2011 PSLE Discussions and Strategy

[wonderm]

Brenda10:

wonderm:

[quote=\"phankao\"]Didn't the news report that 70-80% of students end up with at least A/A* for PSLE for MT? That's why there was no basis to remove MT as a required subject for psle t-score calculation either.

For 2010 PSLE, 81.2% nationwide scored A or A* for Chinese. Agree with you, only less than 20% of students could not score A or better grade, the best performance among all subjects.

Is English the tougher subject to get A or A*?[/quote]Yes. Just to share:

Subject % scoring A and A*
English 44.3%
Maths 43.3%
Science 43.2%
Chinese 81.2%

[Leanne]

Hi Brenda10,


From what I observed, its not difficult to get A for english, but tougher to get A STAR.

Brenda10:

wonderm:

[quote=\"phankao\"]Didn't the news report that 70-80% of students end up with at least A/A* for PSLE for MT? That's why there was no basis to remove MT as a required subject for psle t-score calculation either.

For 2010 PSLE, 81.2% nationwide scored A or A* for Chinese. Agree with you, only less than 20% of students could not score A or better grade, the best performance among all subjects.

Is English the tougher subject to get A or A*?[/quote]

[Brenda10]

wonderm:

Brenda10:

[quote=\"wonderm\"]
For 2010 PSLE, 81.2% nationwide scored A or A* for Chinese. Agree with you, only less than 20% of students could not score A or better grade, the best performance among all subjects.

Is English the tougher subject to get A or A*?

Yes. Just to share:

Subject % scoring A and A*
English 44.3%
Maths 43.3%
Science 43.2%
Chinese 81.2%[/quote]Thank you for sharing. Like that have to focus more in the other 3 subject lah.

[Brenda10]

Leanne:

Hi Brenda10,


From what I observed, its not difficult to get A for english, but tougher to get A STAR.

Hi Leanne

I also think so. If want to score A* have to do extremly well in Paper 2.

[wonderm]

Brenda10:

wonderm:

[quote=\"Brenda10\"]
Is English the tougher subject to get A or A*?

Yes. Just to share:

Subject % scoring A and A*
English 44.3%
Maths 43.3%
Science 43.2%
Chinese 81.2%

Thank you for sharing. Like that have to focus more in the other 3 subject lah.[/quote]As you know, ultimately, it is not the A and A*, but the T-score that really matters. If most people get A and A* for Chinese, and a child gets only B, then his T-score could be badly affected. PSLE is really the most challenging exam, one has to do well in all four subjects relative to his/her cohort in order to score well. All the best to those taking PSLE!

[Leanne]

Hi Wonderm,


Totally agreed.One B is enough to kill.I also observed a child with Four A, but t score is 220.

My nephew, 2 A star and 2 A, I guess his two Star is very high, and the other is low A(languages), thus getting a score of 251 last year.


Rgds

Totally

wonderm:

Brenda10:

[quote=\"wonderm\"]Yes. Just to share:

Subject % scoring A and A*
English 44.3%
Maths 43.3%
Science 43.2%
Chinese 81.2%

Thank you for sharing. Like that have to focus more in the other 3 subject lah.

As you know, ultimately, it is not the A and A*, but the T-score that really matters. If most people get A and A* for Chinese, and a child gets only B, then his T-score could be badly affected. PSLE is really the most challenging exam, one has to do well in all four subjects relative to his/her cohort in order to score well. All the best to those taking PSLE![/quote]

[Leanne]

Hi Brenda,


I would think the paper one that determine the A star grade,with other factor remains unchanged.


Cheers

Brenda10:

Leanne:

Hi Brenda10,

From what I observed, its not difficult to get A for english, but tougher to get A STAR.

Hi Leanne

I also think so. If want to score A* have to do extremly well in Paper 2.

[Brenda10]

Leanne:

Hi Brenda,


I would think the paper one that determine the A star grade,with other factor remains unchanged.


Cheers

Hi Leanne

Sorry typing error. It should be Paper 1 - Compo..

[Leanne]

Hi Brenda,


No prob about the typo error.

Usually paper two is not too hard, its the compo and oral that makes the difference.


Rgds
Leanne

Brenda10:

Leanne:

Hi Brenda,

I would think the paper one that determine the A star grade,with other factor remains unchanged.


Cheers

Hi Leanne

Sorry typing error. It should be Paper 1 - Compo..

[jtoh]

Leanne:

Hi Brenda10,


From what I observed, its not difficult to get A for english, but tougher to get A STAR.

How about for other subjects? I didn't realize that until a friend of mine said she hardly knew of kids who scored A* in English.