2012 PSLE Discussions and Strategy

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thesjarox:

Hi I'm a P6 student using Mum's account. Paper was overall quite easy, only didn't know how to do one 3 mark question. Can I ask, for Guess and Check, if you don't explain how you concluded that your guess is correct/wrong, do you get marks deducted? Thx.

you will probably get the answer mark only if your answer is correct. :boogie:

[Studious Alien]

Big fish:

ruohoo97:

[quote=\"NewKSmum\"]I feel that parents should now start encouraging the children to work hard for the rest of the papers rather than falling back to 'past' topic and seems kind of discouraging to some weaker children after finding that their answers were not correct after PSLE. And parents at times gave wrong info, I think this forum should be opened to 'kiasu kids' to discuss school issues here personally and not thru parents ... I suppose.

Super agree. I skipped most of pages on discussions on Maths paper. Don't want to talk to dd abt it too. Now three more to go , 冲。

I agree, I also think parents/ students should be more sensitive when posting comments, not everyone complete the paper super fast, or think it is super easy, it can be discouraging for those who did not do well. If your child did very well, the more reason to be humble. No offence. :salute:[/quote] :goodpost:

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maychang:

*which gives 19°??

45 degrees minus 26 degrees

[Be a mom]

everybody said the maths are easy, my DD she worry now, after see the forum here!!! she feel the paper is okay but not easy…

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Be a mom:

everybody said the maths are easy, my DD she worry now, after see the forum here!!!! she feel the paper is okay but not easy......

Dun worry some of my friends' DS and DD say paper hard, tell your DD not to be demoralised, just try your best and focus on following papers next week. :hugs:

[Be a mom]

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Be a mom:

everybody said the maths are easy, my DD she worry now, after see the forum here!!!! she feel the paper is okay but not easy......

Dun worry some of my friends' DS and DD say paper hard, tell your DD not to be demoralised, just try your best and focus on following papers next week. :hugs:

Thanks Dear. I will.

[mummy so kiasu]

Be a mom:

everybody said the maths are easy, my DD she worry now, after see the forum here!!!! she feel the paper is okay but not easy......

Agreed. The paper is Okay for most kids. Maybe those who are strong in Math will find it easy. All kids have different abilities & strength. I think it is alright. Maybe she will find Chinese & Science papers easier. All the best to your DD!

[fifiyeo]

There is one question on the height of water in the end. What’s the answer DS asking??

[fifiyeo]

Luckily DS teachers don’t see the need to stress the kids further and feel that now is the time to keep them healthy physically and mentally. Whatever needs to be learnt should have been done already. But some other classes still need to stay for lessons.

[Chenonceau]

The discrepancy in impressions is not surprising. Historically, PSLE Math has the widest spread in marks. There are very low marks and very high marks (i.e., the difference between the lowest mark and highest mark is large). In contrast, the language papers have the narrowest spread of marks (i.e., the difference between highest mark and lowest mark is smaller).


If you imagine all the PSLE scores plotted on a graph... there will be 4 bell curves looking like the following... See here for a picture of the bell curve - http://www.robertniles.com/stats/stdev.shtml

(1) Math - wide bell bottom
(2) Science - less wide bell bottom
(3) English - even less wide bell bottom
(4) Chinese - narrowest bell bottom

In order for EACH subject to have equal weightage, statistical operations have to equalize the spread across subjects. This means that they will have to have the same size bell bottom for all the subjects.

Now, if your bell bottom was narrow... you would have to pull it wider to fit the spread of the t-score curve. If your bell bottom were wider... you would have to compress the spread to fit the spread of the t-score curve. The t-score curves for each subject have EXACTLY the same spread.

This means that every 1 mark increase/decrease in raw score for Chinese (narrow curve that is pulled wider) gives you a higher increase/decrease in t-score than every extra mark in Math (that is compressed narrower) raw score.

A friend of mine works in After School Care... and there are some kids who could not finish HALF the paper. Yet, there are kids from Tao Nan, who complete with time to spare. This just follows the same pattern as every year's PSLE, there will be a wide spread in marks.