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Posted at 10:38 pm by Miss Loi in Miss Loi the Tutor

The seats around the old Starbucks were mostly empty.

Empty Starbucks

The arcade machines was strangely quiet.

Empty Arcade

Even the Gong Cha stall near The Temple was unusually bereft of the lines of chattering students waiting for their “30 percent sugar level” drinks.

Empty Gong Cha

Sergeant Loi General Loi Mdm! All is quiet on the front! No mugging activities spotted!

Sergeant Loi‘s brusque KPKB voice broke the deafening silence.

General Loi No. There are out there, still mugging away. Just that you can’t see them now.

Putting away her binoculars, Miss Loi continued with a resigned tone …

General Loi Our Enemies – the kiasu croaking troops of the A1 Mugger Toad Division and the mechanized cyborgs of the Foreign Study Legion should be at their final phase of preparations by now.

Having gone through the TYS and every single prelim paper and assessment book available on this planet for the nth time, they are entrenched deep within their bunkers – revising their meticulously-prepared notes away from all prying eyes.

Turning to Sergeant Loi, she asked

General Loi How are preparations going along at The Temple, Sergeant Loi?

General Loi Have our students been brainwashed conditioned to aim for FULL MARKS in each and every one of our mock tests, as the presence of the Mugger Toad Division & the Foreign Cyborg Legion these days has deteriorated created the situation to the point that one must score 90% for an A1 (taking into account buffers for careless mistakes, significant figure errors etc.)?

Sergeant Loi Mdm! Yes Mdm!

General Loi Is any goondu who’s running out of time still practicing their demoralizing school prelim papers?

Sergeant Loi No Mdm! Under my charge, there are NO goondus at The Temple! *smirky smile*

General Loi Are our students timing themselves to complete a full paper in 1-1.5 hours? And afterwards scan through again to look for careless mistakes? Followed by corrections for ALL questions which they got wrong, to make sure they identify and learn from their mistakes?

Sergeant LoiYES MDM!

General Loi Have they gone through all their personally highlighted questions (those which had often brought them grief in the past), and practice till the working steps are second-nature to them?

Sergeant LoiYes Mdm!

General Loi Is any student still taking half an hour to do one question, because he/she is either looking at the tutor’s pretty face for help, SMSing on his/her iPhone for help, asking in Facebook for help, and complaining “WHY GOT NO ANSWER?!” when no help is forthcoming?

Sergeant Loi No Mdm! The last student who did that has got his iPhone taped to his ear with the iPhone alarm sound blasted continuously at full volume till the battery ran out!

Y U No Give Formula!

Y U No Give Formula!

General Loi Is any student still assuming that all relevant math formulas will be given within the question or in the formula sheet?

Sergeant Loi No Mdm! All students have got the formulas conceptually embedded in their minds (including those found in the official formula sheet) so that they can do their sums faster in the exam! In fact, some can be heard screaming them out loud while they sleep at night!

General Loi Have our students been practicing on their construction/graph sketching questions (ESPECIALLY those who don’t like to draw and tend to skip them during revision)?

Sergeant Loi Yes Mdm! Those who didn’t like to draw now LOVE to draw! after I’ve forced them to draw for me 100 copies of graph paper (to the smallest square)

General Loi Is any AMaths student giving up on Plane Geometry?

Sergeant Loi No Mdm! I’ve drilled into them that Plane Geometry is likely to be easier in the ‘O’ Levels compared to their prelims! Simply by practicing more on Similarity & Congruency may garner them a few marks, even if their 阴阳眼 happen to be weak on that day!

General Loi After such long periods of practice, are there many who are suffering from PRACTICITIS i.e. being tricked by familiar-looking questions similar to “standard” ones which they have practiced countless times when in fact they are actually asking for something else? E.g. The nasty polygonic parasite is 2010 EMaths Paper 2 :(

Sergeant Loi Not many Mdm! All PRACTICITIS sufferers have been quarantined at the medical centre where our resident Yoga Master is on hand to help them relax, read the questions properly and focus focus focus …

General Loi Have they all read my cheong hei stuff that had been said in the past?

Sergeant Loi Yes Mdm! And some of them agree that you are indeed cheong hei! *oops*

The Jφss Sticks Society

General Loi Last but not least, have they all ‘Liked’ our Jφss Sticks Facebook Page, where O Level questions and tips are currently being air-dropped to all frontline troops?

