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Majority of Singapore's student population undertakes the Singapore-Cambridge A-Level and O-Level examinations. A significant portion also takes up the International Baccalaureate examinations. Parents and students consider these as high state examinations to secure a place in a reputable university, hence securing a good career future. The Singapore Government's expenditure on education for the year 2017 is approximately SGD 12.69 billion. In comparison, the private tutoring industry accounts for about SGD 1 billion.

Singapore and her people are academic focused. Almost every year, reports on Singapore's performance in the Programme for International Student Assessment (Pisa) are scrutinised. The results have been encouraging; Among the 72 countries and economies, Singapore's proportion of low performers is among the lowest while her proportion of top performers is the highest.

Over the past decade, big names in the tutoring industry have also emerged. They cater to students who require English, Chinese, Humanities, Math, Chemistry and Physics tuition. In addition to tutoring chains, individual tutors have also banded together for form associations in a bid to improve the quality of the tutors in the shadow education industry.