2018 PSLE Discussions & Strategies (Born in 2006)

[valiant88]

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Valiant88


Not too sure at this point. I've always suspected there's still gonna be a bellcurve under the new system.

We'll have to wait patiently for a 2021 candidate to tell us. Someone who does the Math paper should be able to advise parents the answer, cos as soon as the PYP is released on Popular bookshelves in Jan, the kid can check the marks he/she lost and correspond against his actual AL-point for Math If kid was darn sure he lost more than 10 marks, and yet still attained AL1, that means there has been a moderation.

Thanks but actually I am asking about current. Just to gauge what does it really mean when a child get an A* vs an A.

[lego]

valiant88:

Question : Is the grading of the current PSLE being adjusted according to bell curve or does it reflect the raw score with only T score being bell curve? (i.e. if someone has an A* does it mean that for the paper they get >91% or it will be adjusted depending on what others get?)

I think it’s adjusted.
Don’t think A* = 91 in PSLE.
Can’t remember which year was it but many complained about the difficult maths paper.
In the end, the grades were quite good even though they didn’t finish all the questions.

[XYZ1]

[quote=\"The problem is the t-score of the child is not very good which already did not leave the parents with many choices to begin with, and after throwing in reasons like no girl school allowed / no co-Ed school allowed, it makes the decision even more difficult. So it is back to the discussion table again.[/quote]


This is exactly my situation now. My gal even dictates the school must have the cca she wants....so one more limitation.
Lucky for us is that there's a sch near to our house meets all her criteria and also acceptable to us parents, so we are putting it as first choice, she will hit the cop right at the margin, so we are keeping our fingers crossed that we must get the first choice. :xedfingers:

On the cca part, we have told her that she cannot be fixated or obssessed with just one cca cos most ccas need to be interviewed and go thru selection so we are telling her to think abt the 2nd and 3rd option for cca as well.

[Joyymum]

Strange .. for my boy’s case he had enough of co-ed (girls can suddenly tell him they love him or like him) that he told me he wants to go to all boy school. No more nonsense stuffs for him he said. Ok study first

[phtthp]

lego:

I think it’s adjusted.
Don’t think A* = 91 in PSLE.
Can’t remember which year was it but many complained about the difficult maths paper.
In the end, the grades were quite good even though they didn’t finish all the questions.

This year, hearsay that in some popular schools, students from Top 3 classes cried when saw their PSLE results , because their score fell into 22x to 230 range, when they were expecting at least 250.

Or is it after moderation (adjustment), caused this to happen ?

[phtthp]

Joyymum:

Strange .. for my boy’s case he had enough of co-ed (girls can suddenly tell him they love him or like him) that he told me he wants to go to all boy school. No more nonsense stuffs for him he said. Ok study first

Wow ! Your P6 son must be handsome, attractive looking, attracting the bees & honey, to fly around him

[6thisnthat9]

Some one mentioned in this topic not too long ago, grades eg. A or A* do not translate so directly to Tscore.

Hence, as tscore is considered adjusted, taking into account of mean and std dev which means taking into account of standard of paper and cohort. But grades shld be derived from raw scores.

So comparing kids with 1A* and 3As with those getting 2A* and 2As, tscores can vary differently.

lego:

valiant88:

Question : Is the grading of the current PSLE being adjusted according to bell curve or does it reflect the raw score with only T score being bell curve? (i.e. if someone has an A* does it mean that for the paper they get >91% or it will be adjusted depending on what others get?)

I think it’s adjusted.
Don’t think A* = 91 in PSLE.
Can’t remember which year was it but many complained about the difficult maths paper.
In the end, the grades were quite good even though they didn’t finish all the questions.

[floppy]

phtthp:

lego:

I think it’s adjusted.
Don’t think A* = 91 in PSLE.
Can’t remember which year was it but many complained about the difficult maths paper.
In the end, the grades were quite good even though they didn’t finish all the questions.

This year, hearsay that in some popular schools, students from Top 3 classes cried when saw their PSLE results , because their score fell into 22x to 230 range, when they were expecting at least 250.

Or is it after moderation (adjustment), caused this to happen ?

Hearsay, these are the people who don’t understand the term “moderation” and how “moderation” works.

Hearsay, it means they were never really that good.

[Zappy]

floppy:

phtthp:

This year, hearsay that in some popular schools, students from Top 3 classes cried when saw their PSLE results , because their score fell into 22x to 230 range, when they were expecting at least 250.

Or is it after moderation (adjustment), caused this to happen ?

Hearsay, these are the people who don’t understand the term “moderation” and how “moderation” works.

Hearsay, it means they were never really that good.

[emoh]

pirate:

floppy:

This reminds me of O and A Level.


Just drill yourself to answer all the MCQ correctly - 30 out of 30, 50 out of 50 or whatever. Pick up all the low hanging fruits to form the base.
Then pick off those mid-tier difficulty level questions or topics.
Leave out those tough topics and if need to, sacrifice a few marks. If the tough topics appear in those type of select A or B questions where you are able to avoid picking them, it's like striking a jackpot.

I guess it's inevitable once the O / A Level AL style comes into play. Since the student is no longer ranked from 1 to x, just make sure he / she squeeze within a certain min / max band.

O and A level easy to get A1 and A lah. Only need 75%. Those careless kids can lose 10+ marks for sheer carelessness and still have plenty of room to score A1 or A. :siam:

New PSLE banding still not the same if the first band is at 91 marks.

https://www.reddit.com/r/singapore/comments/73cmgi/o_level_bellcurve/

https://www.reddit.com/r/SGExams/comments/7egfij/a_levels_lets_talk_about_bell_curves/