Maha Bodhi

[csb]

lil flanders:

FantasyLandDreams:

Hi

Any P1 parents here? Anyone has already been informed of the CL class allocated for your child for next year already? Anyone knows when will this allocation/banding for Chinese be made known ( first week of P2??)?

My son is currently in P2 only knows about allocation by P2 1st week.

Yes, this is true for all the past few years for my child. They'll know their banding class only in the new year.

[MMM]

csb:

Yes, MMM, I do understand that the t-score based on school results won't be highly predictive of PSLE t-score. I'm hoping to have a feel of the standards of the school exam papers. Are they fairly close in terms of level of difficulty to PSLE's? Now that my child is in P5 going on to P6 next year, I'm hoping to set my expectations more realistically.

If we look at this year PSLE, most kids said that PSLE is so much easier than school papers. That means we've to see the school overall performance.

But if you were to read those answers sharing thread, as parents we realised that while the paper seems \"easy\", it was tricky too. So we are :roll: :xedfingers:

In addition,tscore is based on cohort performance. So if everyone found it generally easy and it's really easy, then the gap is narrow so it will be difficult to score as well. So seems like a double edged sword.

For maths, I recalled sending my dd1 for those costly onsponge holiday camp last year to realise that the maths paper was \"easy\". She said she didn't even need to apply any of those \"techniques\". She scored A* but also heard from my P6 this year that level manager did comment that alot score A* in maths during PSLE last year. Actually those kids who usually find math challenging also came out feeling confident. So it set me wondering if we are \"overpreparing\" our child sometimes. But yes, we always need to prepare for the most challenging situations... just in case.

For the last 2 years, it appear that school paper is usually tougher than PSLE but tscore is unpredictable due to cohort performance. In fact, sometimes we wonder why the school set such tough papers as it might not do justice to the kids who intend to DSA since the sec school will look at their P5 and P6 SA1 results. We usually buy those top school papers which the kids will do as regular practice as well. This will give us a guage on where the child stands.

Science paper to me is more unpredictable. PSLE have a tendancy to ask very general questions which might caught students by surprise eg. this year there was a question on impact of global warming on sea turtle population. ds thought of saving gaia, rising sea level, eggs got submerged in water, etc... But some of his friends were really caught and stuck and end up giving really \"humourous\" answers which would make parents :yikes: In this case, reading those young scientists magazine seems to help.

[FantasyLandDreams]

csb:

lil flanders:

[quote=\"FantasyLandDreams\"]Hi

Any P1 parents here? Anyone has already been informed of the CL class allocated for your child for next year already? Anyone knows when will this allocation/banding for Chinese be made known ( first week of P2??)?

My son is currently in P2 only knows about allocation by P2 1st week.

[/quote]Yes, this is true for all the past few years for my child. They'll know their banding class only in the new year.[/quote

Thanks for all the replies. From what I heard, usually there are 2 best Chinese class for the whole P2 level, CL1 and CL5 or 6 usually, but in terms of materials, worksheet and tingxie list, is that of the 2 best class more difficult than the rest of the classes? Or no difference at all just that teachers teach faster perhaps?

[edna]

My girl’s class top 3 pupils got into 3I so can quite safely say 3I still best class next year.

For my boy’s class, only the 1st and 2nd position got into 3I. The 3rd in position did not manage to get in. Competition is quite fierce.

[edna]

[quote="lil flanders"][quote="FantasyLandDreams"]Hi

Any P1 parents here? Anyone has already been informed of the CL class allocated for your child for next year already? Anyone knows when will this allocation/banding for Chinese be made known ( first week of P2??)?

My son is currently in P2 only knows about allocation by P2 1st week.

[/quote]

Yes, this is true for all the past few years for my child. They’ll know their banding class only in the new year.[/quote

Thanks for all the replies. From what I heard, usually there are 2 best Chinese class for the whole P2 level, CL1 and CL5 or 6 usually, but in terms of materials, worksheet and tingxie list, is that of the 2 best class more difficult than the rest of the classes? Or no difference at all just that teachers teach faster perhaps?[/quote]

my boy is in CL6 this year. Their chinese spelling is much tougher than the rest of his classmates who are not in CL6.

[amooks]

Hi, does anyone know if the P1 orientation tmr is drop off or the parents must stay throughout?

[FantasyLandDreams]

amooks:

Hi, does anyone know if the P1 orientation tmr is drop off or the parents must stay throughout?

Parents will stay for briefing in the hall while the form teacher will bring the children to their class, show them the library etc like a mini tour of the school to familiar use them.

[FantasyLandDreams]

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[amooks]

Thanks fantasylandreams

[Wolfgirl]

:rahrah: All the best to parents and kids collecting their PSLE results tomorrow!!!!! :boogie: