Secondary School Chinese

[temjin68]

Hi Chen Lao Shi,


My DS is having his NA Chinese paper soon. Would you be able to advise for comp what are the topics he can focus on?
There are almost zero information for NA students to help them in their exam.
Can you help?

Thank you

[chenlaoshi]

temjin68\" post_id=\"2118915\" time=\"1694443202\" user_id=\"6076:

Hi Chen Lao Shi,

My DS is having his NA Chinese paper soon. Would you be able to advise for comp what are the topics he can focus on?
There are almost zero information for NA students to help them in their exam.
Can you help?

Thank you

Hi temjin68,

My advice will be to forget about Q3 and Q4. The scope tested for these news discussion and discursive type questions is very broad and more suitable for students who do constant reading (to understand about the topic and provide relevant supporting claims/evidences) and have a fairly good language foundation (to articulate their thoughts) .

Instead, the preparation work for Q5 (narrative) and Q6 (complete the story) are \"easier\" (since all stories will involve characters and incidents) - memorize descriptive phrases for feelings（心理描写）, actions（心动描写）and appearance（外貌描写） + remember to try and include other 描写手法 like speech（语言描写）and rhetoric approaches（比喻 metaphor/simile, 拟人 personification）, if possible.

[temjin68]

chenlaoshi\" post_id=\"2118922\" time=\"1694483819\" user_id=\"162894:

Hi temjin68,

My advice will be to forget about Q3 and Q4. The scope tested for these news discussion and discursive type questions is very broad and more suitable for students who do constant reading (to understand about the topic and provide relevant supporting claims/evidences) and have a fairly good language foundation (to articulate their thoughts) .

Instead, the preparation work for Q5 (narrative) and Q6 (complete the story) are \"easier\" (since all stories will involve characters and incidents) - memorize descriptive phrases for feelings（心理描写）, actions（心动描写）and appearance（外貌描写） + remember to try and include other 描写手法 like speech（语言描写）and rhetoric approaches（比喻 metaphor/simile, 拟人 personification）, if possible.

Thank you for your advise

[cacky]

Hi, not sure if this has been asked before but I would like to find out the format for O Level HCL for oral.


Also, may I know the differences between CL and HCL at O levels? as in the format

[chenlaoshi]

cacky\" post_id=\"2120655\" time=\"1697213566\" user_id=\"46051:

Hi, not sure if this has been asked before but I would like to find out the format for O Level HCL for oral.

Also, may I know the differences between CL and HCL at O levels? as in the format

Hi cacky,

You can check out this post here to see the differences:

https://www.kiasuparents.com/kiasu/forum/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=8835&p=1892326&hilit=chenlaoshi#p1892321

[00skyblue00]

chenlaoshi\" post_id=\"2120666\" time=\"1697255021\" user_id=\"162894:

Hi cacky,

You can check out this post here to see the differences:

https://www.kiasuparents.com/kiasu/forum/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=8835&p=1892326&hilit=chenlaoshi#p1892321

Heard that reading in oral in CL will be taken out, but not sure when as sch exam this yr still has reading part. Is this change new for next yr onwards?

[chenlaoshi]

00skyblue00\" post_id=\"2120667\" time=\"1697255708\" user_id=\"143605:

Heard that reading in oral in CL will be taken out, but not sure when as sch exam this yr still has reading part. Is this change new for next yr onwards?

For https://www.seab.gov.sg/docs/default-source/national-examinations/syllabus/olevel/2024syllabus/1160_y24_sy.pdf, there's still https://www.seab.gov.sg/docs/default-source/national-examinations/syllabus/olevel/2024syllabus/1160_y24_oe_sp_3.pdf.

However for EL, \"the Read Aloud part of the exam will be replaced by the Planned Response component\" w.e.f. 2024:
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/oral-exam-changes-olevels-nlevels-english-language-public-speaking-3407951

[zac's mum]

00skyblue00\" post_id=\"2120667\" time=\"1697255708\" user_id=\"143605:

Heard that reading in oral in CL will be taken out, but not sure when as sch exam this yr still has reading part. Is this change new for next yr onwards?

Your child is in Sec 2 this year? School still gave passage reading for CL oral? Oh no (foreseeing my DS cannot escape this next year when he’s sec 2).

By the time come to your child’s CL O level format in sec 4, i believe it will change to planned response to match English oral (make notes & report on the video). Maybe your DC school will implement in their sec 3 exam?

@chenlaoshi, just to check, 2025 o level onwards for CL oral, is new format?

[00skyblue00]

zac's mum\" post_id=\"2120686\" time=\"1697258602\" user_id=\"53606:[quote=\"zac's mum\" post_id=2120686 time=1697258602 user_id=53606]
Your child is in Sec 2 this year? School still gave passage reading for CL oral? Oh no (foreseeing my DS cannot escape this next year when he’s sec 2).

By the time come to your child’s CL O level format in sec 4, i believe it will change to planned response to match English oral (make notes & report on the video). Maybe your DC school will implement in their sec 3 exam?

@chenlaoshi, just to check, 2025 o level onwards for CL oral, is new format?[/quote]

The kid is in sec 2 taking puhua. Parent was talking to another Chinese tr, when the removal of reading was mentioned. Thought no reading was for 2024 o level?

By right if change will be implemented by 2025 o level, sch shld begin new format now? Not sure hence asking.

I thought planned response is for HCL only? Not sure what format will replace the reading component.

[chenlaoshi]

zac's mum\" post_id=\"2120686\" time=\"1697258602\" user_id=\"53606:[quote=\"zac's mum\" post_id=2120686 time=1697258602 user_id=53606]
@chenlaoshi, just to check, 2025 o level onwards for CL oral, is new format?[/quote]

zac's mum, I haven't heard of any confirmed news on this yet. If they do switch to planned response for CL, it might be even harder for those students who are finding passage reading a challenge.

If we look at it from another perspective, word recognition is still an important skill cos CL O Level Paper 2 includes 1 cloze passage + 4 MCQ compre passages + 2 OE compre passages, so even if passage reading component is removed, still need to work on word recognition (knowing how to pronounce the phrases makes it easier to retain understanding of their meanings since it's not just the strokes/writing that they can associate the meaning to).