[Fun Poll] How satisfied are u with ur child(ren) results?
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Just saw DD's result last night.
Chinese - :boogie:
English -
:imcool:
Maths - :sad: :gloomy:
Not that she didn't do well in Maths, but of all the marks she lost, 5 was through carelessness. :stupid:
Before SA2 even started, I reminded her over and over again to be EXTRA careful with questions that come in 2 parts, especially when answer of part 2 is dependent on answer of part 1, and well....Murphy's Law.
The figures given in the question were 186 and 29. But she ended up adding 189 and 29! :slapshead:
Furthermore, she told us she checked through the paper 3 times! :roll:
She was lucky the teacher was kind enough to deduct only 2 out of the 4 marks!
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BigDevil:
My dd lost about 10 marks on maths due to carelessness and more than 20 marks from all subjects.
Furthermore, she told us she checked through the paper 3 times! :roll:
She was lucky the teacher was kind enough to deduct only 2 out of the 4 marks!
For maths, she can do the workings correct but write the answer wrongly, hence 2nd part also affected and lost 4 marks, teacher did not even give method marks.
For other subjects, careless mistakes are in the form of having ticked the correct answer for MCQ but shade the wrong choice in OAS, copy sentence from passage but omitted a word, she did this for 2 questions in her English paper and was deducted 2.5 marks as a result.
Was very furious when I go through her papers, told her to reflect and write down what she think of her results and why she lost all the precious marks. She can write and apologised that she should not just checked 3 times, next round she'll check 5 times instead to avoid all the careless mistakes :slapshead: Now my job during the holidays is to instill to her the quality of checking and not the quantity and seriously hope she'll learn from all these. Have also asked her to list down all the careless mistakes she made and told her I'll get her to read them before her next exams, till the mistakes are eliminated. -
I feel that sometimes we have to tell our kids what to check and how to check? For Maths, I will always ask my boys to put their answer back to the question and check whether it makes sense. Especially for word problems. Example: Mary has some marbles and Ann has 2 more than Mary. If the total marbles they have is 12, how many marbles does Ann have? Answer: Ann = 7 marbles.
Checking: Ann = 7; then Mary = 5.
Check: Ann has more and 2 more.
Check: total = 12.
If the answers are Yes for all the questions, then the answer is confirmed correct.
If the answer is NO, then check that you have copied all the figures correctly from the question. Then check the method, lastly the calculation error.
To check the work by doing the questions again is very boring and likely they will make the same mistakes.
This way of checking can also be used in some of the P5 and P6 questions. Checking can be done easier and faster in upper primary when they can use their calculators. However in P5 and P6, there is usually not much time to check unless your child is a fast in doing his work.
JMHO. -
PiggyLalala:
my boy already experiencing that in P3.However in P5 and P6, there is usually not much time to check unless your child is a fast in doing his work.
JMHO.
science only managed to check Section B.
for math, only managed to check problem sums. -
BigDevil:
Not that she didn't do well in Maths, but of all the marks she lost, 5 was through carelessness. :stupid:
same here, the word was right in front of ds and yet he can still spelt it wrong :faint: deduct 1/2 mark...............and it happened a few times. :slapshead: -
jedamum:
For ds2, I have already warned him before the exam that he has to be focus and not day dream in between questions during the exam. For the trial Maths paper, he did not have the time to finish his Maths paper. So I set very clear time frame for him in SA2 for each sections of the Maths Paper. Luckily in SA2, he could finish, check his work and did quite well too.
my boy already experiencing that in P3.PiggyLalala:
However in P5 and P6, there is usually not much time to check unless your child is a fast in doing his work.
JMHO.
science only managed to check Section B.
for math, only managed to check problem sums.
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LOLMum:
That happened to my DD a few times too!
same here, the word was right in front of ds and yet he can still spelt it wrong :faint: deduct 1/2 mark...............and it happened a few times. :slapshead:
Luckily they were made during the pre-SA2 practice papers.
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:thankyou: LKVM!
Didn't think the stomach flu affected her results much, even though
she had to go to the bathroom in the middle of her English paper. :imconstipated: -
BigDevil:
BigD..I know what you mean.. I also can vomit blood just looking at all the careless mistakes.. :slapshead:The figures given in the question were 186 and 29. But she ended up adding 189 and 29! :slapshead:
Furthermore, she told us she checked through the paper 3 times! :roll:
See if this will help your DD. For us, checking involves working backwards. So after getting 186 + 29 = 215. For checking, DD will do 215 - 29 = 186. If she doesn't get 186 then she'll know something is wrong...
oh, and i always make her circle the keywords (eg. more than, share..)and numbers.. it helped to eliminate all her mistakes in Section B and C. Now we gotta work on Section A that is after I get to see her SR2 paper..
Hope this helps.. -
insider:
Anyway, he will outgrow and be more careful when he matures further (again, my strong belief and therefore I can close one eye on young kids' carelessness and take it as part and parcel of cognitive development. I shared before, if it's due to cognitive maturity reasons, then a parent may talk until cow comes home but child still remains about the same and so better save your breath not to harp too much in this area.)
, when we went thru his papers and pointed out his carelessness, it was 倧ηΌηͺε°ηΌοΌε°ηΌθ΅’δΊγ 
cant stand this cheeky monkey at times. :roll:
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