PSLE 2009 RESULTS!!
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answer is 9. because all the numbers are 1.
1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1 = 9
This is just a common sense question because if you add them together 1^2+2^2+3^2 +.... 8^2+9^2 = 285
QED
this is sec 1 indices question, but if you are primary 6 and learning indices for the first time, then I think it is ok.
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emerald:
definitelyarijit 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
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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.
at least i think it helps them realise the parents also went thru the same experience when they were young and we all survived, didn't we? feel it helps them to relate to the parents more! eh, who knows? maybe some bright kids will start their own kiasukids.com or kiasuparentskids.com very soon, hehe... healthy discussions by the children wil enable parents to understand their kids better too :celebrate:
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foreverj:
definitely
at least i think it helps them realise the parents also went thru the same experience when they were young and we all survived, didn't we? feel it helps them to relate to the parents more! eh, who knows? maybe some bright kids will start their own kiasukids.com or kiasuparentskids.com very soon, hehe... healthy discussions by the children wil enable parents to understand their kids better too :celebrate:
Touche, foreverj! -
James Ang:
Hi James,
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.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.
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.
Maybe that is what all stat board & govt svc think when they select their candidate. I really hope the private sector is not doing this. What private sector wants is results.....how much revenue you can bring.....not your past results....
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father_of_3:
private sector such as SMEs and MNCs are always thinking of cost and restructuring so they will try to balance local workforce with foreign talents, relocate to cheaper locations, stretch employees by motivating them to work OT and do job rotation or retrenchment to reward the best and penalise the weak performers, so yes, they want to see results too.Hi James,
Maybe that is what all stat board & govt svc think when they select their candidate. I really hope the private sector is not doing this. What private sector wants is results.....how much revenue you can bring.....not your past results....
The best option is thus to be an entreprenuer or professional and you will get to determine who to employ to help you to run your business or specialty.
Generally, statboards, civil service, GLCs etc have more budget to pay a stable and consistent salary on a long term basis. For example, school teachers, soldiers and armed forces, civil servants, regulatory authorities staff etc get good and stable premium incomes and stay focused on their core expertise. -
I fully agree with ChiefKiasu. Yes - PSLE is important but let's NOT be under the impression that success in PSLE = success in Life and failure in PSLE = failure in Life. PSLE can measure IQ but it does not measure EQ which is equally if not more important in life to be successful and happy.
I do not want to discount the importance of success in PSLE - my elder one is in Raffles and younger one going to NUSH next year but let's keep PSLE results in perspective.
It is not as if only 5% of population is going to get chance for University education.
It is not just A's and B's that count but also how one handles C's and D's which life is invariably going to throw at you.ChiefKiasu:
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.
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\"!James Ang:
[quote=\"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.
Nothing matters to those who say \"Nothing matters\".
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.[/quote] -
There is consensus on the importance of success in PSLE, especially for getting into IP schools such as Raffles and NUSH. This is afterall kiasuparents forum where kiasu parents converged, how can lose out right!
All the best to this year's hardworking PSLE cohort who are awaiting their results! May all their aspirations be fulfilled. -
THANK YOU JAMES.I JUST HOPE I CAN GET A GOOD RESULT.HEY CHEIF WHY DON’T YOU MAKE A COUNTDOWN,UNTIL THE PSLE RESULT.
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ChiefKiasu:
Hi Chief,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.
I fully agree with everything you say and I'm so happy to meet enlightened being like you. Is great that you are trying to help parents see things in perspectives. People's mindset are hardest to change. The government can spend millions on teaching methodolgies, technologies, etc, etc. but one thing that they cannot change is the people's culture. In the context of Singapore: Kiasu, Kiasi. Parents bring up their kids with fear on the pretext of love. In the end, kids suffer, parents suffer, no one is happy. What's the point?
I know of a singing teacher who went through the usual academic path through all the glam. schools. After she draduated with a degree, she decided to follow her passion and do a second degree on singing. Now she's happy doing what she loves to do and making a living.
My sister was from RGS, a PSC scholar, then a Cambridge Scholar. She was in pharmacy. She ace in all levels in all schools, even in the Uni. After so many years in Pharmacy to get her bachelor, honours, masters and then Phd, she, in the end, left the whole profession entirely to pursue her passion in alternative healing.
She said this to me a few days ago:
\"In the end, everyone wants to be loved for who/what they are, not for what they do and if you do that, they will be happy. I know because I have excelled in the past but was never made happy by the achievements. They meant nothing since people were only interested in what I do, but never know/understand me as I am. I have kicked the habit of spending my life 'performing' for others; only want to spend what's left of it on things that I deeply care about.\"
Let's us all ask ourselves if we are loving our children in the right way. Do we care what they care about? They are not monkeys to perform and impress. They need to discover themselves and find their reason for being here, how they can contribute to this world in their own special way, even if they are not doctors, lawyers and what have you.
Sorry for being so long winded, just my 2-cents worth. -
Vikaesh:
For students in the IP, how does the secondary school point system work, since they do not take the GCE 'O' Level Examinations?
Different schools have different promotion criteria. Meet the school's criteria for Year 4's EOY exams and the students will move to top JCs for Year 5.
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