PSLE Maths 2012

[mummy so kiasu]

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Ontheballmother:

[quote=\"mummy2001\"]My frriend's daughter told it was soooo difficult, especially paper2.

Generally feedback from my friends and colleague DC and my DS are paper 2 very tricky and tough. Quite surprise why some says very very easy. Why there is a big gap. Is it because all school not the same or can't be the same! Tricky is probably because as what stated in yesterday ST forum, wonder Maths is abt English or really formulas. Questions are constructed in a way more towards English ie u must have powerful English and not solving skills!! :slapshead:

Hi Ontheballmother,
Hope you will not be offended by what I'm going to say next.
Everyone has different abilities, some stronger in Maths & Sci, some in languages or other areas. Sch may make a little difference as well.
Whether a paper is easy or tough would very much depend on the child's strength in that area, so guess we will have to take the cue from our children.

I think KSP has a lot of very bright kids/parents. There are many GEP, HA, top students who attained gold/platinum awards in Maths competitions, so naturally these kids will find the paper easy. My son is also pretty strong in Maths & he claim paper2 is easy. But imagine how shocked I was when these kids here can complete under an hour when DS took 1hr 25min leaving him little time for checking & discovering his careless mistakes.
But to me, DS already tried his best.
一山还有一山高。 人比人 气死人. [/quote]Don't have to compare. Your son already did his best. Well done! Don't forget to give him a hug & a kiss. Already won half of the battle. Jia You!

[gdy2shoes]

Hi there, a whole lot of confusion for the men n women question, my dd says the question mentioned "there are either 3 women" what does tat mean, as such does the answer remain???

[keith_g]

Bookwrappers:

Can someone answer this question?


7 ____ 7 ____2 ___ 7 = 5

Fill in blanks with +, -, x or /.

To do this, you need to understand the order of operation:
7 - 7 x 2/7
= 7 - 2
= 5

May I know what are the tough questions as claimed by majority of the students?

[Bookwrappers]

keith_g:

Bookwrappers:

Can someone answer this question?


7 ____ 7 ____2 ___ 7 = 5

Fill in blanks with +, -, x or /.

To do this, you need to understand the order of operation:
7 - 7 x 2/7
= 7 - 2
= 5

May I know what are the tough questions as claimed by majority of the students?

Many many thanks.

[superksmum]

Bookwrappers:

Can someone answer this question?


7 ____ 7 ____2 ___ 7 = 5

Fill in blanks with +, -, x or /.

As an alternative, if the question allows you to repeat an operation, it could be

7+7-2-7=5

[armaan]

Last 4 questions were tough of paper 2.Anyone knows these four answers?

And also a lot of people in my class(best class) found it v.tough

[kuts]

armaan:

Last 4 questions were tough of paper 2.Anyone knows these four answers?

And also a lot of people in my class(best class) found it v.tough

What's the answer for qn no 17? Need to convert it to %?

[Haneyi]

armaan:

Last 4 questions were tough of paper 2.Anyone knows these four answers?

And also a lot of people in my class(best class) found it v.tough

Q15 a) 390
b) 117

Q16 a) 16 cm
b) 2.64 m

Q17 a) 280
b) 44%

Q18 a) 20425
b) 1700

Those should be the answers if I remember correctly. Hope that helps. ^^
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Paper 1 was fine, albeit tricky. I found the Math paper 2 quite challenging, didn't have much time to check as I only finished a few minutes before time was up. I already lost marks because of the speed question ( careless ) and Q18 ( did wrongly ). My Math has always been my best subject, so I'm actually quite afraid now that I already scored this badly.

Tough questions ( Paper 2 ) : Q18, Q17, Q16
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I'm not very sure of my answer for the folded angle question. Anyone can remember the answer? Please type out the steps too if possible, thank you!

[kuts]

Hi, my dd says 19.

90-26-26=38. 38\2=19

[kuts]

kuts:

Hi, my dd says 19.

90-26-26=38. 38\\2=19

Do you know the ans for Qs 6- there are some water in a bottle. She drank the same amount of water every day. After the 12th day,1/3 of the water was left. After the 14th day, there is 200ml of water left. How much water was there in the bottle at the start.