Why mark P3 paper by PSLE standard? : Really ??

[JonC]

It’s always good to align the students and parents expectation towards PSLE style of marking as early as possible.


So why not?

[IJJ]

I am a parent of a P3 child studying in Pei Hwa too. The article did not elaborate on the section(s) and how was it not adhered to the PSLE standard, hence, I could not comment specifically on it. I am guessing he/she was refering to the 造句 (sentense construction). For this, all along, my child's teacher advises them not to write in speech with open and close inverted commas. Such are considered as informal. This could be the reason.


Personally, I found the paper standard alright and marked reasonably. The vocabs are of P3 standard taught during the year. I prefer the school to be consistently strict so that when its PSLE year for them, the students will not need to adjust to another standard.

[art_n_i]

Honestly, PSLE marking scheme is just a branding teachers would use to draw parents to the attention that it is necessary to mark the papers using a certain standard guideline, in fact from P2 onwards.


The most leeway is given at P1 level when they are still new to the system.

[starlight1968sg]

art_n_i:

Honestly, PSLE marking scheme is just a branding teachers would use to draw parents to the attention that it is necessary to mark the papers using a certain standard guideline, in fact from P2 onwards.


The most leeway is given at P1 level when they are still new to the system.

Haha... start marking the papers in psle way from P1 ! :lol:

[verykiasu2010]

IJJ:

I am a parent of a P3 child studying in Pei Hwa too. The article did not elaborate on the section(s) and how was it not adhered to the PSLE standard, hence, I could not comment specifically on it. I am guessing he/she was refering to the 造句 (sentense construction). For this, all along, my child's teacher advises them not to write in speech with open and close inverted commas. Such are considered as informal. This could be the reason.


Personally, I find the paper standard alright and marked reasonably. I prefer the school to be consistently strict so that its PSLE year, the students will not need to adjust to another standard.

if that is the case - having to adjust to PSLE \"standard\" at year 6, then it is NOT teaching according to 'syllabus'.........just like in science, key words are needed to get the marks, scientific terms are required, not layman terms

[art_n_i]

starlight1968sg:

art_n_i:

Honestly, PSLE marking scheme is just a branding teachers would use to draw parents to the attention that it is necessary to mark the papers using a certain standard guideline, in fact from P2 onwards.


The most leeway is given at P1 level when they are still new to the system.

Haha... start marking the papers in psle way from P1 ! :lol:

I believe they do not want to give the children the culture shock so early in the game. :lol:

Well, at the end of the day, parents still have a role to play to explain the correct learning points to the children.

[corneyAmber]

My child has 3 such experiences in her marking scheme this year in both the subjective papers, Eng and Chinese. However, after understanding from the teachers, I found the right perspective to explain to my child. Getting the extra marks was not the critical point but understanding why was crucial. This is also one form of learning, not everything in life is convincing by logic but it is important to learn that there are specifics required in an exam as designed by the question setters. And when there are many possibilities, the setter has to design a specific answer key boundary in order to award the marks.


While her answers were right from the language view, it was mainly marked wrong for its contextual view with reference to the exam specifics. This is a very important point for me to coach her. Firstly, she has to understand her language is not the flaw and she should not stop using the language the way she has used it in the exam. However, she must learn to zoom into the exam context and narrow her answers to fit the bill that can earn her marks. The HOD also highlighted that they marked P6 the same way, again suggesting that was PSLE guideline.

[janet88]

My son’s CA/SA exams were marked in accordance to PSLE standard since P3…during the Parent-Teacher meeting, his form teacher/CL teachers told us it’s to get the students to establish the habit of writing clear, straight-to-the-point answers from young. This way, they will not have difficulties answering at P6.

This is esp so for Science.

[Quintessential Mum]

Is it not better to mark it according to the PSLE guideline so that the kids will know what to expect? Anyway, 39 out of 50 for HCL is not bad!

[pupilview]

This parent is making a big fuss for no reason. My colleague from China says that our Mandarin standard is actually quite low.Need to accept the fact that nobody gets full marks for a language.