PSLE 2012 - Results Discussion

[janet88]

Desserts:

I did have the kind of yucky feeling when I went to school with dd to collect the cert.
Your son and my daughter s psle episode is over, so let's hope our next child will do better.
Hope no one will remember to ask about our child's psle score this coming cny.

Hi Desserts,
That yucky feelings sucks right?
PSLE episode is over...there is a new syllabus/format for my younger one in 2016. I can't ignore my boy because if he fails English in sec 1, he will be retained. As for CNY 2013, I couldn't be bothered with comparisons.

[phankao]

janet_lee88:

PSLE episode is over...there is a new syllabus/format for my younger one in 2016. I can't ignore my boy because if he fails English in sec 1, he will be retained. As for CNY 2013, I couldn't be bothered with comparisons.

My sec 1 boy mentioned this - about failing English, should be retained. But his classmates who failed English were not. The whole class was promoted leh. He was wondering why.

[mummy so kiasu]

phankao:

My sec 1 boy mentioned this - about failing English, should be retained. But his classmates who failed English were not. The whole class was promoted leh. He was wondering why.

Does it apply to other schools too?

[janet88]

mummy so kiasu:

phankao:

My sec 1 boy mentioned this - about failing English, should be retained. But his classmates who failed English were not. The whole class was promoted leh. He was wondering why.

Does it apply to other schools too?

Son's tutor told me...if fail English at secondary school have to retain. Depends on the school or MOE regulation?

[phankao]

mummy so kiasu:

phankao:

My sec 1 boy mentioned this - about failing English, should be retained. But his classmates who failed English were not. The whole class was promoted leh. He was wondering why.

Does it apply to other schools too?

No idea - but it is a requirement in their school, so I'm not sure what the mitigating factors were.

[Pen88n]

phankao:

mummy so kiasu:

[quote=\"phankao\"]

My sec 1 boy mentioned this - about failing English, should be retained. But his classmates who failed English were not. The whole class was promoted leh. He was wondering why.

Does it apply to other schools too?

No idea - but it is a requirement in their school, so I'm not sure what the mitigating factors were.[/quote]Maybe the classmates failed the final paper, but adding in all the graded assessments, tests. etc. they passed the subject as a whole.

[Rational_Parent]

janet_lee88:

mummy so kiasu:

[quote=\"phankao\"]

My sec 1 boy mentioned this - about failing English, should be retained. But his classmates who failed English were not. The whole class was promoted leh. He was wondering why.

Does it apply to other schools too?

Son's tutor told me...if fail English at secondary school have to retain. Depends on the school or MOE regulation?[/quote]If a student is retained for failing English then it is likely a third to half the national cohort will be retained. Some may even fail English every year. So logistically, is this logical? Can our school infrastructure support such a thing? The answer is that such a thing is not and cannot be applied across the board.

Your school will be in the best position to tell you such thing and not tutors and the likes. And given the reasoning above, it is almost certainly not a MOE directive.

Schools will have the autonomy to promote pupils to the next level and the overall grades of a pupil will likely be the determinant factor for his/her progress. English alone cannot be the determinant in my opinion unless a school (elite schools?) is adamant about it.

[ruohoo97]

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[Flowermonaster]

ruohoo97:

Will you get SMS, if you have DSA offers?

No.

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My neighbour got 185 for PSLE and managed to enter Anglo Chinese JC in the end… So don’t be depressed ! It’s of no use, what is done can’t be undone . That’s what my friend said to me xD