2021 PSLE Discussions and Strategies (Children born in 2009)

[zac's mum]

passioninlearning\" post_id=\"1998481\" time=\"1602465997\" user_id=\"143581:

gksmummy\" post_id=\"1998461\" time=\"1602428059\" user_id=\"11665:

Wonder how the banding works. It's really more worrying compared to t-score system.

It's similar to what has been practised in O and A levels.

Essentially, as long as your child is competent, he or she will do well in whatever grading system.

I agree the grade bands are similar to O levels grades, Eg A1, A2, B3, B4 etc.

But an important difference is, for O level L1R5 calculations purposes, the students can add up the best scores from their 8 or more subjects. Only certain subjects are compulsory to be used (such as 1 language, 1 humanities, 1 Maths, 1 Science). The rest can play to their best subject strengths.

Whereas for PSLE score, it is compulsory to count all 4 subjects. Even if one subject is particularly weak. Eg Chinese.

[passioninlearning]

zac's mum\" post_id=\"1998489\" time=\"1602467467\" user_id=\"53606:[quote=\"zac's mum\" post_id=1998489 time=1602467467 user_id=53606]

passioninlearning\" post_id=\"1998481\" time=\"1602465997\" user_id=\"143581:

Wonder how the banding works. It's really more worrying compared to t-score system.

It's similar to what has been practised in O and A levels.

Essentially, as long as your child is competent, he or she will do well in whatever grading system.

I agree the grade bands are similar to O levels grades, Eg A1, A2, B3, B4 etc.

But an important difference is, for O level L1R5 calculations purposes, the students can add up the best scores from their 8 or more subjects. Only certain subjects are compulsory to be used (such as 1 language, 1 humanities, 1 Maths, 1 Science). The rest can play to their best subject strengths.

Whereas for PSLE score, it is compulsory to count all 4 subjects. Even if one subject is particularly weak. Eg Chinese.[/quote]It does not really matter actually. I always tell my students that even if they are not all rounders, they need to ensure that they do not do very badly for the weakest subjects.

This holidays will be the turning point though, so worry not!

[Starwarsjedi998]

Checking in🙋‍️ ds psle next year

[lego]

zac's mum\" post_id=\"1998489\" time=\"1602467467\" user_id=\"53606:[quote=\"zac's mum\" post_id=1998489 time=1602467467 user_id=53606]

I agree the grade bands are similar to O levels grades, Eg A1, A2, B3, B4 etc.

But an important difference is, for O level L1R5 calculations purposes, the students can add up the best scores from their 8 or more subjects. Only certain subjects are compulsory to be used (such as 1 language, 1 humanities, 1 Maths, 1 Science). The rest can play to their best subject strengths.

Whereas for PSLE score, it is compulsory to count all 4 subjects. Even if one subject is particularly weak. Eg Chinese.
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While it is compulsory to include Mother Tongue in the PSLE score, the marking of it seems to be more lenient at the national level.
The percentage of students getting “A/A* grade for standard Chinese in PSLE was at about 70% as compared to the 40+% for English/Math/Science.
I suppose they do recognise that Chinese is the weakest subject for many students. (It was also my dd’s weakest subject.)

Certain AL band covers quite a wide range of marks though.
Whether a student gets 45 or 64 marks for a standard subject , he gets the same AL 6.

[tracychew]

lego\" post_id=\"1998597\" time=\"1602566048\" user_id=\"11821:

zac's mum\" post_id=\"1998489\" time=\"1602467467\" user_id=\"53606:[quote=\"zac's mum\" post_id=1998489 time=1602467467 user_id=53606]
I agree the grade bands are similar to O levels grades, Eg A1, A2, B3, B4 etc.

But an important difference is, for O level L1R5 calculations purposes, the students can add up the best scores from their 8 or more subjects. Only certain subjects are compulsory to be used (such as 1 language, 1 humanities, 1 Maths, 1 Science). The rest can play to their best subject strengths.

Whereas for PSLE score, it is compulsory to count all 4 subjects. Even if one subject is particularly weak. Eg Chinese.

While it is compulsory to include Mother Tongue in the PSLE score, the marking of it seems to be more lenient at the national level.
The percentage of students getting “A/A* grade for standard Chinese in PSLE was at about 70% as compared to the 40+% for English/Math/Science.
I suppose they do recognise that Chinese is the weakest subject for many students. (It was also my dd’s weakest subject.)

Certain AL band covers quite a wide range of marks though.
Whether a student gets 45 or 64 marks for a standard subject , he gets the same AL 6.[/quote]

I am worried about chinese too. My whole family jiak gan dang. Hopefully we'll be ready with this one...

[jellykaya]

so little time to revise for this coming SA2. School still struggling to finish teaching P5 syllabus which was delayed bec of CCB.

[Reenie]

Hi,


I’m wondering if the new grading is solely based on the child real marks? Or still will adjust based on the difficult of paper? Thanks!!!

[phtthp]

No more adjustment, is your child’s original Raw score. Only Tscore can adjust, based on P6 peers cohort performance.

AL score, cannot adjust

[6thisnthat9]

Only the following is certain, from moe website. There will be no adjustment based on peers performance. But no mention of whether there will or will not be adjustment on difficulty of paper.


Once a student shows a level of achievement that meets the learning objectives of the curriculum expected at a certain AL, he will receive the AL regardless of how his peers perform. The emphasis is on how well the student has learnt, and not how well he has done compared to others.

We want our children to focus on their own learning instead of trying to outdo others.

[Reenie]

Thank you both for your reply!:)