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Sure you have intelligent people at many other schools as they don't bother traveling to top schools. It's the norm to have one or two incredibly smart kids at some of the schools ranked further down from 50th. Last year one student who got 100UAI came from Smith Hill, Wollongong. This school...

True for most schools, but when it comes to top 5 schools in Sydney, it's pretty reliable as they have very strong standards. Their HSC trials match very closely with the real HSC.

I set up this website to give primary school kids free tests in math and computer skills Online Assessment Home If you guys have younger siblings, let them try. It should help to compare how they do with others. It should also help to check how well the kids going to coaching places perform. I...

Some selective schools are at the bottom of the league and could not even compare with good non-selective schools. So it depends. My nieces are in Sydney Girls where they say the low marks are about 70% and the average is about 80% for tests and essays. The top 5 selective schools in Sydney are...

You miss the point. It's about exercising the kids' mind to develop number sense. This development is vital because the young minds are like computers that need the programming. IN early years, this early programming actually develop the brain physically to adapt and compute. Musicians have to...

probably the question is "Write down the co-ordinates of the points A and B where this tangent cuts the x and y axes respectively?" In this case just work out where the line cut the x and y axis by using y=0 and x=0 respectively to find out. For example if x = 0, then y = 25, y = 0 then x = 25/4

Re: Truong's tutoring, any comments? Is that the fee? How many hours do you have to attend per week at the minimum? How many students in each class? I heard he was making a kill with so many students.

I think there is a sentiment in the wider community that it's unfair for kids to learn from anywhere else except public schools. This means kids whose parents have money will do better because they could buy tutoring service. However the same is not applied to music, arts and sport. Learning...

Yes, it seems like that. But I think to be fair, one has to look at the idea of aspirational parents among the Anglo-Celtic population as well. What I seem to find is 1/ Most Anglo-Celtic kids that come from middle class aspirational parents who send their kids to music lessons and follow all...

Agree on this. Smart kids can become arrogant and would not study hard. This is why many diligent kids will score higher purely by hard work and good memory. A balance is what required to be well-rounded and still score at highest level. Tutored kids can surely save time. But the downside is...

I think this is more of the one-on-one market or the small group market. Many coaching places run large classes pretty much like schools and deliver boring lessons too? I know one-on-one is very good if you get a good tutor. It's possible to address gaps in knowledge left unfilled by teachers...

I get this point. But self-learning is a big part that brings out the balance. If tutors always give the best solution, there will be no thinking. In the long term kids will be hesitant to think hard. But surely teachers do tend to run a one-way dialogue especially if you have a boring one...

Selective school teachers are only better in the sense that they survive the tough environment. They would have transfered if they are humiliated by smart students. I thought if students have problem understanding they could tell the teachers rather than turning to tutors. Learning ahead is...

But the question why! Why do they need tutors to keep up. Say if they are no good and should not be in selective school, I would expect them to be no good with or without tutors. The fact that they have tutors, pay a lot of money, lose a lot of time, suffer a lot of stress, ... to get the HSC...

I share this view. Primary schools struggle to cater for kids who are way behind. So smart kids are neglected. The experience that I had to teach my own kids a lot of things confirm this. Smart kids who sit among kids that perform at so low level get nothing much from teachers at a normal...

I can see that Australian math exercises tend to lack certain emphasis that I see in the US past papers. Number sense is an area that I see the Americans and Singaporeans putting a lot of focus on. It makes perfect sense to do this. Excellent number sense allows kids to become good...

This is a question that bugged me for ages. They say that 80% or more of students at selective high schools need tutors. They needed tutors to be able to get in to these selective schools, and need tutors to survive in these schools. My own niece is spending a lot of time at tutoring places for...

Re: Truong's tutoring, any comments? I think this is an attempt to get the best average result rather than ego. He probably wants the kids to use what seems to be the fastest way to get a problem out of the way and he also wants this to be adopted across the board for efficiency. I would...

Teachers help to cut through hard stuff quickly to save your time. Self learning is possible but you will be decoding text messages in the books in a pretty painful way. You may come up with less than efficient methods to solve problems making you the last one to finish a test and get a poor...

Re: Truong's tutoring, any comments? It seems so but when students get to University, those who depend on memorising formulas to score high in the HSC will suffer badly. What he does only help to get into the door, not helping to prepare the students for what is inside the door. I am not sure...