2019 PSLE Discussions and Strategies (Children born in 2007)
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Why taken down cos people don't like to listen to the truth? Only parents who have kids this Yr feel the pain. Sadly I got x2 double blow... :frustrated:
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hazeline\" post_id=\"1938792\" time=\"1569884237\" user_id=\"18065:
I also share the same sentiments as hazeline’s observation. It’s PSLE Science paper today and people are still talking about PSLE Maths. I believe the papers is set within the guidelines by MOE and SEAB so just let them go mark the papers and moderate the marks. Are we raising up durian generations ? Look tough on outside but soft inside. Let the children experience a setback in life earlier is better for a parent to manage than to see the child suffer a bigger setback in life beyond parental control. Be patient, the results day will give us good news. Be positive and teach our children to do likewise.
I am just puzzled why is it that you had mentioned repeatedly that this year paper is not fair due to MO type of questions. Because, from what I see, the questions which came out are within expectations. While there are more challenging questions, I think they are there for a purpose. And that is to differentiate the A* from the A students.phtthp\" post_id=\"1938789\" time=\"1569883433\" user_id=\"35251:
hazeline,
Yes, many 2019 P6 parents are fully aware that \"Pattern\" fall under Heuristics, came out in 2016 PSLE before, as well as in certain Prelim Top schools too. As such, before sitting for 2019 PSLE, many P6 students had already practised \"Pattern\" before.
Reason being -
several primary schools' class Maths Teachers in Singapore would have gotten all their 2019 P6 students, to practise full PSLE paper, for past 3 years, or even more. Teachers even request students to buy PSLE booklet (2016 to 2018), sold at $1 per booklet, from their school bookshop.
Is not that they do not know, nor is it that they did not practise enough \"Pattern\" questions -
My 2 cents…
My girl got the last qn on pattern correct. However I feel pattern qn should be removed entirely from PSLE exams. Pattern qns are such that sometimes you see it immediately and sometimes you just don’t. Even as adults. During time constraint, when one is anxious, spotting a pattern may prove to be even more difficult. It is tough to get even partial marks when one cannot see the pattern, unlike other heuristic qns. Hence, I feel setters should test on things which require more of logical process thinking than one which requires strong visual perceptual skills. -
If we have strawberry parents, we will have strawberry kids.
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whitecarrotcake\" post_id=\"1938799\" time=\"1569885781\" user_id=\"114080:
Agree.
My 2 cents.....
My girl got the last qn on pattern correct. However I feel pattern qn should be removed entirely from PSLE exams. Pattern qns are such that sometimes you see it immediately and sometimes you just don't. Even as adults. During time constraints, when one is anxious, spotting a pattern may prove to be even more difficult. It is tough to get even partial marks when one cannot see the pattern, unlike other heuristic qns. Hence, I feel setters should test on things which require more of logical process thinking than one which requires strong visual perceptual skills.
It is not a IQ test, should focus more on mathematics. -
My girl did 2 topic for the Chinese compo
Pics half done
Title did 2 but half done too
Pls let me know how would the tester be grading her?? Will she will be grade with the highest possible mark or zero...😣😖
I m so anxious here..oh my -
Good luck to those taking the exam today, especially those in Sengkang and Punggol, and was depending on the LRT to get you to school
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Timmy21\" post_id=\"1938803\" time=\"1569886846\" user_id=\"122721:
why such an important, heavy weightage one big 5 marks question in 2019 psle, yet our Maths textbook don't even teach some concepts. Why ?
Agree.whitecarrotcake\" post_id=\"1938799\" time=\"1569885781\" user_id=\"114080:
My 2 cents.....
My girl got the last qn on pattern correct. However I feel pattern qn should be removed entirely from PSLE exams. Pattern qns are such that sometimes you see it immediately and sometimes you just don't. Even as adults. During time constraints, when one is anxious, spotting a pattern may prove to be even more difficult. It is tough to get even partial marks when one cannot see the pattern, unlike other heuristic qns. Hence, I feel setters should test on things which require more of logical process thinking than one which requires strong visual perceptual skills.
It is not a IQ test, should focus more on mathematics. -
Timmy21\" post_id=\"1938803\" time=\"1569886846\" user_id=\"122721:
I share the same sentiment. When I was a child, I practiced very hard for the Math heuristic skills but regardless of how hard I tried, I just could not grasp the skill. It is not about working hard but how certain brains just can’t do it. To make matters worse, these kind of questions are always allocated high weightage of marks. Can the allocation of marks be distributed more evenly for various skill sets?
Agree.whitecarrotcake\" post_id=\"1938799\" time=\"1569885781\" user_id=\"114080:
My 2 cents.....
My girl got the last qn on pattern correct. However I feel pattern qn should be removed entirely from PSLE exams. Pattern qns are such that sometimes you see it immediately and sometimes you just don't. Even as adults. During time constraints, when one is anxious, spotting a pattern may prove to be even more difficult. It is tough to get even partial marks when one cannot see the pattern, unlike other heuristic qns. Hence, I feel setters should test on things which require more of logical process thinking than one which requires strong visual perceptual skills.
It is not a IQ test, should focus more on mathematics.
Ironically when I reached tertiary level, this Math problems didn’t concern me anymore. I was able to do subjects such as statistics and accounting very well. Then I realized that I was not “stupid” because I cannot deal with certain math concepts but I can deal with numbers in a different way.
Primary level exams are like getting past a certain phase. Whether those so called concepts are important in our later lives or applicable in real- situations or not? To me, not so. I guess this is why there are ‘late bloomers’ who excels later on when they have been given opportunities and exposure to what complement individual’s personal strengths. For a holistic education for our young ones and to make the new generation believes in themselves and possess confidence, our education curriculum still has a lot to be fine- tuned. No system can accommodate everyone’s needs after all. It is a great challenge.
I look forward to my child coming back later regardless how well she has done for Science today. -
Actually pattern recognition questions were covered in my gals school syllabus way back in P4/5. I remembered it was in the onsponge book that was in the sch booklist. Don’t say about this pattern recognition question, past paper 1 questions on number pattern (ie 1,3,5,…,…) came out before in psle, this also seems like MO but nobody made noise then.
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