A dated block of 12, 24 or 36 teaching hours on one subject, entered through a diagnostic, with the fee, the refund cut-off and the readiness verdict stated before you book.
A block is bought by the hour and dated in advance. The target is written on the booking sheet after the diagnostic, with the condition it rests on written next to it.
Exam intensive — one subject, one blockTarget set from the diagnostic
A dated block of 12, 24 or 36 teaching hours on one subject at the level the student is actually sitting. The target is named as a band from the diagnostic, with the starting point beside it, and we say plainly whether it is reachable in the hours being bought. If it is not, that is said before you pay, not after the block ends.
Skills-only block
For a student who is already secure in the content: how marks are allocated, where candidates lose them, and timed practice on whole papers with feedback on every one. No new content is taught, and the block is not sold as if there were time for it.
One-to-one intensive
The same hours with one teacher, at half the group hours for the same fee, with the timetable built around the hours the student can attend.
We do not run a block we cannot staff at the level the student is sitting, and we do not take a booking for a syllabus that is changing mid-course without saying so on the booking sheet.
Inside a block
Six hours a day, and someone responsible for the room.
Group · 24 hours · four days
Four-day block · one subject, capped at eight
Six teaching hours a day, split into a morning and an afternoon session, with the day's set work marked before the next session begins.
What is supervised through the day
A register is taken at every session and a student is marked in and out of the building. Students stay on site through the day, including the break between sessions: the lunch hour is supervised, or the student leaves with a parent's written consent. Each day ends with the marked work returned and tomorrow's topics sent to parents.
One-to-one · half the group hours, same fee
One-to-one block · a timetable built around the dates
The hours are the same and the timetable is built per student, which is what makes it usable for a candidate who is also at school that week.
What is agreed before the first session
Every session has a stated topic and a stated output, agreed at the diagnostic. One-to-one hours missed inside the block are rescheduled inside the block's window rather than carried into the next term. No student is added to a group mid-block, and groups are never merged to fill seats.
Group only · pre-paper weekend · 12 hours
Pre-paper weekend · two timed papers, no new content
The block bought for a candidate who is already secure in the content: whole papers sat under exam conditions, then the marks lost and the time that ran out.
How the papers come back
Skills-only, so no new content is taught and the block is not sold as if there were time for it. Every paper is marked against the board's marks scheme, and the marked stack goes home the same day.
Every block above runs to the hour count on its card, supervised in the room and marked against the board's marks scheme before the stack goes home.
Diagnostic, target, then the block.
Book the diagnostic
A past paper sat under timed conditions and marked against the board's marks scheme.
Set the target
The band the student is working towards, named with the starting point it rests on.
Work the block
Six hours a day, with the day's work marked before the next session begins.
Read the verdict
A written readiness verdict and a report to parents in the week the block ends.
Start with the diagnostic
Five steps, and the length falls out of step one.
A fixed-length block is only honest if the length was chosen after someone looked at the student's work. That is what the first step is for, and it is priced on its own.
SPRINT
1 · Diagnostic
A past paper sat under timed conditions and marked against the board's marks scheme. Output: a written placement naming the topics that are weak, the marks lost and why, and the hours we think it would take.
2 · Target and its condition
The band the student is working towards, named with the starting point it rests on. Output: a one-page target note saying what is reachable in the hours being bought and what is not.
3 · Board, paper and level captured before any quote
The syllabus, the paper and the level go on the booking sheet, because teaching the wrong syllabus wastes the block. Output: a provisional timetable with the sessions, the dates and the cost, sent before you commit to anything.
4 · The block
Six hours a day as published, in a class capped at eight. Output: daily work marked against the marks scheme, and two full-length mocks sat under timed conditions.
5 · Verdict and report
At the end of the last session. Output: a written readiness verdict and a report to parents — what was covered, what was marked, what is not yet secure, and whether we would sit the exam on the planned date.
Entry
There is no minimum mark to enter a block, and no level test to pass. The diagnostic sets the level and the length; the length does not set the teaching.
When we turn the booking down
If the gap between where the student is and the level they are sitting cannot be closed in the hours available, the target note says so, and we offer a longer block, the weekly route, or nothing. A short block sold to a family it cannot help costs more than the fee is worth.
What the diagnostic costs
It is charged, and credited against the course fee when a block is booked. The figure sits with the fees below, together with the refund rule.
