The best thing is that he doesn't have to waste time travelling because he always does it from home. Well, Yu Jin is being tutored over the Internet - on his computer. While most take normal tuition every year, according to a recent Straits Times survey, some, like Yu Jin, are turning to the easier and cheaper alternative on the Web. Students purchase a set of educational CD-ROMs, developed from the Ministry of Education syllabus, which have Web links for updates from the tutor, and weekly tests.
Students can e-mail or fax tutors their assignments and queries.
The tuition experience includes multimedia videos of laboratory experiments like litmus tests which the student may have missed. The multimedia appeal may well be the hook that draws children in. And it also makes today's youth, who are most comfortable behind the anonymity of a computer screen, more forthright with their questions. Parents also find advantages in not having to chauffeur their children or risk letting strangers into their homes. However, web tuition may not be for everyone.