S$547
S4 Content Mastery Course
Become Great At Tackling Chemistry Questions
Discover the proven examination strategies & answering techniques used by over 16,938 students to score As in Chemistry! (AND how your child can do it too… with the right guidance!)
What Your Child Will Learn
During this 3-day content-packed S4 CCI™ Chemistry Course (Chemical Reactions), we’ll work closely with your child to improve on his/her mastery of the subject matter:
🧱 Understand Key Chemistry Concepts In The Upper Secondary School Science Syllabus
We’ll help to break down complex Chemistry concepts using coloured illustrations, comparison charts and worked examples. Next, we’ll help your child relate these concepts with different scenarios so that he/she is better able to understand how these concepts work.
In order to help him/her retain information better, we will also introduce memory retention techniques, such as acronyms and abbreviations. As your child is expected to digest more content in upper secondary school, it will benefit him/her greatly to be able to recall key information easily.
We will also teach your child how to interpret graphs effectively and solve questions using Math.
🎯 Gain Exposure To Various Question Trends & Question Types
Our S4 CCI™ Chemistry Courses is all about understanding various examination question trends and question types & how to apply our tested and proven answering techniques to tackle these questions.
Knowing how questions may possibly be tested during examinations helps your child understand what to study and how to study. This also means that your child will be better equipped to tackle similar questions during his/her examinations and hence will be able to process these questions a lot faster than his/her peers.
If your child diligently reviews and applies what we’ve taught, he/she will definitely make progress in their abilities to tackle Chemistry questions.
🚀 Proven ‘Copy and Paste’ Answering Structures, Keywords & Key Phrases
Your child will NOT leave this workshop empty-handed.
Not only will our Secondary Science Specialists take your child through the step-by-step process of tackling Chemistry questions, we’ll also provide your child with beautifully-illustrated notes and worksheets that are designed to help students learn Science easier, better and faster.
These valuable resources will help to shorten the learning curve tremendously. You and your child can expect to save lots of valuable time and frustration trying to figure out what examination setters are looking out for.
Here’s a sample what your child will receive…
💣 Avoid ‘Concept Traps’ That Cause Most Students To Lose Marks Unnecessarily
It is important to have an understanding of the common conceptual pitfalls so that your child can learn to avoid them. We also included little ‘warning notes’ to remind students of potential misconceptions in their syllabus.
Do not underestimate these tips as they will help your child improve the odds of scoring an A for his/her Chemistry examination!
S4 CCI™ Chemistry Course (Chemical Reactions)
- Level Eligibility: Secondary 4
(O-Level (Express)/ N(A)/ IP/ IB/ IGCSE) - Sessions: 3
- Total Duration: 9 hours (3 x 3hrs)
- Tuition Fee: S$547
- Learning Arrangement:
- Digital Classes
- Onsite Classes* (subject to changes to National Safe Management Measures)
Topic Coverage
- Session 1: Energy Changes & Rate of Reaction (Part 1)
- Session 2: Rate of Reaction (Part 2) & Ammonia
- Session 3: Electrochemistry
About Your Child’s Instructors
Your child will be taught by one of these instructors from our Secondary Science Specialist team.
Mr. Kenneth Mak
Mr. Kenneth is the co-founder & Secondary Science Specialist of The Pique Lab. When it comes to secondary school Science, he is the go-to guy!
With more than 16 years of teaching experience, he has experimented with plenty of studying strategies, keywords & template answers. He knows what works for the student and what doesn’t. Using the proven techniques from our Complete Concept Integration™ program, he has helped more than 80% of his students clinch As and A*s during the PSLE Science examination.
Seasoned by experience, he is known among parents for building rapport with his students & helping them achieve tremendous academic results in the shortest period of time.
Here’s What Your Child Will Receive
When your child enrolls today, he/she can look forward to get access to:
- 4 Core Topics Delivered Across 9 Hours of Lesson Time
- 183 Pages of Beautifully-Illustrated Science Notes
- 84 Questions Adapted From Past Year Examination Papers
- 94 Additional Practice Questions
Course Details
Session 1
⚡️ Topic: Energy Changes
- Describe the meaning of enthalpy change in terms of exothermic (ΔH negative) and endothermic (ΔH positive) reactions.
- Represent energy changes by energy profile diagrams, including reaction enthalpy changes and activation energies.
- Describe bond breaking as an endothermic process and bond making as an exothermic process.
- Explain qualitatively overall enthalpy changes in terms of the energy changes associated with the breaking and making of covalent bonds
🧐 Topic: Rate of Reaction (Part 1)
- Describe the effect of concentration, pressure, particle size and temperature on the rates of reactions and explain these effects in terms of collisions between reacting particles.
Session 2
🧐 Topic: Rate of Reaction (Part 2)
- Define the term catalyst and describe the effect of catalysts (including enzymes) on the rates of reactions.
- Explain how pathways with lower activation energies account for the increase in rates of reactions.
