Importance of PSLE

[jtoh]

No lah. Employers don’t look at PSLE results.

[smurf]

Honesetly if u ask me, PSLE is NOT important at all other than to let students ‘fight’ among themselves. That’s all. Does your overseas counterpart knows what is PSLE about? They dun because they dun even have exam all the way until p6.

[hquek]

PSLE score in itself is unimportant. But a good score opens up doors to good/popular schools. Pri school entry is based on gene pool and distance from home.


Entry to Sec school is based on merit (mostly, and in some cases gene pool [I’m referring to where there are affiliations and the child can get in with lesser psle marks than ‘outsiders’]). So herein lies my fixation with psle.

[shirley.020816tamzil]

I feel that the importance of PSLE has been over-stated over the years. I'm not saying it's not important, it is one of the exams our children got to go thru. An exam, that's it. Hope I can stay this cool when my children got to go through it... :celebrate:

[verykiasu2010]

why is PSLE so important ?


it is important if you want to make it important

it is unimportant if you make it unimportant

oh what stupid answers I give !!

it is important for those who want to go to good secondary schools

so what is a good secondary school ? why are some secondary schools or IP schools more popular than others ? there are many reasons…just scan through this ksp website and all the discussion pages lor…

so what if one does not pass through the door of a "good" secondary school ? people still make a success of their life without going through "good" and popular and famous secondary schools…after all there are only so many places available in the school…

well, it all boils down one’s attitude to life (nothing +ve or -ve about it), or rather, a parent’s attitude to the kid’s life …

[verykiasu2010]

at the final analysis, after having put all my children through primary school, a good set of PSLE results help to secure a place in a good JC without the headache / heartache of nail biting GCE O levels

[Jennifer]

verykiasu2010:

at the final analysis, after having put all my children through primary school, a good set of PSLE results help to secure a place in a good JC without the headache / heartache of nail biting GCE O levels

Agreed.

[BeContented]

verykiasu2010:

why is PSLE so important ?


it is important if you want to make it important

it is unimportant if you make it unimportant

oh what stupid answers I give !!

it is important for those who want to go to good secondary schools

so what is a good secondary school ? why are some secondary schools or IP schools more popular than others ? there are many reasons.....just scan through this ksp website and all the discussion pages lor...

so what if one does not pass through the door of a \"good\" secondary school ? people still make a success of their life without going through \"good\" and popular and famous secondary schools.....after all there are only so many places available in the school......

well, it all boils down one's attitude to life (nothing +ve or -ve about it), or rather, a parent's attitude to the kid's life ........

Agree. Thot I won't bother much.....but as I start counting down the days when my P5 son will sit for PSLE.....look what I am doing now??? SURFING KSP lor.

[AppleCrumble]

Having a DD who completed her PSLE last year, now I realise why the fuss over this first national exam taken by school going kids.


My DD, together with her 2 cousins, took their PSLE last year and the 3 of them got very different results. DD and another cousin, who were ranked higher in terms of PSLE t-score, were given their first choice secondary schools which are quite popular in Singapore. The remaining cousin, though still qualified for Express stream, was posted her 4th choice school. On Reporting Day (23 Dec 2010), when this cousin went her new class in the secondary school, she realised that she's the only Chinese student in her class. Her parents took a look at the school environment and noticed that the school is plagued with student discipline issues. The parents also received a lot of negative feedback about the students from this school from friends and neighbours (smoking in the park while still in school uniform, fighting and rowdiness in shopping malls, food courts). After much thought, the parents decided to withdraw their DD from the school.

In essence, P6 kids who are ranked higher for the PSLE t-score will have more secondary school choices. Generally, secondary schools with better school environment are very popular and have higher cut-off points. It also translates to that if your child qualifies for such schools, he/she will have a more conducive environment for learning and lesser chance of discipline problems during the teenage years. For the parents, this means lesser headaches (NOT no headache)!

[vlim]

so for those kids whose results are not so good, their parents chose to let them go into a good sec school’s normal stream then to express stream of schools’ with disciplinary problems…

that’s what happen to my niece and she is very happy in the ‘much better’ school studying in the normal stream…