Q: What does Physics Junior College (JC) Tuition: 2025/26 IP Student Guide cover? A: Why JC Physics marks hinge on spreadsheet-ready practical skills, SUVAT-to-fields concept transfer.
TL;DR JC Physics allocates 20 % of the A-Level grade to a spreadsheet-based practical paper, drops Mid-Years in favour of high-stakes Block Tests, and expects IP students to juggle electronics, fields and SHM barely eight months after their Year 4 promos. Specialist tuition that blends SUVAT-vector drills, ACE-style lab coaching and timed-paper stamina loops can lift grades by 1-2 bands within a semester. Parents: lock in support before the Term 1 WA or your child risks chasing deficits all year.
practical weight and states that candidates “may use a spreadsheet to process data”.
1.2 No more Mid-Year Exams
MOE removed Mid-Years and capped schools at one Weighted Assessment (WA) per term to cut exam load. Result: students see their first 3-hour paper only at the JC 1 Promotional - often too late to patch pacing.
1.3 Competition for tuition slots is fierce
A 2024 Straits Times poll found 7 in 10 parents engage private tuition, up from 6 in 10 a decade ago, and Physics is in the top three subjects.
2 | Three Concept Cliffs That Drag JC Marks
Cliff
Typical symptom
How tuition fixes it
SUVAT \(\rightarrow\) Fields transfer
Treats potential lines as particle paths; mix-up in \(E=-\nabla V\).
Bridge lessons that map SUVAT graphs to electric-field energy diagrams.
Spreadsheet & ACE rubric
Writes “half-range error” for all spreads, omits SE from LINEST.
Profile: IPY4 graduate entered JC 1 with a C for Physics. Pain-points: sign errors in FBDs, zero spreadsheet know-how, clocked out after 2 h in first school mock.
