2014 PSLE Discussions and Strategy
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IMHO, the comparison of COP between different years is meaningless as ultimately, the T-score is a measure against a particular year’s cohort and not an objective measure across different years’ cohorts. The COP for RI may be 256 this year as compared to 261 in 2011 but it is still the highest COP among the secondary schools, and RI still take in the top few % of each year’s cohort regardless of its COP. A drop in COP thus does not denote any drop in standards.
As pointed out in the earlier posts, this year’s top 10% T-score is likely 248 as compared to 250 for the earlier years.
2012 PSLE COP was higher also could be due to a larger cohort (year of Dragon babies)
With the trend of PSLE papers getting easier, it could be expected that the T-score would be more concentrated among the mean. The COP will likely trend lower in the coming years. There may be intentional moves to distribute the students around to perhaps slowly reverse the overly-elitist strategy pursued for the past 2 decades. The mantra, "Every School is a good School" is perhaps working? -
ya, previous years especially the year before can only be use as a reference as every year it’s different.
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lee_yl:
With the trend of PSLE papers getting easier, it could be expected that the T-score would be more concentrated among the mean.
Praying hard that this is happening...MOE keep changing the exam format and syllabus every few years.
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I sympathise with the 2015 n subsequent years’ PSLE parents/students. MOE kept changing until its very difficult to guage what to expect.
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zbear:
I sympathise with the 2015 n subsequent years' PSLE parents/students. MOE kept changing until its very difficult to guage what to expect.
I hope MOE will mandate their teachers to attend regular curriculum training based on new syllabus. -
zbear:
I sympathise with the 2015 n subsequent years' PSLE parents/students. MOE kept changing until its very difficult to guage what to expect.
The new psle English format (2015 : pioneer testing batch) is more difficult than this year's last batch of English.
Since English paper expected to be harder next year, maybe Students may perform less well than this batch, due to English -
Hopefully Rgs and ri will take the same intake as this year 400. As result, more students will get into these schools. I heard some top school’s principle intend to reduce their intake as they think they need to
Maintain the quality of the school. I hope the intake of those schools don’t reduce so that more students can study there. (2003 450 reduce to 2014 400), there is more than 10% reduce. May be there are more no to reduce if the cop is dropping. -
gardenia64:
Going forward, depend on the direction and focus of what the Raffles family (RI + RGS) have set.Hopefully Rgs and ri will take the same intake as this year 400. As result, more students will get into these schools. I heard some top school's principle intend to reduce their intake as they think they need to
Maintain the quality of the school.
I hope the intake of those schools don't reduce so that more students can study there. (2003 450 reduce to 2014 400), there is more than 10% reduce. May be there are more no to reduce if the cop is dropping.
If due to changes in subject syllabus getting harder & COP in general keep dropping, or the Top man want to maintain \"Every school is a good school\" and if the Raffles family want to maintain high standard & quality (so that COP does not fluctuate too much) Yes, Raffles may control by reducing her Secondary 1 intake.
It depend on what vision, direction each IP school set.
Some IP schools want quality, they may not compromise on quality, while other IP schools do not mind giving chance to students, who wish to study IP.
Regardless of which IP school students go to, at the end of 6 years, they will meet at the common A level exam (apart from the few IB schools) -
Delete. Repeated post.
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This is hearsay… The selection of students to top faculties and scholarships will eventually be from a bigger pool of schools; not just the concentration from the 2 more popular families of schools. The top students of more schools will be selected. This way will make more schools good schools as it’ll be filtered down. It is also the government’s intention not to have students from the same mould.
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