Ace Your Econs

Ever thankful for supportive parents who communicates frequently with us over their child's progress at home for us to better help them in class. Hope to help more concerned parents like Mr Foo in their last lap of A-levels and promos 🙏

Refer to our google listing: https://maps.app.goo.gl/awVGNkWwApVZzYVD6 for 200+ satisfied parents and students 💯

Are you struggling with expenditure based questions? Check out this clip on how to address them immediately.

A Level Economics Question Answering Tips - Tips on Expenditure Based Questions In this clip, I will be using an actual case study to share tips on addressing 'Expenditure' and 'Revenue' based questions using a proper demand and supply f...

While most J1s usually flop their mid year assessments for economics, ours always shine like a diamond 💎

And the secret behind this is the constant feedback loop we've created between tutor, parent and student. By consistently checking in with both our parents and students simultaneously, we are able to obtain a complete picture of our student's progress both in school and at home. With additional feedbacks from parents, this helps us to tailor solutions specific to the needs of our students.

Glad that our consistent support to both our students and parents are starting to pay off 🙏

Back in May, we were extremely honoured to have a chit-chat with Seraphine, the academic manager of Aureus Consulting. Having been in the industry for 13 years, she shared with us her tips to build a portfolio for scholarship applications!

Have a scroll through to see her tips, and if you're interested, head on over to our YouTube channel where you can find short snippets of her sharing!
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Time for students in China to rejoice! It was reported that China has planned to crackdown the private tutoring industry, which include trial bands on vacation tutoring and restrictions on advertising. This move was an attempt by the Chinese government to ease pressure on school children and boost the country's birth rate by lowering family living costs.

How can we view this issue in the economic sense? Well, under the Chinese government, tuition lessons would be seen as a negative externality of consumption. Negative externalities are a form of market failure which is characterised by external costs borne by third parties when a good is consumed. In the market for private tuition, external third-party costs include higher stress on students who do not attend tuition lessons, and an increase in pressure for parents to get their children to join tuition lessons, which can be costly and worsen the relationship between parent and child. These third-party costs involve non-consumers, and are unaccounted for by the decision maker and unpriced in the market. Therefore, in view of the negative external costs present, the Chinese government has decided to clamp down on tuition.

The measures would reduce the consumption of private tuition in the country, down to the point where it is closer to the socially optimal level, and where the deadweight loss from consuming private tuition would be lower.

What are your thoughts on these measures? Do you envy the students in China, or would this lead to unanticipated consequences such as an increased pressure placed on children to do even better?

Am so happy that our efforts to set high standards for our students are starting to payoff by motivating them to do better. Student also became so much more confident of herself and her exam response.

P.S: This is a screenshot by from a parent. She happens to be a current JC teacher as well. So encouraging to receive affirmation from a fellow educator that we are giving much more value to our students 😎

[Disclaimer: this picture was taken in 2019, way before the circuit breaker!]
A few weeks ago, AYE sent out a survey to all our students on our renowned Accelerated Learning Programme. The team sought to improve the programme by getting feedback from the students, in hopes of being able to better prepare them for their examinations. As its name suggests, the Accelerated Learning Programme aimed to be able to most efficiently impart our students with Economics knowledge and examination skills. Having been conducting it for many years, this signature programme is no short🙅‍♀️ of being exam intensive and intellectually stimulating🤯. At the same time, students would be given ample opportunity to hone and strengthen their Economics foundation through our bi-weekly exam practices that would be conducted under timed conditions!

Have a look at our Chief Educator Mr Teo having fun while the students are doing their papers! Well, if you’re worried about this, fret not! Mr Teo is also committed to mark the submissions done by students under the ALP. He provides timely🧐 and detailed feedback to students, with the goal of getting them to learn from their mistakes. If you’re interested in pushing yourself and taking a leap of faith with us, feel free to reach out to us on Instagram, or even on our website (www.aceyourecons.sg). Can’t wait to hear from you guys!

Last year, we managed to have a chit-chat with one of our ex-students, Rohit. A current student at the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, we are honoured to have him share his study tips with us, which include the focus on high yield, studying with intent, and pacing yourself!

Here are the short snippets of his tips, explained:
Studying with Intent: http://tiny.cc/rohit1
Pacing Yourself: http://tiny.cc/rohit2
Focusing on High Yield: http://tiny.cc/rohit3

Throwback when Spadinethecorgi visited the centre and our students had fun with her. Time flies ⏱😃

You’ve heard it! The multi-ministry task force just announced the new updates to COVID-19 regulations that would take into effect after June 13 - and this time, many are rejoicing at the lax of measures! To students that attend tuition and enrichment classes, those aged 18 and below would be allowed to resume their lessons physically from June 21.

However, in view of the ongoing cases in the community and getting feedback from our students, AYE has decided to extend our online classes till the end of July before reviewing the need to resume physical classes again. This would be in line with our vision for our students to stay focused and safe in preparation for their upcoming examinations. Nonetheless, AYE will promise to remain professional in spite of the disruptions caused by the pandemic, and that the quality and rigour of virtual lessons would be no lesser than that of their physical counterparts.

Mock Exam 2021 had been conducted over the past few weeks, and here is a still of what happens during the paper! In the spirit of the pandemic👾 and mask-wearing requirements, our students were very sporting in donning their masks😷 even while doing the paper in the comforts of their homes🏠. Kudos to our students for hustling hard, and now it's time for Mr Teo to do the same too to mark your papers😹!

The mock exam is intended to stimulate the actual A-level or year-end examination our students would face. Conducted under timed conditions and as much as our virtual classes allow us, would mimic what most students would be experiencing during their papers. At the same time, we take pride in being able to grade our students' responses with detailed feedback, so that they can learn from their mistakes📈. We are committed and dedicated to provide our students with the best learning experience✌🏻.

In this series of Supports of Ace Your Econs (AYE), we will be interviewing experts from all walks of life to value add to our A-Level community and help them succeed even beyond A-Levels.

As HBL has been recently reimplemented, we've received numerous requests by our parents on featuring an expert interview on how they can cope with their teen child (seeing them literally 24/7 at home) while striving to meet their demanding career needs and not constantly nagging & yelling at them.

We've heard your needs and we will be piloting a special parental episode this time round. Yuyun is a counsellor who has practiced in Australia and in Singapore for over 11 years. She specializes in the areas of separation/divorce, mental health, trauma and addictions. She works therapeutically with children, adolescents and adults individually and in groups and she prides herself as someone who gives voice to children and adolescents and in supporting their parents in empowering them.

In this 11th episode of Supports of Ace Your Econs (AYE), Yuyun will be sharing her counselling expertise on how you can succeed both in career and home as a teen parent without excessive tension during this HBL period. Stay tuned
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Speaker profile:
Name - Tan Yuyun
Title - How to survive HBL v2.0 with your teen child
Date - 31st May (Monday)
Time - 8.30pm
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/868806103148886/posts/4638505152845610/
YT - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcYVyTUi3ig