YAP Chin Yee, 13, won't be holidaying for four weeks next month.

She will be holidaying for just one week in Australia, before resuming classes at Ace Scorers tuition centre.

Other than her English, Maths and Science private tuition classes, she will be taking on an intensive five-day algebra course designed for the June holidays.

The top mathematics student of her class at Kuo Chuan Presbytarian High is not complaining, though.

Just last year, prior to her PSLE, her grades for maths and science were often dismal, with a low of 20 per cent at one point.

Just months before the critical PSLE, she pulled up her socks with intensive private tuition classes, and scored an A for her maths paper, while she got a B for science, up from D in her preliminary exams.

Now, she doesn't dare slack for fear that her results may slacken, too.

"Sixty per cent of my overall grade depends on graded assignments and class tests, so I feel the pressure to perform well even when there isn't a major exam coming up," she explains.

Her mother, Mrs Angie Yap, 40, and father Mr Yap Wing Sang, 44, run a food and beverage business, and hardly have time to supervise Chin Yee in the day.

Mrs Yap says: "We'll be working during her school holidays, so it's good that much of her time is occupied with tuition."

An active table tennis player in school, Chin Yee likes to blog as well in her spare time.

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