2014 PSLE Discussions and Strategy

[Just4Fun]

GiftedGem:

Just4Fun:

[quote=\"optmum\"]Dd called home to say paper 1 was ok.bboklet b 2 marks questions were tricky,other than that the paper was ok.

Oh dear.. How come this year papers are set with \"tricky\" in mind?
Fr LC to Eng written paper.. Now even Math also faced the same fate ?

You mean Math? :?
Paper 2 just started[/quote]Optmum refers to paper 1 lah.

[711mum]

Just4Fun:

711mum:

So the move is in setting \"tricky\" questions instead of \"difficult\" ones to set students apart :scratchhead:

Difficult is different from Tricky.
To do well in a tricky paper, one needs to read the question very carefully and needs to know how to interpret the given information.

The paper can be easy but tricky. This can be scary cos the kid may thínk that he/she knows the ans but in actual fact, not getting the correct ans.

Not very kind of them.

[panickymum]

711mum:

DD wrote on author arriving for book signing event instead.

Mine too . Dd wrote about having the author 's autograph

[dagong99]

711mum:

Just4Fun:

[quote=\"711mum\"]So the move is in setting \"tricky\" questions instead of \"difficult\" ones to set students apart :scratchhead:

Difficult is different from Tricky.
To do well in a tricky paper, one needs to read the question very carefully and needs to know how to interpret the given information.

The paper can be easy but tricky. This can be scary cos the kid may thínk that he/she knows the ans but in actual fact, not getting the correct ans.

Not very kind of them.[/quote]So now the move to set tricky questions is to differentiate between careful students with the careless ones :scratchhead:

[optmum]

Just4Fun:

711mum:

So the move is in setting \"tricky\" questions instead of \"difficult\" ones to set students apart :scratchhead:

Difficult is different from Tricky.
To do well in a tricky paper, one needs to read the question very carefully and needs to know how to interpret the given information.

The paper can be easy but tricky. This can be scary cos the kid may thínk that he/she knows the ans but in actual fact, not getting the correct ans.

I told the same thing to my dd .because that's what my dd did in her prelims.she thought everything easy so many careless

[jedamum]

So tricky math is to test english ?

[Desserts]

Just4Fun:

711mum:

So the move is in setting \"tricky\" questions instead of \"difficult\" ones to set students apart :scratchhead:

Difficult is different from Tricky.
To do well in a tricky paper, one needs to read the question very carefully and needs to know how to interpret the given information.

The paper can be easy but tricky. This can be scary cos the kid may thínk that he/she knows the ans but in actual fact, not getting the correct ans.

My dd is rather careless and tends to overlook the key words too. :faint: :nailbite:

[MMM]

dagong99:

So now the move to set tricky questions is to differentiate between careful students with the careless ones :scratchhead:

:rotflmao: I hope not...Are they grooming the P6ers to be quality control operators???

ds came back happy that it was a \"easy\" paper.... but when I start to look at the Q&A here.... well it was tricky and i start to worry.

[Gingerbread2]

My DD too , very careless, but the fact is this is how they are going to differentiate careful and and careless students .Sad !!

[chloecube]

Your kids are good n able to tell u the questions. I asked DS abt the paper last night, he answered me "so many questions, forget already ":(


Now drinking coffee while waiting for him to be out from school

Hang in there…