PSLE 2012 - Results Discussion

[hoskins8h]

rains:

In 2011, the average t score of NYPS was 238.9. 45.96% (including gep) got 250 and above. Quality passes for English was 89.4%, Chinese was 96.2%, maths was 81.1%, science was 82.2%.

Thanks rains, do you happen to have the average t-score for 2010 and 2009?

[hoskins8h]

mummy so kiasu:

rains:

In 2011, the average t score of NYPS was 238.9. 45.96% (including gep) got 250 and above. Quality passes for English was 89.4%, Chinese was 96.2%, maths was 81.1%, science was 82.2%.

Does the school push the average kids by giving them extra lessons? My brother said that his son from NYPS will do better than my son who is from a neighbourhood school. Is he being practical to say that his son will get into Hwa Chong if the boy only get B for all 4 subjects?

Not sure which neighbourhood school you're talking about, but there is definitely some truth in what you brother says. The standard in the top schools is high. In my DC's school, 60 in English for some term exams would be a PSLE A.

[phtthp]

hoskins8h:

rains:

In 2011, the average t score of NYPS was 238.9. 45.96% (including gep) got 250 and above. Quality passes for English was 89.4%, Chinese was 96.2%, maths was 81.1%, science was 82.2%.

Thanks rains, do you happen to have the average t-score for 2010 and 2009?

Yes, would be great if can have past 3 years results.

[Dreamgear]

hoskins8h:

mummy so kiasu:

[quote=\"rains\"]

In 2011, the average t score of NYPS was 238.9. 45.96% (including gep) got 250 and above. Quality passes for English was 89.4%, Chinese was 96.2%, maths was 81.1%, science was 82.2%.

Does the school push the average kids by giving them extra lessons? My brother said that his son from NYPS will do better than my son who is from a neighbourhood school. Is he being practical to say that his son will get into Hwa Chong if the boy only get B for all 4 subjects?

Not sure which neighbourhood school you're talking about, but there is definitely some truth in what you brother says. The standard in the top schools is high. In my DC's school, 60 in English for some term exams would be a PSLE A.[/quote]Well the range for A is so wide..... Its a matter of high A or low A.

[rains]

hoskins8h:

rains:

In 2011, the average t score of NYPS was 238.9. 45.96% (including gep) got 250 and above. Quality passes for English was 89.4%, Chinese was 96.2%, maths was 81.1%, science was 82.2%.

Thanks rains, do you happen to have the average t-score for 2010 and 2009?

Mean t-score for:

2009 - 238.2
2010 - 240.4

Some people were surprised that ny has 47% of its students getting 250 and above this year, but actually ny's record is such that it has more than 40% of its students getting 250 and above every year, even 7 years ago when I was trying to decide if ny was indeed a 'good' school. But that doesn't mean that it does not have students who go to Normal stream.

[rains]

mummy so kiasu:

Hi rains, Most people are aware that this year national top scorer is from NYPS, GEP (285) Any idea what is the score of NYPS mainstream top scorer?

I'm sorry but I don't have the info. Actually the school didn't even reveal that the top score of the school was 285. It's mostly through the words of the kids who pass the info around. And because the school doesn't advocate drawing a clear line between GEP and non-GEP, all the more it won't break results down to GEP vs non-GEP for the parents altho I'm sure they would do it for internal circulation and diagnosis. My kid's class top score is 270, so the lowest possible top score for non-gep would be around 270+.

[rains]

mummy so kiasu:

rains:

Getting all Bs and hoping to get into hwa chong would be a tall order, in my opinion. Ny has no affiliation with hwa chong. Unless his child is doing well in school, I'm curious why your brother said that his child will do better.

He is aware that 45% of NYPS kids score 250 & above as well as the national top scorer is from NYPS (285) Maybe he has forgotten a very important fact. The top scorer is from GEP whereas his son is from the mainstream.

Maybe his son is in one of the better mainstream classes? If his son always gets 85 and above for all subjects, then perhaps he has good grounds to say that his son will do better at psle - provided nothing goes wrong during psle.

But I always feel that 不到最后关头, nobody can tell.

I did something very stupid right after the maths paper. I went to the psle maths thread and collated all the correct answers given by the parents and students, and did the most horrible thing - tallied them with my kid's answers. She got many of them wrong. It demoralized her and myself greatly and affected her mood in preparing for the other three papers.

But fortunately, it turned out fine and other children who got most answers correct also got the same grade as her.

Nobody can really tell what will happen at psle.

[janet88]

rains:

mummy so kiasu:

[quote=\"rains\"]
Getting all Bs and hoping to get into hwa chong would be a tall order, in my opinion. Ny has no affiliation with hwa chong. Unless his child is doing well in school, I'm curious why your brother said that his child will do better.

He is aware that 45% of NYPS kids score 250 & above as well as the national top scorer is from NYPS (285) Maybe he has forgotten a very important fact. The top scorer is from GEP whereas his son is from the mainstream.

But I always feel that 不到最后关头, nobody can tell.

Nobody can really tell what will happen at psle.[/quote]This is VERY TRUE...nobody knows what will happen. I know of this student who did very well during prelims...Math was perfect score...the other subjects were close to stars...but don't know what happened...PSLE results did not turn out that way. Totally devastating. Nobody knows what can happen on the actual day of the exams...that is how scary it can be.

[mummy so kiasu]

rains:

Maybe his son is in one of the better mainstream classes? If his son always gets 85 and above for all subjects, perhaps he has good grounds to say that his son will do better at psle - provided nothing goes wrong during psle.

My nephew is in the middle class of NYPS mainstream. My brother uses cash reward to motivate his son. The boy will get cash reward if he could get A for his test. My boy is an average kid & he gets 250 for his PSLE this year. But my brother told me that his boy from NYPS will do better than my boy. Since a neighbourhood school's kid could get 250 then 258 to get into HCI is easy.

[phtthp]

your son got 250.

in the end, what did your brother’s son (NYPS) get ?

how did yr brother react ?