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  • What Your Child's Education Actually Costs in Singapore — Government school fees are almost nothing. The real cost is everything around school, and the single biggest discretionary piece is tuition, where families spent 1.8 billion dollars in one year.
  • Every O-Level Formula Sheet and the Periodic Table, in One Page — Exactly what SEAB prints inside your 2026 maths and science papers, reproduced in full, plus the surprises: A Maths gets the quadratic formula, E Maths does not, and Physics gets nothing at all.
  • Will PSLE Be Removed in 2028? — The 2028 on MOE's roadmap is about admission to post secondary institutes, not the PSLE. But in March 2026 the Education Minister put milestone exams and secondary posting genuinely under review.
  • Stop Guessing the Oral Topic: Five Habits That Score in Both English and Chinese — Body language, thinking time, a story bank, inside out perspectives and the experience question: the same five habits work in the English and Chinese orals alike.
  • The Poly EAE Offer Is a Great Deal That Deserves More Than Three Days of Thought — Applications closed on 1 July, interviews run to 1 September, and the offer that lands on 8 September comes with three days to accept and one condition attached.
  • How to Win in Oral: Be Yourself, Answer Directly — A tutor's playbook for Paper 4: what the examiners are listening for, the two habits that bleed marks, and how to stay natural while hitting the point.
  • Stop Asking How the Oral Went: 80% of the O-Level English Grade Is Still Ahead — The English oral wraps up on 17 July, and nobody sees that score until January. The next 13 weeks decide the other 80%.
  • Parents Should Let Their Kids Use AI, and MOE Is Doing the Same — MOE is building AI into the national learning platform with guardrails, and asking students to learn about, with and beyond AI.
  • The New GEP: Advanced Modules and a Refreshed P3 Identification From 2027 — MOE is discontinuing the Gifted Education Programme in its current form and replacing it with school-based provisions and after-school advanced modules.
  • MOE's Move Away From Grades: What the Assessment and PSLE Changes Mean for Parents — What MOE has already changed, what it has signalled it is reviewing, and what it means for your child. Grounded in MOE's 2026 Committee of Supply statements and parliamentary replies.
  • O-Level English Oral 2026: Format, Dates & Weightage — What the O-Level English Oral covers, when it runs in 2026, and how it's weighted. Sourced directly from SEAB's official syllabus and exam timetable.
  • DSA-Sec 2026: Selection Season Is Underway, Outcomes by 28 August — Schools are now running interviews, auditions and trials for shortlisted DSA-Sec applicants. Here are the dates that matter next, taken from MOE's official timeline.
  • PSLE Scoring 2026: How the AL System and Cut-Off Points Work — What Achievement Levels are, how your child's total score is worked out, and how that score decides secondary school posting. Sourced directly from MOE.