2020 PSLE Discussions and Strategies(for those born in 2008)

[MrCool]

Cool nurse\" post_id=\"1990816\" time=\"1597327530\" user_id=\"185329:[quote=\"Cool nurse\" post_id=1990816 time=1597327530 user_id=185329]

ghibli76\" post_id=\"1990814\" time=\"1597324700\" user_id=\"12219:

By no means, I am trying to make parents bash their own kids...and firstly, did I ask parents for opinions if my daughter did well? No. I asked parents if there was anything that my daughter missed out. Just so you know both my kids are different...does not mean one can score 279 and then another will also automatically score 279. I am a strong believer in grades don't matter. I don't scold my kids for getting bad grades ever and believe other parents should not scold either. I am also one of the parents to want to know approximately how much my child score...as a parent, I have that anxiety to know how my child did. Hearing how the Chinese oral prompts is almost way different from the theme in the video, I was just scared that my daughter did not explore other things that the theme 'neighbors'. I honestly really don't care if you think my post serves nothing, because it serves an answer to my question. Don't say anything if you don't have anything nice to say.

P.S. read my post carefully again...I asked if there was any points my child missed out, not if my daughter aced her oral. And also the parents over here, have their kids as their top priority and they will not bash their kids for not giving a better answer.

I don't see anything wrong in your post CoolNurse. It is useful. Today is English oral for my DS. Even though it may not be \"Neighbourhood\", at least your post enlightens what to prepare and talk in a broader way rather than simply answering. Your daughter said whatever she observes, which is really helpful to teach my DS, not to go to sky to think, just share his experiences/observations around him while answering. By no means, I will bash my kids for exams. Exam / PSLE is one milestone in their learning journey and not an end if they don't score well. I am happy as long as they put honest effort. Best wishes to all kids to ace today's Oral exam.

[nms1]

hazeline\" post_id=\"1990846\" time=\"1597359972\" user_id=\"18065:

nms1\" post_id=\"1990823\" time=\"1597329444\" user_id=\"13601:

I think we sometimes need to be a bit more sensitive to those with children who didn't perform as well.

There will be some parents out there whose child barely managed to think of anything to say so reading a long list of what someone else said from a parent worrying about what she may have missed, could be quite upsetting.

I actually think what Cool Nurse did is ok,
I enjoyed reading through the list to see how others answered the question. Although I wouldn't do so myself cause I see no reason in asking others if my kid did ok after my kid already gave a long list of good answers


This is Kiasu parents forum, have to be Kiasu a bit lar, to strive to do better by learning from others. There will always be kids better than ours. There is no need to envy, upset or bash ours just because of others doing better.

We do all want to learn but what is done is done and we have to remember that while we may all be \"kiasu\" parents, it doesn't mean that we all have children who are able to perform at that level.

[xueyan]

xn_mummy\" post_id=\"1990696\" time=\"1597302428\" user_id=\"137029:

https://postlmg.cc/bDfdMLDZ
based on the earlier post, it seem like the chinsee topic for Day1 is recycle topic but then the question asked seem to be on good deed/donation.

anyone can comments ?

Ds also answer the questions more on recycling but after reading that the topic is about good deed helping the poor. I immediately message his MT teacher about öut-of-point\"answers. She said whether out of point or not is really quite difficult for her to tell as the examiner should help the child if he go out of point. She said that importantly it is the 2 way conversation.

Just hope all ok because ds put in a lot of efforts preparing.

[nms1]

xueyan\" post_id=\"1990855\" time=\"1597369606\" user_id=\"6643:

xn_mummy\" post_id=\"1990696\" time=\"1597302428\" user_id=\"137029:

https://postlmg.cc/bDfdMLDZ
based on the earlier post, it seem like the chinsee topic for Day1 is recycle topic but then the question asked seem to be on good deed/donation.

anyone can comments ?

Ds also answer the questions more on recycling but after reading that the topic is about good deed helping the poor. I immediately message his MT teacher about öut-of-point\"answers. She said whether out of point or not is really quite difficult for her to tell as the examiner should help the child if he go out of point. She said that importantly it is the 2 way conversation.

Just hope all ok because ds put in a lot of efforts preparing.

It's best just to forget about it and move on. At the most, use it as motivation for the written paper. Tell him that he needs to make sure his written paper is strong in case he lost marks in the oral

[MyPillow]

I feel Chinese oral more difficult than Eng , as need to:

Video to watch
Narrate Video & talk about about personal views of video
Final topical conversation
so many tasks to do ...

i do feel yesterday chinese video content a bit tricky too !
Yest Eng oral was still managebale, community event, neighbour/hood
Hope Today Chinese and Eng are both Manageable for ALL kids (so many avg/general kids out there, dun bask n crash their confidence la! only 11 / 12 yo - still got so many papers to tackle.

Week end is here, take a short break and prepare again :rahrah:

[Imp75]

Just a word of encouragement. Like many parents say, just move on and do better in other components. My gals also came back from CL oral 2 years ago with tongue tied answers and more than 7 prompts and seemingly out of point/narrow answers as they were so fixated at one theme only. In the end they did well enough to get A* in the subject which I suspected was helped by compo, LC and paper 2. So do not stress or fret over the past event. Move on and strive to do better in the other components.

[phtthp]

jeffrey21213\" post_id=\"1990756\" time=\"1597309160\" user_id=\"186603:

is the chinese oral harder than last year

This Recycling topic didn't appear in Chinese Oral for past several years, if you purchase & examined the PSLE past years' booklet, year by year.

Last year 2019 Oral topic, Recycling (\"huan bao\") theme surfaced.

But last year Recycling was straight forward, because that was the main theme while this year 2020 Recycling a bit tricky, because the central theme was on helping people do good, kind deed, good will

Actually I was surprised that Recycling came out this year again, because normally the trend was that, if a topic already appear before, the same topic unlikely to re-appear so fast, so soon immediately, in the next following year (Psle batch). Even if were to re-appear, probably a few years later, then will appear again. I didn't realize that actually SEAB can tie in \"Recycling\" concurrently with another theme instead, hence tricky this year.

During Oral,
normally if students stray away by talking (focus) too much about Recycling, the invigilators will notice and try to steer, re-direct the students' thoughts back to the central theme, helping people do kind deed, by prompting them questions like eg. In what way, do you feel that, Recycling can help in ... ?

[moom]

Have to add my 2 cents in to this discussion after all these years of being a member . Just came back to read again cos dd3 is taking psle this year


To COOL NURSE... your daughter's reply is truly amazing ( I couldn't have said all that, even as an adult. Lol ) so she would have definitely aced it..not to worry at all

I think the oral exam is a conversational exam.. so it depends on how the child communicates fluently and effectively abt topics and how they respond to the teachers' questions. I dont think one has to worry abt whether the kids 'missed out certain points ' .. I doubt the teachers have a 'checklist 'of ALL the points that can / have to be covered .. so think parents dont have to anxious about what was missed . Also, if they omitted to say certain things.. nothing can be done now .. so not much point in wondering .

As many have pointed out . Let's all move on and support our kids in the best way possible. What's done cannot be undone. Focus our best efforts on the upcoming papers ahead.. all the best to all P6s of 2020 !! :))

[phtthp]

Have the Day2 students come out ? What’s today Day 2 (Chinese & English) topics?

[Tookies]

My boy just came out, said is Road Safety for CL Oral