The Covid-19 pandemic has changed the way lessons are conducted at school. Besides the conventional face-to-face lessons, HBL are also included. At EconsLab, we offered online lessons to our students during circuit breaker to ensure lessons are not disrupted. With their unwavering determination, our students maintained consistency in their learning via weekly lessons through the support of our highly-experienced star tutor Ms Foo. Our students eventually achieved academic excellence in the 2020 GCE A Level Economics exam. Big congratulations to our achievers!
Students achieving 5-6 grades improvement from U to As and Bs: 73%
Students achieving 4 grades improvement from U to Cs: 27%
Specifically, students scoring As, Bs and Cs are 41%, 32% and 23% respectively. Around 90% of our students are either U or S-grader prior to seeking help for Economics at EconsLab. We are very happy for our students showing such vast improvement in their grades! See detailed results from ‘Results” page.
Any secret to doing well in Economics? Here at EconsLab, our lessons are structured and organized to enhance learning to achieve the best possible results for each student.
✔ Content mastery: Detailed teaching of content for each chapter before question practices
✔ Guided application: Step-by-step guidance in question analysis, points generation and links development
✔ Interactive discussion: Students are encouraged to ask questions when in doubt and participate in class practices.
✔ Materials provided to aid students’ revision on their own.
There are various tuition options available for JC Economics tuition in the form of normal group tuition (capped at 8 students per session), small group tuition (capped at 4 students), twin tuition (2 students) and individual to suit different learning style and budget. Fees are affordable. All classes are taught by our founder - highly experienced Dean’s List star Economics tutor Ms Foo.
Do look out for our class schedule on the “Schedule” page. Cannot find a suitable time slot? Let us know and we will do our best to arrange alternative timing to suit your schedule.
Do enroll in our classes soon to see a turnaround in your Economics grade. See you soon!
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A big congrats to our students who did well for Economics in the IB exams! Their diligence have definitely paid off. We wish them all the very best in their future endeavors!
Need help with IB Economics? The following classes are available:
IB, Year 6, HL (4 sessions of 2hrs per month):
Tuesday 5.00pm to 7.00pm (Bishan) - registration started
Wednesday 4.15pm to 6.15pm (Bishan/Bugis) - Available
Thursday 7.15pm to 9.15pm (Online) - Available
Friday 3.30pm to 5.30pm (Bishan/Bugis) - registration started
Saturday 11.30am to 1.30pm (Bugis) - Available
Sunday 11.30am to 1.30pm (Bugis) - registration started
IB, Year 6, SL (4 sessions of 1.5hrs per month):
Tuesday 7.30pm to 9.00pm (Online) - Available
IB, Year 5, HL (4 sessions of 2hrs per month):
Tuesday 5.00pm to 7.00pm (Bishan) - registration started
Friday 3.30pm to 5.30pm (Bishan/Bugis) - registration started
Sunday 11.30am to 1.30pm (Bugis) - registration started
IB, Year 5, SL (4 sessions of 1.5hrs per month):
Tuesday 5.00pm to 6.30pm (Bishan) - registration started
Unable to find a suitable slot that fits your schedule? Let us know and we will try our best to arrange.
Hope to see you soon.
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It has been a great week so far of receiving some really good news from our students who showed improvement in their recent Prelims!
We see most students improved by at least 3 grades up from U to D. This result is very encouraging especially for students who have been working hard on the subject and finally passed! Our students are delighted in their improvement. Well done indeed! Consistency is key.
For students practising questions on their own on top of attending our lessons (online or offline), Ms Foo’s advice has always been for students to generate the answers on their own first before referring to the answer key given out by their school etc. It is advisable for them to clarify with their school teachers or Ms Foo to confirm the links. The answers in the answer key is not 100% accurate and so should not be fully relied on. The better students with good content knowledge will be able to detect the gaps in the provided answer and seek clarification just to make sure. Taking note that content knowledge is built over time.
Ms Foo reviews her students’ school test and exam scripts to identify her students’ mistakes so that students understand why they shouldn’t bring in certain content or how they can improve their links or structure for better clarity and flow. It is indeed time-consuming to review the scripts but it is worthwhile if it helps students see improvement in their grades. Ms Foo also reviews timed practices done with her students. This has been Ms Foo’s style which has proved effective so far.
Ms Foo does not believe in spoon-feeding her students. One of her students requested for full answers because this student needs help with construing the points. Although this is not Ms Foo’s usual style, she decided to try it out for a few sessions if this could really help students. The results is mixed. This student continues to score the same grade (above average), some students improved whereas majority see deterioration in their grades. Why? Because students paid less attention during lessons knowing that answer sheet will be given to them. This defeats the purpose of learning. Students compared and agreed that taking down notes proved more effective for them. Hence, Ms Foo reverted to her original style of teaching which she maintained over the 15 years.
