2012 PSLE Discussions and Strategy
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balu_priya:
Hi,Hi parents,
PSLE is one month away. I heard several parents mentioning that they were going to buy 2012 prelim papers to do. Is that what we should be doing now? If yes, where to get them? Experienced parents, please help this blur mummy. :thankyou: :udawoman: :udaman:
IMHO, ask yourself. Will that benefit your DC? Don't do just because others are doing as each child is different.
Am sure it will benefit some but in my case am not getting for DD as her school already gives varied and tough papers. And from what I gathered from my nephew's PSLE experience, some school zones share prelim papers to each other to benefit their students.
Good luck!!!! -
I’m also not buying since school is giving a lot of papers and there is no time to even finish what I’ve bought earlier.
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Peony:
Hii balu-priya & Peony,
Hi,balu_priya:
Hi parents,
PSLE is one month away. I heard several parents mentioning that they were going to buy 2012 prelim papers to do. Is that what we should be doing now? If yes, where to get them? Experienced parents, please help this blur mummy. :thankyou: :udawoman: :udaman:
IMHO, ask yourself. Will that benefit your DC? Don't do just because others are doing as each child is different.
Am sure it will benefit some but in my case am not getting for DD as her school already gives varied and tough papers. And from what I gathered from my nephew's PSLE experience, some school zones share prelim papers to each other to benefit their students.
According to my son's teachers, the practice papers given to the students
are actually previous year Prelim papers and top school past year papers. I did not get this year Prelim papers either. Not enough time to do so many set of papers. Maybe, we can just use our DC's Prelim papers to exchange for one or two other school Prelim papers to try. -
underthesea:
I feel your pain! It's especially frustrating when you know they can do it but it's just the carelessness getting in the way. When I ask my son to do corrections for his mistakes, he can do so effortlessly without any help. Aaaaarrrrggghhhh.....
same here, I coach DD maths & science. DD is so careless in her maths. She can do well in paper 2 but paper 1 is like :stupid: !!fifiyeo:
Hi Chenonceau,
Your post gave me some fruit for thought.
I'm more of a Math / Sci person than a language person. Sometimes that makes it really hard for me to understand how my DS just cannot sail through his Math / Sci exams. It's been a really painful process. I guess for DS's case, accuracy is a big issue. Sigh... -
Yes… I agree. Don’t buy because others are buying. Buy according to your need. DS has completed all the Math Top School papers we have, even though we’ve hardly touched the English and Science. We need more access to Math problems with a twist that he hasn’t seen before. His school gives WHOLE practice papers. That is generally a good practice so near to PSLE. But it doesn’t quite fit our need at the present moment.
In our case, we have one very specific area to work on and for that we need a new pool of strange questions. -
I am also not buying additional papers for my DD to do. For these last 3 - 4 weeks, will try to adopt a more relax mood. Will do more reading and going through of questions for Science and as for Maths, we will do selective qns that she is weak at. Guess we should not be stressing them at this moment now as it may backfire instead…
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Agree that targeting the problem areas is more important than doing entire test papers. Well, school can’t just let everyone decide for themselves what to do so we all end up having to do the entire paper and less time to revise on what’s needed.
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Agreed, no more doing entire papers. Just identify weak areas and focus on those areas. Time is crucial and identifying weak areas and correcting them is the best action for my DD for this last league…
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Dear KPs,
My DS said that for PSLE Chinese (Normal Chinese exam), the P6 topics tested are the first 7 chapters in his Higher Chinese textbook. Can someone kindly confirm? What about Normal Chinese? :? -
Chenonceau:
After listening to advice from many KSPs, I have decided not to buy 2012 prelim papers as many KSPs said, my DD's school already gave top school papers.Instead, I will just let her do 2011 papers.Are there any differences in 2012 and 2011 papers? And Chenonceau, I happened to land in your blog and you had mentioned that your DS school paper was very tough. Would you mind typing out some of those impossible questions? I think a lot of DDs and DSs would benefit from being exposed to questions of such difficulty. Of course, this is if you do not mind doing so. :imsorry: if I asked for something wrong. All KSPs who helped me: :thankyou: ! :lovesite:Yes... I agree. Don't buy because others are buying. Buy according to your need. DS has completed all the Math Top School papers we have, even though we've hardly touched the English and Science. We need more access to Math problems with a twist that he hasn't seen before. His school gives WHOLE practice papers. That is generally a good practice so near to PSLE. But it doesn't quite fit our need at the present moment.
In our case, we have one very specific area to work on and for that we need a new pool of strange questions.
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