The hour count is a guide. The diagnostic decides.
Blocks are sold in three lengths. Each is written for a starting point and a size of gap, and the hours are what a student in that position usually needs. They are not a promise about a result, and the diagnostic can move a student up or down a length.
Block
Starting point it is written for
What the student should be able to do at the end
12 hours Two days
Already working at the level; the gap is speed, timing and the questions that keep costing marks.
Sit a full paper inside the time allowed, with the working set out the way the marks are awarded.
24 hours Four days
One band below the target: the content has been taught but is not secure.
Answer the standard question types without prompting, and recognise which topic a question is testing.
36 hours Six days
A first sitting after a long break, or two bands of content to rebuild.
Work through the paper in sequence, and know which questions to leave and come back to.
A student whose diagnostic puts them outside all three lengths is told so, with the number of hours we would actually need and the reason. A 12-hour block is not stretched across a bigger gap because those dates suit the family.
Dates, hours and formats
The block has an end date on the booking sheet.
Blocks run in the school holidays and on the weekend before a paper. A published block is 12, 24 or 36 teaching hours: in a group those hours are taught over the stated days at six hours a day, and one-to-one is the same fee for half the group hours.
Block
Dates
Format and hours a day
November block A 24 hours
Mon 23 – Thu 26 Nov
Group, 6 hours a day over four days, or one-to-one, 3 hours a day over four days
November block B 12 hours
Mon 30 Nov – Wed 2 Dec
Group, 6 hours a day over two days, or one-to-one, 3 hours a day over two days
December block 36 hours
Mon 7 – Sat 12 Dec
Group, 6 hours a day over six days, or one-to-one, 3 hours a day over six days
Pre-paper weekend 12 hours
Sat 9 – Sun 10 Jan
Group only, 6 hours a day, timed papers and feedback, no new content
Session times
Sessions run 09:30–12:30 and 13:30–16:30, with the room open from 09:00. A one-to-one timetable is built inside the same dates around the hours the student can attend.
Public holidays
Where a block crosses a public holiday, that session moves to the Saturday of the same week. The change is written on the timetable before you book rather than announced during the block.
Registration closes
Five working days before the block starts, or earlier if the class fills. After that a place is offered only when someone withdraws, and the first refusal goes to the waitlist in the order it was taken.
The next cycle's dates are set out above, with the holiday closures already marked on them.
What a block costs
Priced by the hour, discounted by the subject.
One fee covers the teaching, the marked daily work and the two mocks. Adding a second subject in the same cycle is the visible way to spend less per subject, instead of it being a phone call.
Illustrative concept pricing, not a quotation. Fees are per subject for the group block stated, with classes capped at eight, and the same fee covers a one-to-one block at half those hours. A second subject booked in the same cycle is charged 10% less per subject. The per-hour column is the fee divided by the block's teaching hours, so a two-day block and a six-day block can be compared without arithmetic. One-time registration for a new student is S$40, and the diagnostic is S$120, credited against the course fee when a block is booked. Registering more than two weeks before a block starts carries the early rate stated on the booking sheet. The official exam entry fee is paid by the family directly to the exam board and is in no figure here; materials, past papers and travel are not included. Confirm current fees with the school before you book.
Block
Format
Fee per subject
Per teaching hour
Two days 12 hours
Group, 6 hours a day, or one-to-one for 6 hours
S$480
S$40
Four days 24 hours
Group, 6 hours a day, or one-to-one for 12 hours
S$840
S$35
Six days 36 hours
Group, 6 hours a day, or one-to-one for 18 hours
S$1,150
S$32
Refunds, in one sentence
The course fee is refunded in full up to the start of the block and not after it: once a block has started the fee is not refundable, and materials already issued are not refunded either.
If the group does not form
Where a group does not form for a subject at the level you need, we tell you before the block starts and offer one-to-one teaching for half the group hours at the same fee, a place in the next block, or the fee back. You choose, and the choice is in writing.
Places
Classes are capped at eight and close when they are full. There is no countdown here: places are confirmed when you book. A place is held only once the fee is paid.
What the fee does not include
The exam entry fee, which the family pays to the board. Materials and past papers. Travel and, for a student coming from outside the city, accommodation. Any one-to-one hours added beyond the published format, which are priced per hour. Extra marked mocks booked on their own, which are priced separately.
