Maha Bodhi

[chasingjelly]

I also notice that there is more work for CL and very very relax for EL and MA. When I flipped through the Y09 SA papers, I had a shock. It is so easy compared to the other sch’s papers.

[vlim]

Heard from a parent of another school that her dd has a lot of Maths homework....so probably that school emphasize alot on Maths... and for mbs, being a sap school, it need to up keep the high chinese standard... :idea:

[MMM]

vlim:

my dd is in cl3. Every thursday she would have sin peng you homework...but every thursday she also has two hrs of English tuition at night...so kind of tiring and rush for her. Every tuesday( her ting sie day) morning she would insist me to test her ting sie again before I go to work. Maths not much school homework and English almost none except spelling which she has no problem so far ...Which chinese class is your ds in? Just had gathering with my JC friends and coincidentally 2 of them also intend to send their kids to MBS...yes!

That's great that your friends are keen on MBS too :lol: Are they alumni?

Actually, I feel MBS homework is really manageable even for my P3 whose class is behind schedule..... It appeared to be \"extended\" honeymoon period for them. I had expected a significant surge in level of homework.... Dunno good or bad.... different parents have different expectations :roll:

In our case, I feel that most of our time are on Enopi homeworks (he usually spend 2 evenings on that) as well as learning those spelling, tingxie. I will ask him to do assessment on free evenings.

He is currently in CL8 but his chinese level is ........Need alot of reinforcement type to make it happen. Eg. they have the recent CL test that will now form part of final results.

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chasingjelly:

I also notice that there is more work for CL and very very relax for EL and MA. When I flipped through the Y09 SA papers, I had a shock. It is so easy compared to the other sch's papers.

But if you look at the CL paper, so far I feel that it is one of the most difficult. Eg. they will have the character and ask kids to identify the specific stroke is which no. Most schools don't have that. I am currently letting my P3 do CA papers from top schools and again the same observation, MBS CL paper has a wider scope than other top schools. So I feel that doing other top schools is insufficient to prepare her.

[vlim]

one of my friend’s husband studied in MBS before and the other one is because her husband joins Buddhist federation…

[chasingjelly]

MMM:

chasingjelly:

I also notice that there is more work for CL and very very relax for EL and MA. When I flipped through the Y09 SA papers, I had a shock. It is so easy compared to the other sch's papers.

But if you look at the CL paper, so far I feel that it is one of the most difficult. Eg. they will have the character and ask kids to identify the specific stroke is which no. Most schools don't have that. I am currently letting my P3 do CA papers from top schools and again the same observation, MBS CL paper has a wider scope than other top schools. So I feel that doing other top schools is insufficient to prepare her.

ah yes... i was refering to ma and el only. the cl paper do hv a wider scope.

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chasingjelly:

ah yes... i was refering to ma and el only. the cl paper do hv a wider scope.

For MA, my personal observation is that it is average standard. It is not as tricky as some of the other top schools. On the other hand, it's not that super straight forward too eg. 1+1 = 2 type questions. But I heard from another mum that this is not the case for upper primary.

Meanwhile for EL.... yes I think P1 std is so so. P2 questions are puzzling as in I am not sure how to prepare my kids. It's different from the std paper out there :roll: Ok for P3, I think it appears to be normal std. Eg. the typical vocab/ grammar questions.

[chasingjelly]

thanks mmm… it is always good to hear from experienced moms.

[vlim]

I feel that MBS is aiming to build a good academic foundation for the pupils so the work given is 'not very' hard in p1 and p2 instead they are working towards to make sure the pupils understand the fundamental and so as to have a good start and good foundation base...(if I am not wrong)..

[MMM]

So far I’ve a good impression for lower pri as I feel that the school iso forsaking the weaker students, teachers will spend alot more efforts on them. Eg. teachers spending time on remedial lessons, CL classes for weaker students are significantly smaller so that they can get more attention from the teachers,etc… In "good" classes, the class size can go up to 40 but in "weaker" class, I heard around 20 so kids get more attention which is not necessarily a bad thing.


However, I am not sure if the same can be said for upper pri as still too early to tell. But from P3 onwards, MBS does practise having the best class which I heard from some mums that this class is taught alot more that than the normal classes, etc… Nevertheless, this appeared to be common for all schools (including neighbourhood schools).