Sergeant Loi MDM YES MDM!!! I will personally tie up those who didn’t to a tree and tickle their feet till they do!

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A Day At The Races!

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Posted at 8:33 pm by Miss Loi in E-Maths Questions

With the Formula 1 Singapore Grand Prix just over, people around Miss Loi are apparently still in a “Fast ‘n’ Furious” mood.

So it didn’t seem coincidental at all when Miss Loi got a call from her tiong chia (ala car modification) cousin from KL (Kuala Lumpur).

Oi Leng Lui! 这个礼拜雪邦那里有的去赛车。一起去要不要？几够力一下喔！

translated: “Hey Miss Loi! There’s an auto racing track day at Sepang this week. Shall we go together? Should be fun!”

Not passing up this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to test out her car’s new intake, exhaust, rims and brake pads, and recognizing there’s NO WAY test them (legally) on Singapore’s roads (nope not even on Singapore’s F1 ‘track’), she quickly agreed and headed to meet her cousin 280 km away at the next-nearest official F1 track – the world-famous Sepang International Circuit!

Sepang International Circuit!

Where several kilometres of 15 scintillating turns lie in wait to challenge the boldest of all Ah Beng tiong chia kias and racer wannabes.

Sepang International Circuit

Sepang Internation Circuit (Ooh yeah!)

She soon found herself wandering along the pit area, where her senses were quickly overloaded as she came face-to-face with rare exotic sports cars of all shapes and sizes (and engine loudness).

Sepang Pit Lane Access Sepang Pit Wall

Cars like these Sleek Lotuses …

Two Lotuses

The ubiquitous Honda Type Rs with their special R-Formula…

Civic Type R

Porsches …

Porsche

And even a flamin’ Lamborghini!

Lamborghini

But when she got to these two fierce-looking WRXs however, a familiar voice boomed out across the pits, to her horror …

Twin Mean WRXs

Twin Mean WRXs

Miss Loi! What are you doing here?!!!

It was her Japanese Project A bosses – the Takahashi Brothers!

Nervous Miss Loi How … how come the both of you are here? Where are your RX-7s???

Speaking through a translator who was present with them,

Ryôsuke Takahashi We are here to test our new WRXs. How dare you sneak out here without our knowledge! You must be severely punished for this!

Nervous Miss Loi No! Please forgive me! I’m here because I need a break from all the non-teaching duties I’ve been given! I’m a maths tutor not a MOE teacher!

pleaded a desperate Miss Loi, upon which younger brother Keisuke whispered something in Ryôsuke’s ear.

Ryôsuke Takahashi Well … since you’re already here … let’s have a little race. I will let you off this time if you can overtake the both of us before the track closes for the day.

Miss Loi had no choice. And thus without further ado, they hopped into their respective cars, donned their helmets …

Miss Loi the Nervous Racer
Like a confident lamb to the slaughter

Filled the afternoon air with eager roars of their engines as they lined up and revved in anticipation …

Lining up at the Start Line

Gentle(wo)men, Start Your Engines!

… of a race where no Sexy Maths Tutor had raced before.

Battle Stage!

BATTLE STAGE!

Predictably, the Takahashi Brothers pulled ahead right from the start, leaving Miss Loi trailing in their smoke as the monster WRXs disappeared swiftly into the distance.

To make matters worse, other cars were also zooming past her left, right and centre throughout the next couple of laps – as if she wasn’t there:

T.T

It was over before it even began, and a disconsolate Miss Loi limped her car around the track – resigned to whatever inhumane punishment that awaits her when she gets back to Singapore.

不是吧？Leng Lui 这么快就放弃了？你经常跟我说你怎么教你学生在考试里就算题目多么难也不得放弃！一定要尽力做下去。拿几分也好过交白卷！

translated: “Miss Loi are you giving up?! I thought you always teach your students NEVER GIVE UP no matter how difficult the questions in the exam appear to be? It’s better to score a few marks than hand up a blank piece of paper!”

It was her KL cousin speaking to her from the walkie talkie, having driven alongside her car on the track.

跟我来！让我这个大马车神教教你！

translated: “Follow me! And learn from the Car God of Malaysia!”

