​Marc Lim (2020 'A' Level General Paper /Chemistry / Physics student)

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Violet: Marc,  So happy to hear you secured A for A level Physics and GP. Congratulations! 

[19/2, 11:30 pm] Violet:  Just heard you got an A for Chem too! Congratulations!!  😃

Would you be so kind as to write a little testimonial on what in your tuition helped you secure your A's for GP, Chem and Physics?

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"There are a few aspects of Mr Lim’s GP lessons that I found to be very helpful.

One of them would be the opportunity to interact with the teacher. In my view, GP is a subject where many opinions are welcomed but not all opinions are correct. It is important to form your own opinions about current affairs and societal issues so you can write more passionately about them. However, without the validation of a teacher, writing such opinions can be risky as they are not necessarily “correct” by GP’s standards. I found that sharing my views with Mr Lim (both in and out of class) helped me to develop my opinions and also decide whether it would be appropriate to write them to secure high marks.

Practice is also equally as important. You need to practise in order to do well for any subject and GP is no exception. The problem is that there is no answer sheet when it comes to GP, unlike most of the other subjects, so you would need the aid of a teacher. From my experience, school teachers are much more reluctant to mark and review your essays so it was very hard for me to receive feedback. Coming to tuition really helped me with this because Mr Lim has never refused to mark any of my work despite his busy schedule. I urge you to submit work to him regularly if you want to excel at GP. 

The last aspect of Mr Lim’s GP lessons I would like to talk about would be the supply of GP content. Mr Lim mainly provides content by giving us newspaper articles. While it may be unconventional compared to other tuition classes’ notes, I find it effective. I think that reading the news is much more effective than reading bullet points and memorising examples on notes because it captures the bigger picture. You will also often read good English and can pick up good writing phrases from news articles as they are written by professionals. They also contain the opinions of experts, which is almost always considered a “correct” opinion in GP. Newspaper articles are easy and cheap to access, so what makes it worthwhile to come for Mr Lim’s lessons? The answer is that he sieves through the numerous amounts of daily articles for you and handpicks the ones that are worth reading. This helps tremendously as many students do not have the luxury of time to read every single article."