In the past, a student could do very well just by memorising all the science concepts. However, in the current syllabus, there are hardly pure recall-type questions and in fact a child may not even pass the science exams just by memorising the textbooks.

 

So how then to SCORE in PSLE Science?

 

The key to success in primary science is having a strong understanding of the concepts in every topic and the mastery of process skills and answering techniques.

 

Success in Primary School Science means more than just acquiring and understanding the scientific concepts in the primary science curriculum. Another important dimension in learning science which cannot be easily acquired through memorising the guidebooks and completing countless assessment books is the ‘process’ of doing science. The processes of doing science are the science process skills that scientists use in the process of doing science. Since science is about asking questions and finding answers to questions, these are the same skills that we all use in our daily lives as we try to figure out everyday questions.

 

In the primary school science curriculum framework (MOE), students are expected to be reasonably proficient in these 14 areas of science skills and processes:

 

• Skills

• Observing

• Comparing

• Classifying

• Using apparatus and equipment

• Communicating

• Inferring

• Predicting

• Analysing

• Generating possibilities

• Evaluating

• Formulating hypothesis

 

Processes

• Creative problem solving

• Decision-making

• Investigation

 

Only with the mastery of these process skills and the ability to apply these skills to the science concepts would students be able to do well in primary science.

 

Unfortunately, these process skills are often not taught in a structured and systematic manner in schools. As many of these process skills involved higher-order thinking skills, the teaching has to be carefully planned, structured and regularly emphasised across the various topics.

 

In our Primary Science Mastery™ Programme, students would be taught strategies on how to apply concepts and process skills to challenging problems in primary science and to answer Open-Ended questions in Section B with confidence and precision.

 

What our students will get in our Primary Science Mastery Programme™:

 

• Comprehensive and attractive science notes on the key concepts in every topic based on the lastest MOE science syllabus and learning outcomes

• Proprietary templates with guiding questions based on the Heuristics approach to developed the scientific thinking process in solving challenging questions such as Experimental-type questions or the Application questions

• Comprehensive topical worksheets, developed in-house, focusing on the application of process skills and answering techniques

• Highly qualified NIE-trained and Science specialist tutors (tutors qualifications and experience available upon request)

• Small group with maximum of 1 to 8 tutor-student ratio

• Differentiated teaching to cater to students with differently achievement levels

• Free 1 Trial lesson (subject to availability of spaces)