And so in what was an intensive Last-Minute Buddha Foot Hugging Jφss Sticks Session on track driving, Miss Loi followed her cousin’s car around the track, listening carefully and trying her utmost to follow his instructions that was bellowed through the walkie-talkie set.

After several hair-raising incidents when she doubted if she’ll ever make it back to Singapore to conduct her own Jφss Sticks Sessions, Miss Loi slowly but surely gained a measure of control of her car – like a rider taming a wild horse.

Soon she was feeling at one with the machine, flying through the track at speeds unheard of on Singapore’s roads (at least to her), emboldened by the comforting fact that there WON’T be a traffic police car lurking around the next bend, or a sneaky traffic warden snapping away behind some bushes.

Meanwhile the Takahashi Brothers, being many miles and laps ahead of her and confident that victory was in the bag, began to ease off and turned part of their attention to discuss (through their walkie-talkies) what punishment Miss Loi should receive when they get back to Singapore …

At this juncture, the Takahashi Brothers are lapping at a leisurely pace of 4 minutes per lap. They are 10 laps ahead of Miss Loi and are side by side with Miss Loi at the start of a new lap.

The following is Miss Loi’s speed-time graph for a single lap (Note: all acceleration and deceleration are linear, and readings are to be read off to the nearest half graphical unit):

Miss Loi's Sepang Speed-Time Graph

Miss Loi's Sepang Speed-Time Graph (click to enlarge)

Assuming that the Takahashi Brothers’ and Miss Loi’s respective lap times remain unchanged for all laps henceforth, use the appropriate information from the graph to determine if Miss Loi is able to overtake the brothers if there are 90 minutes left before the track closes.

* Readers should be aware that some parts of this story are entirely fictitious, especially that speed-time graph! :D

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Miss Loi’s Most Flattering Teachers’ Day Gift

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Posted at 9:01 pm by Miss Loi in Miss Loi the Tutor

转眼间, another Teachers’ Day is upon The Temple.

Teacher's Day 2011

And once more, all non-hated ‘chers and educators across the land will, in all likelihood, get to enjoy a feast of gifts from their adoring students.

Teachers' Day Cupcakes! Teachers' Day Mooncakes!
They melt in your ♥♥♥ heart ♥♥♥, not in your mouth

Along with a feast of beautiful words that will melt the sternest of teachers’ hearts and, in some ways, make those little nondescript sacrifices (like waking up in the car on a public holiday morning) well worth it.

I'll Be Patient :) A Frame of Wishes Thanks and yes, you shall finish your homework =) Teachers' Day 2011 Wishes

As always, however, Miss Loi & The Order of The Temple would like to stress that the best Teachers’ Day gift of all shall always be to do your very, very best to grab the best-est results you deserve in your final exams.

Teachers' Day Confession
Confessing your sins is a good start … :P

But having said that, Miss Loi has just received the most flattering Teachers’ Day gift ever.

As the old saying “imitation is the highest form of flattery” goes, Miss Loi is extremely proud to acknowledge, on this Teachers’ Day eve, a gift in recognition of the coming of age of The Temple.

Having …

“nestled itself somewhere amongst the lush fertile plains of Novena in Central Singapore, a pebble’s throw from the MRT, in a secret location known only to those of the purest hearts“, and “offered the ways of the enlightened to the determined masses and help the willing attain Mathematical Nirvana”

… for a couple of years now (read it here), it has apparently inspired another Temple (in classic PSLE cloze passage fill-in-the-blanks manner) to

“nestle somewhere amongst the bustling crowd of Somerset in Downtown Singapore, a stone’s throw from Somerset MRT, in a secret location known only to those of the well-informed … to show the lost but willing ones the path to Chemistry enlightenment“.

The Temple's Twin in Somerset

The Temple has found its long-lost twin!

Thus on an emotional Teachers’ Day eve, The Temple has found its long-lost twin just mere kilometres away amongst the bustling crowd of Somerset. Near to Miss Loi’s regular foot reflexology shop at Somerset 313 some more! Oh don’t you feel happy for us on such a joyous occasion?!

