2023 PSLE Discussions and Strategies (Children born in 2011)

[3hippies]

Hi parents, could you please advise some oral assessment or resources for practices?

[lazygal21]

Hi, there are oral topics posted on https://lilbutmightyenglish.com/

There are also i think oral practice/ resources that you can purchase on carousell. But i think it would be good if once you get the oral topics/ qns and the child sit down to do a mind map of it instead of memorising someone else model answer. Bec it is always easier to recall something that you hv personally experience rather than saying something that you hv memorised

[lazygal21]

Hi, there are oral topics posted on https://lilbutmightyenglish.com/

There are also i think oral practice/ resources that you can purchase on carousell. But i think it would be good if once you get the oral topics/ qns and the child sit down to do a mind map of it instead of memorising someone else model answer. Bec it is always easier to recall something that you hv personally experience rather than saying something that you hv memorised

[tinker_bell]

lazygal21\" post_id=\"2095579\" time=\"1674139179\" user_id=\"115005:

Hi, there are oral topics posted on https://lilbutmightyenglish.com/
There are also i think oral practice/ resources that you can purchase on carousell. But i think it would be good if once you get the oral topics/ qns and the child sit down to do a mind map of it instead of memorising someone else model answer. Bec it is always easier to recall something that you hv personally experience rather than saying something that you hv memorised

Thank you @lazygal21 for sharing!

[Smartiepants55]

3hippies\" post_id=\"2095521\" time=\"1674098375\" user_id=\"200612:

Hi parents, could you please advise some oral assessment or resources for practices?

Too many…. Just go Popular walk one round….

[ChiefKiasu]

3hippies\" post_id=\"2095521\" time=\"1674098375\" user_id=\"200612:

Hi parents, could you please advise some oral assessment or resources for practices?

Yes, there's plenty of assessment books in Popular, but you as the parent-teacher must scan it and make sure you can follow through with your role as a guide/teacher. Don't just buy assessment books and expect your kid to do them while you shake legs and watch TV. Make sure the book have good solutions with explanations to help you so that you can help your child. When your child is doing the assessments in the book, stay close by to answer questions that your child may have.

[phtthp]

3hippies\" post_id=\"2095521\" time=\"1674098375\" user_id=\"200612:

Hi parents, could you please advise some oral assessment or resources for practices?

If u not sure where are the English Oral books kept, just tell the Popular bookshop sales staff, and they will show u

[lazygal21]

There are i think only 2-3 Eng oral books in popular.

Also for all subjects esp Eng and science, it is very impt to ask the kid to annotate, reduces the chances of careless mistakes.
Maths can try the Onsponge series, will be better if the parent can read thru the method and then teach the child on it.
For science, the easy hanging fruit is the MCQ (worth 56 marks), so make sure the kid do top school test papers n do timed practice for the MCQ, annotation is key as the sci qns can be very tricky. Make sure the children read properly what the question is asking for. Its also important to study the diagram and find clues as psle had a few questions which require you to study the diagram to obtain clues. If sci MCQ section can get full marks, it will help pull up the overall marks (as marks are usually lost in booklet B open ended)

[lazygal21]

https://postimg.cc/2qxp3yxM


An example of mind map done by my gal

[lazygal21]

Another thing to add, if yr child is new to Onsponge, would suggest to buy the P5 and the P6 book as most of the methods taught are in the P5 book. As the P6 books is more on a few new topics, revision qns on the P5 topics albeit with some higher order qns. Books my kids used are mainly Onsponge, Countdown to PSLE math, Gradual Difficulty maths. After running out of challenging qns to do, we attempted many top schools maths paper for the exposure. Btw, my kids had no maths tuition at all throughout pri school


For chinese oral, do see if you can get a copy of NYPS oral notes on carousell (i borrowed fr my fren whose kid was in NYPS). Their oral notes r really good and carry a wide range of topics. My twins pri school sadly did not provide much materials for chinese oral nor much practice. Fr this incidence, i explain to my kids "every school is a gd school, but some are better schools"