Asia spending billions on tutors: study

[janet88]

That ‘somebody’ could also be getting tutors to coach his/her kids.

[janet88]

jedamum:

janet_lee88:

Why does son need tuition? Bcos he is failing. This is the year he sits for PSLE. I am very scared and frustrated he needs tutors to get through school year but that is a fact.


Think we are all tired of this issue.

hi janet_lee88,
on hindsight, would u have started your boy on tuition earlier?
i read that your boy used to get 80marks for math in P4 (did i get that right?)
makes me kindof worried now...

A friend of mine started her son on tuition since P3 or P4. Her son had a good foundation in Math & Science. Even though many kids had drastic drop in grades for Math at P5, her son was not badly affected...in fact, he still passed.
Careless mistakes can be controlled, if child is willing to be more careful by checking (re-do) rather than rushing through. Unfortunately, mine is the type who gets questions done in a flash.

[ammonite]

janet_lee88:

...in fact, he still passed.

wah, so siong. Tuition just to pass?? Could it be that your son's school is one of those that set very hard papers, harder than the actual pSLE?

[ammonite]

I’ve heard of maths teacher huddling together for half an hour to figure out how to solve sums set by another competing school. Seems to me that that is pretty crazy. How can we expect the kids to do that? I am sure the actual PSLE paper will have only a couple of such sums, while the papers set by these schools may have … maybe 30 percent of these brain cell killing questions?

[verykiasu2010]

ammonite:

I've heard of maths teacher huddling together for half an hour to figure out how to solve sums set by another competing school. Seems to me that that is pretty crazy. How can we expect the kids to do that? I am sure the actual PSLE paper will have only a couple of such sums, while the papers set by these schools may have ... maybe 30 percent of these brain cell killing questions?

that school got name, right ? what school ?

[limlim]

verykiasu2010:

ammonite:

I've heard of maths teacher huddling together for half an hour to figure out how to solve sums set by another competing school. Seems to me that that is pretty crazy. How can we expect the kids to do that? I am sure the actual PSLE paper will have only a couple of such sums, while the papers set by these schools may have ... maybe 30 percent of these brain cell killing questions?

that school got name, right ? what school ?

The school Who-Must-Not-Be-Named........

[verykiasu2010]

limlim:

verykiasu2010:

[quote=\"ammonite\"]I've heard of maths teacher huddling together for half an hour to figure out how to solve sums set by another competing school. Seems to me that that is pretty crazy. How can we expect the kids to do that? I am sure the actual PSLE paper will have only a couple of such sums, while the papers set by these schools may have ... maybe 30 percent of these brain cell killing questions?

that school got name, right ? what school ?

The school Who-Must-Not-Be-Named........ [/quote]credibility is discounted

there are always hearsay of hearsay of hearsay of friend of friend of friend

can also add salt & pepper & soya sauce :evil: :evil: :evil:

[janet88]

ammonite:

janet_lee88:

...in fact, he still passed.

wah, so siong. Tuition just to pass?? Could it be that your son's school is one of those that set very hard papers, harder than the actual pSLE?

That boy is good in math and science...looks like the tutor did give him a foundation from P4. Yeah, son's school is one of those who set damn hard ones...intention is to make the kids WAKE UP.

[ammonite]

verykiasu2010:

credibility is discounted

there are always hearsay of hearsay of hearsay of friend of friend of friend

can also add salt & pepper & soya sauce :evil: :evil: :evil:

How I wish I have enough time to go out and hear the tasty hearsay. It was from the horse's mouth - one of the teachers who huddled with the rest to solve the questions. I did not ask which school the question was from, but the teacher was from a SAP school and shall remain unnamed.

Janet, I asked about the drop from p4 to P5, the teacher said it is very common because P4 paper will be easier for subject banding, and P5 paper is the wake up call. But the drop should not be from 80 band to borderline. (She is not from PH.)

[SAHM_TAN]

I don’t understand why there must be such wake up call type of tests. Does it mean that the kids were having an easy academic life before P4 and then suddenly in P5 the adults feel that the kids are at the appropriate age to handle more rigorous academic demands and stress?