Review Underway of the Educational System

[Nebbermind]

Chenonceau:

Yeah... you could be right there. Cannot see the world from just my own worldview...

yeah...same here!!

[Busymom]

jtoh:

Brenda10:

[quote=\"jtoh\"]If the grades awarded are fixed, then it is interesting that >80% score A/A* in MT, compared to about 40% for the other three subjects.

May be A for MT can be as low as in 60++ range ? :?

Or maybe there are a lot more students who are proficient in MT compared to English/Math/Science. [/quote]Or maybe it is easier to mug for MT as compared to the other 3 subjects (I have friends who weren't really good in MT getting A1 at 'O' and 'A' levels)?

[Brenda10]

Busymom:

jtoh:

[quote=\"Brenda10\"]May be A for MT can be as low as in 60++ range ? :?

Or maybe there are a lot more students who are proficient in MT compared to English/Math/Science.

Or maybe it is easier to mug for MT as compared to the other 3 subjects (I have friends who weren't really good in MT getting A1 at 'O' and 'A' levels)? [/quote]Hi Busymum,

If I do not remember wrongly, my friend's DS get 50++ (after combine of Paper 2, oral, LC and compo.) on CL prelim but still manage to get an A for PSLE last year.

[jtoh]

Busymom:

jtoh:

[quote=\"Brenda10\"]


May be A for MT can be as low as in 60++ range ? :?

Or maybe there are a lot more students who are proficient in MT compared to English/Math/Science.

Or maybe it is easier to mug for MT as compared to the other 3 subjects (I have friends who weren't really good in MT getting A1 at 'O' and 'A' levels)? [/quote]I know some students who will have strong objections to this. I think language comes easier to some than others. I know of students who never study for CL and still score, because the language comes easily to them. I guess for them Chinese is like English to us. No need to study. Then there are others who mug and mug and barely pass.

[Nebbermind]

Brenda10:

Hi Busymum,

If I do not remember wrongly, my friend's DS get 50++ (after combine of Paper 2, oral, LC and compo.) on CL prelim but still manage to get an A for PSLE last year.

WAH! So kelong!!

[jtoh]

Nebbermind:

Brenda10:

Hi Busymum,

If I do not remember wrongly, my friend's DS get 50++ (after combine of Paper 2, oral, LC and compo.) on CL prelim but still manage to get an A for PSLE last year.

WAH! So kelong!!

Maybe his prelim paper was very difficult? Or maybe he studied very hard? But an A is still an A. Good for him!

[Brenda10]

insider:

jtoh:

Maybe his prelim paper was very difficult?

My elder son was all the way the 'kooning' type when studies are concerned for the first 10 years of his school life. Would do his bare minimal so that his teachers would not call me.

His P6 prelim for all subjects averaged about 60 marks and his Chinese in the low 50s (every time I have to remind myself not to frown when he showed me his BEST efforts, hahaha...).

His PSLE got 4 As and so I really have this feeling that many schools are SICK (and that PSLE is not really that big a monster that many schools trying to paint it to be).

Thank you for sharing.

That's mean we don't need to be too worry with the subjects espeical CL.

[concern2]

insider:

jtoh:

Maybe his prelim paper was very difficult?

My elder son was all the way the 'kooning' type when studies are concerned for the first 10 years of his school life. Would do his bare minimal so that his teachers would not call me.

His P6 prelim for all subjects averaged about 60 marks and his Chinese in the low 50s (every time I have to remind myself not to frown when he showed me his BEST efforts, hahaha...).

His PSLE got 4 As and so I really have this feeling that many schools are SICK (and that PSLE is not really that big a monster that many schools trying to paint it to be).

Is it cos he's from a top school?

[jtoh]

insider:

concern2:

Is it cos he's from a top school?

From a regular SAP school that was just below my house.

Recently we talked about past major exams and he recalled his PSLE Chinese paper 'very easy', something about 小狗追着小猫 that he found was 'way below school's standard'.

Got him to recall his PSLE exam stress and he recalled NOTHING. He really didn't like to study type...(but homework definitely did complete and school homework was like tons...).

I assume SAP schools have a higher standard of CL compared to other schools and hence a 50%+ in your son's school is probably equivalent to 70%+ in other schools?

[jtoh]

insider:

jtoh:

I assume SAP schools have a higher standard of CL compared to other schools and hence a 50%+ in your son's school is probably equivalent to 70%+ in other schools?

Am not sure about this. Only know whenever I looked at his Chinese compo and compre then, I have (still have) a 'can die!' feeling （惨不忍睹if you can get what I mean). It's simply so broken in terms of the basic grammar mechanics.

Both his parents, esp my husband who is a pure chinese-helicopter man, are fluent in Chinese. My elder daughter excels in it too. My whole house is full of Chinese books. But come to this son, I don't know why he is simply not interested (find it a big chore to write and read Chinese).

He is currently still in China. If I remember, I will take from him his primary school report book and share with all about his school's results from P1 to P6 (if can plot a graph, can see an obvious downward sloping curve and then up again for his PSLE.)

He is 'lucky' to be my son. If he is the son of someone else, maybe would have got strangled long time ago oredi... (ok...maybe not so drastic...but definitely would have been loaded with tuition after tuition which he didn't have to suffer that under me...)

Haha! You are probably right about him being loaded with tuition. But your method worked bec he's doing fine and enjoying life too. Is your son in China on an exchange programme?