Maris Stella High School

[Oppa]

Agree with beepo. As long as there are useful information discussed and exchanged, I think the forum served its purpose.

[Eriskang]

According to what I see, many math teachers teaching the Sec1-2s are horrible. More than half my class failed our first base test when I was in Sec 1 :slapshead:

[Eriskang]

Btw, for those asking about the spellings. In sec 1 we normally only get chinese spelling. And its not often. They will give a worksheet with the han yu ping ying den you have to fill it up. The words can be random or from textbooks, the teacher will inform the class. There will also be another part where they ask you to fill in a blank in a sentence with a cheng yu. Maris Stella will teach us cheng yu in Sec1 but it doesnt usually help alot.

[CuriousHippo]

My DS had the maths base test last week, result not out yet. So far he didn’t comment much about the maths teacher except she goes slow with the topics to be covered.


Chinese Spelling does not really enhance much to my DS’s Chinese, learning more of the Cheng Yu will be more important and needed.

This week my DS has 2nd Geography test. He didn’t score in his fist test although he prepared well for the test. I guess he didn’t give the right answers that the teacher is looking for. Hope he improves in his coming test.

[Chez]

Eriskang:

According to what I see, many math teachers teaching the Sec1-2s are horrible. More than half my class failed our first base test when I was in Sec 1 :slapshead:

Hi Eriskang,

Is this a norm in MSHS? This can be quite worrying. How did you cope with Maths then? Are the pupils suppose to use only the method taught in class to derive the answer? Strictly no other methods allowed?

[CuriousHippo]

Hi Chez ,


My DS just told me everyone in the class passed the maths base test.

[MMM]

Oppa:

No more post/sharings after Transformer commented this forum is boring??

:xedfingers: I can join you all here for discussion in 2 years time. This is the target school for my p5 ds. Hoping that he can make it to MSHS via DSA next year. He is excited about the school band and macbook.

[Eriskang]

Chez:

Eriskang:

According to what I see, many math teachers teaching the Sec1-2s are horrible. More than half my class failed our first base test when I was in Sec 1 :slapshead:

Hi Eriskang,

Is this a norm in MSHS? This can be quite worrying. How did you cope with Maths then? Are the pupils suppose to use only the method taught in class to derive the answer? Strictly no other methods allowed?

Many students are able to cope somehow. Perhaps through tuition or what. Most teachers will insist that we use their method. I'm still doing rather badly for my Math and I'm hoping to pull it up this year

[Eriskang]

CuriousHippo:

My DS had the maths base test last week, result not out yet. So far he didn't comment much about the maths teacher except she goes slow with the topics to be covered.


Chinese Spelling does not really enhance much to my DS's Chinese, learning more of the Cheng Yu will be more important and needed.

This week my DS has 2nd Geography test. He didn't score in his fist test although he prepared well for the test. I guess he didn't give the right answers that the teacher is looking for. Hope he improves in his coming test.

I agree that the Chinese spelling don't help much. The cheng yu are taught but in my opinion or not often used and we forget them soon. As for the spellings, most students don't even bother to learn them. Many students do badly for Sec 1 as they are still in the relaxing mood after PSLE. After our SA1 however, we will usually buck up and do better. From Sec 3 onwards, the teachers in MSHS will somehow do some magic to make the students do better except for a select few. Many students actually fare better in upper sec than in lower sec

[blur boy]

I’m from 1B. Apparently everyone passed the math base test, which met the maths teacher’s expectations…