Ikid:

Thanks for your reply, that's the reason why I specifically mentioned 'based on your child's experience', as I knew all schools are good schools but some are better:).


For example, your reply can be, my child's PSLE score was 10 marks better than Prelim, or our PSLE score was prelim * 0.72, etc. thanks.

Ikid:

Hi parents,


Based on your child's experience, who took PSLE in 2014, 2013 or 2012, can you kindly advise if using your child's prelim total multiply by 0.75 or by 0.735 is a good gauge to our child's PSLE T-score (ie if prelim is 365/400, so 365 * 0.75 = 273, or 365*0.735=268) (if the school has not computed the T-score for the cohort)

And if the school has computed the T-score for your child, how close was their school computed T-score to the actual PSLE T-score, ie, how much to + / - from the school's computed score.


Thank you.

pirated:

Thread starter is talking about causalty, not casualty

pirated:

janet88:

I think many suffered PSLE casualties.

The parents, that is.

janet88:

I think many suffered PSLE casualties.

jetsetter:

Causality la.


:siam:

pirated:

Thread starter is talking about causalty, not casualty

rains:

haha, and I thought these parents should be parents whose kids are in neighbourhood schools, cos I know of a few parents like that. They were happy with As thinking that 4As would give a high t-score. And there are many who thought that an A* is easy to get.


On the contrary, popular schools usually compute their own t-scores on the result slips for their own exams. Pupils from top classes get t-scores of 202 to 219 since the cohort is relatively small and 2 to 4 classes consist of gep pupils. I would think parents of these kids are more likely to have a realistic or even pessimistic expectation of their kids' t-scores.

On the other hand, I know of P6 pupils from neighbourhood schools that don't compute t-scores. Their teachers ask them to add up the marks of 4 subjects and multiply by 0.75, and told them that is their likely t-scores. These pupils happily think that they would get 264 or 270 at psle but got a shock when they got their results.

Perhaps the thread starter would like to enlighten us which kind of school do the kids of those parents come from.

rains:

Perhaps it's just unrealistic expectation to begin with?


There are parents who think 75 is an excellent score since it's already an A. There are other factors as well like standard of papers and marking in school. Psle tend to be more stringent.

buds:

Saw this thread and first reaction was :scared:.. I thought there's an actual 'casualty' of a depressed kid or parent over PSLE results. :faint:

alng:

How about over preparation leading to burn out situation?

kaitlynangelica:

Mdm Koh:

Have the stories been verified? Perhaps the differences in scores aren't that great? Maybe it's expected 220 but got 203? It's possible for details to be miscommunicated and exaggerated since it's the child of a friend of a friend of a friend.


I don't think it's possible to have huge discrepancies in the grades for Maths and Science. Perhaps their EL and MT compositions were off-topic, leading to low scores. Another possibility is that the school papers were too easy, but I think this is unlikely as they should've tried past year PSLE papers before the exams.

Not necessarily Mdm Koh. I know of someone whose child was in the weaker class. FT told the mother that for this class, no point trying top school papers as they can't handle and it will just discourage them.

kaitlynangelica:

Mdm Koh:

Have the stories been verified? Perhaps the differences in scores aren't that great? Maybe it's expected 220 but got 203? It's possible for details to be miscommunicated and exaggerated since it's the child of a friend of a friend of a friend.


I don't think it's possible to have huge discrepancies in the grades for Maths and Science. Perhaps their EL and MT compositions were off-topic, leading to low scores. Another possibility is that the school papers were too easy, but I think this is unlikely as they should've tried past year PSLE papers before the exams.

Not necessarily Mdm Koh. I know of someone whose child was in the weaker class. FT told the mother that for this class, no point trying top school papers as they can't handle and it will just discourage them.