2019 PSLE Discussions and Strategies (Children born in 2007)

[tmn78]

Anyone took part in the SOTA creative writing 2019?

Heard that results are out today.
Anyone received email?

[sweetbaby]

chenlaoshi\" post_id=\"1902678\" time=\"1552546249\" user_id=\"162894:

sweetbaby\" post_id=\"1902641\" time=\"1552539181\" user_id=\"16633:

Hi

Anyone knows title of Composition question 1 of 2015 PSLE Chinese paper? Anyone has a picture of Composition question 2 of the same year? Thank you.

Hi sweetbaby,

Here you go: http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php?file_id=06946650359990633467

Chenlaoshi,

Thank you so much!

[sweetbaby]

March holidays finally here !

[sweetbaby]

How can we help increase child’s marks up by 5 to 7 points for maths, science and english? (Mostly at least 5 to 10 points lost due to carelessness) Practice top school papers or PSLE past year papers will be best? Anyway can share how they help a careless child.

[2kiasu4you]

sweetbaby\" post_id=\"1903009\" time=\"1552828745\" user_id=\"16633:

How can we help increase child's marks up by 5 to 7 points for maths, science and english? (Mostly at least 5 to 10 points lost due to carelessness) Practice top school papers or PSLE past year papers will be best? Anyway can share how they help a careless child.

Well for me since I'm a student, I would usually re-attempt the wrong questions and then check the answers. You can also try to find some methods to help your child remember certain points like in Science, where there is methods like PHC (Process, Heat gain/lost, Change) COIN (Cobalt, Iron, Nickel, etc.), and TRACCER that can help gain points in Booklet B and recall concepts. For English, I've seen that most answers except your own opinion questions tend to be shorter than expected, and the question always give the direction to the answer.

[Iluvmygals]

sweetbaby\" post_id=\"1903009\" time=\"1552828745\" user_id=\"16633:

How can we help increase child's marks up by 5 to 7 points for maths, science and english? (Mostly at least 5 to 10 points lost due to carelessness) Practice top school papers or PSLE past year papers will be best? Anyway can share how they help a careless child.

1. For math, to help overcome carelessness, I will give my daughters practice paper to do with no time limit but the only requirement is to get all questions correct. They can take their time to check their answers. Any careless mistake that they made, we will add on 3-5 questions more to do. So this goes on until they can do without any carelessness. This helps them to relook at their own answers and learn how to spot mistakes. Once carelessness is removed, we then do practices with time trial.
2. For science, need to identify whether is booklet A or booklet B that is having issues. The approach is different.

[bluepencil]

hi sweetbaby

To gain marks quickly, it is best to identify the mistake area. Once you tackle the mistake you will get back your points. I know sometimes its hard, like my girl is weak in cloze passage, and you cannot guarantee the marks to come back, but at least we identify this area. Next is to practise the best we can. At least you become familiar with things, and not like out of the blue have to do a cloze passage. You become familiar with how they set questions at least.

[bluepencil]

Iluvmygals\" post_id=\"1901812\" time=\"1552008466\" user_id=\"26453:

bluepencil\" post_id=\"1898431\" time=\"1550190895\" user_id=\"165241:

Hi all, my girl is weak in electrical circuits. She will learn and yet get new questions wrong. May I knw if anyone buys some kind of small electrical circuit for the child to visualise? Is it from popular and also is it useful?? My girl is also somehow weaker in visualisation math questions. Cry. I think she played too little lego...

Wanted to share this a while ago but forget...

https://phet.colorado.edu/sims/html/circuit-construction-kit-dc/latest/circuit-construction-kit-dc_en.html

The above website let you construct circuits. Once the bulb lights up means circuit is good. It can even show different degree of brightness when there is more than one bulb. Some schools may have shared this website already cause my kids got it from school and used it to check their answers.

Hi Iluvmygals
Thanks for this, we use this also. but I guess my girl needs touch and feel to understand better. Nevertheless this website is helpful.

For chinese composition, does your child write more picture compo or open ended one? I know picture compo is recommended. But it can be challenging for a child who is weak in expression. An example, last SA there was one picture compo where two person had a head on collision 相撞. My child didn't know how to describe it. She ended up writing that they bang and bang 撞来撞去. I want to faint...

[Iluvmygals]

My kids tends to write more picture compo but we prefer them to write the open ended one cause open ended one tends to score better. Picture compo hard to score on content cause everyone will be writing almost the same storyline except for the last picture or the ending.



What we do for PSLE is to practice a few open ended questions and prepared them for a few possible questions. So kids can reuse the same story for different scenarios. At the same time, we teach them how to look at the picture and add more description, make the story more lively, pay attention to details.


End of day, I think kids will choose what they are comfortable writing.

[bluepencil]

Parents, how do you use the orange coloured PSLE science revision guide by Marshall Cavendish? Do your children read it thoroughly or just read selected chapters?

It is on our textbook list but our teacher does not touch it at all
So far my child attends enrichment, has tuition notes, reads textbook, do exam papers, but this orange book is hardly used

What about the Ultimate science guide by EPH. Is it a must read too???

thanks for any feedback!