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Over half of pupils who receive tuition start at 7 or younger: ST poll
ST poll also finds 85% of pupils start tuition classes before reaching upper primary level
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Tutor Calister Ng Jing Ni, 25, with pupils at EduFirst Learning Centre. Families spent about $1.4 billion last year on tuition for their children, according to the Household Expenditure Survey released in July.
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Calvin Yang
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The race is on for tuition as soon as children start primary school.
More than half of primary school pupils who are sent for tuition classes start at the age of seven or younger, a poll commissioned by The Straits Times has found.
