PSLE Maths 2012

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Ontheballmother:

Generally feedback from my friends and colleague DC and my DS are paper 2 very tricky and tough. Quite surprise why some says very very easy. Why there is a big gap. Is it because all school not the same or can't be the same! Tricky is probably because as what stated in yesterday ST forum, wonder Maths is abt English or really formulas. Questions are constructed in a way more towards English ie u must have powerful English and not solving skills!! :slapshead:

I teach Accounting and I have a student who asked a similar question before: Am I testing Accounting or English? I told him that the medium of teaching is in English. For all the subjects, except for MT, the students must understand the problem sums/questions, which are conveyed in English, before they can exhibit their problem solving skills. In fact in some schools, the MT teachers are teaching MT in English at times.

This also explains why communication skills are so important at workplace. A person can be very knowledgeable and has excellent problem solving skills but if he cannot understand the work problem and cannot communicate how to solve the problem, he is not a performing employee.

[thsheng99]

Ontheballmother:

mummy2001:

My frriend's daughter told it was soooo difficult, especially paper2.

Generally feedback from my friends and colleague DC and my DS are paper 2 very tricky and tough. Quite surprise why some says very very easy. Why there is a big gap. Is it because all school not the same or can't be the same! Tricky is probably because as what stated in yesterday ST forum, wonder Maths is abt English or really formulas. Questions are constructed in a way more towards English ie u must have powerful English and not solving skills!! :slapshead:

My daughter says almost her entire school says the paper is easy.....so it cannot be hard

As far as I understand from my daughter, the english if fine but you have to apply the concepts correctly e.g many students who did not understand the question correctly group the 2 men and 3 women in a group for q29. If you think carefully enough, you would not be able to do that because only 1 men and 3 women can form the group or you would be repeating.

It test your ability to analyse

[AlphaY]

The paper mainly tests students on general concepts, if any of you have the OnSponge Conquer book, you should know that few sums came out from the book. Topics such as "Gaps and Differences", "More than less than", etc. were not tested.

[BeContented]

Ontheballmother:

mummy2001:

My frriend's daughter told it was soooo difficult, especially paper2.

Generally feedback from my friends and colleague DC and my DS are paper 2 very tricky and tough. Quite surprise why some says very very easy. Why there is a big gap. Is it because all school not the same or can't be the same! Tricky is probably because as what stated in yesterday ST forum, wonder Maths is abt English or really formulas. Questions are constructed in a way more towards English ie u must have powerful English and not solving skills!! :slapshead:

Hi Ontheballmother,
Hope you will not be offended by what I'm going to say next.
Everyone has different abilities, some stronger in Maths & Sci, some in languages or other areas. Sch may make a little difference as well.
Whether a paper is easy or tough would very much depend on the child's strength in that area, so guess we will have to take the cue from our children.

I think KSP has a lot of very bright kids/parents. There are many GEP, HA, top students who attained gold/platinum awards in Maths competitions, so naturally these kids will find the paper easy. My son is also pretty strong in Maths & he claim paper2 is easy. But imagine how shocked I was when these kids here can complete under an hour when DS took 1hr 25min leaving him little time for checking & discovering his careless mistakes.
But to me, DS already tried his best.
一山还有一山高。 人比人 气死人.

[SunBrazen]

Bet the difficulty cant be compared to my year, PSLE Maths 2009, which was an absolute killer.

[kwcllf]

BeContented:

Ontheballmother:

[quote=\"mummy2001\"]My frriend's daughter told it was soooo difficult, especially paper2.

Generally feedback from my friends and colleague DC and my DS are paper 2 very tricky and tough. Quite surprise why some says very very easy. Why there is a big gap. Is it because all school not the same or can't be the same! Tricky is probably because as what stated in yesterday ST forum, wonder Maths is abt English or really formulas. Questions are constructed in a way more towards English ie u must have powerful English and not solving skills!! :slapshead:

Hi Ontheballmother,
Hope you will not be offended by what I'm going to say next.
Everyone has different abilities, some stronger in Maths & Sci, some in languages or other areas. Sch may make a little difference as well.
Whether a paper is easy or tough would very much depend on the child's strength in that area, so guess we will have to take the cue from our children.

I think KSP has a lot of very bright kids/parents. There are many GEP, HA, top students who attained gold/platinum awards in Maths competitions, so naturally these kids will find the paper easy. My son is also pretty strong in Maths & he claim paper2 is easy. But imagine how shocked I was when these kids here can complete under an hour when DS took 1hr 25min leaving him little time for checking & discovering his careless mistakes.
But to me, DS already tried his best.
一山还有一山高。 人比人 气死人. [/quote]Fully agree :snuggles:

My DS is from mainstream and maths is his strongest subject although he doesn't really train for maths olympiad or such, or the school really pushed them or supported them regarding such competitions. So, in a way, he and many of his school mates are 'disadvantaged'.

Although he comes from the top class in his school, not everyone in his class finds the math paper easy. In fact, most said it is quite tricky for some questions and even some had some difficulties doing the paper. So, this boils down to different abilities in different subjects, even if they are from the top class.

As for those who said the paper is easy, I just wonder whether these DCs come from GEP or they come from so called top primary schools. I know there are some who comes from mainstream schools, but forumners here who are actively involved in ksp may be from better off background as opposed to majority of Singaporeans. I may be wrong, but just have such an inkling.

[StudentsAreKiasuToo]

A lot of students in Chongfu said that paper 1 is easy and paper 2 is managable except the last 5 qns.I think question 18,15 and 16 is difficult :rahrah: :rahrah:

[StudentsAreKiasuToo]

SunBrazen:

Bet the difficulty cant be compared to my year, PSLE Maths 2009, which was an absolute killer.

Yep.I heard that that year was difficult until everyone almost died.

[kiasu.023284.023284]

hey, personally I find the paper1 quite easy, I made 2 mistakes, the folding 1 and q29 I put 44 :gloomy:

whereas paper 2 is quite managable, except for prt(b) of the spd question and the last q... if for last q I got 1962.5, will I get any method mark..... need it for a*

[DadOfGirl]

SunBrazen:

Bet the difficulty cant be compared to my year, PSLE Maths 2009, which was an absolute killer.

My DD in that year... I remember looking thro KSP pages & by 10 AM, there were posts after first paper. Super super difficult.

PSLE 2007 was also very same. Maths super difficult.

since then it has not happen (including yesterday!) .... assume it will not happen again.