Give your child an advantage at the upcoming Upper Secondary Subject Option Exercise.
Score well in the Sec 2 History End-of-Year Exams without wasting time on futile practices.
Designed by Ms Karen Ang, an ex-MOE teacher with 18 years of teaching experience, you can expect your teen to go from feeling lost and confused to being able to …
- Look at any source thrown at him/her and interpret it accurately
- Craft high-scoring answers to any source-based questions within minutes
- Write less than other students and score the highest marks in the LORMs
- Effectively retain and recall the content needed for essay questions
- Calmly and confidently complete the entire History exam without leaving any questions half-done or blank
Course duration: 10 March 2023 (Friday) to 30 September 2023 (Saturday)
A cohort-based interactive online course for Secondary 2 students
By LearnMOJO x Kainetik Learning Centre
If your Secondary 2 teen is struggling to score well in History and you’re worried about it affecting his chances of getting his desired subject combination at the upcoming Upper Sec Subject Option Exercise, you’ve come to the right place.
Many parents have come to us saying that they cannot help their teens with History, because the syllabus has changed so much.
As compared to the old days when pure regurgitation of facts was enough to score an A1 or A2, this is what happens now…
Your child:
- Puts in hours to read the textbook and maybe memorises some (or all) of the content
- Tries to pay attention in school History lessons
- Does a few Source-based and Essay practices here and there
- And yet struggles to get anything higher than C5 or C6 when it comes to the exams
Is it any wonder why students feel so lost, confused and disengaged about mastering History?
Why Many Students Struggle to Do Well in History Exams,
Even If They Like History and Memorise Well
Just memorising is no longer enough.
The History exam now demands students to hone their critical thinking skills: they need to understand, recall, infer, interpret, compare, analyse, explain, and critically evaluate sources of information while learning about historical Issues.
It’s quite a lot to ask of a 13 or 14 year old teen.
And while students may understand what they read, they struggle to apply learnings to different exam question types.
It’s like being given a whole box of beautiful and exotic imported food ingredients without any idea how to prep and combine them into a delicious meal.
It all boils down to exam techniques – when to use what information, why use that information in that way, and how to net the highest marks in minimal time.
And exam techniques can only be mastered by FOCUSED and TARGETED timed practices, coupled with SPECIFIC and MEANINGFUL feedback.
The above process needs to go back and forth on a regular enough basis until the learnings stick.
You see, while History teachers in schools try their best to cover the needed content and skills, the truth is that they get very limited time with each class, and History teachers teach anywhere from 7 to 10 classes (200 to 400 students) at any one point of time.
There is simply not enough time to give sufficient practice assignments and mark them all quickly, unlike Math.
We want to help.
Sec 2 History Online Mastery & Accelerator Courses
For a limited time only, learnMOJO and Kainetik Learning Centre have teamed up to create the inaugural cohort-based intake of our Sec 2 History online courses:
Sec 2 History
Online Mastery
This course aims to help your child improve by at least 2 grades using the best tools, guides, guidance through weekly live online lessons & 24/7 Q&A support by Ms Karen Ang, Principal & Founder of learnMOJO, an online education provider that has provided full online coaching to Humanities students since 2014.
Sec 2 History
Online Accelerator
This course does everything that the Sec 2 History Online Mastery course does, PLUS ongoing personalised feedback on work done through weekly marking & detailed recorded video comments on your child’s submitted work.
About Your Coach
Teacher Karen has seen thousands of teens (and counting) through the school and national exams.
Every year, between 70% to 90+% of her O level students score A1 and A2 grades despite coming to her with fail or borderline pass grades, outperforming the national distinction average of 28% to 34%.
We believe that your teen can also experience such a transformation.
The thing is, due to her full schedule, Ms Karen Ang is no longer able to take in individual or small group students.
The only way to get access to her right now would be through the Sec 2 History Online Mastery & Accelerator courses.
