2012 PSLE Discussions and Strategy

[livewith_vanilla]

Augmum:

livewith_vanilla:

Hi parents !


Dun be :shock: :x :?: when it seems that your DD/DS teachers have finished their 6A books and practices ! It's normal. My teacher also rushed through. She didn't even teach. She taught the p6 new topics but other than that we were on our own. Her homework was very vague and like this:

oh yes....at the beginning, her teacher also din bother to teach for maths...
juz need to say \" today's HW is to do from page xx to page xx\" :lol:

Mine was this:

\"Recess try to do your maths. Don't waste time. Then when you go home, do as much as you can\"

The p6 prefects, like me, especially from my class (first class) didn't do duty after three months. It was study study study. My teacher loved to give us compos to do during recess.

She didn't even bother to give us pages. She just said this: Finish Chapter XX . And if anyone finished a particular book, she gets the whole class to finish it. Those were the times my class wanted to literally kill the person who finished the book so quickly.

[Brenda10]

livewith_vanilla:

Art was taught by another teacher but cancelled frequently when exams neared and disappeared totally when prelims,PSLE neared.


Music disappeared after June holidays.

SS disappeared fairly quickly since Its taught by form teacher

HE, I think we quickly finished it in the first and second month to get rid of it.

For us, all subjects were given green light.

Sounds like 逃难 or 打战. Just hope that all P6 children can tahan this period lah.

[Brenda10]

livewith_vanilla:

Mine was this:


\"Recess try to do your maths. Don't waste time. Then when you go home, do as much as you can\"

The p6 prefects, like me, especially from my class (first class) didn't do duty after three months. It was study study study. My teacher loved to give us compos to do during recess.

She didn't even bother to give us pages. She just said this: Finish Chapter XX . And if anyone finished a particular book, she gets the whole class to finish it. Those were the times my class wanted to literally kill the person who finished the book so quickly.

Actually I prefer to have compo be it CL or EL do during their lesson or supplementary class. BEST is not to bring home as this two are very time consuming when do at home.

[forzaitalia20]

A distant relative told me recently that her daughter’s tution centre said to expect about 10 questions that are nowhere to be found in usual textbook syllabus in PSLE maths each year. I assume what she meant is questions that are structured differently, but still within the general topics covered in textbook (area, ratio, angels, etc.) Anyway, I didn’t clarify further with her as I was rushing for time.


Anyone know anything similar to such comments? I find it bizzare but won’t want to miss out on any info that may help.

[Brenda10]

forzaitalia20:

A distant relative told me recently that her daughter's tution centre said to expect about 10 questions that are nowhere to be found in usual textbook syllabus in PSLE maths each year. I assume what she meant is questions that are structured differently, but still within the general topics covered in textbook (area, ratio, angels, etc.) Anyway, I didn't clarify further with her as I was rushing for time.


Anyone know anything similar to such comments? I find it bizzare but won't want to miss out on any info that may help.

Hi Forzaitalia20

Thank you for sharing.

During the parent teacher meeting, the form teacher told us not to just focus on those challenging questions and neglected those 1 - 2 marks questions as they experience some children end up make quite a numbers of mistakes in those area.

[James Ang]

Every mark is precious in the PSLE. In the middle majority range from 220 to 245, perhaps as many as 500 students could be having the same score, so each mark could mean about 500 positions ahead or behind just by a difference of 1 mark? So every major problem of 4-5 marks makes a big difference.

[livewith_vanilla]

Brenda10:

livewith_vanilla:

Mine was this:


\"Recess try to do your maths. Don't waste time. Then when you go home, do as much as you can\"

The p6 prefects, like me, especially from my class (first class) didn't do duty after three months. It was study study study. My teacher loved to give us compos to do during recess.

She didn't even bother to give us pages. She just said this: Finish Chapter XX . And if anyone finished a particular book, she gets the whole class to finish it. Those were the times my class wanted to literally kill the person who finished the book so quickly.

Actually I prefer to have compo be it CL or EL do during their lesson or supplementary class. BEST is not to bring home as this two are very time consuming when do at home.

My teacher trained us to write out an essay fast, so mostly we didn't have to do it at home, but sometimes, we bring it home but complete it within 30 min if we are in a rush.

CL compo usually finished in class because somehow we hand up crap if we bring it home due to lack of time and distractions.

EL compo is done in between lessons, during breaks and recesses, during supp classes and lessons.

[Brenda10]

livewith_vanilla:

My teacher trained us to write out an essay fast, so mostly we didn't have to do it at home, but sometimes, we bring it home but complete it within 30 min if we are in a rush.


CL compo usually finished in class because somehow we hand up crap if we bring it home due to lack of time and distractions.

EL compo is done in between lessons, during breaks and recesses, during supp classes and lessons.

Thank you Vanilla for sharing.

I also hope that dd teacher will get them to write more of EL and CL compo. otherwise is difficult to get a good marks if lack of training.

[pixiedust]

Brenda,


A small suggestion: At home, get a kitchen timer from Daiso and train your dd to write within the PSLE given time frame. In the begining, it is a bit stressful to see the timer ticking away but with practice, it should get better.

[Brenda10]

pixiedust:

Brenda,


A small suggestion: At home, get a kitchen timer from Daiso and train your dd to write within the PSLE given time frame. In the begining, it is a bit stressful to see the timer ticking away but with practice, it should get better.

Hi pixiedust

Thank you for your suggestion. In fact we are using the handphone timer. However, I'm keen to get one and thank you for recommend the source - Daiso.