PSLE - New Format for Maths

[Vanilla Cake]

YGmama:

pinky88:

My boy says there's a ''balloon qn. Anyone knows wat's that & the correct ans?

My gal's answer is 345.

Qs something as follow:
String of 2 big balloons is 90cm
String of 5 small balloons is is 1.2m

If both strings are of the same length, there would be 105 more small balloons than the big balloons. How many balloons are there altogether?

90/2 = 45 (Big balloons)
120/5 = 24 (Small balloons)

Common multiple of 24 and 45 is 360.
360/45 = 8
360/24 = 15
15-8 = 7
105/7 =15
15x (8+15) = 345
Number of balloons altogether is 345

[atutor2001]

YGmama:

here's de question for sweets and chocolate


Jane bought a packet of sweet and gave half to Sunny.
Sunny boiught a packet of chocolate and gave half to Jane.
Jane ate 12 chocolates, and Sunny ate 48 sweets. How many sweets did Jane buy?

This can't be the question. Not enough information

[nothing2do]

atutor2001:

YGmama:

My gal's ans as follow:


last question for paper 1, booklet B - 17/35

Cheers:0

I thought should be 17/38

my gal answer is 17/36 is it correct ?

[kohjl]

nothing2do:

atutor2001:

[quote=\"YGmama\"]My gal's ans as follow:


last question for paper 1, booklet B - 17/35

Cheers:0

I thought should be 17/38

my gal answer is 17/36 is it correct ?[/quote]My son also had 17/36. He said he had asked many of those \"good in Maths\", and that's the answer they gave. So hopefully it's correct!

[atutor2001]

James Ang:

If there is no moderation, I estimate only 2% to 3% of the students can get A* based on actual marks. PSLE Maths is a challenging but worthy examination.


I am sure this year's batch of students did their best, so all the best, while next year's batch of P6 students have learnt from the experience of this year's pioneer batch which is allowed to use the scientific calculator to do Maths.

So, all your students must be in the 2% to 3% of A stars as they know how to check their works with calculator and are well prepared.

[kohjl]

atutor2001:

YGmama:

here's de question for sweets and chocolate


Jane bought a packet of sweet and gave half to Sunny.
Sunny boiught a packet of chocolate and gave half to Jane.
Jane ate 12 chocolates, and Sunny ate 48 sweets. How many sweets did Jane buy?

This can't be the question. Not enough information

According to my son, this is Q18 of Paper 2 (last question). The question is correct except for the names of the children (which of course is not important for calculation purposes). No other additional information was given.

My son's answer was 68. He used algebra to form an equation, but maybe it can be done by other methods. (Sorry, I can't explain more clearly as I didn't fully understand what my son said :oops: )

Can Vanilla Cake help? Thanks.

[atutor2001]

kohjl:

nothing2do:

[quote=\"atutor2001\"]
I thought should be 17/38

my gal answer is 17/36 is it correct ?

My son also had 17/36. He said he had asked many of those \"good in Maths\", and that's the answer they gave. So hopefully it's correct![/quote]Sorry I typed wrongly. 17/36 is correct.

[kohjl]

karmeleon:

kohjl:

My son came back and said that today's PSLE Maths paper was \"almost SMOPS level\" for some questions. He could not do #17 of Paper 2 (ie the second last question), ..

Wah, your son only couldn't do #17, ah? How about #18?

He could do Question 18. His answer was 68.

But he was careless in another question that cost him 2 marks. He may have been careless in other questions too....hope not!

[carebear]

My son's maths has been very good. SA2 scored 100%.

When i came back from work, he refused to talk about today's Maths.
Later, he told me that it was very difficult.
He found paper1 easy and could finish all the questions, but paper 2 was difficult.
I guess as long as most people found the paper difficult, then our kids should not worry too much, cos the score is derived from T score.

[the-psycho-one]

As a student myself, I trust that you will read my post fairly and without any bias. Anything that may be insulting in this post is not intended so please take this lightly.


As I have already stated, I am a Primary 6 student (just like your son/daughter), and thus I, as a student, has taken the paper first-hand. During this post, I shall be touching up on some of the issues you have been discussing.

To start off, I would like to say that although I may admit the paper was rather tough, there is no point dwelling on such issues. I have full confidence in the MOE, and their ways of calculating the Aggregate score-that is, as the paper was tough, the score would be calculated with consideration of the mean score.

Next, I would like to say that even though the paper had a FEW tough questions, not all of them were as tough as those that us students had revised through during the course of preparing for the PSLE.

As I do not have enough time to continue this post (as of course, the Chinese paper starts tomorrow), I shall continue this another day. Perhaps tomorrow. I hope you have fully understood my post, and the point I am trying to bring across. Thank you.

The-psycho-one.