Pitaya P5 P6 Math and Science Online Course!!

TL;DR = Scroll to the bottom. I have a very special discount code to share for P5 and P6 parents!! But I still suggest you read through. 😁

I really love Pitaya! Not the fruit, but pitaya.com.sg! 

If I were to use a word to describe them, it has got to be GENEROUS.

Where can you find a online top schools test paper platform for FREE, with so many other features like AI-powered question bank, wrong questions collection, leaderboard (kids favourite), REDEMPTION (another kids favourite).   TOTALLY FREE! 😱

You can read more about my previous post on Pitaya's free online top schools test paper platform here.

Other than the features mentioned above, they also provide many free useful downloads under their "Resources" section, and they are updating this section frequently with more freebies.

And that's not all!

They also provide paid LIVE zoom Science class for 2024 P6, past year English, Math, Science prelim paper classes, and pre-recorded P5 and P6 Math and Science course!

My daughter will be P6 in 2024, and we have started watching the pre-recorded course for P6 Math and Science during this holiday. 

Science is taught by Teacher Elicia. Teacher Elicia specializes in teaching primary mainstream science and GEP science for 12 years and she used to be the Academic Director at The Learning Lab for 3 years. She explains the concepts clearly and shows interesting videos and even do some experiments during the lessons.

Math is taught by Teacher Dicky. My daughter is familiar with teacher Dicky because she used to attend his live lessons some time back. Teacher Dicky is a very experienced teacher, he is very patient and detailed when teaching. He was the Chief Presiding Examiner (CPE) for PSLE for more than 10 years and the Assistant Supervisor for Marking (ASM) of Mathematics (6 years) and Foundation Mathematics (1 year).

My daughter enjoys watching the lessons because each topic is divided into a few short lessons so that she doesn't feel overwhelmed by the new information.

Side track: I recently bought a portable projector just so she can watch the Pitaya lessons in her room, projected onto the wall like watching movie 😂 She's enjoying the novelty LOL.

Another thing that keeps her wanting to watch more is that the reward for watching each lesson is 100 points! (Yay to toys redemption!) She really love seeing her points going up and climbing the leaderboard. 😂

If you are keen to experience the lessons, you can go straight to the Pitaya Class page and there are some free lessons to watch. 

For Science

Overview tab: Introduction of the course and teacher

Lessons tab: some free lessons you can watch to have a feel of the course.

Similarly,

For Math

Overview tab: Introduction of the course and teacher

Lessons tab: some free lessons you can watch to have a feel of the course.

In the course page, there are links for the lessons, duration of each lesson, "Download", and "Practice".

Each topic is divided into short digestible lessons so that students will not get tired or bored watching.

Click on the "Download" and you will get the pdf of the tutorial for the class. 

"Practice" provides more questions to practice for the topic.

One thing I like about the video lesson is that at times, the question will pop up for student to answer. This creates more engagement during the lesson.

Same goes for Math course

For your convenience, here are videos of Teacher Elicia and Teacher Dicky going through questions, which Pitaya has shared on Youtube. 

If you are keen to sign up, here's the exciting news!!
Pitaya is generously offering super special discount of $200, YES $200 OFF (that's 33.3% discount leh omg!) for sgprimaryschool.com readers!

The usual price for 1 course is $599, but you can sign up for the course and get a discount of $200 by using our discount code! That's only $399 for the ENTIRE COURSE, covering all topics of the level! 😍😍😍 

Here's the exclusive discount code WLvf8TOj

Just head over to Pitaya Class page, click [Buy Now] on the recorded course you want to purchase, enter the discount code WLvf8TOj under "Have a promo code?" field and hit [Apply] 

You will get $200 off immediately! 

What's more, you gain 1,000 points upon enrolling!!

Hope your kids will enjoy the courses as much as my girl does! 

Remember to sign up an account at Pitaya to enjoy the amazing features of their free online test papers!

Also, consider joining their Facebook group for more updates and freebies!

Merry Christmas and Happy 2024!!!

PaperOne Paper Promo on Shopee

 Printing past year papers yourself?

Sidenote: My favourite website to download free past year papers is sgtestpaper.com , no idea why, just like their website more (we not affiliated ah). I always go to this website. There are other websites too, you can refer to my Resources page for the list where you can download past year papers for free.

It's the SALE period again! I forgot to buy my printing paper yesterday 11.11 sale. I thought I missed out on the discount but thankfully, much to my delight this morning, that THE SALE IS STILL ON, 11th to 13th!! 

https://shope.ee/5ARmvA5nMJ

It's $19.08 for 5 reams. After applying the shop voucher of $2, the final price is $17.08. That's about $3.40 per ream! 😱  And on top of that, I managed to claim and apply Shopee Mall 30% cashback (cap at 500 coins), and I will get 500 coins cashback after transaction is completed (which is equivalent to $5)!  That means all in all I only pay $2.40 per ream!!

