2022 PSLE Discussions & Strategies (born in 2010)

[SG_KP1]

Sorry, just for clarity the languages Paper 1 and Paper 2 will be on the same day. Math is also Paper 1 and Paper 2, so Science is the only day they don’t need to reload and be ready to go back-to-back.

[zac's mum]

Thank u. Just hoping for a whole weekend to do the final cramming of Chinese vocab & hope more words will stick, my kid’s weakest kid component.

[zac's mum]

Gah, I just realized it is actually like this, so the weekend should actually be cramming 作文好词好句 instead of vocab (he will just have to tikam those):


Thursday: English Paper 1 and 2
Friday: Math
(Weekend break)
Monday: Chinese Paper 1 and 2
Tuesday: Science

[chenlaoshi]

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Would like to check with experienced PSLE parents out there. Trying to plan ahead for 2022.

Is it always the case that the main 4 days of PSLE are like this?

Thursday: English Paper 2
Friday: Math
(Weekend break)
Monday: Chinese Paper 2
Tuesday: Science[/quote]

zac's mum,

Yup, and it ends in the same week as Children's Day. (These are the https://www.kiasuparents.com/kiasu/forum/viewtopic.php?f=69&t=81235&p=1878216&hilit=Written+Examination#p1878216.)

So the tentative dates should be:
--> Oral - Thur 18 and Fri 19 Aug 2022 (supposed to be the Thur and Fri right after National Day but the last time National Day fell on Tue [in 2016], Oral examinations was held the following week),

--> LC - Fri 16 Sep 2022,

--> Written Examination: Thur 29 Sep (Eng), Fri 30 Sep (Math), Mon 3 Oct (CL), Tue 4 Oct (Sci) and Wed 5 Oct (HCL)

[phtthp]

All current P5s taking 2022 PSLE next year,

may learn from LC \"Annotation\" method, to improve your languages' Comprehension / li jie wen da / Science

https://www.kiasuparents.com/kiasu/forum/viewtopic.php?f=69&t=11079&start=1000

[zac's mum]

I was looking thru the PSLE exam formats and noticed that Math has a scheduled break between Papers 1 and 2?


My qn is: how long is the break? Do the kids get to go to canteen and eat recess?

Or is it just a minor break for the invigilators to collect Paper 1 and then the kids go outside the classroom to retrieve their calculators & quickly come back for Paper 2? No toilet break?

[SG_KP1]

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I was looking thru the PSLE exam formats and noticed that Math has a scheduled break between Papers 1 and 2?

My qn is: how long is the break? Do the kids get to go to canteen and eat recess?

Or is it just a minor break for the invigilators to collect Paper 1 and then the kids go outside the classroom to retrieve their calculators & quickly come back for Paper 2? No toilet break?[/quote]

The PSLE Schedule has been Paper 1 from 8:15 - 9:15 and Paper 2 from 10:30 - 12:00. I'm not sure what the schools are doing for SA2s (or P6 SA1s) but I believe many will have the level's recess break between the two papers.

It can be a bit of a distraction for the kids, especially if they start comparing answers, etc (probably more an issue P5/P6 than PSLE). Each kid is different but generally I suggest they try to eat, drink, and stick to themselves during this period.

[zac's mum]

https://i.postimg.cc/t45tDrjS/PSLE-English-format.png


https://i.postimg.cc/sg9KqjpJ/PSLE-Maths-format.png

https://i.postimg.cc/L41tG4SZ/PSLE-Science-format.png

https://i.postimg.cc/Zn45fLZH/PSLE-Chinese-format.png

[Grr_roxy]

ST Smart Parenting Webinar on New PSLE scoring system was today.


Based on what I gather, papers for our kiddo will not be very easy next time as the papers will have combination of hard, avg and easy questions. This will then form a natural bell curve like the old scoring system(except this is based on students’ sampling scores for each cohort). And the hard qns will definitely be there to sieve out the good, average and weaker ones.

I guess that our batch will most likely not have the luxury of taking out the last common topics. Understand some P5 may not have completed all the P5 topics. So sch will have to do some catching up now. And for the rest who completed, some will start covering p6 topics now.

IMHO, this new scoring system is definitely more stressful compared to the older one. Not sure why MOE think otherwise. Will our kiddos chase for that 1 more point to score a better AL? Isn’t this obvious?

[lee_yl]

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ST Smart Parenting Webinar on New PSLE scoring system was today.

Based on what I gather, papers for our kiddo will not be very easy next time as the papers will have combination of hard, avg and easy questions. This will then form a natural bell curve like the old scoring system(except this is based on students’ sampling scores for each cohort). And the hard qns will definitely be there to sieve out the good, average and weaker ones.

I guess that our batch will most likely not have the luxury of taking out the last common topics. Understand some P5 may not have completed all the P5 topics. So sch will have to do some catching up now. And for the rest who completed, some will start covering p6 topics now.

IMHO, this new scoring system is definitely more stressful compared to the older one. Not sure why MOE think otherwise. Will our kiddos chase for that 1 more point to score a better AL? Isn’t this obvious?

I mean all the average and above students will definitely try to attempt those difficult questions, right? Then many of them will cry, like the Helen & Ivan question.

Removed the t-score old bell curve, now set a new arbitrary bell curve?! 😂

At first thought new AL sort of aim to spread the good students around, so it’s back to bell curve again.

When MOE and the citizens think differently, it means MOE is out of touch with the ground. Don’t mind if I say this, the 1st batch of kids who went through AL banding already cried until some need to see school counselors (as reported in ST), then it shows AL banding does not help in reducing psle stress for both parents and child. Not to mention the secondary school posting stress