PSLE Prelim

[NIEtrainedTEACHER]

Yup, for prelim score, you can calculate that. The concept of adding 15 - 20 marks to your prelim score is what generally people will do.


However, there is a pitfall of doing that which I think most parents should be aware of. If for that year, the Singapore’s P6 co-hort does very well for that paper, then the adding of marks would generally be wrong. In this case, a mark of 80 may only be 65 - 70 after computing using the T-score.

Regards.

[turquoise]

But not all schools calculate prelim scores.

[Anxiousmom]

turquoise:

But not all schools calculate prelim scores.

In fact during SA1, my dau's sch did give them a computation of the Standard deviation and the mean marks for parents to do their own calculation based on their level in the report book. They will be doing likewise for SA2. (She is in Pr 5 this year). The principal claimed that they hv done this for the past 2-3 years and claimed that its quite accurate. The deviation from their prelium T score is bout +-5 marks from their PSLE T scores

[Sahimi]

It is about 22 days to PSLE. How should I help my boy. Should he be doing top school exam papers or drill on the sections that he is weak in.

Is sad that my boy is not good in languages although he reads alot of books. During his prelim this year, he score only 71 marks for his English written paper. But thks God that his teacher told him that he score about 37 out of 40 for his compo which at least help him to score 81 marks for overall. Really don’t know how to help him to improve both his English and Chinese written paper although his Chinese compo is as goood as English compo. I really don’t understand why he is able to do well in his compo but not written paper???

[Jennifer]

Sahimi:

It is about 22 days to PSLE. How should I help my boy. Should he be doing top school exam papers or drill on the sections that he is weak in.

Is sad that my boy is not good in languages although he reads alot of books. During his prelim this year, he score only 71 marks for his English written paper. But thks God that his teacher told him that he score about 37 out of 40 for his compo which at least help him to score 81 marks for overall. Really don't know how to help him to improve both his English and Chinese written paper although his Chinese compo is as goood as English compo. I really don't understand why he is able to do well in his compo but not written paper??????

From my boy's experience, he lost the most marks in the section \"synthesis and transformation\" and \"open ended compreh\". Are these the sections your boy is weak in?

[turquoise]

Anxiousmom:

turquoise:

But not all schools calculate prelim scores.

In fact during SA1, my dau's sch did give them a computation of the Standard deviation and the mean marks for parents to do their own calculation based on their level in the report book. They will be doing likewise for SA2. (She is in Pr 5 this year). The principal claimed that they hv done this for the past 2-3 years and claimed that its quite accurate. The deviation from their prelium T score is bout +-5 marks from their PSLE T scores

Which school is this?

[Sahimi]

Jennifer:

Sahimi:

It is about 22 days to PSLE. How should I help my boy. Should he be doing top school exam papers or drill on the sections that he is weak in.

Is sad that my boy is not good in languages although he reads alot of books. During his prelim this year, he score only 71 marks for his English written paper. But thks God that his teacher told him that he score about 37 out of 40 for his compo which at least help him to score 81 marks for overall. Really don't know how to help him to improve both his English and Chinese written paper although his Chinese compo is as goood as English compo. I really don't understand why he is able to do well in his compo but not written paper??????

From my boy's experience, he lost the most marks in the section \"synthesis and transformation\" and \"open ended compreh\". Are these the sections your boy is weak in?

Yes and vocabulary cloze as well.

[Jennifer]

Sahimi:

vocabulary cloze

My elder boy reads a lot of fiction books. He does not hv much prob with this section.

I met a girl who is P5 this year, same sch as my elder boy. They used to train under the same badminton coach. She told me her EL teacher advised them to read for the way the author writes the sentences, to pay attention to synthesis and transformation. Seems like reading cannot be solely for pleasure.

[Sahimi]

Jennifer:

Sahimi:

vocabulary cloze

My elder boy reads a lot of fiction books. He does not hv much prob with this section.

I met a girl who is P5 this year, same sch as my elder boy. They used to train under the same badminton coach. She told me her EL teacher advised them to read for the way the author writes the sentences, to pay attention to synthesis and transformation. Seems like reading cannot be solely for pleasure.

Thank you

[daisyt]

Sahimi:

Is sad that my boy is not good in languages although he reads alot of books.

A teacher told me before, this is very common because the kids tend to get engrosed on the storyline of the books and not taking note on the vocab, grammer etc. The best thing to read are those boring stuffs like newspaper articles, nat geo magazine, reader digest. There are many things to do after reading and not just read and full stop.