2012 PSLE Discussions and Strategy

[fightingmom]

its888me:

Thanks all for the reply


I checked up Bishan Popular and they told me it's out of stock

Need to go other branch. Hopefully can get.

Hi its888me,

You should have asked the staff to check from the computer system which branch has stock, reserved if need to and then go to the specific branch (nearest to your house) to pick it up.

I bought mine from Toa payoh branch

[zeedoo]

Are the questions in the EPH and SAP PSLE booklets exactly the same and are they in the same order?


DD bought the EPH question booklets from school without the answers. From the above posts, it seems that only SAP publishes the answers separately, and not EPH? If so, we have no choice but to buy SAP answers, but provided the questions are the same and in the same order

Thanks!

[janet88]

zeedoo:

DD bought the EPH question booklets from school without the answers. From the above posts, it seems that only SAP publishes the answers separately, and not EPH? If so, we have no choice but to buy SAP answers, but provided the questions are the same and in the same order

Thanks!

School ordered for the kids...mass purchase, very much cheaper. Staff from popular told me answer is different bet the 2 publishers.
Son's eng booklet is half completed.

[kiasuaunt]

zeedoo:

Are the questions in the EPH and SAP PSLE booklets exactly the same and are they in the same order?


DD bought the EPH question booklets from school without the answers. From the above posts, it seems that only SAP publishes the answers separately, and not EPH? If so, we have no choice but to buy SAP answers, but provided the questions are the same and in the same order

Thanks!

I have both EPH and SAP - the questions are the same and in the same order.

[psle2011mum]

HAPPYH:

janet_lee88:

For SAP, the answer booklet is sold separately, which is why the question paper is sold cheaper than the EPH one. I calculated the cost earlier and realized it is about the same price for both publishers.

But it is strange to sell the answer sheet seperately.

MOE being the copyright owner of the PSLE questions designates authorised publishers to publish their questions. Since MOE doesn't charge for their Intellectual Property rights viz a viz these publishers, the publishers just print and sell and hence the books are cheap.

The answers are a market response to the fact that MOE allows publication of the questions but do not provide any answers; so these answer booklets are not from MOE but they exist because the publishers eg SAP/EPH hire their own people [ not sure who they are but I guess the same ones they hire to push out their assessment books ] to produce the answer booklet. That's why they are sold separately and that's why the answers are different and that's why you get mistakes in some of these answers.

DD's teacher did mark the Science PSLE book she did, but it took a long time getting back to us... I understand this well... there was a point of time I dreaded to set DD any Science papers because I knew I would spend hours marking it and doing corrections with DD on it. But mark it DD's Science teacher did and it was such a blessing to us because this had been DD's effort which I had corrected and gone through with her and the teacher validated our strategy and understanding when she marked them largely correct.

If you have a senior who has a marked set of these answers [ ie school marked or school issued the answers to these PSLE questions], it may be worthwhile borrowing these to see how the answers were structured. Reverse engineering helped me understand what the teachers were looking for.

I analysed alot of the great answer keys the RGS teachers did, plus DD1 had a Science teacher who was prepared to answer my email questions as to why a certain answer merited marks while another did not and I had an MOE curriculum specialist contact who was kind enough to point this blur mum in the right direction; so with a lot of God-sent help, we finally got a handle around Open ended questions for Science. I further validated this late in the day with the LISC books but before that, it had taken a lot of time going through many many questions and what I was sure were good answers to them, before I reached this stage.

As a very small step towards better resources for everyone, teachers can issue their answer key \"RGS style\" for each of their schools. They already have this because amongst a group of teachers who teach the level, the setter for that particular paper would have his/her answers and this would have gone round some QC meetings to arrive at an answer key for consistent marking. If each school did this for each of their exam papers, the market forces are already in place to make sure this gets out to the kids who need them-- aka Jeremy Exam Papers, mrswongtuition, orlesson, misskoh...

As another very small step, MOE can publish the MOE answer key \" RGS style\" for their questions.

Too much to ask? I don't think so -- TLLM.

[coast]

psle2011mum:

HAPPYH:

[quote=\"janet_lee88\"]For SAP, the answer booklet is sold separately, which is why the question paper is sold cheaper than the EPH one. I calculated the cost earlier and realized it is about the same price for both publishers.

But it is strange to sell the answer sheet seperately.

As a very small step towards better resources for everyone, teachers can issue their answer key \"RGS style\" for each of their schools. They already have this because amongst a group of teachers who teach the level, the setter for that particular paper would have his/her answers and this would have gone round some QC meetings to arrive at an answer key for consistent marking. If each school did this for each of their exam papers, the market forces are already in place to make sure this gets out to the kids who need them-- aka Jeremy Exam Papers, mrswongtuition, orlesson, misskoh...

As another very small step, MOE can publish the MOE answer key \" RGS style\" for their questions.

Too much to ask? I don't think so -- TLLM.[/quote] :udawoman:

:goodpost:

And please, MOE should publish the unabridged (complete) PSLE past years' papers too. It's much better to do the complete set of paper with the exact format and we know roughly how many % are 'easy', 'medium' and 'challenging' questions.

Will unabridged (complete) PSLE past years' papers help? If you have an opinion, please vote after reading following link:-

http://www.kiasuparents.com/kiasu/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=35434

:thankyou:

[kiasuaunt]

psle2011mum:

HAPPYH:

[quote=\"janet_lee88\"]For SAP, the answer booklet is sold separately, which is why the question paper is sold cheaper than the EPH one. I calculated the cost earlier and realized it is about the same price for both publishers.

