2011 PSLE Discussions and Strategy

[Pen88n]

Vanilla Cake:

Pen88n:

How many schools will that be, and which schools are on the list? Please advise. Thanks

2011 P6 English PE1 aka SA1 - Paper 2 - Booklet A/B
Catholic High School (Primary) - including paper 1: Writing
* Preliminary Examination 1 aka SA1

2011 P6 English Prelim - Paper 2 - Booklet A/B
Raffles Girls' Primary School
Anglo-Chinese School (Junior/Primary)
CHIJ St Nicholas Girls' School (Primary)
Pei Chun Public School - including paper 1: Writing
Henry Park Primary School
Red Swastika School
Singapore Hokkien Huay Kuan 5-School Combined (Tao Nan/Ai Tong/Chongfu/Nan Chiau/Kong Hwa)

2011 P6 Mathematics PE1 aka SA1 - Paper 1(Booklet A/B) and Paper 2
Catholic High School (Primary)
* Preliminary Examination 1 aka SA1

2011 P6 Mathematics Prelim - Paper 1(Booklet A/B) and Paper 2
Raffles Girls' Primary School
Anglo-Chinese School (Junior/Primary)
CHIJ St Nicholas Girls' School (Primary)
Pei Chun Public School
Henry Park Primary School
Singapore Hokkien Huay Kuan 5-School Combined (Tao Nan/Ai Tong/Chongfu/Nan Chiau/Kong Hwa)

2011 P6 Chinese PE1 aka SA1 - Paper 2(Booklet A/B)
Catholic High School (Primary)
* Preliminary Examination 1 aka SA1

2011 P6 Chinese Prelim - Paper 2(Booklet A/B)
Raffles Girls' Primary School
Anglo-Chinese School (Junior)
CHIJ St Nicholas Girls' School (Primary)
Pei Chun Public School
Henry Park Primary School
Red Swastika School

2011 P6 Chinese Prelim - Paper 2(Booklet B)
Singapore Hokkien Huay Kuan 5-School Combined (Tao Nan/Ai Tong/Chongfu/Nan Chiau/Kong Hwa)

2011 P6 Higher Chinese PE1 aka SA1 - Paper 2
Catholic High School (Primary)
* Preliminary Examination 1 aka SA1

2011 P6 Higher Chinese Prelim - Paper 2
Raffles Girls' Primary School
Red Swastika School

2011 P6 Science CA2 - Paper (Booklet A/B)
Chongfu School

2011 P6 Science PE1 aka SA1 - Paper (Booklet A/B)
Catholic High School (Primary)
* Preliminary Examination 1 aka SA1

2011 P6 Science Prelim - Paper (Booklet A/B)
Raffles Girls' Primary School
Anglo-Chinese School (Junior/Primary)
CHIJ St Nicholas Girls' School (Primary)
Pei Chun Public School
Henry Park Primary School
Red Swastika School

VC's mum

Thanks, VC's mum, for the detailed listing.

[ngbrdad]

Got the papers from the vendor at Clementi as instructed by Jeremy.


Anyone able to get the Nan Yang Prellim papers ?

[James Ang]

This question is from a neighbourhood school prelims.


P6 Math
Leslie bought some sweets and gave 2/3 of it to Alan. Alan bought some chocolates and gave 2/3 of it to Leslie. Leslie ate 6 chocolates and Alan ate 6 sweets. The ratio of Leslie’s chocolates to sweets become 2:1 and the ratio of Alan’s chocolates to sweets is 4:5. How many chocolates did Alan buy? (5 marks)

[Verysuperkiasu]

James Ang:

This question is from a neighbourhood school prelims.


P6 Math
Leslie bought some sweets and gave 2/3 of it to Alan. Alan bought some chocolates and gave 2/3 of it to Leslie. Leslie ate 6 chocolates and Alan ate 6 sweets. The ratio of Leslie's chocolates to sweets become 2:1 and the ratio of Alan's chocolates to sweets is 4:5. How many chocolates did Alan buy? (5 marks)

What's the answer?

[James Ang]

Someone asked me the question.


My answer is 48 chocolates. Solved by drawing models.

[Pen88n]

James Ang:

This question is from a neighbourhood school prelims.


P6 Math
Leslie bought some sweets and gave 2/3 of it to Alan. Alan bought some chocolates and gave 2/3 of it to Leslie. Leslie ate 6 chocolates and Alan ate 6 sweets. The ratio of Leslie's chocolates to sweets become 2:1 and the ratio of Alan's chocolates to sweets is 4:5. How many chocolates did Alan buy? (5 marks)

Exactly like one of the past year PSLE question - just change the fraction and ratio numbers. Easiest to solve by modelling.

[James Ang]

Only 2 students got it right in the school prelims.

[Pen88n]

James Ang:

Only 2 students got it right in the school prelims.

Usually under normal circumstances and the kid has been exposed to this question before, they can do, Under prelim sometimes stress, so they may be a little panicky or careless, or misinterpret some info, and ended up losing some marks.

[SAplayer]

James Ang:

This question is from a neighbourhood school prelims.


P6 Math
Leslie bought some sweets and gave 2/3 of it to Alan. Alan bought some chocolates and gave 2/3 of it to Leslie. Leslie ate 6 chocolates and Alan ate 6 sweets. The ratio of Leslie's chocolates to sweets become 2:1 and the ratio of Alan's chocolates to sweets is 4:5. How many chocolates did Alan buy? (5 marks)

Easy question de...
Here is the solution by ratio + simple algrbra:

Let the number of chocolates bought =x
Let the number of sweets bought =y
2(1/3y) = 2/3 x-6 --------equation 1
4(2/3 y-6) = 5(1/3 x) ---------equation 2
From equation 1,
2y = 2x -18 --------------- equation 3
From equation 2,
8y -72 = 5x ---------------- equation 4

Substitute equation 3 into equation 4
4(2x -18) -72 = 5y
8x -72 -72 = 5x
3x = 144
X = 48
Therefore, the number of chocolates bought by Alan is 48.

[PiggyLalala]

James Ang:

This question is from a neighbourhood school prelims.


P6 Math
Leslie bought some sweets and gave 2/3 of it to Alan. Alan bought some chocolates and gave 2/3 of it to Leslie. Leslie ate 6 chocolates and Alan ate 6 sweets. The ratio of Leslie's chocolates to sweets become 2:1 and the ratio of Alan's chocolates to sweets is 4:5. How many chocolates did Alan buy? (5 marks)

Just curious to know,
How did your dd/ds solve the above question? model or algebra?
Also how many of your dd/ds solve all the maths questions by model only? Do you teach them solve by algebra?
Hope to hear from the parents here. Thank you.

All the best to your DD/DS in the coming PSLE.