2014 PSLE Discussions and Strategy

[jjxy mum]

optmum:

My dd completed her prelims and received marks.the paper was difficult and she just managed to pass in maths, we are so worried about her maths, don't know how she's going to cope psle. She dropped in Mt by 10 marks, and for science and el dropped to b.

But heard from dd surprisingly most of her friends who got around 50 in few papers in sa1 shot upto 70+...
She started lacking confidence that's she's the only one with no improvement.
Don't know where to start revision.both of us are totally lost..

Same for my dd.

Her Maths prelim marks is quite bad, most of classmates got A or higher. She is worried. Her teacher told them that was a easy paper..

[2Transformer]

optmum:

My dd completed her prelims and received marks.the paper was difficult and she just managed to pass in maths, we are so worried about her maths, don't know how she's going to cope psle. She dropped in Mt by 10 marks, and for science and el dropped to b.

But heard from dd surprisingly most of her friends who got around 50 in few papers in sa1 shot upto 70+...
She started lacking confidence that's she's the only one with no improvement.
Don't know where to start revision.both of us are totally lost..

Dear mummy n daughter

Don't give up...

Go thru the Prelim Maths paper together with your daughter.

List out what are her mistakes and work out from there.

Still got time to improve on it....

Jia You! :grphug:




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[GiftedGem]

2Transformer:

optmum:

My dd completed her prelims and received marks.the paper was difficult and she just managed to pass in maths, we are so worried about her maths, don't know how she's going to cope psle. She dropped in Mt by 10 marks, and for science and el dropped to b.

But heard from dd surprisingly most of her friends who got around 50 in few papers in sa1 shot upto 70+...
She started lacking confidence that's she's the only one with no improvement.
Don't know where to start revision.both of us are totally lost..

Dear mummy n daughter

Don't give up...

Go thru the Prelim Maths paper together with your daughter.

List out what are her mistakes and work out from there.

Still got time to improve on it....

Jia You! :grphug:




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Nice Quote, 2 Transformer.

[optmum]

Thanks a lot 2transformer, for the nice quote and timely advice.your words gave me confidence, will struggle a little more to get there…

[MMM]

Wonder why must school set such killer papers for prelims. If the child cannot sit for PSLE due to medical reasons, they will use prelim results.


Also wonder if prelim is difficult for all schools. If not, will it "disadvantage" kids who had it difficult.

For EL main paper, heard from ds and parents from other class that the passing rate is only 10+ in each class. So alot of kids end up failing EL during prelim. We will be getting the papers today and hence be able to evaluate if it is indeed so much tougher and where the problem lies.

[lurline]

ds school mostly did well and results all above average in his class. Maybe neighborhood school, papers is easy.

[HappyBlueBear]

MMM:

Wonder why must school set such killer papers for prelims. If the child cannot sit for PSLE due to medical reasons, they will use prelim results.


Also wonder if prelim is difficult for all schools. If not, will it \"disadvantage\" kids who had it difficult.

For EL main paper, heard from ds and parents from other class that the passing rate is only 10+ in each class. So alot of kids end up failing EL during prelim. We will be getting the papers today and hence be able to evaluate if it is indeed so much tougher and where the problem lies.

Difficult prelim papers will not disadvantage the child who can't sit for PSLE as his prelim's ranking comparison will be made with his school mates.

[Mumflower]

lurline:

ds school mostly did well and results all above average in his class. Maybe neighborhood school, papers is easy.

My DD's school set easy papers too. and most of her classmates did well and the class average score is high :roll:

since the papers are easy, and average scores are high too. can we use 0.72 (or maybe 0.70) to multiply the total score of 4 subjects ?

[2Transformer]

optmum:

Thanks a lot 2transformer, for the nice quote and timely advice.your words gave me confidence, will struggle a little more to get there...

You are greatly welcome

[2Transformer]

GiftedGem:

2Transformer:

[quote=\"optmum\"]My dd completed her prelims and received marks.the paper was difficult and she just managed to pass in maths, we are so worried about her maths, don't know how she's going to cope psle. She dropped in Mt by 10 marks, and for science and el dropped to b.

But heard from dd surprisingly most of her friends who got around 50 in few papers in sa1 shot upto 70+...
She started lacking confidence that's she's the only one with no improvement.
Don't know where to start revision.both of us are totally lost..

Dear mummy n daughter

Don't give up...

Go thru the Prelim Maths paper together with your daughter.

List out what are her mistakes and work out from there.

Still got time to improve on it....

Jia You! :grphug:




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Nice Quote, 2 Transformer.[/quote]