All About T-Score

[verykiasu2010]

that is why it is a national ranking exercise for the purpose of picking a secondary

[verykiasu2010]

atutor2001:

junrahmat:

.... are you aware that MOE has been putting in so much effort to simplify the Chinese MT in schools to cater for these students, but the standard of the Malay and Tamil remains the same? ...

Yes the Chinese paper has been simplified for the local kids to cope (my youngest kid was in the first batch that benefited from it).

The problem that local kids are facing with the Chinese paper is because Chinese is no longer the true \"mother tongue\" at home. Many kids don't converse in Mandarin at home let alone read or write Chinese. In this sense, taking Chinese as MT to them is no different from taking Malay because Chinese characters, sentences are \"alien\" to them. Therefore, if they choose Malay as MT instead, they may find it easier to learn. For a start, the alphabets used are the same as English and the pronunciation will also have some similarity as English. Therefore, despite the Chinese paper having been simplified, the local kids may still find it easier to handle Malay than Chinese. That is why I am jokingly saying that if we are that desperate over the T-score, taking Malay may be a better option - not that Malay MT is a easier paper but more that kids today may find it easier to learn Malay than Chinese since they actually no longer has the so call \"mother tongue\" advantage in Chinese.

ML sentence structure is oso different from the Inglish one, some more it is confusing between orang and orange :rotflmao: :rotflmao:

[cimman]

atutor2001:

junrahmat:

.... are you aware that MOE has been putting in so much effort to simplify the Chinese MT in schools to cater for these students, but the standard of the Malay and Tamil remains the same? ...

Yes the Chinese paper has been simplified for the local kids to cope (my youngest kid was in the first batch that benefited from it).

The problem that local kids are facing with the Chinese paper is because Chinese is no longer the true \"mother tongue\" at home. Many kids don't converse in Mandarin at home let alone read or write Chinese. In this sense, taking Chinese as MT to them is no different from taking Malay because Chinese characters, sentences are \"alien\" to them. Therefore, if they choose Malay as MT instead, they may find it easier to learn. For a start, the alphabets used are the same as English and the pronunciation will also have some similarity as English. Therefore, despite the Chinese paper having been simplified, the local kids may still find it easier to handle Malay than Chinese. That is why I am jokingly saying that if we are that desperate over the T-score, taking Malay may be a better option - not that Malay MT is a easier paper but more that the local Chinese kids today may find it easier to learn Malay than Chinese since they actually no longer have the so call \"mother tongue\" advantage in Chinese.

while, it might be true, that Malay might be easier to score than Chinese, in the longer term, Chinese could be the main language for business in the region. The reason LKY chose English as the main language for Singapore, was because of economic reasons. Now China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Korea, Japan are the economic super powers in this region. In the long term, it would be advantageous to know chinese in order to leverage on the economic might of these countries. It is very likely, that when our children enters the workforce, they will be assigned overseas posting, most likely in a Mandarin speaking environment or at the very least, deal with Mandarin speaking clients. Don't lose the dialects, they'll come in handy in Taiwan and Hong Kong.

Working with MNCs, the \"ang moh\" will prefer to send someone well versed in Mandarin to take care of the branch offices in these mandarin speaking countries, or to create new markets there.

T scores are just short terms gains. Ultimately, we need to communicate effectively in both languages to gain a competitive edge in this asia pacific region.

[HeSheMe]

Technically speaking Malay is indeed easier to score than Chinese BUT Chinese in my opinion is easier to learn.

[fruitteller]

Hi, does anyone know what T score falls under the top 10% of the co-hort? based on past statistic?

TIA

[verykiasu2010]

fruitteller:

Hi, does anyone know what T score falls under the top 10% of the co-hort? based on past statistic?

TIA

approx 250 and above

[fruitteller]

verykiasu2010:

fruitteller:

Hi, does anyone know what T score falls under the top 10% of the co-hort? based on past statistic?

TIA

approx 250 and above

Hi,

Wow...so 260 could be top 5% then?

Thanks!

[verykiasu2010]

fruitteller:

verykiasu2010:

[quote=\"fruitteller\"]Hi, does anyone know what T score falls under the top 10% of the co-hort? based on past statistic?

TIA

approx 250 and above

Hi,

Wow...so 260 could be top 5% then?

Thanks![/quote]don't know how true this is :

top 3% = 270 and above, or 1200 approx ...sounds too much; if top 1% = 270 and above, ~ 400, more likely

top 5% = 260 and above, say 5% x 40,000 = 2000 = quite a lot, so more likely that 260 and above = 3% or about 1200

top 10% = 250 and above (largely believed)

[jtoh]

I thought top 3% is about >260+

[Augmum]

fruitteller:

verykiasu2010:

[quote=\"fruitteller\"]Hi, does anyone know what T score falls under the top 10% of the co-hort? based on past statistic?

TIA

approx 250 and above

Hi,
Wow...so 260 could be top 5% then?

Thanks![/quote]> 260 shd be top 3%, those who qualifies for EESIS. (mainstreamers)