Tip 1: When drawing near the exam dates, teachers will stress on the most important pointers to look out for. Take these seriously. Most of the time, what the teachers emphasize on are very much likely to come out.

Tip 2: Pratice with past year exam papers like there's no tomorrow. Questions have a high chance of repeated similarities with minimal change. Past year exam papers are the key to mastering the O levels.

Tip 3: Remember that beating the O Levels is not about how smart you are, it's about how well you recognise and address questions, meaning that understanding patterns in questions that come out time and again is crucial!

Tip 4: Most past year exam papers will have an anser key and a well worked out "model" solution. Learn to digest the solution step by step and learn to model it. This way, you ensure that in structured marking papers like mathematics, you grab every important mark.

Tip 5: When in doubt, ask. If it means pestering your lecturer 20 times a day, do it. Look among your peers and find the best scoring students. Ask them to share with you how they view a question. Very often, your viewpoint to a question differs greatly from another peer. Model the best and learn from the best.

Tip 6: Forget Brand's Essence of Chix! What matters most is that you are so fluent with the question that the answers flow out almost immediately. This holds truer for subjects such as E-Maths and A Maths where practise makes perfect.

Tip 7: Approach the O levels tactically. Remember that it is all about points. Do not ever fall into the trap of thinking an A1 for Literature will compensate an E9 for Chinese. Too many students make that lazy decision. Contingency plans don't always work and doing this style of compensation may backfire.

Tip 8: As stressed by many experts, do not leave mugging to the last day. You will observe that top scorers in the O Levels are not only bright students, but diligent ones who do constant revision MONTHS before the O Level Exams. There is NO magic pill.