2012 PSLE Discussions and Strategy

[janet88]

underthesea:

Are you sending your child to any intensive holiday programs? My friend asked me to let DD join the chinese oral classes conducted by Han Language. DD doesn't want to go. Do you think the program helps?

Hubby and son attended the seminar conducted by Han. Personally I am curious what will be taught during intensive class. But son doesn't have time as tutors have stepped up lessons. With more weightage (50 marks) on oral, it might be useful.

[mummy so kiasu]

peterch:

worried parents:

Any one knows of any food to avoid during and after having chicken pox ??


Heard egg will cause bad breadth and cucumber will cause the skin to become rough ???

no eggs, seafood, salty food CMIIW

Talk about chicken pox, I had a very bad experience. I had it in my thirties, when my girl was seven months old. At that time, I was breast feeding my girl & you can imagine how worried & upset I was. My hubby immediately brought my older boy for jab but my girl was too young to have the jab.

I had passed it to my baby girl & she got high fever & was admitted to hospital. I had to stay in the hospital to take care of her. My older boy got fever too but without the chicken pox.

[G Tan]

psle2011mum:

Hi-yah! Why didn't I think of the tomato timer?? :slapshead: I made DD use a watch and then I watched her to see if she was keeping time! :faint:


But more seriously, time management during a paper is critical so \"tomato timer and all\" is excellent practice.

My DD did not do well this time because of time management. She did not complete the paper son time and i believe she was rather stress and did not perform to expectation

[fightingmom]

I used to joke with DD that SA stands for Speed and Accuracy so have to be careful (cannot say the forbidden word \"careless\") and finish the papers and leave at least about 10-15 mins to check through.


I used to repeat this every time before my DD starts her revision papers :

\"Every mark counts !\"

So now the 3 words stuck with her liao :rotflmao:

[janet88]

G Tan:

psle2011mum:

Hi-yah! Why didn't I think of the tomato timer?? :slapshead: I made DD use a watch and then I watched her to see if she was keeping time! :faint:


But more seriously, time management during a paper is critical so \"tomato timer and all\" is excellent practice.

My DD did not do well this time because of time management. She did not complete the paper son time and i believe she was rather stress and did not perform to expectation

My son did not do well for SA bcos of poor time management too...aiyah, we can shake hands. He admitted that he took too long and panicked when exam was coming to an end. He is ok if I do not time him, but he doesn't have the luxury of taking own sweet time during PSLE.

[G Tan]

janet_lee88:

G Tan:

[quote=\"psle2011mum\"]Hi-yah! Why didn't I think of the tomato timer?? :slapshead: I made DD use a watch and then I watched her to see if she was keeping time! :faint:


But more seriously, time management during a paper is critical so \"tomato timer and all\" is excellent practice.

My DD did not do well this time because of time management. She did not complete the paper son time and i believe she was rather stress and did not perform to expectation

My son did not do well for SA bcos of poor time management too...aiyah, we can shake hands. He admitted that he took too long and panicked when exam was coming to an end. He is ok if I do not time him, but he doesn't have the luxury of taking own sweet time during PSLE.[/quote]So, after this SA, i told my DD, from now onwards, i am going to time you for whatever practice paper you are going to do. Whatever, you cant complete on time, i am going to give you a zero. SHe said, \"ok, we shall try that\"

[janet88]

Hi G Tan,

I set the timer for 5 min when he did vocab section...instead of focusing on the questions, his attention was on the timer instead :faint:
No choice, but to persist in timing him until he gets used to it.
1 min per question for MCQ...don't know, move on. Then go back to earlier question when done with the rest.

[HAPPYH]

janet_lee88:

Hi G Tan,

I set the timer for 5 min when he did vocab section...instead of focusing on the questions, his attention was on the timer instead :faint:
No choice, but to persist in timing him until he gets used to it.
1 min per question for MCQ...don't know, move on. Then go back to earlier question when done with the rest.

Yes, you must remind him to move on if he does not know the answer for any question.

[janet88]

HAPPYH:

janet_lee88:

Hi G Tan,

I set the timer for 5 min when he did vocab section...instead of focusing on the questions, his attention was on the timer instead :faint:
No choice, but to persist in timing him until he gets used to it.
1 min per question for MCQ...don't know, move on. Then go back to earlier question when done with the rest.

Yes, you must remind him to move on if he does not know the answer for any question.

I will tell him NOT to give up the whole forest for a tree. Besides, there is no guarantee he gets the question answered correctly either. Every question must be answered...no blanks. If don't know answer to MCQ, then 'hamtam' one. At least have 25% chance.

[HAPPYH]

janet_lee88:

HAPPYH:

[quote=\"janet_lee88\"]Hi G Tan,

I set the timer for 5 min when he did vocab section...instead of focusing on the questions, his attention was on the timer instead :faint:
No choice, but to persist in timing him until he gets used to it.
1 min per question for MCQ...don't know, move on. Then go back to earlier question when done with the rest.

Yes, you must remind him to move on if he does not know the answer for any question.

I will tell him NOT to give up the whole forest for a tree. Besides, there is no guarantee he gets the question answered correctly either. Every question must be answered...no blanks. If don't know answer to MCQ, then 'hamtam' one. At least have 25% chance.[/quote]Yes you are right. I like your phrase \"NOT to give up the whole forest for a tree\" Hmmm....I can tell this to my DD too.