It's common to get mould on the ceiling of toilets as when we take hot baths, hot air rises and condenses on the ceiling.

This provides moisture necessary for mould to grow, especially when we don't ventilate the toilet.

You can read more about what to do if you find mould in your home here https://zenithlab.com.sg/what-to-do-if-you-detect-mould-at-home/

Ventilate your toilet by opening the windows and door, or by having a ventilator at the window
If problem persists, you might need to get a dehumidifier in your home
You can try getting rid of mould by using a mixture of vinegar and water
If the mould is serious, you can consider hiring a mould removal specialist.

How to do well for EMath O Level

It’s the end of the year, and you’ve just completed your final exams for Sec 3 recently, and are looking forward to a nice, long break before the start of Sec 4. Although you can certainly take a deserved break, it is impossible not to notice the rapidly looming O levels that will happen, in June for Mother Tongue, and October onwards for the rest of the subjects.

One key subject that many students fear and worry about is EMath.

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EMath is often a problem for less than meticulous students, due to the large amount of opportunities for misconceptions and mistakes to crop up. In Paper 1, there are 25 short answer questions, spanning a large range of topics taught in both Sec 3 and Sec 4.

Hence, here is how to do well for Paper 1 for the EMath O level.

1) Pace yourself through the papers.
To do well in both papers, especially Paper 1 is a matter of pacing. To figure out your ideal pacing, use your past exams and practice papers to gauge your speed. If you’re always about five questions away from finishing the paper when time is up, adjust accordingly.

The same applies if you are always able to finish your Paper 1 with a lot of time remaining. This could potentially indicate that you’ve gone through the questions too quickly, and could possibly have missed out important details or made mistakes due to haste along the way. At the end of the day, it is best to find a good balance between too little and too much time taken to do the paper – an ideal balance is about ten minutes remaining, with you having a feeling of at least having given each question the amount of thought and scrutiny it deserves.

2) It’s better to learn some about every topic than to try for absolute mastery over one.
While in an ideal situation one would be able to have absolute mastery over each topic, that usually isn’t possible, or you wouldn’t be reading this article. If you are weak in very many topics, think about the format of Paper 1. As previously mentioned, EMath O level Paper 1 has 25 questions of various topics. Hence, if you are weak in everything, you will simply suffer great losses in every topic, which could very well lead to failing altogether. However, if you try to master one specific topic, you might have the bad luck of not having the topic come out at all, or for a measly two or three marks on that specific topic. A happy counter to this problem is to learn a bit about every topic, just enough that you can answer at least the easy or medium difficulty questions.

It’s best not to fret over the hard questions that require you to be really skilled in the topic, because there would have been a chance you would have been unable to understand them anyway. While you can’t grab for all the marks, grab for what you can.

3) Ask your teacher or tutor for personalized information about how to improve for your Paper 1.
If you have absolutely no idea why you are failing your Paper 1 or just can’t seem to improve despite your best efforts, it might be time to turn to your Math teacher or your EMath tutor. Teachers often have many years of experience, and may be able to tell you exactly what your problem scoring is, be it time management, careless mistakes or something you did not even know about.

If you are shy and do not want to trouble your teacher, the time is now. It is very important to start off Sec 4 on a good note, as Sec 4 is the most critical year for you, at this time in your life. However, if your teacher is the sort that does not sense the urgency of your impending O levels, it might be time to find yourself a well trusted, established EMath tutor, especially one that is experienced in helping to pull up poor grades with not much time left to the EMath O level.

You can ask your Math tutor for any personal tips or tricks they have up their sleeves, or what they think the potential pitfalls for this year may look like, based on past year trends. Some of them may even have things like spreadsheets they can show you that display the number of questions in each topic for the past EMath Paper ones. This can be good “insider info” that can help you plan your time management strategies.

At the end of the day….
Even if you have been having trouble with getting good grades for EMath, the best time to do something about it is right now. As the saying goes, “The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.”

Since 2016, it has been announced by the Ministry of Education, that there will be alterations to the mathematics syllabus for primary school students. Those enrolled as of 2013 would have been affected, that means students from primary 4 onwards should experience a slight change to the contents they learn.


Ministry of Education always reviews the syllabus every 5-6 years to maintain the relevance and quality of education for Singapore students. The recent changes are that the students will now face more questions that are similar to real life scenarios. Students will face more practical questions, and the teachers will be using more day-to-day realistic scenarios as examples to teach the students.

The focus has changed in recent times, and education is evolving. What used to be conceptual learning in the past seems irrelevant if the student do not know the application behind the skills they learn. The new changes help to promote competency. That is also the reason why the model of Singapore education system is sought after by western countries.

Students are also tasked with solving questions with the use of technology. There will be interactive online games to help students understand multiplications and divisions, and learn to structure mathematical models.

