2017 PSLE Discussions and Strategies

[sharonkhoo]

jtoh:

lee_yl:

A friend told me there’s no need to inform school whether to opt in or opt out for HMT as all RGS girls must take HMT. Same for RI. I told her that she better check with her school on 22nd Dec.

Definitely not true. The majority of students take HMT but it's not compulsory.

I can vouch for RGS at least - my daughter sat in an MT class. But majority of the girls took HMT.

[lee_yl]

slmkhoo:

jtoh:

[quote=\"lee_yl\"]A friend told me there’s no need to inform school whether to opt in or opt out for HMT as all RGS girls must take HMT. Same for RI. I told her that she better check with her school on 22nd Dec.

Definitely not true. The majority of students take HMT but it's not compulsory.

I can vouch for RGS at least - my daughter sat in an MT class. But majority of the girls took HMT.[/quote]Thanks. Not sure why she has this perception that all doing HMT.

[sharonkhoo]

lee_yl:

Thanks. Not sure why she has this perception that all doing HMT.

Probably because it's a very large majority who take HMT. I think they put the girls who take MT in a few classes (the classes split up during MT/HMT periods) to make timetabling easier, so there will be classes where everyone takes HMT.

[iFirefly]

slmkhoo:

jtoh:

[quote=\"lee_yl\"]
A friend told me there’s no need to inform school whether to opt in or opt out for HMT as all RGS girls must take HMT. Same for RI. I told her that she better check with her school on 22nd Dec.

Definitely not true. The majority of students take HMT but it's not compulsory.

I can vouch for RGS at least - my daughter sat in an MT class. But majority of the girls took HMT.[/quote]It's not compulsory for RI too, though majority of students take HMT.

[jedamum]

Thanks all for the clarifications.

[raisintan]

Does anyone know why the quality pass rate (A & A*) for Mother Tongue has always been consistently higher than other subjects? Based on historical records, the national quality pass rate for other subjects is 40+% vs Mother Tongue of 70+%.


I thought the results are moderated across the subjects? This look distorted... and many students struggled with Mother Tongue yet 70+% bagged A and A*? :?

[floppy]

raisintan:

Does anyone know why the quality pass rate (A & A*) for Mother Tongue has always been consistently higher than other subjects? Based on historical records, the national quality pass rate for other subjects is 40+% vs Mother Tongue of 70+%.


I thought the results are moderated across the subjects? This look distorted... and many students struggled with Mother Tongue yet 70+% bagged A and A*? :?

Can you point us to the historical records?
Based on the https://data.gov.sg/dataset/percentage-of-psle-students-who-scored-a-c-by-subject?resource_id=e01fd2b4-d394-4940-ad5c-c8a7c83412e9, the performance has been fairly consistent. Overall results indicate that moderation is indeed in place and doesn’t look like there is bias across subjects.

[lee_yl]

iFirefly:

slmkhoo:

[quote=\"jtoh\"]
Definitely not true. The majority of students take HMT but it's not compulsory.

I can vouch for RGS at least - my daughter sat in an MT class. But majority of the girls took HMT.

It's not compulsory for RI too, though majority of students take HMT.[/quote]Thanks for the info. I was a bit confused by my friend intially as she was quite sure about her claims.

[raisintan]

floppy:

raisintan:

Does anyone know why the quality pass rate (A & A*) for Mother Tongue has always been consistently higher than other subjects? Based on historical records, the national quality pass rate for other subjects is 40+% vs Mother Tongue of 70+%.


I thought the results are moderated across the subjects? This look distorted... and many students struggled with Mother Tongue yet 70+% bagged A and A*? :?

Can you point us to the historical records?
Based on the https://data.gov.sg/dataset/percentage-of-psle-students-who-scored-a-c-by-subject?resource_id=e01fd2b4-d394-4940-ad5c-c8a7c83412e9, the performance has been fairly consistent. Overall results indicate that moderation is indeed in place and doesn’t look like there is bias across subjects.

In the past many years, many primary schools have been posting their school performance of quality passes (A and A*) against national level performance on their websites. Some schools also disclosed their average PSLE T-score. But in recent years, most have stopped in line with MOE direction.

I just managed to find this info from CHIJ Katong slides but it is based on 2016 PSLE performance. However, the results are of the same trend that I remember seeing over the past many years

https://s33.postimg.org/keict3ekf/Screenshot_20171209-104316.png\">

[floppy]

raisintan:

floppy:

[quote=\"raisintan\"]Does anyone know why the quality pass rate (A & A*) for Mother Tongue has always been consistently higher than other subjects? Based on historical records, the national quality pass rate for other subjects is 40+% vs Mother Tongue of 70+%.


I thought the results are moderated across the subjects? This look distorted... and many students struggled with Mother Tongue yet 70+% bagged A and A*? :?

Can you point us to the historical records?
Based on the https://data.gov.sg/dataset/percentage-of-psle-students-who-scored-a-c-by-subject?resource_id=e01fd2b4-d394-4940-ad5c-c8a7c83412e9, the performance has been fairly consistent. Overall results indicate that moderation is indeed in place and doesn’t look like there is bias across subjects.

In the past many years, many primary schools have been posting their school performance of quality passes (A and A*) against national level performance on their websites. Some schools also disclosed their average PSLE T-score. But in recent years, most have stopped in line with MOE direction.

I just managed to find this info from CHIJ Katong slides but it is based on 2016 PSLE performance. However, the results are of the same trend that I remember seeing over the past many years

https://s33.postimg.org/keict3ekf/Screenshot_20171209-104316.png\">[/quote]One swallow does not a summer make.