Chenonceau:

Trapwithin:

I meant the publisher's pay SHHK royalties. The money is in turn used to fund the 5% expeditures required for government-aided schools. So the money generated from royalties will still be used back on the schools.

Typically the publisher gets 90%. Authors get 10%. It is really very little money for SHHK unless they had very preferential terms that are atypical.

Hmmmm... 5% of expenditures. Does that mean that govt aided schools are 95% funded by the govt from taxpayers' money? How does it work?

Trapwithin:

I meant the publisher's pay SHHK royalties. The money is in turn used to fund the 5% expeditures required for government-aided schools. So the money generated from royalties will still be used back on the schools.

buds:

janet_lee88:

I do not use all the schools exam papers...just selective ones as a form of exposure. RGPS have answer key sometimes and that is what we parents want to know how marks are broken down. My son will do the assessment books first before past year papers. It's dangerous to use past year papers as a main form of revision.

:hi5:

Us too. :celebrate:

The only extra i do is revise concepts.
They write/have their own notes (when
revising with me) apart from those in guide
books or boosters.

Their school also has a great practice of keeping a log book for every subject. All study tips and reflections are inside. Parents are updated daily on what's covered and how lessons are being covered in class. :please:

Chenonceau:

Trapwithin:

[quote=\"Nebbermind\"]perhaps shd just write to SHHK and ask them the rationale of stopping others from making available their past yr exams ppr. IP is really a lame excuse!!

SHHK situation is slightly different from the rest of the school.
They have licensed the exam papers to a publisher to publish them and mostly with a royalty program in place. As such, they might be under pressure from this publisher to take action considering that the publisher has the exclusive rights to the Intellectual Property (IP). So in this case, there is monetary benefits involved.

For other schools, it is an open secret and probably hard for MOE/schools to manage them. Certain schools also took questions from textbook and assessment book to set their papers. Some only modify the variable but in essence the questions are still the same.

janet_lee88:

I do not use all the schools exam papers...just selective ones as a form of exposure. RGPS have answer key sometimes and that is what we parents want to know how marks are broken down. My son will do the assessment books first before past year papers. It's dangerous to use past year papers as a main form of revision.

Trapwithin:

Nebbermind:

perhaps shd just write to SHHK and ask them the rationale of stopping others from making available their past yr exams ppr. IP is really a lame excuse!!

SHHK situation is slightly different from the rest of the school.
They have licensed the exam papers to a publisher to publish them and mostly with a royalty program in place. As such, they might be under pressure from this publisher to take action considering that the publisher has the exclusive rights to the Intellectual Property (IP). So in this case, there is monetary benefits involved.

For other schools, it is an open secret and probably hard for MOE/schools to manage them. Certain schools also took questions from textbook and assessment book to set their papers. Some only modify the variable but in essence the questions are still the same.

Nebbermind:

perhaps shd just write to SHHK and ask them the rationale of stopping others from making available their past yr exams ppr. IP is really a lame excuse!!

tutormum:

Personally, I don't really work much with top school papers. Of course there's advantages in doing exam papers e.g. keeping up with their standard to ensure that a kid wouldn't fall behind. My first priority is to ensure that the kid understands the topics well and I prefer assessment books as they are very systematic in their approach ie covering topic by topic with practice papers. If a kid is well taught and very good in a subject, he should have no problem answering any questions.

Nebbermind:

perhaps shd just write to SHHK and ask them the rationale of stopping others from making available their past yr exams ppr. IP is really a lame excuse!!

Chenonceau:

How difficult is it for MOE to put up an internet site and REQUIRE all schools to upload all their past papers for students to download. There are plenty of free file sharing sites to use for this. MOE doesn't even need a dedicated server etc...

KSP:

not sure why u ppl want to stop the circulation of past years exam paper.. :?


how our children practice past years paper if it really get banned? :slapshead:

just let it be lah....

Chenonceau:

Schools developed these papers? Schools are part of MOE?... ...
(1) Schools teach insufficiently
(2) MOE isn't doing enough to facilitate flowthrough of necessary educational resources

oneheart:

these schs are scared by sharing it will cost them the top sch/students spots?

SAHM_TAN:

Dr. Lee taught me but he's not a math prof. He's in the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information. He's a very nice person. When I saw the photo in the link, I nearly couldn't recognise him after so many yrs.


I visited the website too, bumped into it while surfing the web. I didn't realise it was his work till it was reported in the article.