Teachers Day Gifts Photoshoot
Happy Teachers’ Day Everyone!
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Posted at 11:33 pm by Miss Loi in A-Level Pure Maths Questions


PROPERTY OF THE SEOUL METROPOLITAN POLICE AGENCY
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CASE NO.: 110629
DATE: 29 JUNE 2011
LOCATION: 서울특별시 남산 남산공원길KM 3
(KM 3 NAMSAN PARK WAY, NAMSAN-DONG, SEOUL - 300M FROM SEOUL TOWER)

DESCRIPTION: UNPUBLISHED BLOG CONTENT RETRIEVED FROM IPHONE RECOVERED AT LOCATION

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Miss Loi the Maid

Good morning Mdm. Good morning Sir. My name is Miss Loi and I am a Maths Tutor.

Life under Project A is tough.

When Miss Loi was being tricked into selling The Temple to the Takahashi brothers, little did she know that she had sold herself to a life of servitude.

Since then she has been banned from all blogging activities, and her usual shopping trips and Tuesday day-offs have been cruelly rescinded.

This was done, in her new bosses’ opinion, so that she can focus on her new role of “leading the company’s educational development and strategy in Singapore” – which currently involve very long hours of Leticia Bongnino-like chores – from scurrying around to pour sake into the brothers’ glasses whenever they’re empty, to carrying their young nephew’s schoolbag on his way to the Singapore Japanese School, to washing The Temple’s corridor as well as clean out the lizard **** from the corridor lights every Sunday :(

So imagine her unbridled maid tutor-like joy when they ‘magnanimously’ allowed her to finally take a break and go on a trip to South Korea, only because it was her birthday (Oh thanks for all the birthday wishes!).

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Unfortunately, any semblance of ‘body’ in her hair-do was instantly annihilated by the buckets of rain that fell on her the moment she landed in Seoul. As a result, she had to flee to the shelter of her hotel room, where she took a warm shower, grabbed a cup of coffee, and proceeded to spend the rest of the day watching with amusement people’s hair-dos being annihilated by buckets of rain falling on the streets below.

Gloomy Seoul
Day One itinerary
- watch locals’ hair get destroyed by rain

By the second day, she knew that she had definitely been on better trips to Korea.

Rain
Day Two itinerary
-watch locals’ hair get destroyed by rain (from another window)

The rain finally eased on the third day, and Miss Loi (along with fellow guests) slowly emerged from her (by now very familiar) hotel and ventured outdoors to visit some of the world-famous tourist sites that Korea is known for.

Foggy Seoul

Like the world-famous Gyeongbokgung Palace.

Foggy Gwanghwamun
Entrance to Gyeongbokgung Palace

And the world-famous Banpo Bridge Rainbow Fountain that has been featured in many romantic Korean dramas.

Foggy Banpo Bridge
Banpo Bridge (with imaginary fountain)

This time, she even made it to the world-famous tour to ‘view’ the world-famous North Korean border at Panmunjom.

Foggy North Korea
Th ever-secretive North Korea (do not adjust your monitor)

At least she was spared from further fog-induced cataract vision during the Cookin’ Nanta! performance (which was hilarious BTW).

Cookin' Nanta!
Cameras were disallowed so had to steal borrow this stock image

But when the fog ruined her planned birthday dinner with a ‘romantic view’ at Namsan Seoul Tower, she decided enough was enough and proceeded to return to her hotel.

Namsan Seoul Tower
Seoul’s top-secret long-range missile launch site at Namsan

Unfortunately, that happened to be the moment the fog was at its thickest yet – smothering the slopes and engulfing Namsan in a tight embrace as it rolled in like a scene off a Stephen King movie.

Nevertheless, she set off firmly in what she believed was the direction of the taxi stand. Such was her desire to return to her warm hotel room that a long-forgotten incident of her being discovered holding a map upside-down remained … umm … firmly forgotten.

Slowly but surely, the path got darker and the crickets chirped louder, but Miss Loi was dead sure that the taxi stand was still ‘just around the corner’.

Foggy Woods

Obviously, you don't expect Miss Loi to take pictures here hence another stock image

The fog got to a point where she could barely make out the intricate patterns on her manicured nails, and it took a distant howl from an unknown creature to remind her that her ‘corner’ could not be farther away.

With thoughts creeping in of werewolves and zombies and that evil girl from A Tale of Two Sisters lurking just beyond, her pace got faster and her heart beat louder.

Realising in panic that she might be lost, her ‘mental compass’ (if one exists in the first place) went into a tailspin as she spun round and round (like a record, baby right round round round) across bearings 000°-359° in search of any sign of life within the shapeless fog – Blair Witch-style.