Conducted entirely online, the Sec 2 History Mastery & Accelerator courses distils all the important insights and wisdom from Teacher Karen’s 18-year teaching career guiding thousands of teens, aimed at helping your child to:
- Sidestep easily avoidable and costly mistakes that the vast majority of students make
- Nail those tricky Source-based and Structured questions in a step-by-step manner
- Unlock the secrets to scoring top marks without having to write long-winded answers
All from the comfort and safety of home, without having to travel to a tuition centre.
Course Details
Sec 2 History
Online Mastery
Within the Sec 2 History Online Mastery course, your teen will be able to hop on Weekly Interactive Live Online Lessons with Teacher Karen.
These weekly lessons happen every Friday 7.30pm to 8.30pm, starting 10 March 2023.
If your teen is unable to make it, lesson recordings will be made available for catch up at any time.
Your child will also have access to the best tools for his self-paced online revision, like:
- Chapter Summaries
- Chapter Quizzes on important content to remember
- Source-based Question Practices
- Structured Question Practices
- All practices come with Levels of Response Mark Schemes (LORMs) and suggested answers, all specifically tailored to the current MOE Sec 2 History syllabus
Sec 2 History
Online Accelerator
For students who wish to speed up their progress and have Teacher Karen hand-hold you personally:
You could opt for the Sec 2 History Accelerator course that allows your teen to get everything in the Sec 2 History Online Mastery course, PLUS:
- Weekly allocation of assignments and
- Exclusive personalised recorded video feedback on your teen’s submitted assignments by Teacher Karen
Pay Only $90 Today
for a 30-day Trial
If you sign up today, you only make a non-refundable 30-day trial fee of $90 today, with the rest of the fees in 3 or 4 easy monthly instalments!
No more fees to be paid from the 4th or 5th month, and you get access to the course until 22 October 2023.
If it’s not helpful, let us know within the first 30 days and:
- You may withdraw from the course without any penalty
- We’ll cancel all your subsequent instalments, no questions asked
So don’t wait – sign up now before all seats are taken and get access to expert guidance for your child’s History exam success at an amazing introductory price!
Early Bird Bonus!
If you sign up NOW, you’ll also get immediate, early access to the following bonuses, before the online course officially starts on 10 March 2023:
- Bonus 1: Inference & Comparison Source-based Practice on the Japanese Occupation & Answer Scheme
- Bonus 2: Structured Question Practice on the Japanese Occupation & Answer Scheme
- Bonus 3: ALL of learnMOJO’s Lower Secondary Source-based and Essay Guides
- Inference Source-based Question (SBQ) Guide
- Compare & Contrast SBQ Guide
- Reliability SBQ Guide
- Usefulness SBQ Guide
- How to Tackle History Essay Questions
- How to Tackle the Actual History Exam
- Bonus 4:
- Interactive online lesson : “How On Earth Do I Study for History?”
- The lesson has been completed and the recording is ready for your review right after signing up.
- Please see a selected segment of the recording below.
Seats are very limited as we want to give each teen sufficient attention.
Places allocated on a first-come-first-served basis and enrollment closes as soon as places fill up, or by 15 April 2023.
What You Will Get
in Each Course
Sec 2 History
Online Mastery
$90 today, then 3 monthly instalments of $300
Total fee = $990
- 30 Printable Source-based Question and Structured Question Practices based on the current MOE syllabus – specifically designed to help your teen master the different source-based and essay exam questions in a sequential and logical manner
- Levels of Response Mark Schemes (LORMs) with suggested answer examples – no guesswork as to what exam markers are looking for
- Companion Guides on how to use LORMs – so your child can progress towards being able to self-mark and self-diagnose problem areas…while the vast majority of Sec 2 and even Upper Secondary students are still unable to do this!
