2024 PSLE Discussions and Strategies
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Mine also asks for roblox $$ for rewards when he has done a paper well.
No wonder he has been playing World Of Tanks Blitz the past few days. I didn’t know Roblox is down.
Frankly, I’m not very IT savvy but I do keep an eye on Qustodio that he shouldn’t max out 2 hours a day. -
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It seems that the molly coddling of kids is starting to rear its head. No exams, schools not for students to compete amongst themselves, etc. Its ok until P5 when the reality of PSLE bites down hard. So MOE decides to retain the difficulty of PSLE and make good students compete for good secondary schools by balloting.
The point is, we can't have our cake and eat it too. If you want to retain the \"standards\", then you have to make it easy by having the kids prepare earlier for the exams. Or you have to reduce the difficulty of PSLE to let more pass and subject everyone to balloting so that even \"all Secondary schools are good schools\". It seems that MOE wants to reduce \"stress\" and yet retain high PSLE standards. :?[/quote]Second this! It doesn’t make sense to reduce stress at the lower levels yet PSLE still high standards. To me, it’s just piling up the stress at P5/6. Once foundation is weaker, it’s not going to be easy to pull back up in just 2 years. It’s not impossible but it’s going to be a mammoth task. And also depends on the child’s attitude and innate ability. Most kids would already have that chillax attitude from the earlier years. Then suddenly they need to “wake up”? Isn’t this putting more stress for the kids? “Slow and steady wins the race” is better than “chiong ar!” -
mystique_j\" post_id=\"2046000\" time=\"1636685743\" user_id=\"39431:
Why must kids sit for exam in their early years? Their foundation can still be strong even there is no exam if they have the passion to study their school subjects. Not sitting for exam doesn't mean they would have chillax attitude, it is how the teachers in school and parents at home motivate them to study. Their passion to study should not be depend on exam only.
Second this! It doesn’t make sense to reduce stress at the lower levels yet PSLE still high standards. To me, it’s just piling up the stress at P5/6. Once foundation is weaker, it’s not going to be easy to pull back up in just 2 years. It’s not impossible but it’s going to be a mammoth task. And also depends on the child’s attitude and innate ability. Most kids would already have that chillax attitude from the earlier years. Then suddenly they need to “wake up”? Isn’t this putting more stress for the kids? “Slow and steady wins the race” is better than “chiong ar!” -
I’m very surprised to even see this thread.
Frankly, schools are full of rules to follow and right and wrong; hardly anything for the kids to find anything interesting. How to truly nurture their curiousity to learn and find motivation to study. It’s a myth to me. I found that school Teachers has too much to handle and teach too little. But when it come to exam times expect that kids to perform x10 beyond their teaching.
A lot of work is done outside of school, tuitions, camps, enrichments…etc
The kids are not taught or to have an interest or a passion they can fall back on when they have free time. Simply because they have no free time.
The only free time is after psle. Where u will find a bunch of P6s aimlessly not knowing what to do. Cos what they know is just study. -
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phtthp\" post_id=\"2060775\" time=\"1646638181\" user_id=\"35251:
It's fine as long as the schools still test (FA, CA, WA or whatever) sufficiently to get the kids prepared for PSLE. But students and parents will need to pay more attention to these mini exams and take the results seriously.
good or No good ?
https://www.todayonline.com/singapore/mid-year-exams-be-scrapped-all-primary-secondary-schools-2023-1838311
For example, now it is just P5 SA2 - Prelim - PSLE as the \"major\" exams in upper primary? -
phtthp\" post_id=\"2060775\" time=\"1646638181\" user_id=\"35251:
Not having midterms anymore for primary and secondary schools? Wow. Well, my kids are either lucky or unlucky that they just missed the changes
good or No good ?
https://www.todayonline.com/singapore/mid-year-exams-be-scrapped-all-primary-secondary-schools-2023-1838311
The thing I liked about JC and above education is that there is only 1 final to study for. But that would mean putting all your eggs in a basket. Even in the university, courses usually have at least 4 weighted assignments, worth about 20% of your grade. These assignments are meant to encourage consistency in learning. In the university I worked for, there are even mock exams for students to get tuned to the requirements of the course.
I don't know if younger kids can adopt the \"no midterm exam\" notion. I'm sure most would enjoy it, until they have to sit for the final, all 'rusty'. Hopefully not.
Maybe this new rule is only temporary as the country recovers from covid? -
FWIW, my older kid’s (2020 PSLE) school only conducted SA1 (40%) and SA2 (60%) in all of P3-P6 (P6 SA1 cancelled due to COVID). No CAs in Term 1 and Term 3. While the full exam takes a lot of time to administer, the good thing is for the languages the kids got full feedback on oral, LC, and both written papers. Perhaps the extra time around SA1 was worth it when you consider that the school did free up a week in both Terms 1 & 3 with no CAs.
In contrast, my younger kid (2022 PSLE) had WA1-WA2-WA3-SA2 (15%-15%-15%-55%) from P3 to P5. P6 will just be SA1 and Prelim (again no CA or WA in Term 1).
At the end of the day, I’m not really sure it makes a big difference either way (substitute mid-year for mini-exams). I do see that CA1-SA1-CA2-SA2 may be a bit of overkill? But between the other two options above I guess each has its pros / cons.
As it pertains specifically to primary school and PSLE, I do feel only having P5 SA2 and then Prelim may delay the "wake-up" call for some. Given the way the S1 posting system works, this just means more cramming / stress at the end for some. I think IP Sec 1 - Sec 4 can definitely do away with mid-year exams. -
phtthp\" post_id=\"2060775\" time=\"1646638181\" user_id=\"35251:
One man's meat is another man's poison.
good or No good ?
https://www.todayonline.com/singapore/mid-year-exams-be-scrapped-all-primary-secondary-schools-2023-1838311 -
Camping here first! Ha ha.
Primary 5 next year, let’s go!
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