Club 2002 Kids

[bebebub]

j.a.m.:

MotherHen:

Back when she was in primary school, DD1 (now in Sec 1) used to do better in HCL too. I, too, was puzzled. DD2 (now in P5) does better in HCL for the 考察s,

Ditto for my dd n many of her classmates as well. However, I have yet to find out the reason behind it. Besides lenient marking, perhaps the teachers drilled more on the HCL way of answering, instead of CL way of answering?

Anyway, my fren, whose dd is already in sec 2, told me this is very common in her gal's time too...

If the marking rubics is similar, shouldn't the teachers teach the same 'way of answering', be it CL or HCL? Are the CL students missing out on something here? I always thought the difference btw the 2 is that HCL is more ''cheem' n therefore requires more 'powerful' mandarin 功夫 to 接招

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bebebub:

j.a.m.:

[quote=\"MotherHen\"]Back when she was in primary school, DD1 (now in Sec 1) used to do better in HCL too. I, too, was puzzled. DD2 (now in P5) does better in HCL for the 考察s,

Ditto for my dd n many of her classmates as well. However, I have yet to find out the reason behind it. Besides lenient marking, perhaps the teachers drilled more on the HCL way of answering, instead of CL way of answering?

Anyway, my fren, whose dd is already in sec 2, told me this is very common in her gal's time too...

If the marking rubics is similar, shouldn't the teachers teach the same 'way of answering', be it CL or HCL? Are the CL students missing out on something here? I always thought the difference btw the 2 is that HCL is more ''cheem' n therefore requires more 'powerful' mandarin 功夫 to 接招 [/quote]Oh dear, you are making me to go & study now...

I have heard that both subjects emphasise on different aspects of the lang but nvr bothered to find out the differences...

Frankly, I myself am pretty lousy in CL, so I just let my dd self-study most of the time. This time round, I did help go through her 笔记 with her the day b4 the pprs. I gave her the word/phrase, she'll try to remember how to write it, the hypy n 造句。 Then I went thru the 同音n 同型字 as well as 反义词 of these words. However, my dd will tell me she doesn't need this part for 1 ppr or tht part for the other... so maybe the differences are those? Perhaps if your child can tell you the differences, it can be of some help to him/her too?

Anyway, our target for her CL is pretty low, so she did well in our eyes. I looked through her pprs & HCL does have 'cheemer' words generally & very complicated answers for compre...

Not sure this helps or not...

Ano thing abt my dd's CL lessons, they are very intensive n she has MOUNTAINS of hw (习字，笔记，练习，听写 n 记一记 r ultra difficult) everyday for just this one lang. The teacher really drills them & gives all kinda 成语谚语 and sayings during lessons, whether they understand or not. She'll come home & ask me abt them, so we gotta check dictionary or google abt them. This is the only subj which they hv to stay back once a week to continue the lesson! Very siong... :faint:

[lego]

I don't have her papers with me, but it is the comprehension part that dd did badly for CL.


For HCL - yes, the words are more cheem, she complains that she don't really know how to read some of them but somehow she managed to guess the meanings from the context and was still able to give acceptable answers.

For CL, the passage is simpler but the questions were not as direct, esp the last passage. Personally, as far as this \"practice paper\" is concerned, I think it is true that her teacher marked more strictly for CL than HCL, probably following closely to some \"answer keys\". She gets zero marks for a few comprehension questions for CL whereas for HCL, she gets at least partial marks for all the questions. :scratchhead:

[bebebub]

j.a.m.:

bebebub:

If the marking rubics is similar, shouldn't the teachers teach the same 'way of answering', be it CL or HCL? Are the CL students missing out on something here? I always thought the difference btw the 2 is that HCL is more ''cheem' n therefore requires more 'powerful' mandarin 功夫 to 接招

Oh dear, you are making me to go & study now...

I have heard that both subjects emphasise on different aspects of the lang but nvr bothered to find out the differences...

