2016 PSLE Discussions (Born in 2004)
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A mummy whose dd just finished psle last year( or chinese tutor) is popping by… Chinese or any other subject is actually not difficult to score as long as your dc is willing to read and memorize every word from the 词语手册。Take note of the pinyin and 搭配. For compre, you may wish to try to ask dc to circle the words they don’t understand and check the dictionary. Understand the passage first and the questions will be easier to answer. Techniques in answering are really just picking up key words in the questions and searching for them in the passage. The rest will be practice. I always believe in practice makes perfect. The grades will jump when they practice more in the correct way. Don’t ‘protect’ your dc too much, they need to learn it the hard way. I always have parents who speak up for their dc when I give them ‘too much’ homework but if the children themselves don’t try, and always rely on their parents,they will really become the so call strawberry generation… They can’t finish their work,it is their problem. They must learn to explain to their teachers themselves but not turn to their parents for help.
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The tips look great. Problem is when my dd is in the actual examination surroundings, nerves set in and many of these "ought to do" steps are thrown out the window. Timing is also the cause of nerves as they rush through and make careless mistakes or not reading the question carefully.
The Math Paper 1 is only 50 minutes, the kids don’t even have time to think properly. The pupils who are strong in Math breeze through this Paper 1 and even have ample time to check their work. But for the weaker ones like my dd, to be able to finish all questions is a feat already, let alone have accuracy. So I just remind dd that Paper 1 consists of the easier questions, she must try to focus as at the end of the day, the marks in this Paper can save her from failing. I have to keep telling her she can do it. -
randwick:
Hi, you can set timer 50 mins and allow your dd to practise completing the Booklet A with speed and accuracy. This tip was shared by a Math teacher.The tips look great. Problem is when my dd is in the actual examination surroundings, nerves set in and many of these \"ought to do\" steps are thrown out the window. Timing is also the cause of nerves as they rush through and make careless mistakes or not reading the question carefully.
The Math Paper 1 is only 50 minutes, the kids don't even have time to think properly. The pupils who are strong in Math breeze through this Paper 1 and even have ample time to check their work. But for the weaker ones like my dd, to be able to finish all questions is a feat already, let alone have accuracy. So I just remind dd that Paper 1 consists of the easier questions, she must try to focus as at the end of the day, the marks in this Paper can save her from failing. I have to keep telling her she can do it.
The surrounding should be quiet when dd is doing revision or mock test papers. Younger siblings are a great distraction and no tv, music, anyone walking around the house, vaccum house etc. It should be mimicked as close to the natural exam environment as possible.
After the mock test of Booklet A, mark your DD's test paper and explain to her step by step how to solve each question. Cover up the question and get your dd to show you the written steps of doing the questions.
On another piece of paper, get your dd to copy down those questions that she made mistakes in, leave sufficient space for working and let your dd do all the questions that she has made mistakes on another day, preferably the next day to check if she still remembers how to solve the questions.
I am not an expert but sharing with you how I usually go about doing this as a parent. You cannot expect the tutor to use this method as it is very time consuming. It is up to the parents how much they want to go about helping the child. -
randwick:
the environment she does the mock paper plays a part...i set a timer for 50 minutes. hubby always reminds her to move on to next question after 2 minutes if she can't do the question. when throw in speed AND accuracy, it's a different ball game. so timing starts from now.
The Math Paper 1 is only 50 minutes, the kids don't even have time to think properly. The pupils who are strong in Math breeze through this Paper 1 and even have ample time to check their work. But for the weaker ones like my dd, to be able to finish all questions is a feat already, let alone have accuracy. So I just remind dd that Paper 1 consists of the easier questions, she must try to focus as at the end of the day, the marks in this Paper can save her from failing. I have to keep telling her she can do it.
i expect killer papers for prelim...but the 2 teachers must have been instructed to set killer ones for CA1 as well :faint: -
randwick:
The tips given by the other parents are good. My 1st dd had the problem with speed then too but she was considered to be good in math but just slow. Speed and accuracy comes with routine practices. She solved at least 5 problem sums everyday and reviewed them the next day. Her tuition teacher gave her a practice paper to complete every week too. Fast thinking process can be trained by doing the same type of questions over and over again. Confidence level will be built up when our kids knows what to do and how to do the questions and the 'panic attacks' will not happen so often.The tips look great. Problem is when my dd is in the actual examination surroundings, nerves set in and many of these \"ought to do\" steps are thrown out the window. Timing is also the cause of nerves as they rush through and make careless mistakes or not reading the question carefully.
The Math Paper 1 is only 50 minutes, the kids don't even have time to think properly. The pupils who are strong in Math breeze through this Paper 1 and even have ample time to check their work. But for the weaker ones like my dd, to be able to finish all questions is a feat already, let alone have accuracy. So I just remind dd that Paper 1 consists of the easier questions, she must try to focus as at the end of the day, the marks in this Paper can save her from failing. I have to keep telling her she can do it. -
Daughter’s teacher asked me to start timing when she gets work done…don’t give her the idea that she has all the time in the world to get work done.
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Pen88n:
Some schools provide the statistical mean and standard deviation for each subject. If you have these, you can use the T-score formula to compute the T-score based on your school's cohort performance:randwick:
[quote=\"janet88\"]jialak...2nd time facing psle and still don't know banding.
All this grading/banding is just a guide. It gets thrown out the window as no ones really knows how they convert the kids' actual marks into T scores. Depends largely on the whole cohort that particular year.
Janet, does your dd's school churn out statistics for parents to see where their kids stand for the subjects in terms of percentiles? My kids' school used to do that and I know where roughly where they stand but the school stopped that practice.
T-score of subject = {(Your score - mean)/standard deviation}+50
Some schools do some tracking on their own against national average and they will be able to provide an estimate of kid's T-score for PSLE if they perform at the same level as their prelim standard. I heard of schools which are above national averages telling parents to add 5-10 points to their total computed school prelim T-score and that will be their kid's estimated PSLE T-score.[/quote]This practice is very unreliable. My two older ones had low 22+ and 24+ aft prelim when they adjusted as per teachers' advice.
Their actual scores turned out totally diff.
There are ppl in their sch with 27+ for prelims and they scored 24+ in PSLE.
Strongly suggest not to do this cuz it can be very demoralising for the child. -
ilovelaksa:
this is a nation wide exam which the kids are sitting for. calculating the score may not be a good idea as it gives false hopes or demoralize the kids.
Strongly suggest not to do this cuz it can be very demoralising for the child. -
Hi, I would like to check with the parents here if their kids's teacher had told them that the marking for PSLE Science is stringent? Just received a note from my kid that the teacher had told them that the open ended question will be awarded either full mark or zero mark, ie, there will be no partial marks given as if given in the school marking. I had a concern if this is true as this can pull their marks down. If a kid is able to answer 3 keywords prior to 4 keywords that the teacher is looking for, she will not get any mark? Really worried.
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forestcadee:
Hi,Hi, I would like to check with the parents here if their kids's teacher had told them that the marking for PSLE Science is stringent? Just received a note from my kid that the teacher had told them that the open ended question will be awarded either full mark or zero mark, ie, there will be no partial marks given as if given in the school marking. I had a concern if this is true as this can pull their marks down. If a kid is able to answer 3 keywords prior to 4 keywords that the teacher is looking for, she will not get any mark? Really worried.
My DD science teacher did not mentioned on partial marks not given but she did mentioned that not necessary to have keywords as long the concept is correct.
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