- State that some compounds act as catalysts in a range of industrial processes and that enzymes are biological catalysts.
- Suggest a suitable method for investigating the effect of a given variable on the rate of a reaction.
- Interpret data obtained from experiments concerned with rate of reaction.
🎯 Topic: Ammonia
- Describe the use of nitrogen, from air, and hydrogen, from the cracking of crude oil, in the manufacture of ammonia.
- State that some chemical reactions are reversible, e.g. manufacture of ammonia.
- Interpret data relating to the conditions used in industry for processes involving reversible reactions, e.g. manufacture of ammonia by the Haber Process.
Session 3
✨ Topic: Electrochemistry
- Describe electrolysis as the conduction of electricity through an ionic compound (an electrolyte), when molten or dissolved in water, leading to chemical changes (including decomposition) at the electrodes.
- Describe electrolysis as evidence for the existence of ions which are held in a lattice when solid but which are free to move when molten or in solution.
- Describe, in terms of the mobility of ions present and the electrode products, the electrolysis of molten sodium chloride, using inert electrodes.
- Predict the likely products of the electrolysis of a molten binary ionic compound using inert electrodes.
- Apply the idea of selective discharge based on:
(i) cations: linked to the reactivity series
(ii) anions: halides, hydroxides and sulfates (e.g. aqueous copper(II) sulfate and dilute sodium chloride solution (as essentially the electrolysis of water))
(iii) concentration effects (as in the electrolysis of concentrated and dilute aqueous sodium chloride) - Predict the likely products of the electrolysis of an aqueous electrolyte, given relevant information.
- Construct ionic equations for the reactions occurring at the electrodes during the electrolysis, given relevant information.
- Describe the electrolysis of aqueous copper(II) sulfate with copper electrodes as a means of purifying copper.
Who Should Attend This Course?
Any student who wants to score A1 for Lower Secondary Science, but is reluctant to revise using the traditional DRILLING method.
Your child is the kind of student who wants to outperform his/ her peers & study the SMART way, like many other high performing students.
Students who are having tuition that simply do not work for them.
You probably have invested thousands of dollars & months of time, but it’s just not working out.
Your child isn’t exactly progressing much & you’re looking for a change in environment.
Existing high performing students who want to strengthen their thought process & refine their answers to perfection!
Your child has been consistently scoring B3/A2, but struggle to get a breakthrough to the A1, no matter how hard he/she has tried.
Don’t Just Take Our Word For It.
Hear What Parents & Students Have To Say About Their Experience With Us.
Very Useful & Helpful!
“The S1 CCI was very helpful. Before attending the session, my daughter had difficulty in understanding certain Science concepts.
After attending the session, she has a better understanding of the topics and is now able to solve the questions using efficient methods. She is also able to use the notes and extra practices provided for revision.
Overall, the course was very useful and helpful and I highly recommend the course to other parents.
Maintained Straight As Throughout Secondary 4!
“I’m extremely thankful to Mr Kenneth for helping me find my passion for Chemistry! It is because of his willingness to carefully explain each Chemistry question and his love of teaching us that allowed me to maintain straight As throughout Secondary 4. Thank you Mr Kenneth!
Chemistry Became Quite A Fun Subject!
“Mr Kenneth was able to explain the various chapters of the subject and even add on to them with scenarios that allowed easier understanding. In all, basically using all the narrative techniques in English. The scenarios or stories were very funny (in a good educational way), plus his own stories that he told from time to time were interesting and enjoyable. I often relayed them to my parents and sister for fun.
Moving on, Mr Kenneth’s teaching methods helped me understand Chemistry on a greater scale to the extent that I could actively recall most of them + understand and memorise them when I read my school slides or the Chemistry textbook. After a while, Chemistry became quite a fun subject. Mainly since I could finally understand it and make connections to daily life, along with eventually getting the idea of electrons being shared or used for attracting.
If You’re Still On The Fence, Hear Us Out.
Over the past seven years, we’ve seen more than 3,451 students attend the CCI Science Course, achieving phenomenal improvements in their understanding of the subject matter & more importantly, their results.
We’ve been getting these raving testimonials from happy parents weekly after their kids have benefitted immensely from our help. Click here to see what other parents have been saying about our CCI Science Courses.
In case you’re wondering…
This is NOT one of those enrichment programs where students gain loads of theories and do nothing with them afterwards!
As your child will get to apply whatever they’ve learned directly on school examination questions during the course … by the time your child has completed the course, he/ she will be trained on how to tackle his/ her school homework & school examination papers accurately & efficiently.
Not a month later… or even a week later, but immediately!
During the S4 CCI™ Chemistry Course (Chemical Reactions), we’ll be revealing some massively potent studying strategies used by our top-performing students. These strategies have helped them save hours studying every day and yet allow them to score A1s during their school examinations time & time again!
