PSLE 2009 RESULTS!!

[James Ang]

For some of those people around my age whom I know (ex-classmates and friends etc of Selegie Primary School which does not exist anymore) I can gauge how a good set of PSLE helped them to be where they are today in their mid 30s;


1985 PSLE Agg 266 - Colonel ranked officer by early 30s
1985 PSLE Agg 254 - Manager in Japanese MNC
1984 PSLE Agg 363 - General Manager of local bank group
1987 PSLE Agg 265 - Senior Manager in Big 4 Auditors
1985 PSLE Agg 268 - Senior Executive in Petroleum Group

[jedamum]

ChiefKiasu:

no company actually judge employment candidates using PSLE grades.

Chief,
for the note above, one of my friends told me too, but she also added that precisely because of this, it is important to get into 'big name' primary schools, cos while the interviewers may overlook psle grades, the 'big name' of the primary school will stand out and make it a talking point among the interviewers, hence leaving a bigger impression.

[James Ang]

jedamum:

Chief,

for the note above, one of my friends told me too, but she also added that precisely because of this, it is important to get into 'big name' primary schools, cos while the interviewers may overlook psle grades, the 'big name' of the primary school will stand out and make it a talking point among the interviewers, hence leaving a bigger impression.

Getting into a big name primary school is based on the parent's efforts, how many parents volunteered as traffic wardens, reading moms, volunteer teaching assistants, librarian and excursion guides. I just heard from my Manager friend (the 254 agg guy in 1985 PSLE, now working in a Japanese MNC) that he volunteered as a traffic warden for the past half year while his son is in K1, so he has to do it for another 1 year at least until his son can hopefully smell the grass of NYPS. I applaud his efforts.

But it is getting into a top secondary school based on own merit in the PSLE that give employers the best impression. In my first job as a senior officer in PSA Corp after graduation, my then manager commented that my O levels are all straight A distinctions although my 2nd Upper Class honours degree and sponsorship for study award were keys to my securing the good job in the midst of the Asian Financial Crisis. My university lecturer told us that you need to impress your employers with strings of A and B grades for University modules and not C and D grades.

[frankchn]

James Ang:

For some of those people around my age whom I know (ex-classmates and friends etc of Selegie Primary School which does not exist anymore) I can gauge how a good set of PSLE helped them to be where they are today in their mid 30s;


1985 PSLE Agg 266 - Colonel ranked officer by early 30s
1985 PSLE Agg 254 - Manager in Japanese MNC
1984 PSLE Agg 363 - General Manager of local bank group
1987 PSLE Agg 265 - Senior Manager in Big 4 Auditors
1985 PSLE Agg 268 - Senior Executive in Petroleum Group

For my year (2001 PSLE), the top scorers whose names are on the MOE press release are now all doing very well. As far as I know/can find out:

1 at NUS Medicine
2 at Princeton
1 at Columbia
1 at UCL Medicine
1 at Cambridge

[arijit dasgupta]

I THANK YOU ALL HERE FOR HELPIN ME AND MAKING ME FEEL BETTER,NOW I KNOW WHY KIASUPARENTS IS THE BEST PLACE TO DISCUSS ALL THIS,(ALTHOUGH I AM ONLY A CHILD)A PSLE CANDIDATE :celebrate:

[emerald]

arijit dasgupta:

I THANK YOU ALL HERE FOR HELPIN ME AND MAKING ME FEEL BETTER,NOW I KNOW WHY KIASUPARENTS IS THE BEST PLACE TO DISCUSS ALL THIS,(ALTHOUGH I AM ONLY A CHILD)A PSLE CANDIDATE :celebrate:

Good to see that children are opening up to discuss about their emotions. Maybe should start a thread specially for these kids so that they could share their feelings freely and make friends. I'm sure they would relate better among themselves than to us parents.

[ChiefKiasu]

James Ang:

ChiefKiasu:

Hi arijit dasgupta, whatever will be will be.


