SA2 2009

[david59]

avell:

my girl is P3 student in best class. She scored all 80+ in all her subjects. is it very bad? pls advise.

It depends on which school she comes from? Top schools' exam papers tend to be a little more difficult than the average schools. So, she would be considered pretty smart or just above average accordingly. ( imho)

[watmekiasu]

girlmum:

Personally, I feel that as a parent, it would be good if we know our child's ranking so as to understand where our child stands. This will allows parents to be able to monitor better should the child is too far back in the class or cohort. Afterall, this is a Kiasu society whether u like it or not. :stupid:

I agree. Ranking and esp the mean marks, helps me monitor my dd's performance among her cohort. Marks on the paper by itself doesn't mean much.

[all.013398in.013398one]

Yes, the mean and median marks are very good reference to gauge

difficulty of that test paper. However, not all schools provide that,
right?

[jedamum]

karmeleon:

wah, not all schools put such, leh: class ranking? cohort placing?

But I heard some schools still practising putting these on the report book, izzit?

My kids' school - no.

my boy's school does not place those too.
they have however reveal the highest and lowest score of the cohort - that can serve as a rough guide (ie reasonable for the kid to get 80+ if the highest in the cohort is 80+ etc etc).

[cafelatte]

My boy’s school use to print class and cohort positions in report books but starting this year, they stopped. Reason and notice were given to parents since late last year. The FT did reveal the class & cohort positions during the PTM. I think the general trend is most schools are moving to stop printing of these positions in report books.


All long, the school provides the highest/lowest mark scored for each subject for the class and cohort. They also provide the percentage of cohort who scored band 4,3,2,1 for each subject. These statistics are more useful to me than the class position, mean and median marks.

[James Ang]

raysusan:

if your kids had did badly during SA2

what will u do and feel?

Parents will have to teach their children themselves and supervise the children closely or get tuition for their children. Otherwise, it may become a vicious cycle that spirals downwards. Nip the problem in the bud early so as not to let it snowball into a disastrous situation later on.

[vlim]

watmekiasu:

I agree. Ranking and esp the mean marks, helps me monitor my dd's performance among her cohort. Marks on the paper by itself doesn't mean much.

yap I agree too as if the papers are easy then definitely most of them will score high marks and if the papers are hard then scoring achieving high score like 90 and above will not be easily achievable..

[amylqf]

jedamum:

i think maybe most kids got scolded for making careless mistakes rather than not scoring high marks.

That's right! Despite that I have done all above mentioned by NIEtrainedteacher, explain all the exam strategy, my child still got a lot of careless mistakes. I scolded her for that, not because she didn't score high marks.

[Emelyn]

amylqf:

That's right! Despite that I have done all above mentioned by NIEtrainedteacher, explain all the exam strategy, my child still got a lot of careless mistakes. I scolded her for that, not because she didn't score high marks.

erm..... making careless mistakes is one problem. The other problem is... they refuse to check after they complete the papers.

DS1 just told me that he only checked his Maths Section A MCQ. He didn't check for Section B & C. And as such, he didn't realise the error of 32 x 8 = 250.



Any idea how to (1) make them less careless, (2) make them check their work ???

:?:

[James Ang]

Emelyn:

erm..... making careless mistakes is one problem. The other problem is... they refuse to check after they complete the papers.


DS1 just told me that he only checked his Maths Section A MCQ. He didn't check for Section B & C. And as such, he didn't realise the error of 32 x 8 = 250.



Any idea how to (1) make them less careless, (2) make them check their work ???

:?:

Give reward as motivation?