So… if you are looking for:
1) A highly robust methodology to sharpen your child’s Science answering techniques, especially in their open-ended section (… such that he/she no longer loses marks unnecessarily due to missing links, key words or key phrases)
2) An engaging teacher with a strong proven track record (… trust me: teachers make or break the learning experience for students. Set them up with the right teacher & they’ll enjoy the learning process for life)
3) A comprehensive set of visually-appealing revision materials that high-performing students use to excel in their examinations (… you’d want your child to get his/her hands on these materials & start revising now. The best part: Your child doesn’t have to spend countless of hours trying to study, because we’ve distilled the most important parts to take note!)
… then this course may just be perfect for your child.
Now, let’s be real. Is this going to be easy?
There is ALWAYS going to be a bit of discomfort, uncertainty and plenty of hard work when your child is trying to learn and apply our answering structures to tackle examination questions. That is normal & many of our students go through the same process all the time.
Once your child pushes past that discomfort, that’s when you will notice real growth in his/her learning. It will not be a walk in the park, but we have plenty of materials & close guidance to help your child improve his/her answering techniques!
We’ll see your child at the workshop!
Frequently Asked Questions
How is the S4 CCI™ Chemistry Course (Chemical Reactions) different from other tuition programs out there?
It’s NOT a trial class nor a typical program where you expect 20-30 students crammed in a class, in a bid to do some last-minute rescue work. The CCI™ Chemistry course is designed to solidify your child’s fundamentals in Chemistry, so he/ she can tackle open-ended Chemistry questions with ease & precision.
Here’s how it works: Throughout our teaching careers, we have perfected a number of strategies and tactics that are proven to work for our students. More importantly, these strategies are carefully documented in our course material, so these best practices could be taught effectively to new students. We will not hold any back “secret tactics” (unlike traditional kungfu masters) & these strategies would be EXACTLY THE SAME as the ones taught to our high performers.
Please note that our S4 Complete Concept Integration™ Chemistry Course (Chemical Reactions) is not for everyone. They work best for students who have the will & determination to do well, but are lacking the right strategies to get to A1. Our strategies are all meat and no fluff. If you want lengthy theories, please read the textbook instead. Our S4 CCI™ Chemistry course is all about taking action and getting results as quickly and easily as possible!
Will there be breaks in between classes?
Yes, we typically offer a 5-10 minutes break for every 1-hour of learning.
What topics are covered?
- Session 1: Energy Changes & Rate of Reaction
- Session 2: Rate of Reaction & Ammonia
- Session 3: Electrochemistry – An Introduction
Will there be homework provided during the workshop?
There’ll not be any homework given during the workshop. The S4 Complete Concept Integration™ Chemistry Course (Chemical Reactions) is a highly intensive workshop. Both concepts and answering techniques will be taught in class and we’ll teach your child how to apply these techniques on secondary school examination questions.
We will give your child a question booklet containing a curated list of open-ended questions adapted from secondary school examination papers. These questions have been adapted from different schools & sorted based on their topics. A portion of the questions will be attempted & reviewed in class. The remaining questions can be brought home for their own practice. We’ll also send you an answer booklet for the questions in the S4 CCI™ Chemistry Course.
My child is in the IP/ IB/ IGCSE academic track. Is your programme suitable?
Our S4 CCI™ Chemistry Course (Chemical Reactions) is designed based on the O-Level (Express) track.
Based on research, it appears that there’re only minor differences in terms of content coverage between the O-Level (Express) track and the IP/IB/IGCSE track at a lower secondary level.
As such, it will be suitable for your child to participate if he/she is interested.
Who is the instructor for the class?
Our classes are conducted by our team of highly-popular Secondary Science Specialists.
Our Science Specialists have collectively more than ten years of teaching experience under their belts. During which, they have experimented with plenty of studying strategies, keywords & template answers. More importantly, they know what works for the student and what doesn’t.
Using the proven techniques from our Complete Concept Integration™ program, they have helped more than 80% of their students clinch As during their Science examination. Seasoned by experience, they’re known among parents for building rapport with their students & helping them achieve tremendous academic results in the shortest period of time.
What is the maximum class size?
Our S4 CCI™ Chemistry Course is typically fully booked. You can expect the class to have 14 to 16 students.
What kind of materials would my child be getting?
Your child would be receiving a comprehensive set of notes, covering a selected number of Secondary 4 Chemistry topics (see above) that we’ll be discussing during the S4 CCI™ Chemistry Course (Chemical Reactions). On top of that, he/she will be receiving a question booklet containing a curated list of open-ended questions adapted from secondary school examination papers.
These questions have been carefully adapted different schools & sorted based on their topics. As such, your child would have the opportunity to apply the thought processes and answering techniques learnt on these questions immediately.
S4 Complete Concept Integration™ Chemistry Course Details
Suitable For Students In O-Level (Express)/ Normal Academic/ IP*/ IB*/ IGCSE* Track (*See FAQ)
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