SA2 2009

[jedamum]

karmeleon:

Yeah, both our kids' schools just give stats. Highest (sometimes lowest too, but lowest is meaningless) and average.

the quote in bold above to me is 'depends'.
one of my friend's girl's school (popular), the lowest for all three subjects hover around 80s+/-. So that is the gauge of whether scoring 80 marks is consider acceptable for that exam. Stressful, right?

[James Ang]

karmeleon:

James Ang:

I did my PSLE 24 years ago in 1985 and that year happens to be the first year that uses the 300 point aggregate system. Back then I get 252 among the top 10% of cohort. My elder brother took his PSLE in 1984 and scored 363 (but not under the same 300 point system which makes it not possible to compare apple to apple).

Aiyah, it's similar system, lah. Altho' if compare \"apple to apple\"(unify it to percentages), then your brother did better.

maybe if the total is 400 but then again nobody knows what was the system before 1985, whether it is out of 400 marks or not. And my sister gets 265, two years after me.

[karmeleon]

jedamum:

karmeleon:

Yeah, both our kids' schools just give stats. Highest (sometimes lowest too, but lowest is meaningless) and average.

the quote in bold above to me is 'depends'.
one of my friend's girl's school (popular), the lowest for all three subjects hover around 80s+/-. So that is the gauge of whether scoring 80 marks is consider acceptable for that exam. Stressful, right?

Actually I noticed during my daughter's time that the lowest tended to be single-digit. So to me, I consider that \"meaningless\" bc it is really not so representative of the whole cohort. These few students are really the ones who ended up doing Foundation level subjects (in her time, there was still EM3).

So personally, I find that to put the \"lowest\" marks was reallyl embarassing to those students. Many would speculate who got \"3\" or \"4\" marks for the exam, and often they would secretly guess. Not nice, lah.

[lizawa]

Our school will disclose the highest, median and average score for the cohort.


The median score is a better indicator than the average score for the school. Cos’ the average can be skewed by some very top scorer or some very low scorer.

I will also normally ask for the average score in the class, for all tests / exams. This is to make sure she is coping well in the class.

[MdmKS]

Hi all,


Every year there is Edusave scholarship awaeded to top 5% or 10 % of the P5 and P6 cohort. Anyone know whether this percent only take into consideration SA2 results or whole year average? Also whether it includes GEP students for school with GEP classes. Note that at P6 the GEP students do take the mainstream CA and SA exam at P6.

[lwm99]

James Ang:

I did my PSLE 24 years ago in 1985 and that year happens to be the first year that uses the 300 point aggregate system.

There is no such thing as 300 point aggregate system, as there is no \"full marks\" of 300.

[James Ang]

lwm99:

James Ang:

I did my PSLE 24 years ago in 1985 and that year happens to be the first year that uses the 300 point aggregate system.

There is no such thing as 300 point aggregate system, as there is no \"full marks\" of 300.

The maximum score is 300, but nobody gets full marks yet. It is like an exam where full marks is 100 but no one score full marks. So it is still a 300 point aggregate system, just like a 100 marks exam. The highest score is 294/300 so far.

[mrswongtuition]

James Ang:

The maximum score is 300, but nobody gets full marks yet. It is like an exam where full marks is 100 but no one score full marks. So it is still a 300 point aggregate system, just like a 100 marks exam. The highest score is 294/300 so far.

Based on what I remember, there's no such thing as full marks or a 300 point aggregate system, not because no one scores full marks but because other factors are taken into consideration when calculating the aggregate. It's not a straightforward case of adding 4 subjects & divide by 3.

[Anxiousmom]

mrswongtuition:

Based on what I remember, there's no such thing as full marks or a 300 point aggregate system, not because no one scores full marks but because other factors are taken into consideration when calculating the aggregate. It's not a straightforward case of adding 4 subjects & divide by 3.

Yes i agree. There is no such thing as 300 is the full mark, cos standard deviation and mean marks has to be taken into consideration. This has been mentioned all over in this website. There was once a person using an eg that the student gets full marks for all subjects but with the std deviation and mean marks, the T score doesnt comes up to 300.

[lwm99]

James Ang:

The maximum score is 300, but nobody gets full marks yet. It is like an exam where full marks is 100 but no one score full marks. So it is still a 300 point aggregate system, just like a 100 marks exam. The highest score is 294/300 so far.

There is no standard maximum score. You do not understand how T-score is calculated. Please read about it first. In fact, it is even possible for students for score more than 300 although it has not happened before.