Rulang Primary

[RRMummy]

pjlee25:

Hi, same sentiment. I really do not know what's the national standard (if there is one) for P1 Maths...and if so, how far ahead is Rulang. My daughter faced challenges in her maths paper 2 too... How? Are there good reference text to prepare the kids for the \"advanced maths\"?

Hi pjlee25!

Long time no chat! Yes, yes exactly what I thought. I went through some assessment books in Popular but I didn't know what to pick. I suppose moving forward, I'll be using the pass year papers plus the Fan-Maths from Fan Li Fang. They do have some explanation and some challenging questions in there..

For this June holidays, I'll just work on strenghtening her foundation... also can't wait to see the exam papers for this round.

[RRMummy]

starlight1968sg:

Maths paper 2 is always the killer. Paper 1 is no better because w/o the usage of a calculator, all the calculations go haywire!

Do you think the papers of much higher standards?

[silverhorse]

RRMummy:

starlight1968sg:

Maths paper 2 is always the killer. Paper 1 is no better because w/o the usage of a calculator, all the calculations go haywire!

Do you think the papers of much higher standards?

RRMummy,
Yes, personally I feel that Rulang's math papers are very high-standard. When my DS was in P2 last year, he could score 80+ on revision papers and other school papers. But when it came to SA1 and SA2, he scored 70+ and i mentioned this to his FT. The FT admitted that Rulang's math paper is very high-standard, and i told him, its not fair at all to my child. So for P3, I've learned to lower my expectations. For this SA1, I gave him Nanhua Pr school SA1 (2009) to try. He scored 82/100. I'm waiting to see how much he score for this SA1.....

[RRMummy]

silverhorse:

RRMummy,
Yes, personally I feel that Rulang's math papers are very high-standard. When my DS was in P2 last year, he could score 80+ on revision papers and other school papers. But when it came to SA1 and SA2, he scored 70+ and i mentioned this to his FT. The FT admitted that Rulang's math paper is very high-standard, and i told him, its not fair at all to my child. So for P3, I've learned to lower my expectations. For this SA1, I gave him Nanhua Pr school SA1 (2009) to try. He scored 82/100. I'm waiting to see how much he score for this SA1.....

Hi silverhorse (i like your nick ),

hmm..seems that our experience are similar...

alamak.. so more heartaches to come... :faint:

[RRMummy]

All with older kids in Rulang,


Please share if your kids get demoralized after fairing below expectation when it comes to exams, in particular due to the super challenging papers.

Thanks!

[silverhorse]

RRMummy:

silverhorse:

RRMummy,
Yes, personally I feel that Rulang's math papers are very high-standard. When my DS was in P2 last year, he could score 80+ on revision papers and other school papers. But when it came to SA1 and SA2, he scored 70+ and i mentioned this to his FT. The FT admitted that Rulang's math paper is very high-standard, and i told him, its not fair at all to my child. So for P3, I've learned to lower my expectations. For this SA1, I gave him Nanhua Pr school SA1 (2009) to try. He scored 82/100. I'm waiting to see how much he score for this SA1.....

Hi silverhorse (i like your nick ),

hmm..seems that our experience are similar...

alamak.. so more heartaches to come... :faint:

Thanks RRMummy :lol:
Just called my DS... maths results not out yet..... anxiously waiting....

[buds]

I agree that Rulang's Maths papers are of higher standard. Plus i realized some of the past years' papers even for CA1 had topics that my DDs normal neighbourhood school had yet to cover. :shock: So those kinds of questions, we did them together. It just made her curious how come other schools have learnt them and hers had not. It didn't make her demoralized at all. If i recall correctly, DD2 managed an 85 for the Rulang paper she did.


I shall not go into the careless mistakes.. :slapshead:
She was just P1 then... so... :please: ... i didn't wanna appear too anal about them in case it might put her off doing anymore in future. Surprisingly, DD2 said, \"It's ok mommy, i'm not frustrated that i got some of the ones i know wrong... cos this only means i can and i WILL learn from my mistakes.

[RRMummy]

buds:

I agree that Rulang's Maths papers are of higher standard. Plus i realized some of the past years' papers even for CA1 had topics that my DDs normal neighbourhood school

has yet to cover. :shock: So we did those not covered ones together. It just made
her curious how come other schools have learnt them and hers had not. It didn't make
her demoralized at all. If i recall correctly, DD2 managed an 85 for the Rulang paper
she did.

Hi buds!

The thing is when DD did her CA1, there are also questions in there which have not been covered. So tell your DD2 it is not that her school is 'slower' in covering the topics.

Good for her! :boogie: I can't recall what was Dd's score though coz like you there were some questions we did together since she has not covered yet. Good to know that she is not demoralized.

Before she entered P1, I kept hearing how in P1 every subject is 90+++. So now I need to expect much less for Maths..

[buds]

How much exposure the preschool and the home environment had provided before P1 is also something else to look at. Some parents anticipate that gg into a good school would require that their children should be in top form so they enrol their K2s and some since K1s into many many enrichment pgrms hence indirectly also pushing the level up bah.. This is why the formative assessments for P1s works well cause children are assessed as all rounders instead of just only the academic round.

[RRMummy]

buds:

How much exposure the preschool and the home environment had provided before P1 is also something else to look at. Some parents anticipate that gg into a good school would require that their children should be in top form so they enrol their K2s and some since K1s into many many enrichment pgrms hence indirectly also pushing the level up bah..

:scared: :faint: I hope I did not put DD in a dsadvantage..

buds:

This is why the formative assessments for P1s works well cause children are assessed as all rounders instead of just only the academic round.

:please: Please elaborate.