2019 PSLE Discussions and Strategies (Children born in 2007)

[sembgal]

MrsKiasu:

sembgal:

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Thanks for sharing sembgal.

Hi Mrs Kiasu, you are welcome.

It is best to check with your child's teachers about who do the marking and how do they do the making.

From what I know, composition is marked by 2 teachers since dd was in P2. This year in P3, I assume 2 teachers marked her work too as there were 2 different color ink on the script.

The marks will be moderated after assessing all the current level composition. That means if your child scores well in Composition, the child will be ranged roughly at the top tier of the cohort in composition. Otherwise, they ought to be at the average range. Getting high marks in composition does not mean your child is doing well in her cohort. Have to check with the subject teacher what standard is her marks. Perhaps you think it is at above-average range but the teacher will tell you that it is average range as most students in that class writes and gets on average that marks.

Marks are not important. What is important is how to brush up the writing technique.

[sembgal]

For P3 Oral Practice, it is good to get this book.


http://www.casco.com.sg/index.php?route ... uct_id=324

I bought for dd a month before May 2016 and she read the book. After her Oral exam was over, she disclosed to me that she finds the SA1 reading passage and pictures for oral-stimulus were very familiar. She saw them before somewhere. One day, during her leisure, she took the Oral book by chance to read randomly and told me excitedly that the passage that was almost similar and pictures were from this oral book. What luck!

I will recommend this book to you. So far, I have seen this book selling in Popular bookshop at Woodlands Causeway Point Popular and Thomson Plaza Popular.

For Listening Comprehension, it is good to use the mconline.sg Listening Comprehension package. I find mconline.sg very helpful and serves as a good e-learning tool for the child when the parents do not have the time to teach.

[MrsKiasu]

sembgal:

MrsKiasu:

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Thanks for sharing sembgal.

Hi Mrs Kiasu, you are welcome.

It is best to check with your child's teachers about who do the marking and how do they do the making.

From what I know, composition is marked by 2 teachers since dd was in P2. This year in P3, I assume 2 teachers marked her work too as there were 2 different color ink on the script.

The marks will be moderated after assessing all the current level composition. That means if your child scores well in Composition, the child will be ranged roughly at the top tier of the cohort in composition. Otherwise, they ought to be at the average range. Getting high marks in composition does not mean your child is doing well in her cohort. Have to check with the subject teacher what standard is her marks. Perhaps you think it is at above-average range but the teacher will tell you that it is average range as most students in that class writes and gets on average that marks.

Marks are not important. What is important is how to brush up the writing technique.[/quote]Yeah make sense for the cohort level at school. Dd1's compo is still a pile of mess :oops: so hoping to get some marks here and there.

[MrsKiasu]

sembgal:

For P3 Oral Practice, it is good to get this book.


http://www.casco.com.sg/index.php?route ... uct_id=324

I bought for dd a month before May 2016 and she read the book. After her Oral exam was over, she disclosed to me that she finds the SA1 reading passage and pictures for oral-stimulus were very familiar. She saw them before somewhere. One day, during her leisure, she took the Oral book by chance to read randomly and told me excitedly that the passage that was almost similar and pictures were from this oral book. What luck!

I will recommend this book to you. So far, I have seen this book selling in Popular bookshop at Woodlands Causeway Point Popular and Thomson Plaza Popular.

For Listening Comprehension, it is good to use the mconline.sg Listening Comprehension package. I find mconline.sg very helpful and serves as a good e-learning tool for the child when the parents do not have the time to teach.

:thankyou:

[sembgal]

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New Exam Format Primary 3
This book has been written to provide a practical guide for pupils who will be sitting for the revised PSLE English Language Examinations beginning 2015. This book focuses on the 5 components that will be assessed differently in the revised PSLE format from 2015 onwards: Stimulus-Based Conversation, Continuous Writing, Editing, Visual Text Comprehension and Open-Ended Comprehension. For each component, 12 practices have been designed to provide ample exposure and effective preparation.

I also recommend this book for Oral, Composition as well as Comprehension practice.

[MrsKiasu]

sembgal:

http://www.casco.com.sg/index.php?route ... duct_id=61


New Exam Format Primary 3
This book has been written to provide a practical guide for pupils who will be sitting for the revised PSLE English Language Examinations beginning 2015. This book focuses on the 5 components that will be assessed differently in the revised PSLE format from 2015 onwards: Stimulus-Based Conversation, Continuous Writing, Editing, Visual Text Comprehension and Open-Ended Comprehension. For each component, 12 practices have been designed to provide ample exposure and effective preparation.

I also recommend this book for Oral, Composition as well as Comprehension practice.

:thankyou:

[phtthp]

What are your views about the new psle system ?

Luckily, our batch (2007) escape this

Find the new 2021 psle banding system, so ridiculous !
Fancy subjecting the kids under the same band to balloting.
no difference from gambling away your kid's education, based on the LUCK of your child.

Imagine this scenario -
The top scholar (say X) from 2021 psle batch (from thousands of psle candidates in the same batch), who scored 100 marks per subject = 400 Total, end up in the same Psle band, as another student (let's call this student Y) who scored much lower at (90 X 4 ) = 360 total.

Difference between X and Y = 400 - 360 = 40 marks

Suppose X and Y, are both Sg citizen children.
Both are 4 pointers, end up both are in the same Psle Band / bucket.
Will be very competitive, as there may be many, many 4 pointers, in the same bucket !

suppose both also targeting the same Top Tier IP school : RI / RGS

But, during computerised balloting -
Y has better luck, than X.
End up :
Y with a much lower score far beneath X (difference of 40 marks), got balloted into RI / RGS, while X got balloted out.

X, because no luck : got balloted out not only from 1st choice RI, but also balloted out of 2nd choice National JC as well, balloted out of 3rd choice Eunoia JC.
This is a possible scenario, because everything hinges on balloting on Luck End up in a Secondary school which the child doesn't even want, even though the child had done exceedingly well, at Psle.

Fancy subjecting your child's Secondary education to a gambling game of luck. :slapshead:

As a parent, if you tell your child to study hard for his / her future, your child can retort back, \"Dad / Mom, What is the point of studying so hard now, when admission into Secondary school, is based upon sheer luck during \"gambling of chances\"? It is no longer dependent on your Total score.
It is LUCK that is going to determine the future of your Secondary school, not based on your hard work self-disciplined study \"

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[ammonite]

phtthp:

What are your views about the new psle system ?

Luckily, our batch (2007) escape this

Find the new 2021 psle banding system, so ridiculous !
Fancy subjecting the kids under the same band to balloting.
no difference from gambling away your kid's education, based on the LUCK of your child.
....
As a parent, if you tell your child to study hard for his / her future, your child can retort back, \"Dad / Mom, What is the point of studying so hard now, when admission into Secondary school, is based upon sheer luck during \"gambling of chances\"? It is no longer dependent on your Total score.
It is LUCK that is going to determine the future of your Secondary school, not based on your hard work self-disciplined study \"

I think a child should put in his best effort even if he cannot select his school and if my child says that to me, he is going to be hearing a lot from me on how myopic and short sighted he is.

That aside, it will be naive to imagine that everyone can easily achieve a good banding under the new system and the balloting is another way to \"even out\" schools and isn't that what some forumites have been screaming for?

Anyway, nothing to do with our kids.

[blur_mum]

For all 4 subjects to score at least 90 marks without moderation is difficult…the poor kid has to be a well rounded in all 4 subjects…i hope that they do the moderation.

Lucky, our kids not in this batch