Child's Position in P1 Class

[nms1]

usa-sing-1:

My daughter is a recent SC and my wife and I were neither born nor raised here, so our knowledge of the primary school system in Singapore is a bit incomplete. In reference to the following Wikipedia link, is the explanation of the grading system here actually correct (particularly as it relates to primary school)?


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_grading_in_Singapore

I would say this is out-of-date. As you can seen from many of the replies here, a lot of schools do not give a ranking of any kind in P1.

[Laura02]

Actually, I’d urge all parents to go through the exam paper and see for yourself if the child has lost marks out of carelessness, or actually does not understand the concepts. At this age, children a good at memorizing and regurgitating. But at this age it’s more important that they get the concepts. If they do not understand the concepts at P1, it gets more difficult at later stages.

For example, a friend’s P1 child showed amazing addition and subtraction skills after going through abaccus lessons, but when I presented her with a handful of coins and asked her to pick out enough money to pay for ice cream for the both of us, she just couldn’t. This child could work on paper addition and subtraction to the hundreds and thousands, and I had enough coins in my hand to give her several choices of coins to choose, but she just didn’t know how to! Too much emphasis on book memorization and too little practical skills taught.

[twins closet]

Hi, anyone have any idea what is performance award in school for primary one?

[hquek]

twins closet:

Hi, anyone have any idea what is performance award in school for primary one?

Do you mean the edusave merit award? It's for the top ten percent of the cohort. But only kids in families that meet a certain financial cutoff (less than $5k gross income or per capita of $1.?k) then will get the actual monetary gift. But the child gets a certificate nonetheless.

[twins closet]

tks. have already found out it was actually award giving for students who got 1st-4th position and last position in class.

hquek:

twins closet:

Hi, anyone have any idea what is performance award in school for primary one?

Do you mean the edusave merit award? It's for the top ten percent of the cohort. But only kids in families that meet a certain financial cutoff (less than $5k gross income or per capita of $1.?k) then will get the actual monetary gift. But the child gets a certificate nonetheless.

[ttt80]

this obsession with rankings is pure madness… who remembers what you scored in P1? I don’t think your next job promotion depends on your P1 scores

[ttt80]

HyperKiasu:

not only showing position at class & cohort, my kid's sch also report mean/highest/percentile band for each subject.


i think it is a good practice. my ds's CL 94/100. initially i thought it is not too bad but when i know 94 is below the top 20%, i realized i need to do something with his CL......

Walaoeh... this is really hyper kiasu...

What's wrong with you people?

[janet88]

ttt80:

this obsession with rankings is pure madness... who remembers what you scored in P1? I don't think your next job promotion depends on your P1 scores

It's rather silly. To give so much emphasis on P1 ranking is unhealthy.

[nms1]

Some people like to have these awards to include in DSA admission for secondary school. Personally, I’m not thinking that far ahead but that is the reason for some people. If you have a string of awards throughout primary school it may (or may not) help.

[ChiefKiasu]

ttt80:

... What's wrong with you people?

You may disagree with what people do, but there's no need to put others down like that.