All About T-Score
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verykiasu2010:
Yep, Dr Hang Kin Boo, current Principal of NUSH was the one that proposed to MOE years back. He was a statisician with a Maths Phd. That's why he knows that student who can scored well in MT (chinese, Tamils, Malay) etc aways has the edge in achieving higher T-score than his chinese, tamil or malay compatroits. That's why you cannot compare T-score at face-value meaning you cannot compare a chinese vs malay vs tamil PSLE candidates.
credit must be given to the principal of NUSH - he is the one who devised the t-score formula, so i heardcoolit:
I see thanks verykiasu2010, I did not know this information was so widely available.
I am much clearer about this after reading the info you have given.
You will always have a top chinese, a top indian or top malay candidate.
The Indian and Malay pool of candidates is much much smaller than those taking Chinese as mother tongue. The SD and the mean of Malay and Indian is different from Chinese. If you have a year of very tough Malay or Indian paper and a generally easy Chinese MT paper, the top student will be from the Malay or the Indian PSLE candidates , all other things being equal.
Many folks here probably did;nt know about this.
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matadorepy:
Yep, Dr Hang Kin Boo, current Principal of NUSH was the one that proposed to MOE years back. He was a statisician with a Maths Phd. That's why he knows that student who can scored well in MT (chinese, Tamils, Malay) etc aways has the edge in achieving higher T-score than his chinese, tamil or malay compatroits. That's why you cannot compare T-score at face-value meaning you cannot compare a chinese vs malay vs tamil PSLE candidates.
credit must be given to the principal of NUSH - he is the one who devised the t-score formula, so i heardverykiasu2010:
[quote=\"coolit\"]I see thanks verykiasu2010, I did not know this information was so widely available.
I am much clearer about this after reading the info you have given.
You will always have a top chinese, a top indian or top malay candidate.
The Indian and Malay pool of candidates is much much smaller than those taking Chinese as mother tongue. The SD and the mean of Malay and Indian is different from Chinese. If you have a year of very tough Malay or Indian paper and a generally easy Chinese MT paper, the top student will be from the Malay or the Indian PSLE candidates , all other things being equal.
Many folks here probably did;nt know about this.[/quote]thanks for the insightful info on impact of MT papers on the t-score.
however, the admission to sec 1 is based on t-score, hence it may some time be unknowingly affected by the difficulty differential between the different MT.
hence it is an idea worth considering to remove MT from the t-score if it helps to compare performance of different racial candidates ...... but anything racial is taboo ..... :censored: :censored: :censored: -
verykiasu2010:
thanks for the insightful info on impact of MT papers on the t-score.
Yep, Dr Hang Kin Boo, current Principal of NUSH was the one that proposed to MOE years back. He was a statisician with a Maths Phd. That's why he knows that student who can scored well in MT (chinese, Tamils, Malay) etc aways has the edge in achieving higher T-score than his chinese, tamil or malay compatroits. That's why you cannot compare T-score at face-value meaning you cannot compare a chinese vs malay vs tamil PSLE candidates.matadorepy:
[quote=\"verykiasu2010\"]
credit must be given to the principal of NUSH - he is the one who devised the t-score formula, so i heard
You will always have a top chinese, a top indian or top malay candidate.
The Indian and Malay pool of candidates is much much smaller than those taking Chinese as mother tongue. The SD and the mean of Malay and Indian is different from Chinese. If you have a year of very tough Malay or Indian paper and a generally easy Chinese MT paper, the top student will be from the Malay or the Indian PSLE candidates , all other things being equal.
Many folks here probably did;nt know about this.
however, the admission to sec 1 is based on t-score, hence it may some time be unknowingly affected by the difficulty differential between the different MT.
hence it is an idea worth considering to remove MT from the t-score if it helps to compare performance of different racial candidates ...... but anything racial is taboo ..... :censored: :censored: :censored:[/quote]aiyo vk2010...u forgotten about the debate about lower the weightage of MT... later those no good in maths or science but v good in MT will come after you :siam: ... -
vlim:
ya ya ya, soli sori ...... :siam: :siam:
aiyo vk2010...u forgotten about the debate about lower the weightage of MT... later those no good in maths or science but v good in MT will come after you :siam: ...
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Haha, but verykiasu2010 brought out an important point, since the MT papers differ in difficulty, isnt it rather unfair? Sigh…guess no choice but it is still something that leaves me thinking and thinking…
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That’s why the top scorer is usually Malay, Indian or originally from China. You don’t see many local Chinese toP scorers.
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jtoh:
That's why the top scorer is usually Malay, Indian or originally from China. You don't see many local Chinese toP scorers.
have lah! 2010 psle top 2 from lao sai are locals -
verykiasu2010:
I didn't say don't have. I said not many. Especially when you consider that majority of the population is Chinese. So the percentage of representation is disproportionately low.jtoh:
That's why the top scorer is usually Malay, Indian or originally from China. You don't see many local Chinese toP scorers.
have lah! 2010 psle top 2 from lao sai are locals -
verykiasu2010:
hello hello..no meh ner... :heresmyfish:jtoh:
That's why the top scorer is usually Malay, Indian or originally from China. You don't see many local Chinese toP scorers.
have lah! 2010 psle top 2 from lao sai are locals
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