Exams Blues or Fever

[Joy]

tankee


You can have honeymoon whole of this year, but not in pri two, cos streaming kicks in...hope this helps.


cheers
Joy

tankee:

by the way, how important is P1 exam result? :?

[Brenda10]

Hi, my P5 DD starting doing the top schools past year SA1 papers after the March holiday. She has completed ¾ of the Maths/Science papers. The maths papers are no easy as there are various model/pattern to remember especially “ratio”. Very IMPORTANT, the Maths must take timing otherwise you may not able to complete the test and also no time for checking.

Now we would just slowly review through those mistakes and emphasis the important key point/concept/model.

For English paper 2 (95 mark), we would practice more on “Fill in each blank with a suitable word” and “Comprehension Open-ended\" this two area marks are 35/95.

For Chinese paper 2 will focus on 理解问答1 and理解问答2 (13 question total marks 34/90 of the paper 2)， some 4 marks questions are not easy to attempt to provided you can understand the whole story very well and have good 词汇to answer. Therefore we would focus more on these types of questions. Others section which are multiply choices if the child not sure can still take chance.

For English Paper 1, DD class so far had completed 8 sets of composition and situational writing in the class with timing measure. Therefore DD would just need to select a few hot topics to read through and takes notes of some good phrases of words.

For Chinese Paper 1, DD would review some good model and most importantly know how to write the good beginning and good ending/conclusion. Some appropriate 成语 for different circumstances/situations to be used.
　
For listening test, no practice as we think by watching all these English/Chinese show daily should have more or less help her in this area.

To relax, activities remain the same. She would still carry on with the normal activities like swimming class, watching favour English cartoon show, 红白喜事，综艺大哥大 , playing UNO and game boy /computer game (0.5 hours for break).

The above is our little contribution :oops: on the experience of handling SA1 for the primary 5.

[corneyAmber]

starlight1968sg:

Besides worrying and feeling stressed, we know we can't help much since we are not the ones sitting for the exam.

That is true..

[corneyAmber]

BlurBee:

Hehe, no SA1 for my DD yet (P1).

So still have no stress.

You so lucky.... :love:

[corneyAmber]

ChiefKiasu:

ksi:

Looks like nobody having blues or fever....

Actually, everyone is having exam blues and fever and are busy hovering over our children to make sure they study... that's why it's so quiet these days

That is true....everyone too stressed to talk..

[corneyAmber]

auntieM:

BlurBee:

Hehe, no SA1 for my DD yet (P1).

So still have no stress.

Same same.. ...akan datang..
My DS still in Pri 1 too.

Another lucky one! :love:

Having said this, personally I prefer exam for my child to keep her on her toes. evil mum!!

[corneyAmber]

tankee:

by the way, how important is P1 exam result? :?

As what jedamum says, only important enough to know your kid's formal schooling standard and also raise the confidence in learning if he does well but this point cuts both ways, i.e. not well dampens the learning process as well.

[corneyAmber]

Luvkid:

At last ksi started this......DS1 do have CA, SA1.....throughout the year. In P2, the so called Honeymoon year, i still feel the pre exam fever and worried will be having post exam fever, like last year..... Waiting for the results is no joke leh, especially when DS1 always tell me,\" So easy.....\", this makes me worried more :roll:


As compared with last year, I am \"dealing\"(the only way to comfort myself) better this year. I have been trying to :siam: , but still gotta face it....

Starting from mid march, i have been giving past year papers from the top schools for DS1 to do. To date, still quite a pile left His written paper starts on 2nd week of May, so still have time to do a few more :evil: But i won't be giving him last minute (1 day before exam) to do, which turned out quite bad for him during his last SA1. As for physical preparation, drink more water than usual, and his usual cod liver oil to keep his immune, and try to boil \"cooling herbal tea\" for everyone to bring down the hot temperature, and lastly not forgetting the sufficient sleep/rest to boost his concentration!!

Daddies, Mummies, Work Hard for OUR SA........

Good point on the keeping healthy part. As for doing papers...only just started... .... maybe we did not feel the pulse of the exam fever fast enough....still in our lalaland...

[corneyAmber]

Brenda10:

Hi, my P5 DD starting doing the top schools past year SA1 papers after the March holiday. She has completed ¾ of the Maths/Science papers. The maths papers are no easy as there are various model/pattern to remember especially “ratio”. Very IMPORTANT, the Maths must take timing otherwise you may not able to complete the test and also no time for checking.

Now we would just slowly review through those mistakes and emphasis the important key point/concept/model.

For English paper 2 (95 mark), we would practice more on “Fill in each blank with a suitable word” and “Comprehension Open-ended\" this two area marks are 35/95.

For Chinese paper 2 will focus on 理解问答1 and理解问答2 (13 question total marks 34/90 of the paper 2)， some 4 marks questions are not easy to attempt to provided you can understand the whole story very well and have good 词汇to answer. Therefore we would focus more on these types of questions. Others section which are multiply choices if the child not sure can still take chance.

For English Paper 1, DD class so far had completed 8 sets of composition and situational writing in the class with timing measure. Therefore DD would just need to select a few hot topics to read through and takes notes of some good phrases of words.

For Chinese Paper 1, DD would review some good model and most importantly know how to write the good beginning and good ending/conclusion. Some appropriate 成语 for different circumstances/situations to be used.
　
For listening test, no practice as we think by watching all these English/Chinese show daily should have more or less help her in this area.

To relax, activities remain the same. She would still carry on with the normal activities like swimming class, watching favour English cartoon show, 红白喜事，综艺大哥大 , playing UNO and game boy /computer game (0.5 hours for break).

The above is our little contribution :oops: on the experience of handling SA1 for the primary 5.

Thanks for sharing Brenda, useful tips indeed! :celebrate:

[jedamum]

ksi:

but this point cuts both ways, i.e. not well dampens the learning process as well.

doing not well will result in (1) dampens spirit or (2) increase diligence/fighting spirit, depending on how the parent handles the results.
likewise, doing well will result in (1) feelgood factor or (2) complacency.