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Beatius est magis dare quam accipere
Beatius est magis dare quam accipere
We are a boutique, academics-focused, super-curriculum provider in Maths, Reasoning and Economics. Our goal is to help students realise their full potential in academic scholarship.
We are extremely proud of the deep intellectual curiosity and outstanding academic record of our students. Virtually all our students not only enter the best senior schools/universities in the world but continue to shine there. The hardest choice they have to make is often choosing which offer to accept amongst the many excellent ones they each receive.
We had 11 students taking the 11+/13+ in 2021, receiving 32 offers in total, including:
· St Paul’s Girls’ School (1 offer)
· St Paul’s School (1 offer)
· Wycombe Abbey (6 offers)
· Godolphin & Latymer (2 offers)
· Latymer Upper School (2 offers)
· Tiffin Girls’ School (1 offer)
· Charterhouse (3 offers)
· Cheltenham Ladies’ College (2 offers)
· City of London School for girls (1 offer)
· Brighton College (1 offer)
· Guildford High School (2 offers)
· Lady Eleanor Holles School (2 offers)
· Hampton School (2 offers)
· Highgate (1 offer)
· King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Girls (1 offer)
· Kingston Grammar School (1 offer)
· Putney High School (1 offer)
· Royal Grammar School, Guildford (1 offer)
· Tonbridge School (1 offer)
· University College School (1 offer)
· Wimbledon High School (1 offer)
· Francis Holland School (2 offers)
· Downe House (2 offers)
· Epsom College (1 offer)
• St Paul’s Girls’ School (6 offers & 2 waiting list out of 10 applicants)
• St Paul’s School (5 offers out of 7 applicants)
• Wycombe Abbey (3 offers out of 4 applicants)
• The Tiffin Girls' School (2 offers)
• Godolphin & Latymer (1 offer)
• Latymer Upper School (1 offer)
• King’s College School, Wimbledon (2 offers)
• Hampton School (4 offers)
• Royal Grammar School, Guildford (5 offers)
• The Perse School (1 offer)
• Tonbridge School (1 offer)
• Cheltenham Ladies’ College (2 offers & 1 waiting list)
• Wimbledon High School (1 offer)
• Downe House (2 offers)
• Epsom College (1 offer)
• Putney High School (1 offer)
This weekly, small-group class focuses primarily on problem solving and is taught using Oxbridge’s supervision/tutorial format.
Each week, students are expected to complete assignment before the lesson, express their reasoning verbally during the lesson and review their work afterwards.
Traditionally, school admission tests only consisted of subjects that were taught at school, such as Maths and English. Later on, VR and NVR tests were adopted as they were believed to be better indication of children’s intelligence.
Such belief is mis-guided as NVR, just like any other subjects, require specific technique and would benefit from guided practice.
This class is to cover the infamously difficult and interesting paper from St Paul's Girls' School.
Classes would last through three main holiday periods: starting in Year 5's Easter holiday, continuing during the year 5 Summer holiday and wrapping up during Year 6 Christmas holiday.
TSA is a university admission test for Economics related and other Humanity subjects at university. It is one of the most important factors determining which candidate will receive an interview.
Section 1 of TSA consists of logic and problem-solving questions. Section 2 of TSA consists of one essay writing task.
Our Staff currently teach at UK’s leading independent schools. Furthermore, they have visited and observed at most of the top schools in the country, both independent and grammar. Our knowledge of UK schools is unparalleled.
Equally importantly, we are very proud of the close relationship we build with our students and alumni. That enables us to know the schools from their sides as well. Every year, we invite our past students to come back and talk to our current ones. Watching our alumni sharing their experience at their new school and trying to persuade our current students to go to their schools rather than their rival school is always great fun.
Our staff graduated from the world’s leading universities—Oxbridge in the UK and HYPS in the US. Since then, they acted as admission interviewers for their American alma mater and have been running Oxbridge enrichment programs at their current schools.
Given our capacity constraint, our focus has been helping students who wish to read Economics related courses at university.
While schools started as the institutions that took care of all educational needs of children, that might no longer be the case at present days. As a wide range of responsibilities were added to schools’ shoulders over time, the emphasis on academic gradually slipped.
We are here to fill the gap—providing the planning, guiding, monitoring of our students' academic progress.
We teach our students to the highest standard possible. To achieve that outcome, we use Oxbridge’ supervision/tutorial style teaching in all our classes.
All our classes are online.
Most lessons are one hour each. Some holiday classes might be 1.5 hours per lesson.
All our classes are online.
Please refer to the poster for each class.
Most term time classes have 8 students per class. Holiday classes have between 8 and 10 students per class.
Yes.
When we cover new material, there is homework to be completed after each lesson. Any difficult ones from homework will be reviewed at the beginning of the next lesson.
Later on, when we move on to practice papers, homework needs to be completed before class so that the lesson time could be spent on reviewing more difficult topics
In order to teach our students to the highest level possible, we write our own teaching resources.
On top of covering all the required knowledge in a logical manner, it has also given us the flexibility to adjust to the strengths and needs of each individual class.
Our teaching method requires students from the same class to be at similar level academically. Therefore, for our new classes and the occasional spaces, we need to assess all new students to make sure it is a good fit.
Joining a class that is either too easy or too difficult could easily make a student lose her interest and therefore becomes counter-productive to learning.
For new classes, our only requirement is for our students to be at similar academic level—we do not have any requirement on where that level is. Therefore, the level itself is driven by the level of children who express their interests with us at the time.
That said, due to our sterling reputation, we tend to attract children with very solid foundation already who would like to realise their full academic potential.
Our strongest students tend to start with us at Year 4. That gives plenty of time to build a strong foundation and explore problem solving before moving on to preparing for 11+.
Our commitment is termly with fees paid at the end of the previous term. If you decide not to continue, please let us know by the end of the previous term.
As the teachers have committed their time already, we unfortunately could not offer any refund.
As the teachers have committed their time already, we unfortunately could not offer any refund. However, we will try to record the lesson upon request.
We have trial lesson only for weekly Term Time lessons. After registration and assessment, if there is a suitable class for the student, we will only ask for payments for the first two lessons. If both sides feel it is mutual fit, we will require the payment for the rest of the term.
For Holiday lessons, we do not offer trial lessons.
Unfortuantely, we do not have the capacity to offer one-to-one tuition beyond those who act as educational consultant.
Currently only for one-to-one case. You may book an appointment if you have special request.
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