AND the best part is of course FREE DELIVERY using the free shipping voucher. 

Remember to claim the shop voucher by PaperOne, and also all the discount and free shipping vouchers by Shopee before carting out to enjoy this offer!

I used to like papers above 80gsm as they are thicker and nicer. But after printing papers through the years, I now prefer 75gsm.. Thinner paper = thinner stack to store = save more space. 

Realised I'm always so excited when there's good promo on papers.. 😂 My 2021 post on buying paper from PaperOne Shopee 

[REVIEW] Pitaya - FREE!! Primary School Top Schools Test Papers Online Platform

 Who doesnt like free stuff? Auntie here LOVES free stuff, especially when it is GOOOD too!

I can't believe this platform with such amazing features is COMPLETELY FREE! 

I'm referring to this test papers online platform called Pitaya. 

Take a look here:

It has [Paper Center], in which there are 2 modes, Mock Exam and Practice. 

[Mock Exam] will be timed and scores recorded.

For [Practice], you can choose the school/subject/paper to do.

[Test Centre] It has [Question Bank] [Wrong Question] and [Favourite]

[Question Bank] is powered by AI, which push questions for you to do.

[Wrong Question] records all the past wrong questions that you had done on the platform, for easy reviewing. I LOVE this feature the most! 

[Favourites] is like bookmark. It allows you to "star" whichever questions you encountered along the way, and they are all stored under this section.

For the questions at [Test Center], you can further filter them according to their topics. Lovely!

[Leaderboard] This is my daughter's favourite... kids are so competitive 😂

[Redeem] They even have redemption?! Hmm.. I'm not sure, a bit paiseh to redeem  when I'm not even paying anything. 😅 but my girl is so motivated to gain points and wanting to redeem something when she saves enough.

If you have signed up and find it good, you can share with your friends and earn more points!

Pitaya has all that I could ask for. Although we do spot mistakes here and there (1 million questions in the bank though, can't expect totally error-free. We just notify them to fix it whenever we encounter any. - yes you can report mistakes)

This is our referral link to Pitaya. If you find this post useful, please click on our link to sign up an account on Pitaya! 

They are currently taking order for 2023 PSLE Top Schools Prelim papers as well. Members can contact them to purchase and will be delivered to door-step by 1st week of September. 

I see that they are coming up with online classes in future too, so stay tuned!

[Review] SG Primary App

 UPDATE: It seems like they are no longer in operation. But I have found another platform that works better and faster -- Pitaya Check out my review on the platform, or head over to sign up a free account. Yes they are totally FREE!

Let's talk about SG Primary app!!

Do note that this sgprimaryschool.com is not affiliated to SG Primary.  😊

I am referring to...

It's an app that provides top primary schools exam paper questions, in a quiz format -- automarking the MCQ and fill in the blank questions. Some of the questions comes with explanations too (pretty sure they are working on that to provide more explanations and solutions).

They have 3 types of plans, Basic Plan, Plus Plan, and Pro Plan, ranging from $29.98/year to $89.98/year.

You can also play (with limitations) as Guest without having to sign up or login.

It used to be a free app, and I had been using it for 1-2 years prior. When they rolled out the paid plans, being a Kiasu mum, I signed up for the Pro Plan. And here's my review:

(Although it is an app, it actually has a web version, and I am taking the screenshots for this post using the web version. Weirdly, they don't link to their web version on their homepage, but here it is, the link to the web version: https://sgprimary.org/convert-account)

What I like about the app

It's an app! I travel with J on public transport quite a bit (to go to enrichment classes), when she request for some screen time, I will ask her to do some questions on SG Primary. If I bring extra phone with me, we will do the questions separately and challenge our scores.

All the questions done and the results are tracked, so you can revisit them again, especially the wrong ones.

It also provides performance tracking reports

Honestly, I have never really looked at the reports. Because all I wanted is for J to do the questions. Depending on your needs, it may or may not be a useful feature. But I like it because it's a visual representation of what has been done. 

What I don't like about the app

It crashes pretty often. It gets very frustrating when you are half way through the questions and then it crashes. The app just closes by itself and you lost whatever you were doing. So I will not encourage you to set your number of questions more than 10 per session. In fact, 5 questions will be a safer bet.

Another thing that I hope they can improve on is the errors. I don't fault them because it is really a lot of questions and options to work on. 

Minor typos are ok as we can figure it out. But there was one questions that made us scratch our heads recently. 

It says correct answer is "hammers". J asked me why and I couldn't answer her because I don't know what "hammers more energy from the sun" means.

My English is not exactly good, so I thought it was my problem. I googled for the definition of "hammer" and still didn't understand why "hammers" would be an answer for this question.

Finally, I went to download the actual past year paper, and realised that the word was not "hammers" but "harness". 😂 I have reported the error a week ago but it's still not updated. We shall see.

Apart from that, I think it's a pretty helpful app, especially for people like us who are on the go. It saves the hassle of marking the physical paper.