2011 PSLE Discussions and Strategy

[Pen88n]

Ms tay:

ppnqq:

My child's teachers are also very on, still in school having lessons now. Really worried for her health. Yes, mine called up saying the paper was easy too.

We r in the same boat!! :imdrowning: :grphug:

Make a cup of american ginseng with boiling water and let them drink when they are home. A whole day out can be very \"heaty\" for the body, esp in such weather. Drinking this can reduce \"heatiness\" and also provide them some perk-up.

I have been doing lots of herbal tea and soup over the last few days / weeks to keep DS in good health.

[AdvancedAcademia]

It seems that this year’s "king maker" is going to be the Paper 2 rather than Paper 1. Usually its the other way round as most people will get roughly the same scores for Paper 2 and the greatest variance will be in Paper 1. But since Paper 1, q3 is such an easy question (the picture composition is also easy but a little difficult to develop conflict in that question), Paper 2 will make the difference.


Some of the tough questions mentioned by others are really tricky. The distractors used are all very close.

Questions like permutating deceiving to deceptive; transforming past perfect in the S&T to simple past; collocating pain with pronounced, etc… are all rather tricky… SEAB seems to be upping the ante…

[Pen88n]

parentof3:

manzst:

What is the answer for deceiving in editing.

No one in my DS's class knows it

My DD'd friend say \"deceitful\".

Correct word should be \"deceitful\". Used to describe a person \"a deceitful person\".

Deceptive refers to tend to deceive. Used in the form of \"It is deceptive\".

Please treat this as a learning experience (I've shared with DS without asking for his answer) but not to hammer kid on losing that 1 mark.

[sayarma]

what is the answer for the S&T question on reported speech… X asked his brother if he had bought the gift for Y.

[Verysuperkiasu]

manzst:

Paddy Field:

In editing, there is this sentence

\"Deceiving sellers would replace the chickens with stray cats.\"
They are supposed to change the word form of 'deceiving'. He put as 'deceivious' but I think it should be 'deceitful'.

Any comments?

I thought deceptive is the adj.

My son wrote 'deceitful'. But come to think of it, why deceptive cannot? Deceptive is having the power to cheat, deceitful is like 'dishonest' So maybe 'deceitful' is a better adjective

[Ms tay]

Pen88n:

Ms tay:

[quote=\"ppnqq\"]My child's teachers are also very on, still in school having lessons now. Really worried for her health. Yes, mine called up saying the paper was easy too.

We r in the same boat!! :imdrowning: :grphug:

Make a cup of american ginseng with boiling water and let them drink when they are home. A whole day out can be very \"heaty\" for the body, esp in such weather. Drinking this can reduce \"heatiness\" and also provide them some perk-up.

I have been doing lots of herbal tea and soup over the last few days / weeks to keep DS in good health.[/quote] :thankyou: pen88n
Thks for the advice. I will make some herbal tea for my ds

[Verysuperkiasu]

TwaTau:

DS put deceptive and pronounced. Bah!

'pain is more pronounced' is correct i thought?

[Studentxxx]

Whats the answer for:

1) the pain in my ankle is getting more _______ and unbearable.
a) major b) powerful c) substantial d) pronounced
2) Vocab cloze \"significant\" question
a) essential b) important c) ???*** d) noticeable
Thx

[Green pastures]

The answer for (1) sld be "pronounced" (2) important

[tisha]

Overall looks like today's EL Paper was quite an easy one. DS too came back with a smiling face. He was able to complete the copmo in time. Usually he get carried away and then rushes to finish it in the last 5 mins. So glad that he managed his time well. He said S & T and Comp Cloze were also quite easy. No killer stuff.

A good way to start off the written papers.

Good luck to the kiddos for the rest of the exams. :rahrah: