2012 PSLE Discussions and Strategy

[Apricot]

Dear Janet and fifiyeo, my heart goes out to you and your kid. Like to share this which I read in a book that I find useful especially in times of disappointments / crisis.

\" What separates winners from losers is that winners keep going forward and keep focused on their goals, even when they have temporary setbacks along the way. \"
Indeed, in moving forward, there is hope of a better future. If we keep dwelling in the past and let it hold us back, we may miss out on opportunities from the road ahead. So, don't give up and just keep moving on ! I have read many of your past posts. You are great parents, I believe that your kid will ultimately emerge as a winner ! Don't let one exam determine your kid's destiny or who you are as parents, there will be other chances in life. All the best

[G Tan]

fifiyeo:

Tomorrow got a lot of open houses. Maybe can go and talk to the school and find out more about appealling? Or maybe not a good time. Better to just walk-in during office hours????

We just came back from MGS open house

[KSP]

for those whose results didn’t meet your expectation, i want to say there is always another chance in O/A level…


there are 2 things i have learnt from reading all the sharings of PSLE results here
1. don’t set too high expectation
2. go for holiday during the period between after PSLE exam and before PSLE result release

[MKK]

I wish this day did not come at all.

My daughter was in the top 10 range in her school. She got a 240 for PSLE.
Whole family devastated as we were only aiming to get into Crescent. What’s more students who were not doing as well as her overtook her.
She’s a confident,capable kid and till now we cannot find a way to console ourselves.

[hercules]

MKK:

I wish this day did not come at all.

My daughter was in the top 10 range in her school. She got a 240 for PSLE.
Whole family devastated as we were only aiming to get into Crescent. What's more students who were not doing as well as her overtook her.
She's a confident,capable kid and till now we cannot find a way to console ourselves.

My vast experiences in seeing children going from PSLE into sec schools:

For children who were consistent in their work and scored reasonably well in their schools' exams but somehow did not get the PLSE results as expected, this group of children is likely to do reasonably well when they moved up to sec schools. The 'shortchange' between schools' results and PSLE scores maybe due to 'bad luck', a hiccup, or whatever. So, swallow the 'bad luck' gracefully and move on as long as the child has been working consistently well. They will be almost 100% fine in sec schools.

Do note that such 'bad luck' may happen again in their O / A levels. I observed some children are just not so 'lucky' when come to exams (while some tida apa ones may have better luck somehow).

For children who were not consistent in their work but managed to score reasonably well in their PSLE due to hothousing, this group of children is unlikely to perform well in their sec school without further hothousing or without further mental maturing. They are unlikely to do well in the academic sense after PSLE and eventually the parents will have to come to terms with the fact and if they are wise enough, to plan for a skill-base path early for their children so that their children can have a decent job after they get out of schools.

Out of 10 children, maybe 4 are not academically inclined (based on Express vs Normal % stats). So, recognise your child's strengths and weaknesses as early as possible and more meaningful decisions can be made and all shall be happier.

[MKK]

You are absolutely right, Hercules. It is pure bad luck after the consistent

performance during the primary school years.
Self-esteem has been crushed and it’s going to take quite sometime to
do the repairs for the damages done.
It’s taking long for the wound to heal.
Thank you, Hercules, for your soothing words.

[pchong]

No. You have to wait for the posting to be out first before you can appeal. Without being posted, you won’t know if you already have a place at the school of your choice, neither would the principal, so how can you appeal to the school without knowing where you are posted?


The SOP, as I understand, is:
1) put the school of your choice as the first option
2) wait for posting
3) report to the school you are posted to
4) appeal to the school of choice

You must put the school you want as the first choice. If not, no chance at all.[/quote]

I fully agree with Rain. yes, you should certainly put your choice of school at the first choice. But for those who know that they have little chance to be posted by PSLE score, appeal is another revenue. It will certainly help to be ready.

I did appeal for my ds two years ago. Upon some friends’ advises, we did almost as soon as we received PSLE score, it was not too earlier. In fact, we were told by school, had we waited after posting date, it would be too late. It maybe depends on schools though. All the best![/quote]

I’m still blur…so how do i file an appeal? where do i go to?

[YSL290]

What will be the chances of getting into the prefer school if yr kid is scoring at the same COP or even 3 marks more than the COP?

[MMM]

MKK:

I wish this day did not come at all.

My daughter was in the top 10 range in her school. She got a 240 for PSLE.
Whole family devastated as we were only aiming to get into Crescent. What's more students who were not doing as well as her overtook her.
She's a confident,capable kid and till now we cannot find a way to console ourselves.

Hi, I actually heard of another case in my kid's school (SAP). I don't know the child personally but this came from a reliable source from a mum whose child took PSLE in the same year and she knows the parent. This happened maybe 2-3 years back. Some child who is in top 5 range in cohort consistently did very badly for PSLE. It was till the extent of not making it to express stream from what I heard.

Mum and child couldn't come to term with what happened and was uncontactable. To me, that is really shocking.

[Pen88n]

YSL290:

What will be the chances of getting into the prefer school if yr kid is scoring at the same COP or even 3 marks more than the COP?

You can only try and hope for the best.

Note:
(1) The stated COP of the school is based on last year's cohort, which means this year's cohort might be different depending on performance of cohort.

(2) The stated COP is the T-score of the last student who got into that school last year, it does not mean that all those students with similar T-score who applied for the same school got in (I heard there are decimals after the 3 digits).

(3) Depending on the popularity of the school and what it is looking for, having the same T-score as the COP does not mean you can get in via appeal too. I know of cases whereby kids have same T-score as the COP, but many were unsuccessful in their appeal for a popular school with limited vacancies!