Three years in which a study track, a school transcript and a set of examination codes harden into one university application. One tutor, one student, at the family's own table in Bangkok or over video anywhere in Thailand.
Upper secondary tutoring covers āļĄ.4 to āļĄ.6, the last three years of the Thai school ladder, where a student's chosen track, the GPAX their school reports and the TCAS papers they sit at āļĄ.6 all settle into a single university application. Edulom teaches those three years one tutor to one student.
Key Points
Rail corridor first, subject second. A tutor who cannot reach the address on a Tuesday evening is the wrong tutor, however good the paper record.
The tutor travels to the home, the condominium study room, or a quiet table near the station the family already uses.
For provinces where the subject tutor a student needs does not live nearby, and for the weeks when traffic makes travel unwise.
Students from the same room and the same track, sitting the same papers, sharing one tutor.
āļĄ.4 to āļĄ.6 is not one long stretch. It has four moments where a decision closes behind the student.
A student arrives from āļĄ.3 holding a track, sometimes chosen and sometimes handed to them by an entrance result. At āđāļĢāļāđāļĢāļĩāļĒāļāđāļāļĢāļĩāļĒāļĄāļāļļāļāļĄāļĻāļķāļāļĐāļē for āļāļĩāļāļēāļĢāļĻāļķāļāļĐāļē 2569, 13,895 candidates sat for 1,520 places, and the āļ§āļīāļāļĒāļēāļĻāļēāļŠāļāļĢāđâāļāļāļīāļāļĻāļēāļŠāļāļĢāđ route alone drew 10,220 of them for 1,000 seats. Whatever the outcome, the first semester timetable is now the student's subject list for three years.
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This is the year the examination list is actually decided, even though nobody sits anything yet. A faculty's formula names its codes, and the codes name the work. The second language papers, 83 āļāļĢāļąāđāļāđāļĻāļŠ through 89 āļŠāđāļāļ, are scheduled together, so a student takes one of them at most, while 82 āļ āļēāļĐāļēāļāļąāļāļāļĪāļĐ sits in its own slot and can be added to any of them.
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The first TCAS70 round opens on 15 August 2569 (2026), before this semester has even finished, and the same cycle brought in two new pieces: TCASfolio, a portfolio standard common to every faculty, and TCAS Verified, whose whole job is to shut out ghost-written submissions. A portfolio assembled in a fortnight now looks exactly like what that system was built to catch.
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The second semester opens on 1 November 2569 and then carries almost everything at once. O-NET for āļāļĩāļāļēāļĢāļĻāļķāļāļĐāļē 2569 falls on 10 to 13 January 2570 (2027) by Digital Testing, TGAT and TPAT2â5 on 30 January to 1 February, TPAT1 from āļāļŠāļāļ on 13 February, and the āļāļāļ. A-Level papers on 13 to 15 March, all of it sharing the term with the school's own final examinations.
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In āļĄ.4âāļĄ.6 a subject has two lives: the chapter the school marks, and the coded paper āļāļāļ. sets in March. Sessions carry both.
Codes and dates here are taken from what āļāļāļ. has announced for TCAS70, āļāļĩāļāļēāļĢāļĻāļķāļāļĐāļē 2570. Question counts appear only for the papers where āļāļāļ. has stated them.
Module 01
School mathematics through all three years, and the two applied-mathematics papers it eventually feeds.
What You Will Learn
Four families arrive at āļĄ.4âāļĄ.6 tutoring from four different directions, and the first session looks different for each.
Fresh from āļĄ.3, sometimes in the track they wanted and sometimes in the one the entrance result gave them. The subjects are suddenly deeper and the marking is stricter.
Recommended:
A destination that sets its own paper on its own date, run by the consortium of medical faculties rather than by a national testing body.
Recommended:
Thai school, Thai transcript, and an application that asks for SAT, IELTS or CU-TEP instead of TGAT. Chulalongkorn's BBA asks for SAT 1270 from a single sitting with IELTS Academic 6.5, TOEFL iBT 79 or CU-TEP with Speaking at 101.
Recommended:
The same ages, a vocational certificate instead of āļĄ.4âāļĄ.6, and a wish to keep the academic subjects warm rather than let them close.
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No scores are invented and no grade is predicted. What is sent is a record of what happened in the two hours, in language a parent who did not sit āļĄ.6 can read.
Each note names the āļĄ.4, āļĄ.5 or āļĄ.6 chapter covered and the examination code it belongs to, so a parent can see school work and admission work in one line.
On timed practice, which items were attempted, which were left, and where the clock ran out. A blank at the end of a paper is a pacing problem; a blank in the middle is a topic problem.
A running list of topics still not closed, carried from session to session until the March block. It shrinks or it does not, and either way it is visible.