Just when she was resigned to spending her xth birthday night cold and alone (maybe not!) in the woods, the unmistakable roar of an engine broke the silence and salvation duly arrived in the form of a black taxi that pulled up alongside her.

Seoul Ripoff Taxi
Obviously, Miss Loi was too elated for pictures at the time
so you’ll have to live with this earlier photo of a similar taxi

Ignoring every warning from her mother about “not hopping into mysterious cars”, she launched herself into the backseat of the mysterious taxi and shouted the name of her hotel to the driver, who then turned around and muttered to her in Korean something about the fare.

Being pretty used to the cheap taxi rides in Seoul and desperate to get out of this godforsaken place, the fare was the last thing on Miss Loi’s mind so she impatiently told the driver to get moving.

The smooth rev of the accelerating taxi couldn’t have sounded sweeter, and she was further delighted to find a mini-TV screen embedded in the seat in front of her – so she leaned forward to catch the local news that happened to be broadcasting at the time.

With her rudimentary Korean and from the TV images on the screen, she managed to roughly piece together the following breaking news story:

… several people are missing … all of them were last seen boarding a taxi … police on the hunt for a mentally-unsound taxi driver … police appeals to public to report immediately if they see the following person … *shows file photo of suspect* …

… who happens to be the taxi driver in front of her!!!

Having heard the news himself, the taxi driver smiled and said to her in halting English,

Don’t worry I only punish those who cannot pay. You rich tourist sure can pay! *points to fare table on window*

당근 Taxi Company (Fare Table)

Distance Meter Readings (Korean Won ₩)
1st 100 m 2
2nd 100 m 4, 6
3rd 100 m 8, 10, 12
4th 100 m 14, 16, 18, 20
… …

Note: This means the meter will start at ₩2, jumps to ₩4 (at 100 m), jumps to ₩6 (between 100-200 m), jumps to ₩8 (at 200 m) …

Total fare = Sum of all the meter readings from the very first reading to the final displayed reading.
E.g. If meter reads 12, total fare = 2 + 4 + 6 + 8 + 10 + 12 = ₩42.

From the GPS in the taxi, Miss Loi was exactly 3 km from her hotel the moment she boarded the taxi.

  1. Express in terms of n, the first meter reading of the nth 100 m. Hence state the taxi’s meter reading at the 3 km mark.
  2. Express in terms of n, the sum of all the meter readings from the 1st 100 m to the (n − 1)th 100 m. Hence state the total taxi fare at the 3 km mark.

As she watched with indescribable fear the taxi meter jumped and jumped and jumped at an astonishing rate, she hurriedly called Mr Loi for help.

The galloping horse taxi meter
… 1800 … 1802 … 1804 …
Obviously, Miss Loi was too frightened to …[photo source]

Nervous Miss Loi on the phone BRO! HELP! I’M CAUGHT IN A TAXI DRIVEN BY A MAD MAN! AND IF I DON’T HAVE ENOUGH MONEY TO PAY HIM YOU WON’T SEE ME AGAIN!

Mr Loi Yeah yeah yeah, another of your silly April Fools’ jokes. It’s already July for goodness sake!

Nervous Miss Loi on the phone I’M NOT JOKING! I NEED TO CALCULATE IF MY ₩200,000 IS ENOUGH FOR MY 3KM JOURNEY! I THINK NEED TO USE A.P. IN ‘A’ LEVEL H2 MATHS! BUT I’VE LOST TOUCH ALREADY SINCE I HAVEN’T BEEN TEACHING H2 MATHS FOR A WHILE!

Mr Loi Oh that’s simple. You just have to first identify the pattern flow, then determine the total number of terms in the progression …

***** Battery Flat *****

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THE SEOUL METROPOLITAN POLICE ARE APPEALING TO THE PUBLIC FOR HELP IN DETERMINING THE FATE OF VICTIM #6.

ALL STUDENTS AND MATHEMATICS ENTHUSIASTS WITH THE KNOWLEDGE TO SOLVE THIS CASE ARE STRONGLY URGED TO IMMEDIATELY LEAVE YOUR ANSWERS (WITH WORKINGS) IN THE COMMENTS BOX BELOW.

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STOP PRESS: Jφss Sticks Acquired!

