2013 Sec 1 Discussions

[janet88]

KiausuLormee:

Ya agreed with you Janet, one hand hope to let go and let her to be more independent, the other hand still worried for her subjects. This round common test all subjects she did well except her English fails by 1.5mks. Really worried for her and feel 心有余而力不足.

How to let go? It's a BIG jump from primary to secondary. Same number of days in a week but double the subjects and killing part is amount of homework given and staying back on certain days.

My son has to attend this conversational Chinese/Malay program...compulsory for sec 1s. Wednesday - next Mon until 530pm. Classmates told the math teacher they are very tired after the lesson and asked if she can reduce homework. She made a comment, 'So?'
He slept at 11+ yesterday to get Math hw done and today another load.

[fifiyeo]

We don’t really have that much homework. I think DS quite happy in his school. Me too. Got mini tests but not always inform before hand so it’s like a surprise surprise thing. Also good cos no need to stress over them. So I tell DS just have to do regular revisions and listen in class and do all his work properly every time since he might not get a chance to prepare for those class tests.

[mummy so kiasu]

fifiyeo:

We don't really have that much homework. I think DS quite happy in his school. Me too. Got mini tests but not always inform before hand so it's like a surprise surprise thing. Also good cos no need to stress over them. So I tell DS just have to do regular revisions and listen in class and do all his work properly every time since he might not get a chance to prepare for those class tests.

My boy does not have much homework too. Except a lot of tests. His school Math standard is very high. Half the class failed the Math test, Indices. According to one of his classmates, it is a Sec 3 topic.

[fifiyeo]

mummy so kiasu:

fifiyeo:

We don't really have that much homework. I think DS quite happy in his school. Me too. Got mini tests but not always inform before hand so it's like a surprise surprise thing. Also good cos no need to stress over them. So I tell DS just have to do regular revisions and listen in class and do all his work properly every time since he might not get a chance to prepare for those class tests.

My boy does not have much homework too. Except a lot of tests. His school Math standard is very high. Half the class failed the Math test, Indices. According to one of his classmates, it is a Sec 3 topic.

DS always tells me got quite a number of failures every test. Wonder if their standards are low or the paper is hard???

[TheAnswer]

Teachers in schools barely teach anything. They seem to think that all students have tuition.

Common complain: teach easy stuff during class but tests and exams all the hard questions appear

[janet88]

TheAnswer:

Teachers in schools barely teach anything. They seem to think that all students have tuition.

Common complain: teach easy stuff during class but tests and exams all the hard questions appear

Or else they teach from A-G for eg, and parents have to get tutors to teach the rest...that happened when son was in primary school. I was a fool to think tuition wasn't necessary, at least not in lower primary, but I was so wrong. Now I totally believe in tuition. Cannot wait till upper primary...kids (and parents) will hit panic zone.

[TheAnswer]

janet_lee88:

TheAnswer:

Teachers in schools barely teach anything. They seem to think that all students have tuition.

Common complain: teach easy stuff during class but tests and exams all the hard questions appear

Or else they teach from A-G for eg, and parents have to get tutors to teach the rest...that happened when son was in primary school. I was a fool to think tuition wasn't necessary, at least not in lower primary, but I was so wrong. Now I totally believe in tuition. Cannot wait till upper primary...kids (and parents) will hit panic zone.

I get upset when my students tell me that their teachers are only teaching the bare minimum and skip the rest.

[rains]

TheAnswer:

Teachers in schools barely teach anything. They seem to think that all students have tuition.

Common complain: teach easy stuff during class but tests and exams all the hard questions appear

Take the challenge: be a teacher - in a school.

[Coolkidsrock2]

fifiyeo:

mummy so kiasu:

[quote=\"fifiyeo\"]We don't really have that much homework. I think DS quite happy in his school. Me too. Got mini tests but not always inform before hand so it's like a surprise surprise thing. Also good cos no need to stress over them. So I tell DS just have to do regular revisions and listen in class and do all his work properly every time since he might not get a chance to prepare for those class tests.

My boy does not have much homework too. Except a lot of tests. His school Math standard is very high. Half the class failed the Math test, Indices. According to one of his classmates, it is a Sec 3 topic.

DS always tells me got quite a number of failures every test. Wonder if their standards are low or the paper is hard???[/quote]DD also does not have much homework. Test scores are acceptable, in fact even better than in primary school even though no tuition now.

Like in primary school, every test has students scoring extremely well as well as students failing. By the same token, within such scores, there are children with/without children.

My humble opinion is that the takeaway is different from each child.

But in both primary and secondary schools, the teachers are available to help if the child seeks assistance.

[janet88]

My son in Sec 1 this year have teachers who prepare own worksheets and genuinely teach. His humanities subject teachers go all the way to help students...but these subjects are just once a week. Literature is tough.

He is very happy in this school and doesn't want to transfer...which is also good since school is near home...easy for me to monitor :evil:

Class tests are frequent...keep students on the ball....but class is informed of the dates. Just completed common tests...so far did quite well, except literature which was saved by class test result.