Frankly, I myself am pretty lousy in CL, so I just let my dd self-study most of the time. This time round, I did help go through her 笔记 with her the day b4 the pprs. I gave her the word/phrase, she'll try to remember how to write it, the hypy n 造句。 Then I went thru the 同音n 同型字 as well as 反义词 of these words. However, my dd will tell me she doesn't need this part for 1 ppr or tht part for the other... so maybe the differences are those? Perhaps if your child can tell you the differences, it can be of some help to him/her too?

Anyway, our target for her CL is pretty low, so she did well in our eyes. I looked through her pprs & HCL does have 'cheemer' words generally & very complicated answers for compre...

Not sure this helps or not...

Ano thing abt my dd's CL lessons, they are very intensive n she has MOUNTAINS of hw (习字，笔记，练习，听写 n 记一记 r ultra difficult) everyday for just this one lang. The teacher really drills them & gives all kinda 成语谚语 and sayings during lessons, whether they understand or not. She'll come home & ask me abt them, so we gotta check dictionary or google abt them. This is the only subj which they hv to stay back once a week to continue the lesson! Very siong... :faint:

Thanks for sharing

[smartmummy]

Champion:

smartmummy:

My son told the maths paper easy,number of qns reduced than the standard paper.30 mins for paper1. I don't understand some teachers set the paper harder while others set easy in the same school.Haven't see the papers, so cannot tell,english is harder or not.But teachers prepared the kids for facing a drop.My son is ok if he get a pass.

:? What do you mean by number of questions reduced?
Is your DS CA1 Maths paper structure something like this -
MCQ 10 questions
Short answer questions 5 questions
Long Answer questions 7 questions
Total 22 questions = 50 marks

Paper1- (Section A -10 MCQqns, Section B=10 qns. )-20marks, 1 mark for each qn
Paper2 -8 qns -30 marks
Total 50 marks

[bearbear1]

hello. i'm a newbie.

my only girl is P5 this year
and we are feeling the stress

[Mawar]

bearbear1:

hello. i'm a newbie.

my only girl is P5 this year
and we are feeling the stress

Welcome! Enjoy the journey with us, stress and all.

[lego]

bearbear1:

hello. i'm a newbie.

my only girl is P5 this year
and we are feeling the stress

Hi, bearbear1 :welcome: We are all in the same boat, don't worry too much.

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bebebub:

j.a.m.:

[quote=\"bebebub\"]
If the marking rubics is similar, shouldn't the teachers teach the same 'way of answering', be it CL or HCL? Are the CL students missing out on something here? I always thought the difference btw the 2 is that HCL is more ''cheem' n therefore requires more 'powerful' mandarin 功夫 to 接招

Oh dear, you are making me to go & study now...

I have heard that both subjects emphasise on different aspects of the lang but nvr bothered to find out the differences...

Frankly, I myself am pretty lousy in CL, so I just let my dd self-study most of the time. This time round, I did help go through her 笔记 with her the day b4 the pprs. I gave her the word/phrase, she'll try to remember how to write it, the hypy n 造句。 Then I went thru the 同音n 同型字 as well as 反义词 of these words. However, my dd will tell me she doesn't need this part for 1 ppr or tht part for the other... so maybe the differences are those? Perhaps if your child can tell you the differences, it can be of some help to him/her too?

Anyway, our target for her CL is pretty low, so she did well in our eyes. I looked through her pprs & HCL does have 'cheemer' words generally & very complicated answers for compre...

Not sure this helps or not...

Ano thing abt my dd's CL lessons, they are very intensive n she has MOUNTAINS of hw (习字，笔记，练习，听写 n 记一记 r ultra difficult) everyday for just this one lang. The teacher really drills them & gives all kinda 成语谚语 and sayings during lessons, whether they understand or not. She'll come home & ask me abt them, so we gotta check dictionary or google abt them. This is the only subj which they hv to stay back once a week to continue the lesson! Very siong... :faint:

Thanks for sharing [/quote]You are welcome... hope it's useful though...

[j.032906a.032906m.032906]

bearbear1:

hello. i'm a newbie.

my only girl is P5 this year
and we are feeling the stress

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