PSLE is just one of the many milestones in our lives. Few parents in our community even remember what they scored in their own PSLEs, and no company actually judge employment candidates using PSLE grades. You should take PSLE as a learning process, and it is what you do after PSLE that determines what your future will be. If you did well in PSLE, the question is what you must do to continue to excel in your O-Levels, A-Levels, and tertiary levels. If you did not do well in PSLE, you have to decide if you will let this set-back mark you for the rest of your life, or if you should work harder to prove to yourself that you are a much greater person than the system deems you to be.

Chief, you forgot about the IP program which is top 5% of cohort which will skip O levels, get direct into Top 5 JCs and mingle with doctors, lawyers, accountants and other professionals-to-be and almost 95% of which will get into a University or higher whether local or sponsored prestigious foreign Uni and then once you understand the BIG prize behind the PSLE, then you will understand why PSLE is so important now. It is the \"NEW O Levels\"!

Nothing matters to those who say \"Nothing matters\".

Dear James, in most industries, professional qualifications are much more important than academic qualifications. We choose top scholars from universities primarily because of the belief that academic excellence is a close approximation to professional excellence. While the correlation is high, oftentimes, I find myself getting more output and contribution from a poly grad than someone with a Phd.

There is no question about the importance of PSLE. It is the rite of passage to better Secondary schools, and ostensibly for better chance of doing well enough to get to the pinnacle of our education system. And despite the changes made to the system throughout the years, the role of the PSLE remains just that - one of the several gateways where candidates will be measured against each other and streamed according to the \"formula\" applied at that stage. While it is true that O-Levels have lost its appeal since a long time back due to the general acceptance that EVERYONE should at least pass the O-Levels to be a \"useful Singaporean adult\", this is primarily due to the fact that the college degree has itself become a commodity where most people will have at least one of.

Your statement that PSLE are now the new O-Levels may be true in the sense that the proportion of kids passing PSLE these days is much higher now than during our time, but we should not go so far as to say that a kid's life is determined by how well he does in PSLE. The glass ceilings that are imposed by our Singaporean society on our children by virtue of the endless streaming and classification processes only impress on our children that their potential is pre-determined by the system at fixed points of time. Make a wrong move at one point and the future becomes irreparably bad. Can we blame our children for being so stressed as to feel that life is meaningless if they do not do well for the PSLE? And at the age of 12, most kids do not even understand that the road is still long before them, and that the war is only won if they get good honors degrees which might give them a better chance of getting the jobs they want.

We should teach our children that regardless of whatever glass ceiling that others impose on them, the blue sky is still visible and open to anyone who has the heart to reach for it. The top scorer in PSLE will still have to compete with everyone else in the race for attaining good degrees, so the game is pretty much still on for the next 10 years for every graduating Primary school student.

[ChiefKiasu]

Vikaesh:

excuse me chief admin madam but could you help me solve my earlier posted question?

I'm no mathematician and you are posting to the wrong thread, but to humor you, the question is about the sum of squares of the 1st 9 natural numbers which means that n1, n2... n9 all equals 1 and so the answer is the sum of 9 ones which is 9.

But I will use this problem to illustrate my point. In academic exercises such as this, you will generally be able to find a \"nice\" round number that provides a perfect solution to the problem. You can always \"feel\" if you have the right answer. In real life, there is NO such straight forward answer. Most of the time, you may not even know if you have gotten the correct answer even if you have. So why do we think that academic excellence provides a \"permanent insurance cover\" for top PSLE performers in life?

PS. I am no madam. I just checked, so I'm quite sure

[James Ang]

Chief, I want to explain that IP via PSLE rather than excellence in O levels has become the mainstream way to top JCs. The main competition is now at PSLE and to much lesser extent at O levels to get into the best JCs in the country.


Let's count how many pages the PSLE is covered in the local ST and other newspapers, on this coming Thursday.

[James Ang]

Vikaesh:

Mr. James Ang, could you help me solve my earlier maths qn?

answer is 9