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Posted at 10:23 am by Miss Loi in Miss Loi the Tutor

Sorry that Miss Loi hasn’t been online for awhile. Just for all you sweet, sweet readers of this blog, the following is a preview of the press release that will probably be published in some newspapers within the next few days.

Thank you so much for your support in these few years. Hopes to get your continued patronage in the future – don’t worry Miss Loi will still be around.

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Japanese cram school operator Project A has acquired Jφss Sticks, a leading Singaporean educational website and tuition centre.

Under the deal, Project A will acquire the shares, website and all assets in Jφss Sticks, including its iconic ‘Temple’ in Novena, for cash and equity.

Commenting on the agreement, Jφss Sticks founder Celine Loi said, “I am extremely honoured and humbled by the confidence Project A has on a small boutique operation like Jφss Sticks. At the same time, I am excited by the opportunity to work with them and access the vast resources and educational experiences Project A has at their disposal.”

With this acquisition, Project A stands to establish a foothold in the Singapore private tuition market as part of its regional drive into Southeast Asia. It hopes to leverage Jφss Sticks’ winning formula and longstanding tuition experience to emulate the success of fellow Japanese operators Kumon and Sakamoto Maths.

Indeed, with up to 50,000 students flocking to its wildly popular website (www.exampaper.com.sg) monthly for ‘O’ Level mathematics tips, Project A has cause to be optimistic.

Speaking through a translator, Ryôsuke Takahashi, co-founder of Project A, stated, “We are delighted to bring Jφss Sticks into the Project A family. This acquisition accelerates our expansion into Singapore and I am confident that Jφss Sticks, with its strong presence, will give us an immediate market position here.”

When probed further on how was Jφss Sticks eventually picked, Mr Takahashi said, “We were in the midst of evaluating strategic options for Project A when my brother Keisuke drew my attention to the website of Jφss Sticks. It did not take long to impress us and we were soon in contact with Miss Loi.”

Upon completion of the acquisition, Jφss Sticks will be rebranded to Project A (Singapore) and Miss Loi is expected to scale back on her teaching duties to focus on leading the company’s educational development and strategy in Singapore.

When asked for the size of the offer that managed to pry her from the institution she had painstakingly built up in four years, a coy Miss Loi would only reveal that Project A’s offer was “simply a no-brainer to accept it”.

About Project A Co., Ltd.:

Project A

Project A Co., Ltd. (株式会社プロジェクトA) is a leading Japanese education company founded in 1999 by brothers Ryôsuke and Keisuke Takahashi.

Headquartered in Akagi, Gunma Prefecture, Project A runs 30 preparatory schools and 7 affiliated schools across Japan, offering a variety of classes dealing from elementary school subjects to preparation for prestigious high school and university entrance examinations.

Its flagship courses include its Speed Mathematics classes specially geared towards acceptance in the School of Science of Tokyo University, and the intensive “Battle Stage” revision classes typically conducted just before major exams.

In recent years, the company has diversified its offerings beyond private school courses into the development of state-of-the-art educational materials and aids for preschools, kindergartens, and schools.

In 2011, its total enrollment is 150,000 students with an annual turnover of ¥8.21 billion.

About Jφss Sticks:

Jφss Sticks

Jφss Sticks is an education website, tuition centre and an online publisher of exam papers deeply committed to help Singapore secondary and junior college students ace their school and GCE ‘O’ Level & ‘A’ Level examinations.

Founded in 2007 by charismatic mathematics tutor Miss Loi, a national blog award winner and one of Singapore’s top five ‘Super Tutors’ in a Sunday Times feature article, Jφss Sticks (www.exampaper.com.sg) connects with up to 50,000 of today’s Web 2.0 student population monthly. The wildly popular blog cum website engages students via creatively infusing mathematical concepts and questions with facets of teenage lifestyle and pop culture in a way that readers learn and get entertained at the same time.

Away from the online world, Jφss Sticks exists physically as Miss Loi’s Temple – a leading boutique learning centre where hundreds have benefited from the small group tuition classes known as joss sticks sessions, in which students of different learning paces receive personalized attention to the outcome of removing their subject fears and attaining strong academic results.

Also available at www.exampaper.com.sg are Jφss Sticks’ specially designed exam papers – a series of mathematical worksheets adhering closely to Singapore’s ‘O’ Level syllabi that have benefitted hundreds of subscribers with an appetite for questions that are more challenging than the standard ‘Ten-Year Series’.

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