Child's Position in P1 Class

[RRMummy]

KSP:

actually i feel that for P1/P2 the marks are all very close if they have attended pre-school (in sg).... the reasons are the marking is not that strict and the things they learn are rather simple.... except for those who have learning difficulties or can't concentrate in class.....

I beg to differ.. it also depends on the school.. some schools have papers which are more challenging than others...some schools are very strict with the markings... and some papers contain concepts/terms which have not been taught in class.

[jedamum]

KSP:

ksi:

Lucky number 2623.... :evil:

What % result is considered good at P3?

good number, only 12 permutations :rahrah:

of course the higher the better, but i think with >90% the child should have a very good understanding of the subject...

also depend on standard of paper la.
also depend on marking system la. kids with good understanding of subject, but with less than ideal answering techniques (eg science lack key words, math lack proper working etc) also will struggle to hit 90%.
maybe should be kids with >90% score show good grasp of answering techniques required to score on top of understanding the subject.

[deardear07]

…im wondering if my dd can achieve consecutive 95 marks and above for all her subjects when itz her turn.


she has been showing carelessness in her work~

for whole of k2, tien sia gave her test every term and shez always short of 0.5 or 1mark away from perfect score. but think shud be v good already considering the fact that we dun teach/ speak to her much in chinese at home and never revise with her at all… her 1st language is still english.

need to work on her math since so many parents already started with more complex concepts and multiplication. i din do anything with her at home~ just give her some work to do on her own. duno then teach… the rest of the time, shez just reading and playing with younger bro.

[Happyfate]

Hi, i prefer no position ranking on P1 class.

[Always21]

NanHua has no ranking for P1. I think it is a good thing as every kid is different. Some are slow learner and giving them ranking might actually make them stressful and unable to perform.

[mummy so kiasu]

Ranking in P1 does not mean anything. Too young & too early. P2 to P3 is a big jump & P4 to P5 will be another big jump too. My elder boy’s level ranking in P1 was 174/360. He will be taking PSLE this year. His P5 level ranking was 34/360. A lot of them who did much better than him in P1 can’t maintain and he received the MOE Edusave Scholarship last year.

[MMM]

My kids’ school completely do away with ranking this year.


However they do publish the class and level lowest, highest and average score by subject. So this will serve as a benchmark to clueless parents as to where their child stand as compared to their peers. In a sense, this is good without putting too much pressure to those kids who are last in level.

[Imp75]

I would prefer ranking in the cohort, absolute score is not telling the complete story. Mean and median scores are not helpful indicators either

[Beansprout]

I am neutral. If the school has ranking system then this is what it is. By all means we can complain and pull supports to disagree with the system. Parents whose kids have good results or kids that at this moment don’t do well but can be pushed to excelerate and be in the frontier later, they would not mind having ranking system. Parents who have kids struggling and at the bottom may not want to be ranked as it doesn’t do good to the kids. My kids are normal , not the extreme bright ones and not the struggling type, so I am fine if the school wants or does not want to rank the students in class. Whatever the school does, just make sure every kid can enjoy school and not let positioning or intense competition to make them feel miserable.

[mummy so kiasu]

MMM:

My kids' school completely do away with ranking this year.


However they do publish the class and level lowest, highest and average score by subject. So this will serve as a benchmark to clueless parents as to where their child stand as compared to their peers. In a sense, this is good without putting too much pressure to those kids who are last in level.

Showing the level lowest, highest & average score by subject for P1 & P2 will be more meaningful than showing the position in class or level. Class & level ranking should be given from P3.