2011 PSLE Discussions and Strategy

[Publica]

Brenda10:

Edureach:

Brenda 10


That's why cannot anyhow send a kid via dsa to a renown school especially if his/her score is more than 30 pts away. Especially for boys, totally no room for error.

Hi Edureach

Thank you for your advice.

In fact if we use the formula range from 0.70, 0.712 up to 0.75 we can ahka ahka know about out child standard.

Hi Brenda10,

Are you referring to using the formula range to estimate the T-score? In fact, we have totally no idea how DS's result will turn out although the school provided the simulated T-score based on SA1 results.

[Pen88n]

Publica:

Brenda10:

[quote=\"Edureach\"]Brenda 10


That's why cannot anyhow send a kid via dsa to a renown school especially if his/her score is more than 30 pts away. Especially for boys, totally no room for error.

Hi Edureach

Thank you for your advice.

In fact if we use the formula range from 0.70, 0.712 up to 0.75 we can ahka ahka know about out child standard.

Hi Brenda10,

Are you referring to using the formula range to estimate the T-score? In fact, we have totally no idea how DS's result will turn out although the school provided the simulated T-score based on SA1 results.[/quote]If school provide the level mean and standard deviation of each individual subject, you can calculate the T-score using the standard formula easily. That's where you know how your kid in relation to the school cohort (which can act as a representation of the national cohort though not absolutely accurate).

[phankao]

Pen88n:

If school provide the level mean and standard deviation of each individual subject, you can calculate the T-score using the standard formula easily. That's where you know how your kid in relation to the school cohort (which can act as a representation of the national cohort though not absolutely accurate).

Pardon my stupidity. What's the formula? How to calculate?

[verykiasu2010]

phankao:

Pen88n:

If school provide the level mean and standard deviation of each individual subject, you can calculate the T-score using the standard formula easily. That's where you know how your kid in relation to the school cohort (which can act as a representation of the national cohort though not absolutely accurate).

Pardon my stupidity. What's the formula? How to calculate?

http://road-to-psle.blogspot.com/2007/11/how-psle-aggregate-and-t-scores-are.html

[Pen88n]

phankao:

Pen88n:

If school provide the level mean and standard deviation of each individual subject, you can calculate the T-score using the standard formula easily. That's where you know how your kid in relation to the school cohort (which can act as a representation of the national cohort though not absolutely accurate).

Pardon my stupidity. What's the formula? How to calculate?

T-score = 50 + 10( (kid's score - mean) /standard deviation)

With this formula, you can obtain each subject individual T-score, then add up to a total T-score for the 4 subjects.

[Publica]

The only problem is we do not know the standard deviation. We only have the highest, lowest and mean score.

[Pen88n]

Publica:

The only problem is we do not know the standard deviation. We only have the highest, lowest and mean score.

Ask your teacher (if they compute). If not, do an estimate. So far from my own experience, standard deviation range from 10 - 15 for each subject. Hope this helps.

[jtoh]

Edureach:

Brenda10:

Hi pixiedust


I also heard that if the child unable to meet the requirement in the school only offer 'Express stream\", they also have to transfer out as their school don't cater for \"Normal stream\".

As such, we have to take in all these factors as consideration when choosing Secondary school.

Normally no transfer, but sadly ask to retain.

If the school doesn't offer Normal stream, the student will be asked to leave the school. If however the school has a vacancy in the level below, they may offer to retain him.

[Mum1113]

ridcully:

The Secondary 4 year is quite interesting too. Having heard the message that the Chinese language is so terribly important because of the 'rise' of China etc, parents realise that the L1 component of L1R5 requires a high level of English if their children are to get into that 'dream' junior college or polytechnic course.

Rgds
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Sorry pardon me, I know L1R5 means language 1, what about R5 stand for ?

[Mum1113]

Brenda10:

In fact if we use the formula range from 0.70, 0.712 up to 0.75 we can ahka ahka know about out child standard.

Brenda, the argaration formula can serve as a wake-up call, and can be quite scary .