Our Story

We didn't start a tuition centre.We started a community.

MACRO Academy founder Jay delivering a speech
The MACRO Record

2,500+

Students and families taught since founding

70%+

Consistent distinction rate across A-Level cohorts

70%+

Of medicine applicants admitted to NUS or NTU Med annually

Classes capped at10. Not as a selling point — as a constraint we refuse to compromise.

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Growing up in Singapore, I saw firsthand how much pressure we put on grades — and I've spent my life realizing that the biggest gap in our education system isn't talent; it's access.

HDB blocks in Singapore
Martin teaching his first MACRO class
An early H2 Economics class, recorded after booking out of OCS.

While recording my first tuition classes in an army bunk during National Service, I realized that nothing felt better than helping a student find that “aha!” moment.

I started offering pro-bono tuition to 1,000 underprivileged kids because I believed that a student's bank account should never decide their future.

Martin in army uniform during National Service

But I soon faced a tough choice.

I was offered the PSC Open and the SAFOS scholarship — a prestigious path with a guaranteed future. I turned it down because I knew my real commitment was to the students who were still messaging me for help every single day.

Martin speaking at the first MACRO event
Martin at our first event
Martin teaching his first MACRO class
Martin's first class
The first MACRO centre
Our first centre
Jay teaching his first MACRO class
Jay's first class
Sean speaking at the first MACRO event
Sean at our first event

That's why I started MACRO.

Together with Jay and Sean, we spent a full year obsessing with turning boring textbooks into lessons for thousands of your seniors.

  • Group photo from a MACRO recruitment drive
    Team MACRO
  • Inside the MACRO BTP centre
    Our BTP centre
  • Martin giving a speech
    Martin on stage
  • Sean teaching a 2025 class
    Sean mid-lesson
  • Students at a MACRO recruitment drive
    Recruitment drive in action
  • Zhicheng presenting at the 2025 J1 event
    Zhicheng at the J1 event

Eventually, you started asking for more — a physical space to learn and a structured way to grow.

I opened our centres to serve that need, even while balancing my own studies at Oxford.

MACRO is the community-driven classroom I wish I had when I was a student. We break down the hardest parts of the syllabus so that you can focus on reaching your goals. We're on a mission to make sure high-level education is accessible to everyone, and I'm so grateful you're here.

Jay teaching a MACRO class in 2025

Being a student is a tough journey.

MACRO is here to make sure you never have to walk it alone.

Our tutors trained at

University of Oxford
University of Cambridge
Imperial College London
King's College London
University of Exeter
UC Berkeley
Duke University
Brown University
The Wharton School
Nanyang Technological University
Singapore Management University

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