If āļāļāļ. or āļŠāļāļĻ. moves a date, the note says so and says what it does to the plan. TGAT and TPAT already shifted into late January for this cycle.
Each one is reasonable, each one was true at some point, and each one now costs either marks or months.
Why it happens
It was once read that way, and the memory is strong. O-NET became voluntary from āļāļĩāļāļēāļĢāļĻāļķāļāļĐāļē 2563, and āļāļāļ. stopped using it in TCAS selection from TCAS65 onward. Families still reorganise a whole January around it.
How we fix it
Sit it if the school wants it for its own record, and put the January hours into the papers that decide a seat. The āļāļĩāļāļēāļĢāļĻāļķāļāļĐāļē 2569 sitting falls on 10 to 13 January 2570, which is two weeks before TGAT.
Why it happens
TCAS70 removed the fee for TGAT and TPAT1â5 entirely and made āļāļāļ. A-Level free for up to seven subjects. Cost used to ration the list. With that gone, students sign up for papers nobody asked them for.
How we fix it
Take the faculty formula first, count the codes it names, then count the weeks available to prepare them. A free paper still costs the revision time of a paper that mattered.
Why it happens
The language codes 83 āļāļĢāļąāđāļāđāļĻāļŠ, 84 āđāļĒāļāļĢāļĄāļąāļ, 85 āļāļĩāđāļāļļāđāļ, 86 āđāļāļēāļŦāļĨāļĩ, 87 āļāļĩāļ, 88 āļāļēāļĨāļĩ and 89 āļŠāđāļāļ are scheduled in the same slot. A student who has quietly been preparing two of them finds out at registration.
How we fix it
Decide the language code during āļĄ.5, while there is still a year to build it. Code 82 āļ āļēāļĐāļēāļāļąāļāļāļĪāļĐ is examined separately, so it can sit beside any one of the others.
Why it happens
The Portfolio round of TCAS70 opens on 15 August 2569, and TCAS70 brought in TCASfolio together with TCAS Verified specifically to block ghost-written submissions. A folder assembled over one weekend is the exact shape that system was designed to notice.
How we fix it
Collect evidence through āļĄ.4 and āļĄ.5 from things the student genuinely did, including a āļŠāļāļ§āļ. camp branch if one was attempted. Verification is easy when the work is real.
Why it happens
GPAX accumulates. The āļĄ.4 semester-one report is inside the number a faculty reads three years later, and Chulalongkorn's BBA programme will not consider an application below GPAX 3.00 at all.
How we fix it
Treat the first āļĄ.4 report card as the opening entry of the admission file, and repair a weak subject in āļĄ.4 rather than negotiating with it in āļĄ.6.
Nothing here is a criticism of parents. Thai admission changed its examination names, its papers and its fees inside a few years, and the version a family remembers is usually the version that was true when they last looked.
Nothing on this list is a claim about results. No student in Thailand has reached the end of āļĄ.6 with us, so a results table here would have to be borrowed from somebody else, and a borrowed record says nothing at all about your own child. What the list does promise is the running of the lessons, and you can hold us to every line of it from the first week.
Before the first session, the target faculty's requirements are read and the codes it names are written down. A session plan that does not know which papers count is a session plan about nothing.
Screening is done on the specific code, and the candidate teaches a released question aloud during the call. Subject knowledge and the ability to teach it under time pressure are separate skills.
The parent receives a note naming the chapter covered, the code it feeds, and what remains unfinished. Nothing has to be reconstructed later from memory.
Say the word and someone else takes the chair, at no extra cost. The cost of a poor fit belongs with us, and a student already counting down to an examination should never be the one carrying it.
The fee is stated in writing before the first class, and it does not move afterwards for travel or for the length of the journey.
Plans follow āļāļĩāļāļēāļĢāļĻāļķāļāļĐāļē 2569, its October break and its long holiday from April, instead of an academic year borrowed from somewhere else.
No photographs here, and no head count either. Edulom has yet to sit a tutor down beside a āļĄ.4 anywhere in Thailand, so a wall of faces would be a wall of strangers. The screen every applicant goes through is the part that already exists, and it is written out below.
Video sessions reach students anywhere in Thailand, and they matter most for the narrow examination codes, where the right teacher may simply live in another province.
In-person sessions are arranged in Bangkok and the provinces beside it, Nonthaburi, Samut Prakan and Pathum Thani. A family is paired with whoever already shares their line on the BTS or the MRT. A āļĄ.5 weekday leaves one narrow opening, between the last period at school and the hour homework has to start, and the length of the journey is what sets the width of it.
On timing, on which papers to sit, on what O-NET is still for, and on how a tutor gets swapped when the fit turns out wrong.
Tell us the year, the track and the faculty being aimed at. We will come back with the codes that decision implies and a tutor screened against them.