ERPZ.net Survey
By Kevin
Thanks for everyone's support of ERPZ.net so far. Our visits have risen substantially in the past couple of months. We're hoping to improve the site experience and the materials on ERPZ.net. We've prepared a survey to gather feedback on what needs to be improved and hope visitors could just spend some time completing this short survey for us.
Your responses would contribute to the future development of ERPZ.net.
Essays Expanded!
By Kevin
ERPZ is committed to being a top A Levels Resource site for students but so far our niche have always been with the Social Sciences. The main reason is that materials for the sciences are always available through Wikipedia and science knowledge are largely fixed, duplicated across guidebooks and textbooks. We welcome students who would be interested to contribute notes for sciences and other areas still not covered by ERPZ. We'll continue to expand and provide more aids to our readers.
On the other hand, the social sciences exhibit higher variability in terms of specific knowledge and students often struggle because there is no 'standard answers' to follow.
ERPZ do not attempt to give you standard answers but offers suggestions on how you might be able to do your writing so that you will be able to achieve better scores. It would be good if students can master the essay organization, structure and style that will help to present depth of knowledge and sophistication in thinking. Therefore, we've expanded the essay section, adding another 10 Economics essays. We've renamed the page and also reformatted the presentation of the essays; the essays are all by ERPZ editor, Kevin. If you've found the essays useful, please tell your friends about ERPZ and let more people benefit from these writings.
Project Work!
By Kevin
For the JC1 kids, you're starting on your Project Work at the moment and probably quite confused about it. Kevin have come up with walkthrough for the subject that will take up the entire year of your time. This walkthrough is basically a simple introduction and collection of general tips for the various segments of the PW. There are plans to gather more resources to help students with this assessment by publishing a full guide on the subject.
Let's wait and see.
Little Reorg
By Kevin
ERPZ undergoes continuous improvements and in order to make way for more content on our site, there is a little re-organization going on this few days with the existing content. The Resource menu will now only capture all the notes that we have made available on ERPZ and the A Levels Essays are now placed under the menu heading, "Writings", together with our book reviews.
We are expecting some articles on interview skills and writing of personal statements coming up to help students who have just received their A Levels results to work on their university and scholarship applications. These articles will be catalogued under a new page under Writings soon.
Stay tuned.
More Resource Added
By Kevin
Wei Seng has contributed yet another set of materials to ERPZ, this time spanning Economics and Chemistry; here are the links to them:
Economics
Terms & Definitions for H2 Economics - Glossary compiled by Wei Seng
Chemistry
Gaseous Chemistry Summary - Summary of concepts under Gas Laws By Wei Seng
Chemical Periodicity Summary - Summary of Chemical Periodicity and relevant properties By Wei Seng
H2 Chemistry SPA Skill A Guide - Summary of observations and organic reactions used in Science Practical Assessment (SPA) Skill A By Wei Seng
They can be found in the relevant subjects page under resources of course.
Happy Lunar New Year once again!
New Year Decoration
By Kevin
Chinese New Year is approaching and ERPZ is getting a little touch up on the layout. New banner icons have been introduced in the front page to allow new users to access our materials more readily. Our homepage will be undergoing more changes in future as our content increases.
End of Packages
By Kevin
The Reading Packages have been discontinued after 12 weeks. Thanks for all the reading of those links and watching the interesting videos featured. We might continue to do this now and then but no longer regularly and on Saturdays. Those interested in checking out the packs we have previously can click on the links here:
Past Reading Packages
Week 1 - 24 October 2009
Week 2 - 31 October 2009
Week 3 - 6 November 2009
Week 4 - 13 November 2009
Week 5 - 21 November 2009
Week 6 - 28 November 2009
Week 7 - 5 December 2009
Week 8 - 12 December 2009
Week 9 - 19 December 2009
Week 10 - 26 December 2009
Week 11 - 2 January 2010
Week 12 - 9 January 2010
All reading packs and future ones will still be filed under 'Reading Packs', so check it out to view the archives. Get on reading and viewing!
Layout Re-org
By Kevin
ERPZ now have a permanent homepage! We are still working on it and hopefully, we'll be able to feature a couple of articles on the homepage each day. The new system of navigation is designed to give the articles and resources put on ERPZ roughly the same exposure and also to allow first-time users to learn more about ERPZ before going on their search for academic resources.
We hope this would be an improvement over the former blog sort of navigation system layout.
Books Page!
By Kevin
Those readers who pay attention to stuff that appears on our navigation bar when they move their mouse on it would realise there is now a 'Books To Read' page under Resources. ERPZ have accumulated quite a fair bit of entries that are basically book reviews and it'll be good to catalogue them on a single page help readers access them quickly although you could always use the tags.
There might soon be a page indexing the articles on studying and motivation as well, so stay-tuned.
ERPZ in 2010
By Kevin
Happy New Year!
ERPZ emerged as an educational initiative about a year ago, originally focusing on delivery of study tips and exam-smart techniques; our first article, 'Slack Later' introduces a means of disciplining your mind by 'procrastinating procrastination'. Within a month the author (basically just Kevin) lost steam and articles stop flowing on the site, stunting further developments. An initiative to start a community around studying through a forum failed because of lack of forum-management expertise.
Roughly 6 months after ERPZ founding, the site underwent a transformation, moving beyond just tips and mind tricks, to discussion on worldly affairs (news in other words), tracking world developments in different fields (mainly areas of Economics, Technologies, sometimes on Climate issues) as well as making reads recommendation. This model is basically learnt from The General Paper, an initiative by a JC GP Tutor to help aggregate resources from the web for students of GP.
Today, after hundreds over entries, ERPZ is updated almost everyday; features writings of a few authors, a collection of notes from students of Top Junior Colleges of Singapore, weekly packs of video & readings links and more. In 2010, ERPZ will continue to deliver aggregation of content for the different social sciences and possibly the sciences as well, make reading recommendations and reviews of different academic resources for students at Junior Colege Level. Once again, any interested contributors might want to contact us through the comments system here and help ERPZ do more for students.