PSLE 2009 - Chinese Paper

[karmeleon]

janice_koh:

Is the moderation/scaling a fair thing? My child is a 50+ scorer....will he end up fail?

I really don't care about the t-score scaling, but how can 1 of the comprehension passages be similar to what MANY students all round Singapore have seen & done before? Except what they've done is on Mangoes & what came out in PSLE is apples. So what? Still unfair to those who've never seen that passage.

My child and all his friends have never seen that passage before! Ok, so it's just their bad luck that they are not in the school or tuition centre or whatever that so happened to have done that comprehension passage before, huh?

How can MOE just get a passage like that ? They buy from the same source and didn't check properly, is it?

:x :x

[StudentABC]

Zann:

How about compo? What was the theme of the picures about and what was the 命题作文 topic?

Pictures:
1. mom gives school girl $2 and lunch box
2. (recess) school girl asks boy beside her why he not going to eat arh? boy looks sad.
3. girl go to canteen with lunchbox and money. see rice stall then want to buy chicken rice
4. girl eating chicken rice with lunchbox on table beside her
5.girl want to throw rice in lunchbox into dustbin, then think about the sad look on the boy's face
6. question mark.

I think it was like that from my understanding of the pics.

命题作文：
我再也不敢没礼貌。

like that lor. I think so if rmb correctly. hee hee. but very hard write the 2nd question. my brain freeze so had to write pic

[beatrice]

the paper was very easy(im a student). the compo was quite manageable but i think a lot students wrote the 命题 or at least in my class maybe its because my school is learning 弟子规. i think that the comprehension was ok, but compared to old psle papers(from the psle chinese book that they sell) it was quite hard.


the first compre was about a boy who stole an apple.

second compre was about newton. i personally hated this as i couldnt stand the fact how newton was soo hardworking and anti social in the story that he forgot about the vegetables he had to sell. (how did he survive in life without being practical?)

but nvm, i hoped this helped parents.

[Jennifer]

karmeleon:

I really don't care about the t-score scaling, but how can 1 of the comprehension passages be similar to what MANY students all round Singapore have seen & done before? Except what they've done is on Mangoes & what came out in PSLE is apples. So what? Still unfair to those who've never seen that passage.


My child and all his friends have never seen that passage before! Ok, so it's just their bad luck that they are not in the school or tuition centre or whatever that so happened to have done that comprehension passage before, huh?

How can MOE just get a passage like that ? They buy from the same source and didn't check properly, is it?

:x :x

I am with you. Becos of this, my boy might end up with a t-score < 50 for CL paper

[ApronMama]

turquoise:

Thanks, Dharma. Am I correct to assume that generally, if a paper is easy, there will be a low t-score and that is not in the favour of those good in the subject.


Conversely, if the paper is very difficult with the general population performing poorly, then the ones who score very well will have a high T score?

Thanks.

Could someone please help understand how the grade A*, A, B ...etc are determined for a simpler or a hard paper? Thanks!

[kohjl]

Jennifer:

karmeleon:

I really don't care about the t-score scaling, but how can 1 of the comprehension passages be similar to what MANY students all round Singapore have seen & done before? Except what they've done is on Mangoes & what came out in PSLE is apples. So what? Still unfair to those who've never seen that passage.


My child and all his friends have never seen that passage before! Ok, so it's just their bad luck that they are not in the school or tuition centre or whatever that so happened to have done that comprehension passage before, huh?

How can MOE just get a passage like that ? They buy from the same source and didn't check properly, is it?

:x :x

I am with you. Becos of this, my boy might end up with a t-score < 50 for CL paper

Fully agree. And this will pull down the overall aggregate - which is the only thing that matters in the general S1 posting exercise.

[.011810 me]

my daughter thinks it’s quite tricky , esp the 句子选择 and 选词填空 。 question 11 was the 时间 question . is the answer 空闲 or 超出？ the 14th question , is the answer 照顾 安全？ many people put 管理 安全 。 what are your views on this ?

[emerald]

[quote]my daughter thinks it's quite tricky , esp the 句子选择 and 选词填空 。 question 11 was the 时间 question . is the answer 空闲 or 超出？ the 14th question , is the answer 照顾 安全？ many people put 管理 安全 。 what are your views on this ?[/quote]
My daughter thinks so too. Her answers are 空闲 and 照顾 安全. Your girl?

[lovingmum]

Hi, 照顾 安全 is the correct one cos 安全 cannot be 管理, and 空闲 时间 is correct because although 超出 can go with 时间, it is not the correct one for the context of passage.

[lwm99]

ApronMama:

Could someone please help understand how the grade A*, A, B ...etc are determined for a simpler or a hard paper? Thanks!

It is the T-scores that matter, not the grades.