Science Guide Books

[peterch]

janet_lee88:

Pen88n:

Before you even know it, CA1 will be round the corner and you are dishing out the CA1 papers. Once the Mar break is over, you hardly have any breather and need to start doing SA1 papers. Jun hols will be spent finishing remaining SA1 papers and working at oral and any other inadequate areas to buck up (if you identify those, you may want to target by getting specific assessment books). Then, you will start doing SA2 papers. After SA2, you will buy the other school prelim papers and start working on those. Not to forget that all these time, your school wil be giving out papers for kids to practise, additional supp classes, etc.


P6 year just fly by much faster than the other primary school years!

Hi Pen88n,
Thanks so much for your valuable advice...will definitely remember this. I've got several Math assessment left over...fortunately can pass down to his younger cousin.

Just to check, will there be CA1, SA1, SA2 ? Since PSLE is in Sep, when will SA2 roughly be held ?

There should not be any SA2, there is Prelim around CA2 time and then PSLE and if I guess correctly, PSLE next year would be 27 Sept to 3 Oct 2012. :xedfingers:

[pixiedust]

BIG THANKS to Pen88n and Brenda10 !

Noted your suggestions with appreciation !

Enjoy your post-PSLE break :rahrah: - do continue to visit us (2012 PSLE) and keep the suggestions coming !

[Pen88n]

peterch:

janet_lee88:

[quote=\"Pen88n\"]Before you even know it, CA1 will be round the corner and you are dishing out the CA1 papers. Once the Mar break is over, you hardly have any breather and need to start doing SA1 papers. Jun hols will be spent finishing remaining SA1 papers and working at oral and any other inadequate areas to buck up (if you identify those, you may want to target by getting specific assessment books). Then, you will start doing SA2 papers. After SA2, you will buy the other school prelim papers and start working on those. Not to forget that all these time, your school wil be giving out papers for kids to practise, additional supp classes, etc.


P6 year just fly by much faster than the other primary school years!

Hi Pen88n,
Thanks so much for your valuable advice...will definitely remember this. I've got several Math assessment left over...fortunately can pass down to his younger cousin.

Just to check, will there be CA1, SA1, SA2 ? Since PSLE is in Sep, when will SA2 roughly be held ?

There should not be any SA2, there is Prelim around CA2 time and then PSLE and if I guess correctly, PSLE next year would be 27 Sept to 3 Oct 2012. :xedfingers:[/quote]Sori, when I said SA2, I'm referring to prelims. It is stil indicated as Semester Assessment in the report book.

P6 is a short year, and with the school having additional supp classes in afternoon, and additional school workload for the kids, the kids do not have time to do assessment books, not to mention having to find time to do past year exam papers to prepare for SA1 and prelims. By SA1, the school would have finished most of the syllabus (maybe left 1 topic only), and they will start giving kids exam paper to practise too.

I can assure you after prelim, you will see the kids (esp. the boys) all just wanting to get PSLE over and done with, as they are so tired of having to do practice paper after paper. Maybe girls are more diligent and Brenda's DD is so very motivated. I had to resort to doing part of paper with my DS only, as he was just so bored with doing paper after paper and he had no time with the school workload. Eg. For English and Chinese, he would not do any OE compre. For Maths, he would only practise Paper 2.

Good luck to all P5 DD and DS for the coming SA2!

[BeContented]

Hi Pen88n and Brenda10,

Thanks for the sharing and advice. :thankyou:

Looks like the 'baton' is officially passed over to the current P5 liao......so now is our turn :clubmyself: (I mean our DD & DS) to qiong ah!!! :nailbite: :scared:

[phtthp]

Exit the current outgoing batch of P6 students who are almost reaching end of the finishing line, in the hectic PSLE race. Soon they'll sing the song 'Al Lang Syne', and hop onto the Secondary 1 race track, start another fresh milestone new journey. :imanisland: :imanisland: ...


incoming enter the next new current batch of P5 students - raising their batons & lanterns high, high up to shine brightly leading the way.... CHEONG Ah forward, go, go, go!
:rahrah: :rahrah:

[janet88]

Brenda10:

janet_lee88:

Hi Brenda,

So I just zoom into past year papers for P5 this Nov/Dec holiday ??
His EL enrichment centre uses P6 past year comprehension passages to prepare them.
Thanks.

You can start doing those questions that have learnt before and at the same time study those new topics from the Science Guide book and slowly attempt to those new questions.

Basically, you don't have much time to do once the school is reopening in P6. Also the teacher will teach in the very fast mood and your DS will be in much more comfortable position since he has learnt/done all these topics before.

Hi Brenda,
Appreciate your advice and please continue to give us parents how to survive P6 and PSLE. Although PSLE is the ultimate GOAL, have to get through this month's SA2 first.

I figured P6 will be a SUPER short and fast 9 months...more like a crash course.

Thank you.

[concern_mum]

Hi all, i need advise on how to revise son for this coming SA2. My son result hasn’t been good since CA1 and now i need to prepare him for th SA2 exam 2 weeks later. Should i go though all the topic by topic or should i use the PAST YEAR paper and start from CA1 onwards? Or may be there are better way. Pls help

[jedamum]

concern_mum:

Hi all, i need advise on how to revise son for this coming SA2. My son result hasn't been good since CA1 and now i need to prepare him for th SA2 exam 2 weeks later. Should i go though all the topic by topic or should i use the PAST YEAR paper and start from CA1 onwards? Or may be there are better way. Pls help

which level?

[Champion]

concern_mum:

Hi all, i need advise on how to revise son for this coming SA2. My son result hasn't been good since CA1 and now i need to prepare him for th SA2 exam 2 weeks later. Should i go though all the topic by topic or should i use the PAST YEAR paper and start from CA1 onwards? Or may be there are better way. Pls help

Hi! Concern_mum,
May I ask which level is your DS?

For my P3 DD1, we are now doing the past year exam papers. Just be careful that not all schools have the same topics so it is best to go thru those papers and pick up the related topics for him to work on. For eg, my DD1's SA2 topics are Diversity, Materials, Cycles and Magnets. So I will circle those related questions for her to work on and asked her to skip those not tested questions for next round (have to keep and file all these past year exam papers )

From there, I can roughly gauge which are the areas that my DD1 is weak and I will go thru that topic with her again by reading up the guide books + topics in the assessment books relating to that topic.

[concern_mum]

thanks, Grandmaster, the problem is this is the first time i am getting myself involve in their science subject to cover so many topics for my P3 an P5 boys may be a challange.