2011 PSLE Discussions and Strategy

[AdvancedAcademia]

breanne:

AdvancedAcademia:

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...

Shouldn't the transformation be from past perfect to present perfect ?

Its a little like reverse engineering.

For example.

Question; Jane asked David, \"Did you do your homework?\" (Simple Past)

Ans: Jane asked David if he had done his homework. (Past Perfect)

So if we reverse the question:

Jane asked David if he had done his homework (Past Perfect)

Jane asked David, \"Have you done your homework?\" (Present perfect - very awkward tense to use without context.)

Jane asked David, \"Did you do your homework?\" (Simple Past - a better choice for answer.)

[raghupavithra]

breanne:

Kid:

I dont think date is needed as that is an informal email and date is only required in formal letter and do not need to write 'Re:' . I'm not confirmed , this is based on what my teacher told me . She said ‘Re:' is no longer needed as the format has changed .

DS said the same -- for informal email go straight to Dear xxx. His teacher said \"Re\" and \"date\" are not required.

they will not give any marks is it

[AdvancedAcademia]

Kid:

Could anyone explain why the pain is pronounced and not substantial ? I searched the dictionary but still could not understand .

Honestly, I don't have a easy way to explain this... Its more about collocation I believe. At the same time I would usually use the adj substantial to describe something tangible or quantifiable, in this case I would feel that using substantial to describe pain would be rather awkward...

[James Ang]

Heard my students discussing, to pick object at/in/by/? random? Most of them put "at random".

[MummySTay]

I checked the dictionary. It is "at random".

[2 Plus 2 Equal 4]

Good luck for tmr !! maths

[James Ang]

MummySTay:

I checked the dictionary. It is \"at random\".

Usually in Sec 2 maths topic on probability, \"a ball is picked at random, what is probability....\"

So \"at random\" should be correct. Some students put \"in random\" as answer.

[r2010]

raghupavithra:

breanne:

[quote=\"Kid\"]I dont think date is needed as that is an informal email and date is only required in formal letter and do not need to write 'Re:' . I'm not confirmed , this is based on what my teacher told me . She said ‘Re:' is no longer needed as the format has changed .

DS said the same -- for informal email go straight to Dear xxx. His teacher said \"Re\" and \"date\" are not required.

they will not give any marks is it[/quote]
Ds teacher said it is ok to write date even for informal email.

[Josay]

Sorry, why the sentence cannot be "What puzzled the detective was that the witnesses suddenly disappeared."

[Josay]

The q was students chosen ____ random.


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