We are delighted with our students’ improvement and will continue to provide the support needed till the final exams.
Wish to join our lessons? Do drop us message or text. Hope to see you soon.
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EconsLab is famed for our quick turnover in students’ grades.
But, this comes with hard work put in by our students as well. Afterall, it takes two hands to clap - our star tutor Ms Foo imparts her knowledge plus our students vigorously apply the techniques taught to them. All done through Ms Foo’s lectures covering the content along with guided practices in class.
We are pleased to share one recent success story. A student joined us in mid July with a U grade in school exam much demoralized. Ms Foo’s guidance along with the student’s hard work helped bump his grade from U to D in his recent graded test! That’s a three grade jump - an excellent improvement indeed within such short period of time of 1.5 months.
We are very happy for students who show such great improvement and motivate our students to continue to work hard. Their success also provides a source of motivation and inspiration to other students who are progressing in the path to excelling Economics.
Look forward to seeing you soon.
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The key to excelling in JC Economics and IB Economics is to know what went wrong in students’ answer. At EconsLab, we help you uncover your weaknesses and discover your strengths. We value-add our students with complimentary review of students’ school tests/exams and class practices.
Comments are made on students’ work based on why concepts used by students may be theoretically correct but irrelevant based on the question context, incorrect links or expression, missing gaps in formulating the links etc. The comments are meant to help students identify and understand why these are mistakes and should not be repeated to support improvement in students’ answer presentation to ace the subject.
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Although face-to-face lessons were suspended during the circuit breaker, lessons continued as usual via online mode. We are happy that our students did well regardless of face-to-face or online tuition. In fact, some showed four-grade improvement in their results this round. Here’s some testimonials.
Continuing to help our students unleash their full potential to clinch excellent results in both IB and JC Economics! It’s just a few months to final exams.
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This video shows how market contestability affect firm’s efficiency.
What is contestability? It refers to potential competition caused by the threat of new entrants into the market to compete with the existing firms.
A firm’s efficiency is assessed based on its ability to achieve allocative efficiency, productive efficiency and dynamic efficiency.
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This video goes through concepts relevant to taxes, subsidies and price ceiling. Specifically, workings of each form of government intervention is explained in detail with analysis done on various stakeholders.
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Online teaching can also be interactive and engaging as what our Dean’s List top Economics star tutor Ms Foo has demonstrated via this short video. This helps to enhance her students’ learning and makes teaching more effective.
Ms Foo’s teaching style does not vary offline and online - this is how she usually engage her students so that lesson can be interesting and helpful in remembering the key concepts to apply when answering questions.
It is important to master the techniques of question analysis, structuring answers and develop accuracy in points generation. Ms Foo provides a step-by-step approach to guiding her students which helps them eventually become independent in generating the points with much accuracy and speed.
Would you like to give our online lessons a try first before we switch back to physical lessons offline only when the island-wide suspension of centre-based tuition is lifted?
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EconsLab conducted our first online Economics group tuition today following the new ruling where all centre-based tuition is suspended island-wide due to Covid-19.
From our students’ response during the session, our online lessons are equally effective as our usual tuition held physically in terms of content delivery and mastery. With each online session capped at maximum of 8 students, it allows for ample opportunity for students to learn effectively and post any questions when in doubt.
Do try out our online tuition. Hope to see you online soon!
Read MoreHi Ms Foo! Thank you for helping me improve in my Economics since JC1. Your lessons have made me actually like Economics and want to study it in the future! Though sometimes lessons may get tiring, your “shocked” reactions to weird answers like negative externalities on animals really keeps the class alive and something I look forward to! After about 1.5 years in your class, I have started to see how Economics is applicable in the world making me interested in the subject. I will get that A grade!!
Read MoreThanks Ms Foo for teaching me Economics for the past 2 years! I had great fun with you and I honestly learnt so much. I really enjoyed your lessons alot and I can say I find Economics much more interesting through your lessons.
Read MoreExcellent teaching! I enjoyed my time here really thanks so much Ms Foo! Actually this tuition helped to turn Economics from my worst subject in beginning 2018 to one of my best in late 2019.
Read MoreMs Foo is able to make lessons enjoyable that helps keep my attention span. Ms Foo is also patient in helping me understand key Economics concepts and learn how to answer questions in a more structured manner. Last but not least, it has sparked my interest in Economics.
Read MoreThanks Ms Foo for being so supportive and inspiring these few months! I only joined your tuition after Prelims but it is safe to say that I have benefited alot since attending your lessons. It has been such a ride! I’m so glad as now I understood many Economics concepts that I used to have no idea about. My confidence for Economics has also grown since joining your tuition. I can only thank you for that! Thanks for everything!
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