It will be too late once the private students sign up for the
course and later they found out that the teachers do not cover the
whole syllabus of "O" exam ie some private school teachers just
cover the sec 4 topics or covers the topics superficially or the
teachers do not give or mark any assignments or exercises. Do not
do any ten years series questions or just pick one or two simple
questions to do. Worse, some teachers do not even know the syllabus
in detail or the exam patterns or the topics at all or they teach
only the topics that they know and they skip those topics that they
do not know and then they tell their students that those topics
they do not know are not in the syllabus or unimportant. Or when
the students have doubts or questions and approach the teachers for
help, the teachers will try to avoid by giving the excuses that
they will give the answers another day and on the next day they
will feign ignorance or they do not know the answers themselves,
they will try to scold the students or act angry to divert the
attention.
Valid concerns regarding private schools. It's true private schools
only skimp through the syllabus, because the basic assumption
is that private students have already gone through a
government secondary school proper education, and are now only
retaking the 'O' levels.
Which is why I said earlier that if your intention is to score a
distinction, (quality) private tuition will be valuable, and
for many private candidate students even necessary; if
your intention is only to pass (though it makes more sense to want
to score well), then it's not so much the private
school that matters, because it's really about self-study and
self-discipline.
But if Stretford.End is pondering about private school
VERSUS private tuition, then the consideration shifts to costs
and affordability : private tuition for multiple
individual subjects will cost significantly more than a private
school which covers all subjects registered.
So we've identified 5 factors for Stretford.End :
1) checking out the quality of the private schools
2) financial status and affordability
3) intention to pass vs to score well
4) self-discipline and self-motivation
5) future study plans determine Pure Sciences vs Humanities
subject options (though taking 'A' Maths as well, would be
vaulable to go with Pure Sciences)
And lastly, feel free to post your maths, physics and
chemistry questions here if you find you need help with
questions (especially if you take Pure Sciences and/or
'A' Maths).