Yes, the crash course is conducted both onsite at Singapore Management University and online. Price for online lesson will be the same. We will be sending you the details for the crash course (including materials and Zoom link) to your stated email address 1 week prior to the crash course.

We will provide the materials via digital copy to the email address provided. If you wish to receive the hard copy, you may do so on 26 September (Saturday), 4.30pm–5pm only at our East Coast Centre. We regret to inform that there will be no other collection slots.

There shall strictly be no refunds for the event upon payment. In the event of a no-show, we will provide the recording of the session for you to catch up at your own time. Do contact us via WhatsApp at 8118 9858 right after the class to receive the recording.

All ticket sales are final and we are unable to make changes or provide a refund.

Do check in with our admin via WhatsApp at 8118 9858 if there are still slots at the physical venue as there are limited onsite slots available. We have the right to deny entry at the door if you did not secure the onsite slots previously.

The crash course is targeted at the 2026 O Level exams, and will cover all skills and necessary content for Sec 4s taking the exam. Regular classes will be more suitable for 2026 Sec 3 students who are seeking a headstart for next year.

An O-Level crash course is a short, intensive block of teaching run in the weeks immediately before the papers. It does not re-teach the syllabus from scratch. It takes the content a student already has and converts it into marks — identifying the question type, applying the technique the examiner rewards, and structuring an answer under time pressure. The Humanities Clinic's Final Sprint Seminars run four hours per session and take on one question type per day.

They work when the gap is technique rather than content. Most humanities students lose marks not because they haven't studied, but because they misread provenance, content-dump in essays, or answer the question they wish had been asked — and those are fixable in a day. A crash course will not substitute for a year of content a student never learned. If your child knows the material but keeps landing in the same band, this is the right intervention.

The Humanities Clinic's Final Sprint Seminars start at $188 per four-hour session for Social Studies and History, and from $118 for the shorter Geography sessions. Every seat includes curated notes, exam-ready cheat sheets, stationery, and food and refreshments — materials worth $200. Online seats cost the same as onsite seats.

The most useful window is after prelims and roughly two to five weeks before the paper itself. By then a student knows exactly where they are losing marks, prelim papers across schools have been sat and can be analysed for patterns, and there is still enough time to practise a new technique before the real thing. Our seminars run 1–10 October 2026 for precisely this reason.

They do different jobs. Weekly tuition builds content and consistency over months; a crash course concentrates on exam technique and prioritisation in the final stretch. If your child is already in regular classes, a crash course adds the technique layer and the prelim-paper analysis. If they are not, a crash course is a focused way to fix answering technique without committing to a term.

Our tutors read this year's prelim papers from schools across Singapore and consolidate the patterns into a shortlist of likely themes. It is informed prioritisation for the final fortnight of revision — not a leak, and not a guarantee. Students should still revise broadly; the predictions tell them where to spend their last and best hours.

Three subjects across seven sessions. Social Studies — Source-Based Questions on 9 October, Structured Response Questions on 10 October. History — Source-Based Questions on 1 October, Structured Essay Questions on 2 October. Geography — Geography in Everyday Life and Tourism on 2 October, then Weather & Climate and Plate Tectonics on 3 October.

Yes. Sessions are sold individually, so most students book Social Studies alongside their elective — History or Geography. The Social Studies sessions run on 9 and 10 October, a full week after the History and Geography seminars, so there is no timetable conflict between the compulsory paper and either elective.

Yes. Social Studies is the compulsory paper for every Combined Humanities candidate, and our Social Studies sessions serve both Combined and Pure students. The History and Geography sessions cover the elective content and answering technique for both the Combined Humanities elective and the Pure syllabuses.

Onsite seats are capped at 50 per day and we do not open additional intake once they are filled. Online places are not capped in the same way, and online students receive the same tutor, the same materials and the same session.

All sessions run at SMU School of Economics, 90 Stamford Road, Singapore 178903. It is about two minutes' walk from Bras Basah MRT on the Circle Line, a short walk from Bencoolen on the Downtown Line, and roughly seven minutes from Dhoby Ghaut.

Just themselves and something to write with if they have a preference — stationery, notes, cheat sheets and refreshments are all provided. Students joining online will need a device with a stable connection and the materials we email a week beforehand.

Both sessions are led by the Clinic's co-founders. Ms Lynette Tan is a former Head of Department (Academics, Humanities) with fifteen years' teaching experience; Ms Teo Min Shuen is a government scholar with ten years in the classroom. Together they have co-published four O-Level essay guides for History and Geography, retailed at Popular, and they develop the Clinic's O-Level curricula.