PSLE Prelim

[Anxiousmom]

turquoise:

But not all schools calculate prelim scores.

In fact during SA1, my dau's sch did give them a computation of the Standard deviation and the mean marks for parents to do their own calculation based on their level in the report book. They will be doing likewise for SA2. (She is in Pr 5 this year). The principal claimed that they hv done this for the past 2-3 years and claimed that its quite accurate. The deviation from their prelium T score is bout +-5 marks from their PSLE T scores

[Sahimi]

It is about 22 days to PSLE. How should I help my boy. Should he be doing top school exam papers or drill on the sections that he is weak in.

Is sad that my boy is not good in languages although he reads alot of books. During his prelim this year, he score only 71 marks for his English written paper. But thks God that his teacher told him that he score about 37 out of 40 for his compo which at least help him to score 81 marks for overall. Really don’t know how to help him to improve both his English and Chinese written paper although his Chinese compo is as goood as English compo. I really don’t understand why he is able to do well in his compo but not written paper???

[Jennifer]

Sahimi:

It is about 22 days to PSLE. How should I help my boy. Should he be doing top school exam papers or drill on the sections that he is weak in.

Is sad that my boy is not good in languages although he reads alot of books. During his prelim this year, he score only 71 marks for his English written paper. But thks God that his teacher told him that he score about 37 out of 40 for his compo which at least help him to score 81 marks for overall. Really don't know how to help him to improve both his English and Chinese written paper although his Chinese compo is as goood as English compo. I really don't understand why he is able to do well in his compo but not written paper??????

From my boy's experience, he lost the most marks in the section \"synthesis and transformation\" and \"open ended compreh\". Are these the sections your boy is weak in?

[turquoise]

Anxiousmom:

turquoise:

But not all schools calculate prelim scores.

In fact during SA1, my dau's sch did give them a computation of the Standard deviation and the mean marks for parents to do their own calculation based on their level in the report book. They will be doing likewise for SA2. (She is in Pr 5 this year). The principal claimed that they hv done this for the past 2-3 years and claimed that its quite accurate. The deviation from their prelium T score is bout +-5 marks from their PSLE T scores

Which school is this?

[Sahimi]

Jennifer:

Sahimi:

It is about 22 days to PSLE. How should I help my boy. Should he be doing top school exam papers or drill on the sections that he is weak in.

Is sad that my boy is not good in languages although he reads alot of books. During his prelim this year, he score only 71 marks for his English written paper. But thks God that his teacher told him that he score about 37 out of 40 for his compo which at least help him to score 81 marks for overall. Really don't know how to help him to improve both his English and Chinese written paper although his Chinese compo is as goood as English compo. I really don't understand why he is able to do well in his compo but not written paper??????

From my boy's experience, he lost the most marks in the section \"synthesis and transformation\" and \"open ended compreh\". Are these the sections your boy is weak in?

Yes and vocabulary cloze as well.

[Jennifer]

Sahimi:

vocabulary cloze

My elder boy reads a lot of fiction books. He does not hv much prob with this section.

I met a girl who is P5 this year, same sch as my elder boy. They used to train under the same badminton coach. She told me her EL teacher advised them to read for the way the author writes the sentences, to pay attention to synthesis and transformation. Seems like reading cannot be solely for pleasure.

[Sahimi]

Jennifer:

Sahimi:

vocabulary cloze

My elder boy reads a lot of fiction books. He does not hv much prob with this section.

I met a girl who is P5 this year, same sch as my elder boy. They used to train under the same badminton coach. She told me her EL teacher advised them to read for the way the author writes the sentences, to pay attention to synthesis and transformation. Seems like reading cannot be solely for pleasure.

Thank you

[daisyt]

Sahimi:

Is sad that my boy is not good in languages although he reads alot of books.

A teacher told me before, this is very common because the kids tend to get engrosed on the storyline of the books and not taking note on the vocab, grammer etc. The best thing to read are those boring stuffs like newspaper articles, nat geo magazine, reader digest. There are many things to do after reading and not just read and full stop.

[harini]

daisyt:

From my understanding, the schools would calculate and let you know the prelim scores, of course its not T-scores. But not all schools would do that. And a few colleagues told me, based on the prelim scores, add between 15 to 20 marks, that can roughly be your PSLE T-scores. Of course, all these are just \"aunties\" lunch time talk. For these \"aunties\" children's history, seem to be proven quite accurate. For my girl, PSLE T-scores is abt 23 marks higher than prelim. BUT I am not aunty. Hahaha .....

Wowww!!! So u mean if your girl's T-score in prelim for example was 250, your girl got 273 in PSLE? Thats great!!!

I think it depends on how tough the school prelim papers are in comparison to the actual PSLE paper and of course how the cohort does ...

[chengsmummy]

My girl’s PSLE result was also 20+ more than her prelim result. She worked very hard after the prelim test because of this unexpected poor result gave her a shock!!

Both of my girl and daisyt’s girl were from schools of 福建会馆, they use the same prelim paper for all the 5 schools.