2010 PSLE Discussion

[ksfaith]

OK. Wish you all the best then.

[ssll]

Anyone knows, appeal shd be done now for our choice of school or wait till the posting results is out then appeal ?

[Advisepls]

Hi all


I got 255+2(HCL) for PSLE. I was asked to try for Dunman High since i'm only one mark away. COP is 258. However, i am contemplating whether to choose Cedar over Dunman since i have a feeling i would do better there. I'm not that bad in chinese but i'm not extremely good either. which school would you advise me to put as my first choice?????????? :?: :?: :?: :?: :?:
My goodness。I am only left with a few days to decide. SOS

[autolycus]

ssll:

Anyone knows, appeal shd be done now for our choice of school or wait till the posting results is out then appeal ?

You have no grounds for appealing with respect to choice of school unless you have already been posted to a school which is not the school you wanted.

[ssll]

Advisepls:

Hi all


I got 255+2(HCL) for PSLE. I was asked to try for Dunman High since i'm only one mark away. COP is 258. However, i am contemplating whether to choose Cedar over Dunman since i have a feeling i would do better there. I'm not that bad in chinese but i'm not extremely good either. which school would you advise me to put as my first choice?????????? :?: :?: :?: :?: :?:
My goodness。I am only left with a few days to decide. SOS

I will go for Dunman , reason SAP and immediate IP .

[atutor2001]

ahque:

as he had fever during psle, with special consideration of 4 points, he has 232. goin to appeal for sst as our ds didnt manage to clear e 2nd around. now, we are struggling as to which schools to choose. seems like to risky to put sji as 1st choice, but we can only appeal if we put sji as 1st choice rite? our choices :-

1st choice - sji
2nd choice - maris stella
3rd choice - clementi town
4th choice - ?
5th choice - ?
6th choice - ?

:?: :?: :?: pls advise.

I think appealing for SJI through normal channel is difficult because the COP is 241. Therefore, there is no real advantage in putting it as the 1st choice.

My personal consideration for Sec school is discipline and distance. I think Maris stella is a good choice. Maybe you would also like to consider Nan Chiau (231) and Presbyterian High (229). The 4th, 5th ... choices are not important if we are realistic with our first 3 choices.

[cool_hi]

Any comments on Serangoon Garden Sec?? in terms of their discipline, students’ behaviour…& is it conducive+nurturing environment??

What about Guang Yang & Pierce??
Thanks in advance!!

[JonC]

Err… it Peirce.


Though not banded, some parents and teachers of DS school have good comment about the school. It may be an up and coming school.

[cool_hi]

Hi JonC,

Thanks a lot for the reassurance…tink I will tell my friend to put as 1st choice then…but chances may be low, coz their COP is betw 206-208…so 203, really quite slim chance…
What about Serangoon Garden Sec(it’s the nearest, so very tempting!!),
Guang Yang, CHong Boon & Yio Chu Kang?? Anyone has valuable advice/comments?? Thanks in advance!!

[verykiasu2010]

atutor2001:

verykiasu2010:

every school's raw score is of no help in the estimate because their standards are different from school to school. A child from school A with raw score of 380 cannot be compared with another child of the same raw score from school B.

I am using PSLE score here to estimate - not raw score from schools.
[quote]And nobody actually know the raw scores in the actual PSLE exam, but it is a known fact that every subject's mean and SD are different

I am making informed guesses of the PSLE total raw-scores from the extreme cases. The estimate is for overall mean and SD. [b]Since the papers are easy, the SD should be quite consistent for all 4 papers[/b].
[quote]it will be more instructive if the schools provide its own t-score for every student every year and bench mark it to actual performance at PSLE and see where they stand. that will be much more able to predict the PSLE actual scores [/quote]

I know a NYP girl who failed her P6 math in every semester but got an A in PSLE, which explains why the mean for NYP math is ONLY 65.8. She was so demoralised and her parents were so upset. I really cannot understand how such mis-match between prelim and psle standard is of help. So the parents will tell the kid, \"Don't worry, it is ok to fail now. Based on the bench mark to actual performace at PSLE, you will get A\"

Therefore, knowing that the overall mean is around 69 and yet that school's mean for math is 65.8, we can tell the school that they are doing a disservice to the weaker students. Losing confidence and developing dislike for math is not something that can be corrected easily.[/quote]

you know the actual raw scores for the PSLE ? don't joke / mislead people lah

the papers were easy, BUT not all 4 subjects are all equally easy. what a joke to say there should be \"consistent\" since \"they are easy\". Consistent in what ? consistently different from each and every subject is more like it

why upset ? it just shows that that girl need some waking up to before the PSLE to achiever her potential

the school's overall result is proof that what they do is on the right track : more than 82% scored at least 4As or higher

in every school there are stories of pupil who scored badly in school tests and did well for the PSLE - waking up not too late from the slumber; there are also some proud peacock who did worse in PSLE than in prelim

parents should bear in mind that every subject's mean and SD is different from year to year