PSLE 2012 - Results Discussion
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kwcllf:
I'm puzzled too. Could it be 1 or 2 schools producing too many top scorers and thus pulling others down?[/quote]Coolkidsrock2:
This seems to be true for 5 kids I know, out by at least 1 big figure from expectations.
True for my DD. But what does this mean?
1. Cohort mean score has gone up
2. number students having 260+ t-score have increased significantly.
Nobody to answer our questions. Don't know where to find the answers.Very stunned n puzzled.
My daughter was in the top 10 range in her school. Now the others who were far behind has overtaken her.
Now I know how the hare, in the tortoise and hare story, felt after the tortoise had won(though we did not fell asleep like the tortoise).[/quote]
I have spoken to my kid's tutor earlier. He said some of his students in the top of their respective classes saw their T Score dropped significantly. The same happened to my kid as his result is below what he is capable of. This is a big surprise to the tutor and he said some of his students' parents will be going back to their kids' school to try to find out why the large difference in PSLE results and school results.[/quote]
I happened to check the Learning Lab website tdy and was shocked to learn that many of these top scorers over the years are from learning lab. I remember some of these top scorers claimed they did not go for tuition but they are students of this expensive tuition centre. besides the point that these kids who score above 270 are from GEP, they get more training from this expensive tuition centre. Their names and scores are all provided in Learning Lab's website. Now I'm no longer so impressed with these kids' psle top scores. this shows if a kid can afford learning lab's fees and with their special high calibre coaching, scores 270 and above, this doesn't make them more intelligent than other kids who cannot afford the expensive tuition fees. it just shows with more thorough coaching kids can do better than their peers. that doesn't sound impressive anymore! -
Yes you are right, Toughlifemummy, I strongly think those schools who didn't do well should analyse the Sch exam vs psle std.
Yesterday, I really felt like marching into dd sch to have a good talk with the principal why the class t score was about low 22x. But my neighbor who saw her in the morning regarding the selection of sec Schs had a lecture from her that all schools are good schools. So I changed my mind.
I also suspect those out of the box kind of questions, like Olympiad math quests came out during psle. Dd and most of her classmates were not exposed to these kind of questions before, so sort of stumbled a little. I have not seen those questions in her math file. Dd and friends, aft the math paper, came out paled face and said 'this time sure die'. But also hrd many pupils from some schools saying it's easy.
Those \"good\" neighborhood schools might also have good methods and strategies to help their pupils achieve such stunning% and high agg.
Dunno if I'm analyzing correctly.
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Melodies:
Do you have statistics on how many of these top scoring students are true blue 12 year old locals?Gepper r well prepared for scoring psle!! >90% top scorer with 270's in nanyang n also the one who scored 285 r gepper !
In fact, geppers r more well prepared than mainstreamers! Both mainstreamers n geppers prepared psle at the same time in their p6 in around July!! -
That’s why they got into GEP in the first place…
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Ya, lotus, don’t know what s their secret. Last year aft the psle release, they had a very big page to advertise and congratulate the past top scorers from there…
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sinoboy:
Do you have statistics on how many of these top scoring students are true blue 12 year old locals?
Not surprising some are even 13 or 14 years old non local. Competing with 12 years old local kids. -
sinoboy:
I don't have statistics but I can tell u many of them r prc!
Do you have statistics on how many of these top scoring students are true blue 12 year old locals?Melodies:
Gepper r well prepared for scoring psle!! >90% top scorer with 270's in nanyang n also the one who scored 285 r gepper !
In fact, geppers r more well prepared than mainstreamers! Both mainstreamers n geppers prepared psle at the same time in their p6 in around July!! -
octoberbaby:
with this forum, the principals of some schools who didn't want to announce the top scorers in their school, wonder how they feel. Parents ask they refused to tell. Come on be open minded.
agree with you. my teacher also refused to tell me. -
The school nearby my residence, top PSLE scorer is from a country with one billion population and 14 years old.
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What i observed is there are many parents and kids who are caught by surprise with the big difference betw actual and expected psle t-scores as there seemed to be a big drop in t-score this year, affecting many people. If my observation is correct, then i would say this yr’s 220+ could be last yr 230+ and so forth and not that the kid’s performance has dropped. Guess the parents and the kids would feel better that way and move on.
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