- Chapter summaries – quick memorisation aids which break down huge chapters into digestible chunks
- Chapter quizzes – to help your teen recall relevant supporting facts and score high marks during their tests and exams
- 27 weeks of 1-hour Weekly Interactive Live Online Lessons – detailed walk through of common mistakes and how to score highest marks for each Practice in Question Bank in the shortest time possible
- Weekly Interactive Live Online Lessons on every Friday, 7.30pm to 8.30pm (except on 7 April, 2 & 9 June 2023)
- Access to recordings of all Weekly Live Online Interactive Lessons, so your child can catch up in case he/she can’t make it
- Daily Q&A support through a private online discussion board (except on Public Holidays and Mid-Year Break from 28 May 2023 – 11 June 2023)
- Students may request for their draft answers to be reviewed during the Weekly Live Lessons
- 2-3 students’ answers will be chosen at random each week to be reviewed during the live session
- Course duration: 10 March 2023 (Friday) to 30 September 2023 (Saturday).
- Access to all online course materials until 22 October 2023.
Sec 2 History
Online Accelerator
Only $90 today, then 4 monthly instalments of $450
Total fee = $1890 (Usual : $3200 per year)
- Everything in Sec 2 History Mastery, PLUS
- Weekly allocation of assignments designed to help your teen master the different History exam skills in a digestible and sequential process.
- Weekly marking of allocated assignments with recorded video feedback of your child’s submitted answers by the Founder & Principal of learnMOJO, Ms Karen Ang, so that your child knows exactly what to do to get the highest score.
- Assignment instructions will be posted every Wednesday evening.
- Students are to submit answers by every Sunday, 9pm (late submissions will not be marked)
- All weekly assignments’ feedback will be given by the following Thursday, 9pm.
- No assignments will be given and marked during the Mid-Year Break from 28 May 2023 – 11 June 2023 (both dates inclusive).
- Course duration: 10 March 2023 (Friday) to 30 September 2023 (Saturday).
- Access to all online course materials until 22 October 2023.
Frequently-Asked Questions
Yes, they are. However, do note that question types and mark schemes are in the Express/G3 formats.
It’s best to consult the History syllabus in your child’s school. While the History exam skills covered in the Sec 2 History Mastery & Accelerator courses are commonly needed by IP/IB students, topics covered in your child’s school may be different.
Generally, if your child’s school adopts the mainstream History textbook (Singapore – A Journey Through Time 1299 – 1970s), our courses would likely be a good fit.
If the school relies on customised notes/readings, then it’s likely that our courses would be of limited help.
Topics
- Chapter 6: What Did the People In Singapore Experience During the Japanese Occupation?
- Chapter 7: How Did the People in Singapore Respond to British Rule After World War II?
- Chapter 8: How Did Singapore Become an Independent Nation?
- Chapter 9: How Did Singapore Safeguard Its Independence After 1965?
- Chapter 10: To what Extent Did People’s Lives Change After Independence?
Skills
- Source-based Questions:
- Inference
- Compare & Contrast
- Reliability
- Structured Questions:
- Describe
- Explain
They take place every Friday, from 7.30 pm to 8.30 pm.
No, there won’t be lessons on Public Holidays.
There will be a mid-year break from 28 May 2023 – 11 June 2023 (both dates inclusive). Weekly lives will resume from 16 June 2023 (Friday) onwards.
For BOTH the Sec 2 History Mastery & Accelerator courses:
The final Live Online Interactive Lesson is on 29 September 2023, Friday.
The last day of Q&A support is on 30 September 2023, Saturday.
For the Sec 2 Accelerator course only:
The final marked assignment will be returned by 29 September 2023, Friday.
Your child will be able to access the online course until 22 October 2023 in order to prep well for the End-of-Year Exams.
However, do note that Q&A support is available until 30 September 2023.
Questions about course assignments and content will be answered by the next day.
Questions about any other assignments will be answered on a best-effort basis.
If your child is in the Sec 2 History Online Mastery course:
- He/she will need to log in to the online course area by every Thursday
- Check what that week’s assignment is
- Watch any related notes/guides/explanatory videos attached to the assignment, which will help him/her complete the assignment
- Attempt the assignment within the time limit stipulated
- Check the Level of Response Marking Scheme (LORMs) with suggested answer examples only AFTER attempting the assignment
- Ask away if he/she has any questions within the Q&A discussion board, and the coach will reply by the next day
- If your child would like his answer to be reviewed during the weekly live online lesson, he can submit a request for review to the discussion board. The coach will select 2-3 answers at random to be reviewed during the lesson.