What happens to a day you cannot attend
You are charged for the days attended. A day you tell us about in advance is moved to a later slot in the same course window, and there is no charge for the day itself.
The course fee holds your seat and your tutor for its whole length, so a day cancelled inside 24 hours, or simply not attended, is counted as used. That is the same reason the deposit is not refundable once the window is reserved.
One no-notice change can be moved free of charge across the whole course; after that, moved days are charged at the day rate on the fee table.
Course hours cannot be carried into a later course and are not refundable in cash. Your progress record shows which days were attended and which were moved, and it is written up with you at the end of the window so the record matches what was paid for.
What moves these figures: the block length, whether one subject or two are taken, when you register, and whether the format is group or one-to-one. Each is a stated line on the booking sheet.
What we will say, and what we will not
No course can promise a grade. Here is what the block does change.
No course can guarantee an exam result, and we will not put a score on yours. What a fixed block does change is understanding, exam technique and the habit of working to time — the things marks are actually awarded for. Instead of a promise, you get evidence, and every piece of it comes out of our own marking.
Daily marked work
Every day's set work is marked with the corrections written against the marks scheme and goes home with the student the same day. The marked stack is the record of what was actually covered.
Two timed mocks
Full-length papers sat under exam conditions inside the block. Output: a mark, the questions where marks were lost, and where the time ran out.
Readiness verdict
A written verdict naming what is secure, what is not, and whether we would sit the exam on the planned date. It is a recommendation about timing, not a prediction of the grade.
Report to parents
Sent when the block ends: attendance against the register, the sessions covered, the marked work, the mock marks and the verdict — with the sessions the student missed listed rather than glossed over.
The verdict is only worth reading if the student sat the mocks and did the work between sessions. Where that did not happen, the report says so and the verdict records that the block was not completed as designed.
“The diagnostic said six days was not enough for the paper he was sitting, and they would not sell us the short block. The report at the end listed the topics he still could not do, which is the first time anyone has told us that plainly.”
Four-day intensive · sample story
Sample story. Not a real customer review.
Before you book
What families ask before paying for a block.
Will the block guarantee a better grade?+
No course can guarantee results. What a block of this length does provide is clearer understanding of the topics the paper tests, stronger exam technique, and practice at working under time — all of which are contributors to exam performance, and none of which is a promise about a grade. We name the band we are working towards and the starting point it rests on, and we will not state a score.
What has to happen for the readiness verdict to mean anything?+
Four conditions, and they are the same for every student: attend every session on the register, sit both mocks under timed conditions, complete and submit the daily set work, and sit the real paper on the date the timetable was built around. Where one of those is missed, the report says which, and the verdict is written as incomplete rather than quietly adjusted.
What if the grade we were aiming for does not come?+
Then the report is still yours, and it names what is not yet secure, which is what a re-sit needs. Students re-sitting can repeat the same block at a reduced rate, because the diagnostic already exists; the hours are then spent on the topics the report named rather than on the whole syllabus again. The current re-sit rate is quoted when you book.
What is not included in the fee?+
The official exam entry fee, which the family pays to the board directly. Materials and past papers. Travel, and accommodation for a student coming from outside the city. One-to-one hours added beyond the published format. And any extra marked mock sat on its own, which is priced separately. The booking sheet lists all of them, so the total is visible before the block starts.
What if the group does not form, or we have to cancel?+
If a group does not form at the level you need, you are told before the block starts and offered one-to-one for half the group hours at the same fee, a place in the next block, or the fee back. If you cancel, the course fee is refunded in full up to the start of the block and not after it, and materials already issued are not refunded. A cancellation inside the last week is refunded less the cost of the materials already prepared.
How are students supervised through the day?+
A teacher is with the group for every teaching hour and a named course director is on site for the whole day. A register is taken at each session and students are marked in and out. Students stay on site between sessions unless a parent has given written consent for them to leave, and the lunch hour is supervised for anyone who stays. The class is capped at eight, and the cap is not raised to fill a block.
Start with the diagnostic
Send the paper, the board and the date.
Tell us the board and the level the student is sitting, and which papers. We return the diagnostic slot, the block we would recommend for that gap, and the cost — usually within two working days. Blocks that are full are listed as full, and a place is held only when the fee is paid. If the exam is close, say so in the notes and we will tell you honestly whether a block is still worth buying.
