About Miss Loi the O Level Additional Maths / Elementary Maths Tutor

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Miss Loi the O-Level AMaths / EMaths Tutor

Miss Loi is a full-time private tutor in Singapore. Her life’s calling is to eradicate the terrifying Last-Minute Buddha Foot Hugging (LMBFH) Syndrome off the face of this planet. As such, she has been saving helping countless desperate students through regular joss sticks sessions for the past 19 years (and counting). Regardless of whether the students are from the so-called ‘elite’ schools, neighbourhood schools, GEP, IP, IB, or whatever twisted concoction the MOE conjures up, Miss Loi has seen and handled them all.

And by the way, she specializes in O-Levels Additional/Elementary Mathematics and possesses the eerily prophetic ability to ’spot’ the right questions that will appear in upcoming tests/exams.

Miss Loi the Mentor

2007 O-Level Math Grades
of Miss Loi’s Students
(Bs included for proof of realism)

A product of the national education system herself, Miss Loi fully recognizes its many shortcomings and therefore goes the extra mile to ensure that they do not infect her current generation of students. As such her focus is on developing her students’ ability to grasp concepts rather than hard-core memorizing, and also to encourage approaching questions from different angles. In fact she expects her students’ study objective be an ‘aim for distinction‘, rather than a ‘just to pass‘!

For the record she holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Mathematics from NUS. She will never state her year of graduation lest someone tries to deduce her real age.

Miss Loi the Lifestyle Guru

When not tutoring (and to prepare for her eventual tai tai lifestyle), Miss Loi indulges in a wide variety of Singaporean pastimes like retail therapy (i.e. shopping), trips to Japan/Korea/Taiwan (i.e. for more shopping) and with posts like this one, it’s pretty obvious she has been watching too many Hong Kong & Korean dramas.

With positive influence from friends in recent years, however, she now dabbles in more extreme activities like scuba diving and adventure travels. Currently, she is a bit into cars.

Little Miss Loi the O-Level Science Tutor

Little Miss Loi in various cosplay guises
(Atomic earring, radioactive hairband
& heart-shaped stethoscope sold separately)

While Miss Loi’s joss sticks have been keeping the Mathematical Menace at bay, her sister Little Miss Loi has been offering her special breed of scientifically-enhanced joss sticks, for the past 7 years (and counting), to heal all O-level Science students genetically-mutilated by biological warfare, revive those electrocuted by Ohm’s Law, and resurrect those nuked so badly that their very existence is held together only by Van der Waals forces.

Skilled in the mechanics of O Level Physics, the dark alchemic art of O Level Chemistry, and the mystical metabolism of O Level Biology, Little Miss Loi is a NUS Life Science (Merit) graduate majoring in Biomedical Science, a Singapore Biology Olympiad and NUS Biomedical Quiz participant, and an ex-Science relief teacher.

Most importantly, in keeping with her *cough*illustrious*cough* elder sister’s tradition, her fortunate charges have attained average grade jumps of 6 notches (e.g. from C6 -> A1) for their relevant subjects.

Despite her sister’s cajoling, she has so far refused to turn up in a nurse costume for Biology lessons.

Mr Loi the A-Level / International Baccalaureate (IB) Tutor

Inhabiting the other-worldly realm of A Level H1/H2 & IB HL/SL Mathematics, Mr Loi (Miss Loi’s brother) is frequently seen saving students from being crushed by the Central Limit Theorem, shielding them from menacing 3D Vectors shooting out from textbook pages, and disentangling those entrapped by the neverending arms of infinite Summation Series etc.

For over 15 years, he has been a mentor to many lost souls wandering in limbo, gently holding their hands (figuratively speaking) as he closely walks them through every oft-misunderstood question within this complex plane.

With a penchant for teaching International Baccalaureate (IB) and IP (Upper Secondary) students and an inclination towards simplifying the learning process as much as possible, Mr Loi is known for his emphasis on self-thinking by questioning his students to death in class to ensure their firm foundation of all concepts involved, and thereafter exposing them to every style of question/scenario and every sneaky trick known to mankind through a comprehensive regime program of practicing a zillion wide array of exam papers and exercises.

In an open show of defiance against his sister, he holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) Degree from her rival university NTU.