
English composition tips: To ace at PSLE, one must be tactical in his approach. Today, we will teach you how to be exam-smart and how to behave on the actual day of the examinations. Time Allocation You are given 70 minutes to finish two essays: 1) Situational composition (15 marks) 2) Continuous composition (40 marks) I would advise you[…]