2014 PSLE Discussions and Strategy
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I just want to encourage the psle parents to soldier on. I haven’t read through the whole thread but I read that someone is tired and disappointed. I remember feeling anguish and disappointed at different points of that psle year. However, I tried my best to suppress my anger and disappointment in front of my kid (she may have a different story to tell tho). I exploded in front of my parents, telling them how horrible my kid was, how she was wasting my time, my money (I took no pay leave), my effort etc bcos she wasn’t putting in her best effort. But even then, I believed that as long as she hadn’t stepped into the exam hall, she still had time to prepare, and if I wanted to rest, I could rest for all I wanted after psle, so I soldiered on.
It was really a very stressful year, especially when your child was in her lala land most of the time. Other girls would gloat over her lacklustre effort and hoped she continued to be like that so that they would do better than her.
For the whole year, I had only one t-score (and anything above that) in mind. Towards the day of getting her result, I had to come to terms with ‘what if she gets (this and that) t-score?’ so that I wouldn’t suffer a nervous breakdown on the actual day. On the day when we went to get her result, it dawned on me that I would accept any result bcos she would have done what she could. No result is worth breaking our relationship down. -
rains:
Wow! This is a timely read for me. Thanks for the reminder and perspective.I just want to encourage the psle parents to soldier on. I haven't read through the whole thread but I read that someone is tired and disappointed. I remember feeling anguish and disappointed at different points of that psle year. However, I tried my best to suppress my anger and disappointment in front of my kid (she may have a different story to tell tho). I exploded in front of my parents, telling them how horrible my kid was, how she was wasting my time, my money (I took no pay leave), my effort etc bcos she wasn't putting in her best effort. But even then, I believed that as long as she hadn't stepped into the exam hall, she still had time to prepare, and if I wanted to rest, I could rest for all I wanted after psle, so I soldiered on.
It was really a very stressful year, especially when your child was in her lala land most of the time. Other girls would gloat over her lacklustre effort and hoped she continued to be like that so that they would do better than her.
For the whole year, I had only one t-score (and anything above that) in mind. Towards the day of getting her result, I had to come to terms with 'what if she gets (this and that) t-score?' so that I wouldn't suffer a nervous breakdown on the actual day. On the day when we went to get her result, it dawned on me that I would accept any result bcos she would have done what she could. No result is worth breaking our relationship down. -
PSLE year was a dreadful year but you are not alone. My experience with my ds last year, we did not have commercialized tuition, we struggled on our own. My ds knew the importance of PSLE and cooperated but he admitted after results day that he had secretly played and relaxed every afternoon after his school remedial classes. His friendly neighborhood primary school pushed and pushed, the whole system was geared up, they had 4 weekdays afternoon of extra remedial classes and Saturdays mornings as well.
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DS last paper today and he just text me to get permission to go out for a basketball game. of cos i have to say yes!
to all parent and student involved in PSLE now, SA1 is just over, let's all take a breather and relax before going for the next battle
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chloecube:
:rahrah: :rahrah: Yes, chloecube - it's time for the kids to go out and enjoy themselves. My P6 DD1 is still in school for extra science lessons till 4.30pm as tomorrow is their last paper, ScienceDS last paper today and he just text me to get permission to go out for a basketball game. of cos i have to say yes!
to all parent and student involved in PSLE now, SA1 is just over, let's all take a breather and relax before going for the next battle
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Champion:
Yay tomorrow last day of SA1 exams!!!! :imcool:
:rahrah: :rahrah: Yes, chloecube - it's time for the kids to go out and enjoy themselves. My P6 DD1 is still in school for extra science lessons till 4.30pm as tomorrow is their last paper, Sciencechloecube:
DS last paper today and he just text me to get permission to go out for a basketball game. of cos i have to say yes!
to all parent and student involved in PSLE now, SA1 is just over, let's all take a breather and relax before going for the next battle -
SpartanMum:
Yay tomorrow last day of SA1 exams!!!! :imcool:[/quote]For my DD also last day tomorrow SA1 exam . :rahrah:
:rahrah: :rahrah: Yes, chloecube - it's time for the kids to go out and enjoy themselves. My P6 DD1 is still in school for extra science lessons till 4.30pm as tomorrow is their last paper, ScienceChampion:
[quote=\"chloecube\"]DS last paper today and he just text me to get permission to go out for a basketball game. of cos i have to say yes!
to all parent and student involved in PSLE now, SA1 is just over, let's all take a breather and relax before going for the next battle -
rains:
Hi Rain, thanks for sharing and this contribution comes timely to many parents here who have 1st time PSLE children taking the exam. :snuggles:I just happened to barge into this thread. I am done with psle for the next 6 or 7 years, but I read with interest about the t-score comparison.
The general consensus seems to be: getting A* in languages gives you a higher t-score than when you get A* in Maths and Science. For some reason, I have a different observation. During the year that my elder kid was taking her psle, I noticed that those who get A* in Maths and/or Science had higher t-scores than those who got A* in languages. I did a very simple analysis: languages, especially Chinese (national average of more than 80% A and A*), has more people doing well in them, so the difference in scores is not great, but Maths and Science see greater difference in the ability of students, so if you get A* for Maths and Science, your t-score is much higher than the average kid. -
Effort put in...that's the one thing parents have to remember and recognize.
Mid year is over...have fun and recharge. :rahrah: -
janet_lee88:
:goodpost: :celebrate:Effort put in...that's the one thing parents have to remember and recognize.
Mid year is over...have fun and recharge. :rahrah:
Ultimately, we should always remember to focus on the effort, NOT the result. If your child meets the targets, I encourage you to reward him. It's just a gesture showing that his effort is appreciated and recognised.
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