But it is strange to sell the answer sheet seperately.

MOE being the copyright owner of the PSLE questions designates authorised publishers to publish their questions. Since MOE doesn't charge for their Intellectual Property rights viz a viz these publishers, the publishers just print and sell and hence the books are cheap.

The answers are a market response to the fact that MOE allows publication of the questions but do not provide any answers; so these answer booklets are not from MOE but they exist because the publishers eg SAP/EPH hire their own people [ not sure who they are but I guess the same ones they hire to push out their assessment books ] to produce the answer booklet. That's why they are sold separately and that's why the answers are different and that's why you get mistakes in some of these answers.

DD's teacher did mark the Science PSLE book she did, but it took a long time getting back to us... I understand this well... there was a point of time I dreaded to set DD any Science papers because I knew I would spend hours marking it and doing corrections with DD on it. But mark it DD's Science teacher did and it was such a blessing to us because this had been DD's effort which I had corrected and gone through with her and the teacher validated our strategy and understanding when she marked them largely correct.

If you have a senior who has a marked set of these answers [ ie school marked or school issued the answers to these PSLE questions], it may be worthwhile borrowing these to see how the answers were structured. Reverse engineering helped me understand what the teachers were looking for.

I analysed alot of the great answer keys the RGS teachers did, plus DD1 had a Science teacher who was prepared to answer my email questions as to why a certain answer merited marks while another did not and I had an MOE curriculum specialist contact who was kind enough to point this blur mum in the right direction; so with a lot of God-sent help, we finally got a handle around Open ended questions for Science. I further validated this late in the day with the LISC books but before that, it had taken a lot of time going through many many questions and what I was sure were good answers to them, before I reached this stage.
[quote][/quote]As a very small step towards better resources for everyone, teachers can issue their answer key \"RGS style\" for each of their schools. They already have this because amongst a group of teachers who teach the level, the setter for that particular paper would have his/her answers and this would have gone round some QC meetings to arrive at an answer key for consistent marking. If each school did this for each of their exam papers, the market forces are already in place to make sure this gets out to the kids who need them-- aka Jeremy Exam Papers, mrswongtuition, orlesson, misskoh...

As another very small step, MOE can publish the MOE answer key \" RGS style\" for their questions.

Too much to ask? I don't think so -- TLLM.[/quote] :goodpost:

[HAPPYH]

psle2011mum:

HAPPYH:

[quote=\"janet_lee88\"]For SAP, the answer booklet is sold separately, which is why the question paper is sold cheaper than the EPH one. I calculated the cost earlier and realized it is about the same price for both publishers.

But it is strange to sell the answer sheet seperately.

MOE being the copyright owner of the PSLE questions designates authorised publishers to publish their questions. Since MOE doesn't charge for their Intellectual Property rights viz a viz these publishers, the publishers just print and sell and hence the books are cheap.

The answers are a market response to the fact that MOE allows publication of the questions but do not provide any answers; so these answer booklets are not from MOE but they exist because the publishers eg SAP/EPH hire their own people [ not sure who they are but I guess the same ones they hire to push out their assessment books ] to produce the answer booklet. That's why they are sold separately and that's why the answers are different and that's why you get mistakes in some of these answers.

DD's teacher did mark the Science PSLE book she did, but it took a long time getting back to us... I understand this well... there was a point of time I dreaded to set DD any Science papers because I knew I would spend hours marking it and doing corrections with DD on it. But mark it DD's Science teacher did and it was such a blessing to us because this had been DD's effort which I had corrected and gone through with her and the teacher validated our strategy and understanding when she marked them largely correct.

If you have a senior who has a marked set of these answers [ ie school marked or school issued the answers to these PSLE questions], it may be worthwhile borrowing these to see how the answers were structured. Reverse engineering helped me understand what the teachers were looking for.

I analysed alot of the great answer keys the RGS teachers did, plus DD1 had a Science teacher who was prepared to answer my email questions as to why a certain answer merited marks while another did not and I had an MOE curriculum specialist contact who was kind enough to point this blur mum in the right direction; so with a lot of God-sent help, we finally got a handle around Open ended questions for Science. I further validated this late in the day with the LISC books but before that, it had taken a lot of time going through many many questions and what I was sure were good answers to them, before I reached this stage.

As a very small step towards better resources for everyone, teachers can issue their answer key \"RGS style\" for each of their schools. They already have this because amongst a group of teachers who teach the level, the setter for that particular paper would have his/her answers and this would have gone round some QC meetings to arrive at an answer key for consistent marking. If each school did this for each of their exam papers, the market forces are already in place to make sure this gets out to the kids who need them-- aka Jeremy Exam Papers, mrswongtuition, orlesson, misskoh...

As another very small step, MOE can publish the MOE answer key \" RGS style\" for their questions.

Too much to ask? I don't think so -- TLLM.[/quote]Thank you psle2011mum. I bookmarked most of your postings. Really helpful. Wow, the amount of hard work you put in for your DD is amazing. :salute: :udawoman:

[janet88]

Teachers marking the science paper have a standard format answer key…yes, the RGPS answer key is the best. I use it to explain to my son what the marker wants…how the marks are allocated and answer expected to get full marks. In fact, I saw ACS past year paper also having this answer key but not consistent.

If MOE can give that answer key, we will know how to prepare our kids better.

[Mayl]

Holidays is good...but slacking attitude from kids really make me :stompfeet:


Not moving fruitfully and getting stress up :nunchuk: :rant: