MP echoes calls for PSLE to be scrapped

[phankao]

Lynn2010:

Then i'm younger than phankao . My year has aggregate, a bit blur, never ask and dont know how it was calculated. I dont even know that there is an aggregate till i got my result slip. It definitely not calculated the way

In the 80s, the PSLE score was maximum 450, I think.

[verykiasumummy]

Nebbermind:

phankao:

I have absolutely no results slip given to us. We were only asked to go to school to be given our PSLE certs.

there was no grades, but I think there was a piece of paper stuck at the back of my report bk saying I pass psle. Think there was also a cert.

there was a result slip, everyone went back to school on that result day to take the result slip, the one that u need to tear along the sides...

then after that go enrol in sec sch... some time later the sch will inform u to get the psle cert frm sch again...

[isetan]

verykiasumummy:

isetan:

I got really bad feeling that the whole PSLE will be scrapped. By then, will this encourage more babies?

haha, what has psle got to do with babies?? did psle deter more babies in the first plc?

This is wat the MPs have been reasoning .....

[phankao]

verykiasumummy:

Nebbermind:

[quote=\"phankao\"]

I have absolutely no results slip given to us. We were only asked to go to school to be given our PSLE certs.

there was no grades, but I think there was a piece of paper stuck at the back of my report bk saying I pass psle. Think there was also a cert.

there was a result slip, everyone went back to school on that result day to take the result slip, the one that u need to tear along the sides...

then after that go enrol in sec sch... some time later the sch will inform u to get the psle cert frm sch again...[/quote]In the 1970s got \"tear-along-the-sides\" kind of slips, ah??? My PSLE cert is pre-printed kind and the other info is typed in with typewiter one, leh. Use of computerised slips not common yet then.

[verykiasumummy]

phankao:

In the 1970s got \"tear-along-the-sides\" kind of slips, ah??? My PSLE cert is pre-printed kind and the other info is typed in with typewiter one, leh. Use of computerised slips not common yet then.

LOL... i really dunno then... but mine was tear along kind... haha

[meiah]

phankao:

Nebbermind:

And have to choose yr sec schools six month before exams. A lot didn't wanna take risk so even top students didn't choose the very top schools at that time. Better distribution in a way.

Wasn't that the practice in the 1990s? In the 1980s, my friends were still just sharing yesterday that they put in their secondary school selections only AFTER the results out.

I know definitely in the mid 2000s, they'd changed back to this similar system (after psle results).

Then that must have been early 80s. Cos by late 80s, it was choose sch first then get psle result.

[phankao]

meiah:

phankao:

[quote=\"Nebbermind\"]
And have to choose yr sec schools six month before exams. A lot didn't wanna take risk so even top students didn't choose the very top schools at that time. Better distribution in a way.

Wasn't that the practice in the 1990s? In the 1980s, my friends were still just sharing yesterday that they put in their secondary school selections only AFTER the results out.

I know definitely in the mid 2000s, they'd changed back to this similar system (after psle results).

Then that must have been early 80s. Cos by late 80s, it was choose sch first then get psle result.[/quote]Yes, for them was early 80s.

[isetan]

Ever since HSK took over the ministry, this is the biggest change ever, and bold enough. Wonder is this similar to China education system…where their only national exam is when the child reaches so call "A Level" stage, at age abt 18, competing for a place in the prestigious university.

[Melodies]

Why worries? No banding now, every school is a good school now! why need to use psle for sec school placement? Any school would do since they r equally good! why need to use plse to group all the bright students into school 1, 2… but group those students with poor results to school x,y,z…to make them somewhat different from each other, then how to be every school is. A good le?

[vlim]

Both dh and I cannot accept the idea of scraping away the psle … No doubt they striving to make every school a good school but every individual learning abilities are different …, England has taken away psle right? And recent report shows tt the results of their students drop right … So why must we follow their footsteps?..

Sorry to say I don’t like 'bold changes '. As what some of the parents here have mentioned, the ministry should think of steps to improve from current systems and not to scrape it which might end up making us move backward …Don’t let any of our children be scape goats …