English has never been my forte because I do not have the interest and patience for reading. For a long time, I had only managed to scrape through my English tests and I found it challenging to break through the barrier of scoring a C5 or better.
Initially, I felt that English was not that important as a subject until I did my thorough research and found out that a good score in English opens up to many course choices in Polytechnic after the N–levels. Despite doing well for my other subjects for my Preliminary Examinations, I merely achieved a grade of C5 for English and was still far off my goal. My target was to do well enough to qualify for the Polytechnic Foundation Programme, which required a minimum of B3 in English. I started to panic after this realisation, so I decided to seek help to improve my English.
Lessons with my tutor, Michelle was always engaging and enlightening. She would constantly spur me on, assuring me that I’m not too far away from what I aspire to achieve and she really gave me the confidence that I so badly needed then. Furthermore, she would constantly drill me in the more technical aspects of answering all sorts of questions and run through with me all the possible case studies with the materials that she has prepared. Although it was a last-minute decision to take up English tuition with Michelle, she never gave up on me and had complete faith in me! I think this new-found confidence in me was the last ingredient that completed the dish and eventually I scored an A2 for my N-levels English. I would have never achieved this feat within a short span of 2 months if I hadn’t agreed to this crash course with Michelle, and for this, I’m forever grateful to her. Thank you!