2012 PSLE Discussions and Strategy
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Chenonceau:
I go through my son's marked class compos too because his teacher makes grammatical mistakes and misses out his real mistakes. After going through, will point out to him those that were marked wrongly and also ask him to note his real mistakes.
Therefore, parents need to pay tuition centres to mark, GRADE, and comment on our children's compos. Since last year, I have to re-correct my son's compos from exams and class practices. His teacher makes too many spelling and grammar mistakes... misses out other mistakes... and gives few comments. How to learn from school like that. -
august24:
It is a common practice that teachers only give the grade or the range but not the actual mark. My boy was told that he got above 30 for compo & A for oral.Is it the norm for your dc sch not to release compo & oral marks?
For EL, only situational writing marks were 'given' (cos I managed to see it tho teacher blanko it off). H/e, no marks on compo writing given tho the paper was returned. Ds & dd said teacher dun tell dem marks for compo. I can only gauged the combined std of compo+oral. Even during PT mtg, teacher usually give general feedback like ok rather than telling the score. When checking grade, they will also cover the list to prevent us fr 'peeping'. -
mummy so kiasu:
Hmmmmm.... Why is this common practice though? Common may not be right. In times past in Singapore ... spitting was common too.
It is a common practice that teachers only give the grade or the range but not the actual mark. My boy was told that he got above 30 for compo & A for oral.august24:
Is it the norm for your dc sch not to release compo & oral marks?
For EL, only situational writing marks were 'given' (cos I managed to see it tho teacher blanko it off). H/e, no marks on compo writing given tho the paper was returned. Ds & dd said teacher dun tell dem marks for compo. I can only gauged the combined std of compo+oral. Even during PT mtg, teacher usually give general feedback like ok rather than telling the score. When checking grade, they will also cover the list to prevent us fr 'peeping'. -
fightingmom:
I have my boy's English teacher handphone no. she is his co-form teacher cum HOD. I had SMS her a couple of times. My son's English has improved from 72 (P5,SA2) to 82 (P6,SA1). However, she tends to give a lot of homework & 2 compo per month.
:scared: No email addresses given ?!august24:
Yes, those compo done in class, remarks given are one sentence comments, hardly useful. Not too sure are they given feedback for improvement in class. Was told to get them to read more to improve, year after year. When I get /dd to practice writing, I can't mark as my EL is not gd! Tuition is def no no, I can't find more time to squeeze into their alrdy crazy schedule.
Btw, their teachers also do not give out email addresses. All comm need go thru general office. Hesitant to write in to P. as I don't want them being blacklisted!
I don't understand the logic of all comm need to go thru general office. Isn't that a lot of \"red tape\" ? -
underthesea:
Teacher told the class to take the total score and multiply 0.75. The school report book does not include the T-score.[/quote]OK. Thanks. Same as what I did. Using the percentage x 3.
How do you work out her T score? Does the school report book include the T score?mummy so kiasu:
[quote=\"underthesea\"]DD got back all her SA1 results. All show improvement except for maths and the T-score is still far far away from her dream school...
So I will let do more maths now, to re-gain her confidence in maths. She hates maths!
Jia you all mummies! -
mummy so kiasu:
Wow ! 2 compo per month is fantastic ! My DD's teacher only wrote 3 compo so far since school starts this year ! :faint: So I have to make sure she writes at home for me to go through.
I have my boy's English teacher handphone no. she is his co-form teacher cum HOD. I had SMS her a couple of times. My son's English has improved from 72 (P5,SA2) to 82 (P6,SA1). However, she tends to give a lot of homework & 2 compo per month.
Congrats for your DS' SA1 results.. looks good to me
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HAPPYH:
I didn't get to see both CL & Eng compo. Model essays do not teach anything.august24:
My dc sch will give out model essays to them after getting back their marked compo. They told me no corrections done. So they are all suppose to learn fr model essays!
At least you get something to look at and work on....For us, NOTHING is given back.
By the way, do your kids do annotation? I thought this was supposed to be done by teachers to teach the students. -
janet_lee88:
I didn't get to see both CL & Eng compo. Model essays do not teach anything.HAPPYH:
[quote=\"august24\"]My dc sch will give out model essays to them after getting back their marked compo. They told me no corrections done. So they are all suppose to learn fr model essays!
At least you get something to look at and work on....For us, NOTHING is given back.
By the way, do your kids do annotation? I thought this was supposed to be done by teachers to teach the students.[/quote]Oh gosh! You are so lucky! Your school teaches annotation! It really is a useful technique to tackle compre. -
janet_lee88:
I didn't get to see both CL & Eng compo. Model essays do not teach anything.HAPPYH:
[quote=\"august24\"]My dc sch will give out model essays to them after getting back their marked compo. They told me no corrections done. So they are all suppose to learn fr model essays!
At least you get something to look at and work on....For us, NOTHING is given back.
By the way, do your kids do annotation? I thought this was supposed to be done by teachers to teach the students.[/quote]She was taught to do annotation by her tutor last year. But she takes for ever and now she is not doing it. May be I will ask her to try again. I know she does not like to annotate. Ok, another thing to implement. -
janet_lee88:
By the way, do your kids do annotation? I thought this was supposed to be done by teachers to teach the students.
No, my kids weren't taught annotation in sch. Isn't it quite tedious and time consuming?
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