All About Preparing For PSLE
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My girl got back her SA1 results, she was sad that she failed her English, according to her, only 5 in the class pass. She mentioned that the papers are marked by P6 teachers.
To her, this is the first time she failed English. She is in P5 this year
Although I am sad too, I have to talk to her advice her that this is not end of the world, as she is afraid that she don’t get good grades for PSLE.
is this the right approach to talk to her ? Has anyone encounter such problems and what do you do ? By giving students such difficult papers, will it demotivate students instead. -
I understand that some school set very difficult papers, such that only a handful of students pass or even the whole class fail the paper. I think this is a bad approach because it doesn’t give a realistic view of their capability and it de-moralised the children. Some children may be de-moralised by this poor results, while some may assume that it’s okay to fail since it’s the school culture to fail students…
Does your DD’s school has this ‘set very difficult papers and fail student to make them buck up’ culture? If yes, maybe it helps to tell her that this may be the school’s culture and may not have to do with her capabilities. Fortunately, she still have a lot of time to brush up on her English before the PSLE, take this setback to work harder. Try to advise her to believe in herself. -
Sometimes some educators have forgotten what it feels like to be a student or that they represent only a minority of the students.
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I am in no better situation too. My girl is in p5 too.
She barely passed her HCL and now still waiting for more bombs to drop onto us.
I wish I can close both eyes on her results. -
Thanks Shirley for your advice.
Have been talking to her since then. Not sure if it is the school culture, will discuss with teacher.
And again, She told me that there is one science question in paper 2 which only consists of 1 mark, according to her teacher, only 1 girl in the whole level answer correctly.....
I really has mixed feelings. One hand, hope that she does well for all subjects, on the other hand, if she doesn't do well, just feel sorry when see her sad face as not to stress her.
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Hi Lovely,
P5 English SA1 Paper 2 has two booklets.
Booklet A – 30 Questions, total – 30 marks
Booklet B – 50 Questions, total – 65 marks
Usually Booklet B is very tough especially the “Fill in the blank with suitable words” - 15 marks and “Comprehension” – 10 questions for 20 marks.
Tell her not to upset, now still have time to practice before this year end exam and PSLE next year. 加油 -
starlight1968sg:
For ds2, more than half of their p5 failed HCL, altho' he passed. But dunno whether to be happy or sad, man! bc the grades while not so high, is not barely pass either lah. Urgh ...I am in no better situation too. My girl is in p5 too.
She barely passed her HCL and now still waiting for more bombs to drop onto us.
I wish I can close both eyes on her results.
Yeah, why they like to make the exams so difficult, har? -
most likely to frighten the kids off and let them buck up lor....schools also want to show good report for their psle results mah....
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Last year, my friend called me at 7.30pm and we spoke past midnight. And that was 3 days before the P6 Prelims. Her child’s form teacher called to tell her that her child won’t make it thru PSLE. Can you imagine how terrifying it was? I called up 2 teacher friends to ask for advice. Both said it is "FEAR TACTICS". Apparently the child was super cool about PSLE. The SA1 results were not exactly great. So that’s to wake the parents and child up… and obviously like what Vlim said the ultimate is the school’s results.
On thinking back my friend said that it was good that the teacher called else she and her child might still be rather laid back. The child did pretty well.
I was also told that a school even had more than 50% failing in p5… and my friend in that school (different from the above child’s school) said that almost all parents panic (and obviously stressed out… and pass the stress to the child). Sometimes a little stress is good but it also depends on the child.
My friend’s sharing is that every time when the exams are near or around that time, her child would have eczema and her family doctor would always ask… when is the exams? Exams are stressful and it all depends on how well our child can take it.
Perhaps it would be good to tell our children that the level from p4 to p5 is a bigger jump from p3 to p4. Now that the results show that we have a learning gap to fill… let’s work on that… step by step and we will get there. Some words of encouragement.
Hope the above helps… -
May refer to my last year post - 40/100 for SA1 MATHS
Every school wanted to set a higher PSLE standard…
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