2016 PSLE Discussions (Born in 2004)

[kiasuFoo]

randwick:

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 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.

[janet88]

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.

[ilovelaksa]

Pen88n:

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.

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:
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.

[janet88]

ilovelaksa:

Strongly suggest not to do this cuz it can be very demoralising for the child.

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.

[forestcadee]

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.

[catddy2002]

forestcadee:

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.

Hi,

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.

[ilovelaksa]

forestcadee:

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.

Yes this is true for the 1 mark OE. For the 2 or 3 mark OE, If there is 3 keywords out of 4, the teacher will deduct half the marks generally provided it answers the qn.
But if you hv all the keywords but you don't answer the qn, it's a zero.
If you hv key words and answer correctly but you add in unnecessary details that are wrong. Will be penalised oso.

[janet88]

ilovelaksa:

But if you hv all the keywords but you don't answer the qn, it's a zero.
If you hv key words and answer correctly but you add in unnecessary details that are wrong. Will be penalised oso.

really sweat :nailbite: how difficult it can be to get full marks for open ended questions.

[janet88]

yet to recover from ca1 shock...sa1 exam schedule uploaded on school website :nailbite:

[coast]

janet88:

yet to recover from ca1 shock...sa1 exam schedule uploaded on school website :nailbite:

Hi,

Any parents know whether SA1 covers all PSLE syllabus in your school? Or are there topics yet to be taught by school and hence excluded from SA1? Thanks.