The Think Teach Story

We did not set out to start a tuition cen­tre. We set out to solve a prob­lem we had lived our­selves.
 
Our found­ing team came from Law, Finance, and Engi­neer­ing — fields that demand­ed not just knowl­edge, but the abil­i­ty to think clear­ly under pres­sure, com­mu­ni­cate pre­cise­ly, and per­form when it count­ed. As schol­ars and doc­tor­al can­di­dates, we did not suc­ceed because we worked hard­er than every­one else. We suc­ceed­ed because we fig­ured out how to think and learn more effec­tive­ly than the stan­dard approach allowed.
 
That is why we start­ed Think Teach Acad­e­my — to give every stu­dent access to the kind of think­ing and learn­ing that took us to the top of our respec­tive fields.
 
Our approach is built around a sim­ple but pow­er­ful phi­los­o­phy: every ques­tion that can be test­ed can be decod­ed, every decod­ed ques­tion can be matched with a smart tech­nique, and every smart tech­nique prac­tised enough times becomes sec­ond nature under exam con­di­tions. We call this our 3D approach: Decod­ing Ques­tions, Devis­ing Smart Tech­niques, and Deliv­er­ing Results.
 
We do not just hire teach­ers. We hand-pick edu­ca­tors who share our stan­dards and train them rig­or­ous­ly to deliv­er every les­son the Think Teach way — uncom­pro­mis­ing, con­sis­tent, and always in ser­vice of the stu­dent sit­ting in front of them.
 
Over the years we have had the priv­i­lege of sup­port­ing more than 10,000 stu­dents in build­ing not just stronger results, but gen­uine aca­d­e­m­ic con­fi­dence. Our work has been recog­nised by The Straits Times, Chan­nel NewsA­sia, Bloomberg, and South Korea’s Edu­ca­tion­al Broad­cast­ing Net­work — which flew to Sin­ga­pore specif­i­cal­ly to doc­u­ment what hap­pens inside our class­rooms.
 
We also know that a grade is not the whole sto­ry. That is why along­side our aca­d­e­m­ic pro­grammes we offer DSA con­sul­ta­tion and pub­lic speak­ing work­shops — because true suc­cess depends on a child’s abil­i­ty to think inde­pen­dent­ly and com­mu­ni­cate with con­fi­dence.
 
We know it is not easy to raise a child in today’s envi­ron­ment. We are here to make sure that when your child walks into an exam­i­na­tion hall — or a uni­ver­si­ty inter­view, or their first job — they are ready.
 
Not just pre­pared. Ready.

Management

Algene

Algene | LL.B. (Hons) LL.M.

Co-Founder, Chief Education Officer
Algene did not become a lawyer because he was told to. He became one because he was drawn to the kind of think­ing it demand­ed — pre­cise, struc­tured, and always in ser­vice of a clear out­come.
 
After grad­u­at­ing from Anglo-Chi­nese Junior Col­lege, Algene earned a dou­ble degree from Sin­ga­pore Man­age­ment Uni­ver­si­ty under the pres­ti­gious Uni­ver­si­ty Schol­ars Pro­gramme Schol­ar­ship, top­ping his Mas­ter of Laws cohort before going on to prac­tise at two of Singapore’s Big Four law firms. He is cur­rent­ly pur­su­ing a PhD in Law.
 
But teach­ing was always the pull.
 
Algene left law to teach at a top gov­ern­ment school — and dis­cov­ered some­thing that would define every­thing TTA became. The stu­dents who per­formed best were not the most nat­u­ral­ly gift­ed. They were the ones who had learned to decode a ques­tion before answer­ing it, match it to the right tech­nique, and exe­cute under pres­sure. That insight became the foun­da­tion of TTA’s entire cur­ricu­lum.
 
Today Algene leads TTA’s cur­ricu­lum and devel­op­ment team with the same rigour he brought to law. Every les­son mate­r­i­al, every tech­nique, every pro­gramme reflects a sin­gle belief: that smart study­ing is not a tal­ent. It is a skill. And every child can learn it.
Boon Heng

Dr. Boon Heng | B.Eng.(Hons) M.Eng. Ph.D.

Director, Chief Executive Officer
Dr. Boon’s aca­d­e­m­ic jour­ney is the kind that makes par­ents take notice — and for good rea­son.
 
He attend­ed Impe­r­i­al Col­lege Lon­don on a high­ly com­pet­i­tive SAF schol­ar­ship, com­plet­ing his under­grad­u­ate and post­grad­u­ate stud­ies in Mate­ri­als Sci­ence and Nuclear Engi­neer­ing. After serv­ing as a naval offi­cer with the Repub­lic of Sin­ga­pore Navy for close to six years, he went on to com­plete a PhD in Engi­neer­ing at the Nation­al Uni­ver­si­ty of Sin­ga­pore, sup­port­ed by the pres­ti­gious NUS Grad­u­ate School for Inte­gra­tive Sci­ences and Engi­neer­ing schol­ar­ship and the Nation­al Research Foun­da­tion, Prime Minister’s Office Sin­ga­pore.
 
What brought him to TTA was not a career piv­ot. It was a con­vic­tion.
 
Dr. Boon believes that the abil­i­ty to think and learn smart is not reserved for the aca­d­e­m­i­cal­ly gift­ed. It is a dis­ci­pline that can be taught, prac­tised, and mas­tered — and that the qual­i­ty of teach­ing is what deter­mines whether a stu­dent reach­es that point. At TTA, he leads the aca­d­e­m­ic team in trans­lat­ing that con­vic­tion into pro­grammes, ped­a­gogy, and les­son expe­ri­ences that con­sis­tent­ly deliv­er results.
 
His stan­dard for what hap­pens inside a TTA class­room is the same stan­dard he applied to every­thing that came before it. Uncom­pro­mis­ing, rig­or­ous, and always focused on what the stu­dent in front of him actu­al­ly needs.

Shou Yee | B.B.M. (Hons) B.Sc (Econs) (Hons)

Co-Founder, Chief Strategy Officer
Shou Yee has always seen pat­terns where oth­ers see noise.
 
As an alum­nus of Raf­fles Junior Col­lege and the pio­neer batch of the Raf­fles Inte­grat­ed Pro­gramme, he went on to grad­u­ate with a dou­ble degree from SMU’s pres­ti­gious Lee Kong Chi­an Schol­ars Pro­gramme before build­ing a career in eco­nom­ics research, invest­ment man­age­ment, and even­tu­al­ly UBS AG — where he joined through the bank’s com­pet­i­tive Grad­u­ate Tal­ent Pro­gramme.
 
That instinct for data and pat­tern recog­ni­tion became one of TTA’s most dis­tinc­tive advan­tages.
 
Shou Yee applied the same ana­lyt­i­cal rigour he used in finance to exam­i­na­tion papers — map­ping ques­tion trends, iden­ti­fy­ing recur­ring pat­terns, and trans­lat­ing them into tech­niques stu­dents could learn, remem­ber, and apply con­sis­tent­ly. The result is a cur­ricu­lum that does not just pre­pare stu­dents for ques­tions they have seen before. It pre­pares them for ques­tions they have not.
 
But what dri­ves Shou Yee is not the data. It is what hap­pens when a stu­dent who once dread­ed a sub­ject starts to believe they can actu­al­ly be good at it. He has seen it enough times to know that con­fi­dence and results are not sep­a­rate out­comes. One cre­ates the oth­er. And both start with being shown the right way to think.

Every TTA story starts somewhere.

For most fam­i­lies it starts with a sin­gle tri­al class — one les­son that changes how their child sees learn­ing. We would love for your child’s sto­ry to begin the same way.

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