Extracted from The Straits Times dated 23 July 1998

Komathy Kuppusamy, 19, is in the second year of a material Science course at the National University of Singapore.

She might not have got there, she said, had it not been for the tuition classes she attended in SINDA's Tutorial Enhanced Programme (STEP) that saw her through her GCE O level examinations in 1994.

In 1992, after only a year of STEP classes, she topped her class in Mathematics.

Two years later, she won an award from Sembawang constituency for being the area's best GCE O-level Indian student.

Miss Komathy said that SINDA's tutors helped her to get a strong foundation in Mathematics. She had been tutored at home before, but found the SINDA class more useful although it meant taking a bus to Fuchun Secondary twice a week after school.

The tutors were qualified teachers who knew the syllabus inside out.

"They guided us according to how we were taught in school," she said.

"At least I know that I made the right decision attending the STEP classes and I got grades good enough that helped me get a place in NUS eventually." [ 5 top ]

Extracted from The Sunday Times dated 23 July 2000

Thirteen-year-old G.Thirumurugan is glad he made an effort to attend tuition classes held by the Singapore Indian Development Association (SINDA).

He made a concerted effort in Primary 6 to attend the tuition classes, called STEP, to get into the Normal (Academic) stream at Jin Tai Secondary School.

Yesterday, the boy was one of 50 students who were given the Best Overall Improvement Award in the Primary School Leaving Examination (PSLE) category.

Senthilnathan, 17, another STEP student who is currently a student in Temasek Polytechnic said, "SINDA classes turned my red marks to blue, from F9 in Maths to an A2 in my O levels. [ 5 top ]

Extracted from The Sunday Times dated 1 November 1998

The Singapore Indian Development Association (SINDA) has come up with a new, improved tuition programme to help students study smart and stay focused on examinations.

During the weekly two-hour sessions, SINDA tutors will cover difficult topics and teach students to study smart and tackle examination questions. These changes will keep the programmes relevant to today's education system. [ 5 top ]

Extracted from The Straits Times dated 4 January 1998

She failed Mathematics and Science in Primary 5, so Miss Yogeswary Maniam, 17, never dreamt that one day she would be taking these subjects at A level.

But then, thanks to extra tuition from the Singapore Indian Development Association (SINDA), she scored an A for Mathematics and a B for Science the following year, in her Primary School Leaving Examinations (PSLE).

"Once the SINDA tutors helped me grasp the concepts, I found that I enjoyed the subjects very much and was actually very good at them". [ 5 top ]