Poly Yeung

• Over 10 years of private tutoring experience, teaching students from both elite local schools and top international schools across Hong Kong.
• Full-time professional tutor specialising in:
  • IB English A Language & Literature SL
  • IB English B HL / SL
  • IB Chinese A Language & Literature SL
  • IB Chinese B HL / SL
  • HKDSE English / Chinese
  • IGCSE English / Chinese
  • MYP English / Chinese
• Graduated from Erasmus University Rotterdam with extensive experience teaching students from schools including:
  • ISF Academy
  • Victoria Shanghai Academy (VSA)
  • YCIS
  • SISHK
  • Malvern College Hong Kong
  • ESF Schools
  • CIS
  • DBS
  • Lingnan University History Department
• Achieved outstanding public examination results:
  • HKDSE Chinese: 5**
  • HKDSE English: 5**
  • IELTS Overall Band: 8.5
• Possesses extensive knowledge of examiner expectations, marking criteria, and high-scoring strategies across multiple examination systems.

• Extensive experience training students for:
  • IB Paper 1
  • IB Paper 2
  • Individual Oral (IO)
  • HL Essay
  • English / Chinese B Writing
• Specialises in transforming students with weak analytical foundations into confident high-performing candidates through highly structured exam-focused training.
• Developed comprehensive writing frameworks, literary analysis structures, and examiner-oriented notes used by students across various top schools.
• Strong expertise in:
  • textual analysis
  • comparative essays
  • argument development
  • advanced writing techniques
  • meta-language application

• Specialises in advanced argumentative writing and exam-oriented strategy training.
• Provides highly targeted training for:
  • Reading
  • Writing
  • Speaking
  • Integrated Skills
• Known for intensive writing correction and precise feedback on logic, structure, vocabulary, tone, and argumentation.
• Successfully helped multiple students improve from:
  • Level 3 → Level 5
  • Level 4 → Level 5*
  • Level 5 → Level 5**

• Successfully helped an IB Chinese A SL student from SISHK improve from a school-predicted Grade 4 to a final Grade 6 within just 2 months through intensive Paper 1 & Paper 2 rescue training, highly targeted textual analysis, and examiner-focused writing strategies.
• Guided multiple IB English A SL/HL students in mastering sophisticated literary analysis, comparative writing, and Individual Oral (IO) performance, helping students significantly improve their analytical depth, clarity of argument, and academic expression.
• Helped an IB English B HL student improve from a predicted Grade 4 to a final Grade 7, with particular focus on advanced writing structure, argument development, and examiner expectations.
• Successfully trained students transitioning from local schools into highly demanding international curricula such as IB and IGCSE, enabling them to adapt rapidly to academic writing, critical thinking, and discussion-based learning environments.
• Assisted multiple HKDSE students in improving from:
  • Level 3 → Level 5
  • Level 4 → Level 5*
  • Level 5 → Level 5**
  particularly in argumentative writing, reading comprehension, and Chinese writing papers.
• Known for intensive “exam rescue” programmes for students facing severe difficulties shortly before examinations, with strong expertise in identifying hidden weaknesses and rapidly rebuilding students’ analytical and writing foundations under tight timelines.
• Students have received offers from competitive programmes and institutions including:
  • Medicine
  • Law
  • Top international schools
  • Overseas boarding schools
  • Russell Group universities

Believes that excellence in language subjects cannot be achieved through memorising model essays or vocabulary alone. True mastery comes from developing the ability to think critically, analyse deeply, and express ideas with clarity, precision, and intellectual maturity.

In both IB English A and IB Chinese A, lessons focus heavily on:

• close textual analysis
• argument construction
• comparative thinking
• sophisticated academic writing
• examiner expectations and assessment criteria

Through intensive discussion, detailed essay feedback, and highly personalised guidance, students are trained not only to achieve outstanding examination results, but also to become more confident, articulate, and independent thinkers.