PSLE 2012 - Results Discussion

[Pen88n]

Only272:

janet_lee88:

My son didn't do very well...we were caught off guard.

He has 203. Need time to get over it.
Seriously I don't know what happened, but can't ask him.

Don't worry I got 272 only.. so sad...

Actually with your 272, your IQ is already high up there. It's your EQ that requires lots of work.......and take note, that's what gonna serve you well for the rest of your life!

Hope you learn your lesson well.

[phtthp]

stressedguy:

jschai:

Yah lah, with so many top scorers, that's why MOE does not want to publish anymore. Next year PSLE will be more tough, to identify the elite among the elites of the elites.

I agree with you .hope that if less top scorers ,they will post the top scores out so that we no need guess here guess there liao

MOE don't want to publish news - let parents play ... mystery guessing game here

[Pen88n]

janet_lee88:

Hi everyone,

I thought my tears have dried by now...but reading all your posts made me cry again, bcos I can sense your sincerity.
It is so hard to take...but I never blamed my son one single bit.
He has worked very very hard.
Thank you.

Janet,
I hope you have had time to get over the shock of the results and you have braced yourself to help your DS find a suitable school. Take care!

[angsc74]

If my son had been offered Express stream, can we still opt for Normal (acad) sream?

[JJ1111]

lizawa:

Hi,

2. No, not everyone is offered 3rd language. Top 10% offered all the 3rd Lang, including french, German and jap. Then the next x% will be offered only Malay, Arabic, etc.

Just curious.

Top 10%, what is the t-score? Above 260 or 250 or 240?

[jksankar]

stressedguy:

Will we get a higher chance to enter the preffered school if we summit earlier?

NO,all based on the T-score cut off mark..

[phtthp]

pls share Kong Hwa, Maha Bodhi, Geylang Methodist, Paya Lebar Methodist, Fairfield Methodist, Chongfu, SJIJ, Gongshang, Chongzheng, Poi Ching, Temasek, Tanjong Katong, Nge Ann, Haig Girls, Yu Neng, Hougang, Xinmin, Holy Innocent, Yio Chu Kang, St Gabriel.

[ngl2010]

phtthp:

stressedguy:

[quote=\"jschai\"]Yah lah, with so many top scorers, that's why MOE does not want to publish anymore. Next year PSLE will be more tough, to identify the elite among the elites of the elites.

I agree with you .hope that if less top scorers ,they will post the top scores out so that we no need guess here guess there liao

MOE don't want to publish news - let parents play ... mystery guessing game here[/quote]Interesting game. Would Singapore Pools create a betting on which school has the highest t-score next year? :rotflmao: :rotflmao:

[dimsum]

mypaper reported on the top scorer from NYPS.


http://news.omy.sg/News/Local-News/Xue-Sheng-Kao-Huo-Quan-Guo-Zui-Gao-Fen-Nan-Yang-Xiao-Xue-Di-Diao-Chu-Li-111205

学生考获全国最高分　南洋小学低调处理
23/11/2012on 我报by 胡洁梅

在今年小六会考中，考获最高285分的是来自南洋小学的谢丰宇。 虽然学校出状元，但校方在宣布成绩时，并没有刻意突出这名学生，而是邀请学校40多名考获270分以上的学生一起接受全校师生的祝贺，同时表扬品行优异的学生。学生们是回到各自的课室领到成绩单后，才探知学校出了状元。 谢丰宇是高才教育计划的学生。他参加学校的高级数学俱乐部，曾代表学校参加数学奥林匹克竞赛。 据同学透露，他在各科的表现优异，双语能力强，在班上经常踊跃发问，也是一个友善尽责的班长。

[atutor2001]

autolycus:

I guess everyone has forgotten that the PSLE scores are normalised; exactly half will do below average and half will do above average, evenly distributed. Rules of thumb: the average is somewhere between 200-210 +/- a few points (biased upwards), 250+ will put you in the top 10%, and there is no upper limit in theory (although in practice it's probably around 290).

I thought that (based on the T-score formula), if a student whose raw scores (after normalising - adjusting of S-curve) for every subject are exactly equal to the average of the respective subjects, will get exactly 200 points for the aggregate T-score.


However, it does not mean that 50% of the cohort will be more than 200 T-score and 50% will be less than 200 T-score - because the curve is skewed. From newspaper report, about 63% of the cohort has 200 and above.