- Attend the Weekly Interactive Live Online Lesson every Friday, 7.30 pm – 8.30 pm (link in email), or catch up by watching the lesson recording.
- Note: There will be no Live Online Interactive Lessons and Q&A support on Public Holidays and the Mid-Year Break from 28 May 2023 to 11 June 2023.
If your child is in the Sec 2 History Online Accelerator course:
- Go to the Assignment area and attempt the assignment within the time limit stipulated, on a Google Document or handwritten legibly on foolscap paper.
- Watch any related notes/guides/explanatory videos attached to the assignment, which will help him/her complete the assignment.
- Ask away if he/she has any questions within the Q&A discussion board, and the coach will reply by the next day.
- Assignment instructions will be posted every Wednesday evening. The first assignment instructions will be uploaded on 1 March 2023.
- Students are to submit answers as file attachments by Sunday, 9pm (late submissions will NOT be marked)
- All weekly assignments’ feedback will be given by the following Thursday, 9 pm.
- Students are to check the feedback by going to the Assignment area from Thursdays, 9 pm onwards.
- Attend the Weekly Interactive Live Online Lesson every Friday, 7.30 pm – 8.30 pm (link in email), or catch up by watching the lesson recording.
- Note: There will be no marking of assignments, Interactive Live Online Lessons and Q&A support on Public Holidays and the Mid-Year Break from 28 May 2023 to 11 June 2023.
They can submit their requests on the Discussion Board titled “Requests for Review (Live Lessons)”. Requests will need to be submitted by the Thursday before each Live in order to be considered for review. 2 to 3 answers will be chosen at random to be reviewed.
Assignments instructions will be posted by every Wednesday night (first set of instructions will be up by 1 March 2023).
Students should go to the Assignment area anytime from Wednesday night to Sunday evening and attempt the assignment on a Google Document or handwritten legibly on foolscap paper.
If there are any related notes/guides/explanatory videos attached to the assignment, your child should watch them as they will help him/her complete the assignment.
If he/she has any questions within the Q&A discussion board, and the coach will reply by the next day.
Students are to submit their work in the Assignment area as file attachments by every Sunday, 9 pm.
The Sec 2 History Mastery plan is for students who prefer to self-study and self-review their own answers at their own pace, with the help of detailed marking schemes and guides. Expert guidance is offered through the Q&A board (24/7, except on Public Holidays and during the Mid-Year Break from 18 May 2023 – 11 June 2023) and Weekly Live Online Lessons on Fridays 7.30pm – 8.30pm.
The Sec 2 History Accelerator plan is for students who prefer more personalised support from a qualified ex-MOE History teacher, who will mark and give feedback on their answers on a weekly basis, so that they can improve their History score in a much shorter time. Students on the Accelerator plan will also get access to all of the resources, support and materials in the Mastery plan.
The fees differ because Teacher Karen will be investing a significant amount of time and effort to mark and record individual and personalised video comments on your child’s answer in the Accelerator plan.
You might like to compare this with her usual online small group coaching fee for Sec 2 History, which is currently about $3200 per academic year.
With the Accelerator plan, you’re shaving 41% off her usual online coaching fees.
As she no longer has any slots for small group coaching, and this is the only way to gain access to her support and guidance.
This is a special introductory fee, and if it ends up being too time-intensive despite the limited intake, she may discontinue the Accelerator plan next year.
So take advantage of this opportunity now.
Simply email us at learn@kainetik.com with the Subject Heading “Request for Termination” within the first 30 days of signing up, and we will cancel all your subsequent instalments, no questions asked.
We will be covering one assignment per week to ensure that your child is well prepared for the End-of-Year History Exam, making it a total of 27 assignments. The remaining 3 assignments (this excludes the 2 bonus assignments uploaded before the start of the course) are provided for extra practice. Suggested answer schemes will also be provided. If your child is stuck with any of these assignments, simply ask away in the Q&A discussion board and Teacher Karen will support him/her.