What Success looks like in the TTA family

At Think Teach, we want our students to achieve more than just academic success. We want to see growth. We want our students to develop confidence, drive and an overall positive attitude to learning and life.    

Noth­ing brings us greater pride and joy than to have a hand in com­pos­ing your child’s suc­cess sto­ry.

As a child and stu­dent, suc­cess inevitably includes aca­d­e­m­ic per­for­mance. How well your child does for his or her exam­i­na­tions def­i­nite­ly deter­mines how suc­cess­ful your child is as a stu­dent.

That said, aca­d­e­m­ic per­for­mance is not the only mea­sure of stu­dent suc­cess. At Think Teach, we want our stu­dents to achieve more than just aca­d­e­m­ic suc­cess. We want to see growth. We want our stu­dents to devel­op con­fi­dence, dri­ve and an over­all pos­i­tive atti­tude to learn­ing and life.    

Let’s throw­back to the time when we met one of our fond­est stu­dents from Saint Andrew’s Junior School, Ian Lim.

The year was 2018. A lit­tle boy, accom­pa­nied by his moth­er, vis­it­ed our cen­tre and told us that he had a dream. He want­ed to do well for the PSLE. With com­plete earnest­ness, he asked if it was pos­si­ble to make improve­ments in 1 year. Tak­ing one good look at him, we answered that it was indeed pos­si­ble but he would have to lis­ten to us and be will­ing to put in the hard work.

With­out hes­i­ta­tion, he agreed. And that was the start of what would be an extreme­ly mem­o­rable and dra­mat­ic suc­cess sto­ry.


IAN’S CONFIDENCE & DRIVE

Ian came across as a rather shy and soft spo­ken child. But what we did not know and that sur­prised us was his inter­est in pubic speak­ing. He chal­lenged him­self by tak­ing part in ora­tor­i­cal com­pe­ti­tions and even pushed him­self to par­tic­i­pate in essay writ­ing com­pe­ti­tions. In our opin­ion, tak­ing part in these com­pe­ti­tions formed the back­bone and oppor­tu­ni­ty of a very sound back­up plan. In the event that his PSLE score fell short, he could still rely on a strong DSA appli­ca­tion.

These com­pe­ti­tions did Ian a lot of good. They were new expe­ri­ences for Ian and pushed him out of his com­fort zone. In a mat­ter of months, Ian had to trans­form him­self. To suc­ceed in these nov­el and dif­fi­cult tasks, Ian had to be inde­pen­dent and resource­ful. He had to learn to believe and be con­fi­dent in him­self. It was nev­er going to be an easy process but Ian was will­ing to under­take it to bet­ter him­self.

IAN’S POSITIVE LEARNING ATTITUDE

There were two traits about Ian that struck us. He was con­stant­ly seek­ing improve­ment and was always gen­er­ous with his grat­i­tude and appre­ci­a­tion.

After almost a year jour­ney­ing with us at Think Teach, Ian saw huge improve­ments in his grades. Against all odds, he did exceed­ing­ly well for his Pre­lim­i­nary Exam­i­na­tions and was pre­dict­ed to score 253 for his PSLE.

To the sur­prise of us all, Ian sur­passed all expec­ta­tions with an aggre­gate score of 258 for his PSLE. He fin­ished pri­ma­ry school with 3A*s and 1A.

MAKING BIG DREAMS A REALITY

No prizes for guess­ing where the young man of our sto­ry end­ed up for sec­ondary school. With the lux­u­ry of choice, Ian chose to attend ACS(I)! Ian is the per­fect exam­ple of what suc­cess looks like in a stu­dent.

What moved us was not just his out­stand­ing aca­d­e­m­ic per­for­mance at the end. It was the entire jour­ney he took to get there. In one year, we saw a young boy grow into a young man. We saw a boy who was moti­vat­ed to work hard and push him­self. More impor­tant­ly, we met a boy who had grat­i­tude in his heart, nev­er for­get­ting those who jour­neyed with him and helped him to realise his dream. 


We leave you with the words of grat­i­tude from the stu­dent who impact­ed us as much as we had impact­ed him:

I am very grate­ful to Think Teach! Thank you to my teach­ers for all the atten­tion and time that they spent on me.

The ques­tions were so well set that some ques­tions even came out for our exams! Their pas­sion in teach­ing us and their care towards us prove how great the teach­ers at Think Teach are!

Ian Lim

A*s for PSLE Eng­lish, Math and Sci­ence

Saint Andrew’s to ACS (I)

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