2019 PSLE Discussions and Strategies (Children born in 2007)
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sembgal:
:thankyou: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. -
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. -
sembgal:
:thankyou: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. -
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 \" -
http://www.straitstimes.com/opinion/is- ... your-child
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phtthp:
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.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.
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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 \"
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. -
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 -
blur_mum:
I agree with you. Our batch of those children born in 2007 will take PSLE in 2019. Unaffected by the change. Very \"Heng\"!!!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
Why do I say that?
If my child is under the AL score, can perform in English, Math, Science and get above 92, that is confirm 3 X AL 1 = 3 points. Now, if my child is weak in Chinese, she just get 4 points for AL4 for scoring 75 marks. 4 + 3 = 7 points!!
Will definitely pull down the overall score as this is RAW score.
Our batch of those born 2007 escaped this new PSLE AL system. Our batch is based on T-score, not based on raw score. Under the T-score system, can use the marks for stronger subjects such as English, Maths and Science to make up for the weakest subject Chinese. But under the new PSLE AL system, you cannot do this anymore. -
Hi,
Worried about the upcoming Chinese oral…the school adopting new format of using video strips(printed on paper) followed by conversation. Compared to picture discussion, seems more difficult. And less resource to practice too… -
sembgal:
So true !
I agree with you. Our batch of those children born in 2007 will take PSLE in 2019. Unaffected by the change. Very \"Heng\"!!!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
Why do I say that?
If my child is under the AL score, can perform in English, Math, Science and get above 92, that is confirm 3 X AL 1 = 3 points. Now, if my child is weak in Chinese, she just get 4 points for AL4 for scoring 75 marks. 4 + 3 = 7 points!!
Will definitely pull down the overall score as this is RAW score.
Our batch of those born 2007 escaped this new PSLE AL system. Our batch is based on T-score, not based on raw score.
Under the T-score system, can use the marks for stronger subjects such as English, Maths and Science to make up for the weakest subject Chinese. But under the new PSLE AL system, you cannot do this anymore.
Chinese subject alone now can determine whether a child Can go to IP school, or to an ordinary, O level school
Example
Suppose a P6 student is strong in 3 subjects (English, Maths, Science) :
scored AL band 1 for each of these 3 subjects, but weak in Chinese, scored AL Band 7 for Chinese, despite putting in long hours of effort to learn Chinese & doing his best, he end up as a 10-pointer.
In the end, this student got posted to a 10-pointer \"O\" level normal school, instead of continue being challenged intellectually, had he been posted to a 4-pointer IP school. See the big difference ?
His fate has now altered, because the system has changed, from T-score to AL.
Under AL :
even though he is strong in 3 out of 4 subjects, unfortunately his 3 strong subjects can't do anything to help him \"pull up\" his Chinese.
So, got posted to 10-pointer O level school, instead of 4-pointer IP school
Under AL (new system) :
kid must be an All Rounder.
That's what the 4-pointer IP schools are looking for !
Not easy to get into dream school of 4-pointer now, with the change, if don't have DSA offer prior to sitting Psle.
For average students :
If have affliated Secondary school awaiting, safer to go back affliated school, rather than run the risk of facing computerised balloting to an unknown school posting
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