Hi, I'm Hannah.
My name is Hannah Tan. To parents, I'm Ms Tan. To students, I'm Cher — every student in Singapore calls their teacher Cher, and in 20 years of private tuition, no student has ever called me anything else. The platform took the name the students already use. The reports and updates you receive come from Ms Tan. Either way, you're talking to the same person.
I graduated with a Chemistry degree from NUS, then worked as a chemist in industry before moving into private tuition. That background matters. I've used chemistry in a professional context — not just as an exam subject — and I bring that understanding into how I explain concepts to students.
In 20 years of tutoring I've sat with hundreds of students — diligent kids who understood the chemistry — and watched them come back from exams frustrated because they knew the answer but didn't get the marks. The problem is never the chemistry. It's the language. SEAB examiners have very specific expectations. A correct idea written with the wrong words scores zero. So I built the CHER Method™ — four steps, applied consistently, every lesson — to fix exactly that.
Students who put in the work — attending lessons, finishing homework, sitting the weekly checkpoints — have improved by 2–3 grades over the year. The CHER Method™ provides the structure, the SEAB-aligned vocabulary, and the weekly checkpoints that catch gaps early. Your child shows up and does the work. We work the rest out together.