2010 PSLE Discussion
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It is only about nine full months left to the Year 2010 PSLE and school has to cover P6 work and revise P1-P5 work. Is there enough time if the student does not start advance learning and early preparation?
The 3 new topics for Maths are Algebra, Time/Speed, Circles, so prepare the students early so that they can cope with the next year's \"killer\" Maths paper.
Maths will not get easier once all students get used to the new calculator format PSLE Maths. And Science will come in new syllabus, more emphasis seems to be on forces and energy, electricity topics now that the other two physical science topics on Solar system and simple machines are removed from the old science syllabus that ended for this year's PSLE Science.
Are you ready for PSLE 2010 in early October 2010? -
James Ang:
Tell it to the children. I've been 'nagging' to my next year P6 students and even P5 also and they give you a 'what you are talking?\" look. :x :x Just like a Chinese saying : the emperor not panicking, the eunuch panic. :stupid: :stupid: :stupid:It is only about nine full months left to the Year 2010 PSLE and school has to cover P6 work and revise P1-P5 work. Is there enough time if the student does not start advance learning and early preparation?
The 3 new topics for Maths are Algebra, Time/Speed, Circles, so prepare the students early so that they can cope with the next year's \"killer\" Maths paper. Maths will not get easier once all students get used to the new calculator format PSLE Maths. And Science will come in new syllabus, more emphasis seems to be on forces and energy, electricity topics now that the other two physical science topics on Solar system and simple machines are removed from the old science syllabus that ended for this year's PSLE Science.
Are you ready for PSLE 2010 in early October 2010? -
tutormum:
I have one such student in this year's PSLE and he doesn't seem to know the importance of the PSLE exams. He aims only for NA and fails E/M/S routinely. I have to keep on pushing him and he still does not move much. (it made me annoyed when he refuses to end his sentences with a full stop, probably due to laziness or some other reason) Guess what, he only managed to get into NT in PSLE and he cried when he got his results. Anyway he managed to get to Sec level after all but some of his classmates got retained because they get U grade for Maths.
Tell it to the children. I've been 'nagging' to my next year P6 students and even P5 also and they give you a 'what you are talking?\" look. :x :x Just like a Chinese saying : the emperor not panicking, the eunuch panic. :stupid: :stupid: :stupid:James Ang:
It is only about nine full months left to the Year 2010 PSLE and school has to cover P6 work and revise P1-P5 work. Is there enough time if the student does not start advance learning and early preparation?
The 3 new topics for Maths are Algebra, Time/Speed, Circles, so prepare the students early so that they can cope with the next year's \"killer\" Maths paper. Maths will not get easier once all students get used to the new calculator format PSLE Maths. And Science will come in new syllabus, more emphasis seems to be on forces and energy, electricity topics now that the other two physical science topics on Solar system and simple machines are removed from the old science syllabus that ended for this year's PSLE Science.
Are you ready for PSLE 2010 in early October 2010?
I fully agree with you on the Chinese saying that you quoted. And I am more anxious than his parents for sure, because I must not allow him to be retained due to any U grade. Luckily he made it to secondary school! (his mother was relieved.) -
kitty2:
If parents can teach their children themselves then it is the best. If the student prefer external help in the form of tuition or enrichment, then parents need to find one that can fit their budget and continue to supervise their child's performance while preparing for the PSLE. Never just leave the child to the tutor or tuition centre, children need acknowledgement, understanding and support from the parents to do well in PSLE.Mummies and Daddies,
How did you help your kids to achieve the the good score?
Please share :thankyou: -
James Ang:
But sometimes the method we teach conflict with the method used by teachers in school
If parents can teach their children themselves then it is the best. If the student prefer external help in the form of tuition or enrichment, then parents need to find one that can fit their budget and continue to supervise their child's performance while preparing for the PSLE. Never just leave the child to the tutor or tuition centre, children need acknowledgement, understanding and support from the parents to do well in PSLE.kitty2:
Mummies and Daddies,
How did you help your kids to achieve the the good score?
Please share :thankyou: -
VitoRelax:
But sometimes the method we teach conflict with the method used by teachers in school
Parents have to either learn how to teach their own kids or outsource to the full time tuition professionals.
Sometimes the children trust their tutor's method more than their parents/ relatives' methods because their parents/relatives' methods are not taught in school. -
What is good PSLE scores?
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PSLE is the "new O levels"?
Primary
Students in this category are young and impressionable; they are at their prime to learn and reach their fullest potential with a strong foundation. Traditionally in Singapore, the Primary School Leaving Examination (PSLE) is the culmination of the six years spent in compulsory elementary school. The students will then move on to secondary education based on merit at this examination.
In the local education landscape, this major hurdle for students is getting more attention than before. Previously, parents and the education infrastructure alike placed less emphasis and pressure on the students to perform at this examination. It also suffered from a slight lack of ‘prestige’ which its more advanced sibling, the General Certificate of Education, enjoys. This is due to the students’ young age and more so because of the public opinion that the child may still get another lease of life (in secondary school and beyond) if they fail to perform or live up to expectations. However, this perception is starting to change; with the proliferation of through-train programs in the country’s premier secondary schools, the PSLE has become the ‘new O-levels’. This relatively new phenomenon explains the new influx of students to tuition centres and extra lessons as they strive to get into these elite secondary schools to gain an almost certain chance of entering the affiliated junior colleges. -
James Ang:
Also parents last time are taught differently.VitoRelax:
But sometimes the method we teach conflict with the method used by teachers in school
Parents have to either learn how to teach their own kids or outsource to the full time tuition professionals.
Sometimes the children trust their tutor's method more than their parents/ relatives' methods because their parents/relatives' methods are not taught in school.
That's why I didn't really teach my DD in order not to confuse her ! -
VitoRelax:
For Maths, there is emphasis on use of models and heuristics to solve problems but some parents usually teach their children algebra methods because they are not savvy with models and heuristics.Also parents last time are taught differently.
That's why I didn't really teach my DD in order not to confuse her !
For Science, there is emphasis on process skills which parents are not familiar with the experiments and high order science concepts. For example, there are new questions \"borrowed\" from Pure Physics such as the direction of friction of a rolling ball or moving wheel. Many adults answered the question wrongly in a simplistic manner reasoning that the friction is opposite in direction to the ball's moving direction, but actually the ball is round so the motion is actually in reverse direction when the ball is moving forward, so the direction of friction is in the same direction of the ball's moving direction.
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