Paya Lebar Methodist Girl's School (Secondary)

[Violetvices]

Aaven88:

Hi all,


My dd is in sec 2 currently. Just asking around if pl provides in-house school notes standardized for the upper secondary level?

TIA

Sorry, but what do you mean by it? Do you mean to ask if pl provides their own notes for all students in upper sec? From what I know, they certainly do, but the notes may differ a little dependent on what subjects(pure/elec). And some teachers provide more notes to the students, notes that the teacher made themselves. Does this answer your question?

[Aaven88]

241 for non affiliated students , but only few (about 1 class) are accepted.


205 for affiliated students, that’s the main bulk of the students in plmgss.

Such a huge gap in between. It’s tough for plmgss to raise their standards to compete with those like Anderson sec, tkgs, commonwealth, crescent girls, bpghs, nanhua, anglican…etc. These schools don’t have the burden of affiliated primary school students.

Need a lot more hardwork if plmgss wants to take a further leap in their school reputation.

[Chip n Dale]

Aaven88:

241 for non affiliated students , but only few (about 1 class) are accepted.


205 for affiliated students, that's the main bulk of the students in plmgss.

Such a huge gap in between. It's tough for plugs to raise their standards to compete with those like Anderson sec, tkgs, commonwealth, crescent girls, bpghs, nanhua, anglican...etc. These schools don't have the burden of affiliated primary school students.

Need a lot more hardwork if plmgss wants to take a further leap in their school reputation.

Ya, true.
PLMGS didn't do well for last year 2014 GCE 'O' Level exam.

[Aaven88]

Violetvices:

Aaven88:

Hi all,


My dd is in sec 2 currently. Just asking around if pl provides in-house school notes standardized for the upper secondary level?

TIA

Sorry, but what do you mean by it? Do you mean to ask if pl provides their own notes for all students in upper sec? From what I know, they certainly do, but the notes may differ a little dependent on what subjects(pure/elec). And some teachers provide more notes to the students, notes that the teacher made themselves. Does this answer your question?

Yup. I'm glad that there are notes for the students, but have the notes and revision notes made by different teachers been effective? What I heard that some schools have the entire dept pooling all the resources together to make common notes ie one type of notes shared among different teachers/classes, so that every child gets the best. Well, just a food for thought.

[ParkYuni]

Aaven88, your chewbecca and chew bak kua really make my day!


Jokes aside, I agree with Chip n Dale that our last O levels’ batch did not do well overall. My dd was from the combined science but I heard that the result of pure Biology is far from good…no A1 student? Can the school leaders do something about it please as my dd2 is taking pure bio. But for pure Literature, 100% of students obtained distinctions.

[Chip n Dale]

ParkYuni:

Aaven88, your chewbecca and chew bak kua really make my day!


Jokes aside, I agree with Chip n Dale that our last O levels' batch did not do well overall. My dd was from the combined science but I heard that the result of pure Biology is far from good...no A1 student? Can the school leaders do something about it please as my dd2 is taking pure bio. But for pure Literature, 100% of students obtained distinctions.

11 out of 25 subjects with % of Distinctions above National level.
% of JC eligibility about 71-72%
Ave L1R5 about 18..

[ParkYuni]

Aaven88:

Yup. I'm glad that there are notes for the students, but have the notes and revision notes made by different teachers been effective? What I heard that some schools have the entire dept pooling all the resources together to make common notes ie one type of notes shared among different teachers/classes, so that every child gets the best. Well, just a food for thought.

Yes, I agree.
I feel that the teachers can be more aggressive in their approach, i.e. to be more result-orientated so as to enable the students to stay competitive, though this is a mission school.
Afterall, O Level results are subject to moderation by SEAB.
For instance, an A grade awarded by Cambridge may probably be converted to a B grade after moderation, depending on the cohort's performance. If other schools are constantly drilling their students to improve on their results, our students will fall behind.
Also, for my dd's class last year, there were many failures in the A Maths and Social Studies exams, for eg. The figure did not seem to improve throughout the 2 years (sec 3 & 4). I hope the teachers concerned can help more students to pass the exams while not compromising the standard of the papers.

[ParkYuni]

But I must not forget to thank my dd's combined chem/phy teachers and her pure literature teacher for her excellent grades. :salute:

[Violetvices]

To ParkYuni:

Yes that is true. In my class, many of my classmates were unable to cope with amaths and they had to drop it. As for ss, it was a real struggle for most of us and the average was about a c6 in sec3. However, most of my classmate received a distinction for combine humanities in the O’levels though.

[ParkYuni]

Violetvices:

To ParkYuni:

Yes that is true. In my class, many of my classmates were unable to cope with amaths and they had to drop it. As for ss, it was a real struggle for most of us and the average was about a c6 in sec3. However, most of my classmate received a distinction for combine humanities in the O'levels though.

Hi Violetvices, may I know if you were from one of the pure science classes? I am curious to know if they were also struggling with A maths.

Congratulations to your class for the excellent results in combined humanities in the 'O' Levels.