Some of the changes to the syllabus include the following:

Primary 3 students are required to understand and construct parallel and perpendicular lines
Primary 4 students will learn grid drawings, and shape orientations. Tessellations are removed from the course.
Primary 5 students will learn multiplications of fractions to the whole numbers. Divisions of fractions will be taken out of the syllabus. 3D drawings will be introduced.
There are also changes to the mathematics papers. PSLE mathematics paper 1 will have more short answer questions, with PSLE mathematics paper 2 reducing the number of structural questions. Mathematics answers are also required to be standardized to the requirements of MOE.

As a parent, keeping up with all these changes may be an arduous task. Situations like helping your child to cope with the time management with the changes made to the exam papers, or what topics to emphasize more on, or even to teach your child to use certain software required by the school, are all top priority worries for every parent.

At Bright-Maths, our purpose is to help your child to better prepare for this new change. Since the news broke out in 2016, our personnel have been briefed, and have proactively restructured our lessons to the expectations of MOE. Our students have been taught on proper representations for the answers, from rates and percentages, to even units. We have tutors coming up with new short answer questions with various difficulties, to better help our students learn and tackle them. Our tutors have also put in emphasis on resolving other miscellaneous issues faced by the students, such as time management or inability to adapt to the changes of syllabus, etc.

Bright-Maths is ready for this new challenge. Let us work together and help your child ace PSLE.

Since 2016, it has been announced by the Ministry of Education, that there will be alterations to the mathematics syllabus for primary school students. Those enrolled as of 2013 would have been affected, that means students from primary 4 onwards should experience a slight change to the contents they learn.


Ministry of Education always reviews the syllabus every 5-6 years to maintain the relevance and quality of education for Singapore students. The recent changes are that the students will now face more questions that are similar to real life scenarios. Students will face more practical questions, and the teachers will be using more day-to-day realistic scenarios as examples to teach the students.

The focus has changed in recent times, and education is evolving. What used to be conceptual learning in the past seems irrelevant if the student do not know the application behind the skills they learn. The new changes help to promote competency. That is also the reason why the model of Singapore education system is sought after by western countries.

Students are also tasked with solving questions with the use of technology. There will be interactive online games to help students understand multiplications and divisions, and learn to structure mathematical models.

Some of the changes to the syllabus include the following:

Primary 3 students are required to understand and construct parallel and perpendicular lines
Primary 4 students will learn grid drawings, and shape orientations. Tessellations are removed from the course.
Primary 5 students will learn multiplications of fractions to the whole numbers. Divisions of fractions will be taken out of the syllabus. 3D drawings will be introduced.
There are also changes to the mathematics papers. PSLE mathematics paper 1 will have more short answer questions, with PSLE mathematics paper 2 reducing the number of structural questions. Mathematics answers are also required to be standardized to the requirements of MOE.

As a parent, keeping up with all these changes may be an arduous task. Situations like helping your child to cope with the time management with the changes made to the exam papers, or what topics to emphasize more on, or even to teach your child to use certain software required by the school, are all top priority worries for every parent.

At Bright-Maths, our purpose is to help your child to better prepare for this new change. Since the news broke out in 2016, our personnel have been briefed, and have proactively restructured our lessons to the expectations of MOE. Our students have been taught on proper representations for the answers, from rates and percentages, to even units. We have tutors coming up with new short answer questions with various difficulties, to better help our students learn and tackle them. Our tutors have also put in emphasis on resolving other miscellaneous issues faced by the students, such as time management or inability to adapt to the changes of syllabus, etc.

Bright-Maths is ready for this new challenge. Let us work together and help your child ace PSLE.

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Hi,


I would like to request for Sec 2 express SA2 Science, English and Maths papers. Does anyone have it and can email to zhichuan1@hotmail.com please?

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Love4learning:

Hi all,


I would appreciate any recommendations on good challenging topical assessment books and guides on O levels Physics, Chemistry and Bio. Thanks !!!

Hi Love4Learning, the Chemistry TOPICAL(Not yearly!) TYS is a good assessment book for O Levels Chemistry. In all my years of teaching Chemistry, I've found that the questions inside are a fairly accurate representation of what will come out for the O Levels. They also test you less commonly tested knowledge so you won't trip up in the exam when asked for more obscure pieces of knowledge.

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Firstly, I would say focus on your O Levels before thinking about your JC! Before you know it, it's going to be here! After your O Level exams, you would have all the time in the world to think about which JC you want.

I think it is possible to give the JC a call and arrange to visit the facilities. I'm sure they'll be more than happy to let you visit them.

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Cheers and all the best for your O levels!

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Hi Parents, I wrote this article that might be useful for you, especially as we approach the O Levels!!!


Tip 3: Switch up topics while preparing for the exams

http://www.bright-culture.com/4-ways-to-prepare-for-chemistry-exams/

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Hi parents, I wrote an article that will be helpful for students taking physics at O or A Levels!


https://www.bright-physics.com.sg/child-is-struggling-in-physics/

Tip number one: Focus on understanding each topic separately

Tip number two: Prioritize understanding over memorization

Tip number three: Do as many practice synoptic questions as possible

Tip number four: Keep a log of all the difficult question types

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