On top of these, I feel that do not stress your kids too early... It's a bell curve too. I let my DS take CA1 without muching stressing on him (as it is not added to overall marks). When his marks come down (sure to come down as he's v playful in Feb/Mar period), then i pushed him a bit in SA1. From June onwards, I pushed him real hard. If you push too early, their energy level is very high afterwards, it will drop(cos they get sick and tired of always studying... of course during the intensive grilling :pokeeye: , I treat him to his favourite foods and fruits). So, try to catch the high energy level for prelim.

janet_lee88:

Hi skss/Leanne,

Your input is valuable...keep them coming ok ? :evil:

My so has 1-1 for Math. That subject, hubby and I hands off. For science, lots of practice required...totally agree. I am drilling him in MCQ section.
As for Synthesis, Editing, Cloze, it's all about practice and perfecting. Comprehension cloze/OE are tough areas though. Chinese oral must memorize some good answers for pic discussion.

This year for science, Rgps and ACS sa2 have answer keys which are very helpful.

Synthesis is a 10marks section. Totally agree with you it's about practise. Bought books for my son to focus on practising. When he was p4, he got only 2 marks. Made him practise till now he could get full marks for this most of the time.
I personally find the Teachers@work series of books on target sections of English very good. Cloze passage is so difficult to get full marks. my ds is always getting either 9 or at most 12 upon 15 even after many practising. so...

smartmummy:

Hi skss!

I heard that there is an audio Cd to practise for listening (EL)?May I know the title (If u know)?Thanks

for listening compre, it's the easiest to score. I would expect them to get full marks for this (normally they are short of 1 or 2 marks). There are several that I bought also from Popular. need to go find.

smartmummy:

Hi skss!

Thanks.My son will be P4 next year.Do u send ur son tution?Now I like to send creative writing for EL.But I hesitate to send Sci and Maths.What's ur opinion?Thanks

I have a P4 DD next year too. I do not send her for tuition except Chinese to Berries. My intent is for 1 to 1 tuition starting P5. Cause I feel my DS results start to crash (from 80s to 60s) in P5. Was told P5 is the year the school has to complete many topics in 1 yr (to keep P6 mid year onwards for PSLE revision). So it's very stressful and they need assistance.

meimeitan:

Hi Skss


Does anyone knows why it takes 8 weeks to release the PSLE results?

\"The PSLE is already brought forward by a week for this year. Marking 4 days (say a week). Sending the scripts to HQ and redistributing back to school give them 1 week. Moderations and putting it into bell curve (can be computerised) - give them 3 days.
All in all 3 weeks.\"

How come the papers would be returned to respective schools? For what purpose?

Thanks.

Not papers. results slip distribution...

smartmummy:

skss:

1) English - buy idioms/phrases books (the ones u can get from popular - in comic form - coloured)

Hi!
Is this the book?Thanks
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YES!!!

Learners Publishing - Idioms in Action through pictures.


Start with these to get his interest first then subsequent you can get others with more idioms.

There may be 2 problem areas:


1) Son's attitude. You hv to check on that, his attitude towards studies, life, etc.

2) The tutors. Are they qualified? Is the Chinese national tutor aware of MOE's requirement for chinese? Getting a chinese tutor to stimulate interest in chinese and to help a child academically is different.

Also, is the EMS tutor qualified? How is the tuition conducted? Does the tutor try to identify his weakness in certain topics and work on these?[/quote]

Dear momkong1968,

I understand your frustration. My ds2 is taking PSLE in 2012 too. His results for ENG/MT have always been borderline whereas for MA/SCI are roller coaster results. For every exams, I will always till the day result is out. Since mid of this yr, we have stopped all his tuitions and sent him for a motivation course instead. It is quite expensive tough. On top of that, my dh and me coach him ourselves. Surprisingly, we realized his attitude towards studying starts to improve and at least for MA/SCI, his results are more consistent for CA2/SA2. He is slowly making improvement in ENG/MT too compared to 1st half of this year. One good surprise is he even got a silver award for a recent Maths Olympiad. We continue to encourage him and he is very motivated with his achievement so far. At last, I start to see some light at the end of the tunnel.
My humble opinion : find some ways to motivate your ds and never give up on him. Set realistic target for him and for every improvement that your ds has made, even small improvement, praise him and encourage him to work harder. Review the target and set new ones once he has achieved it. I think it is also important that parents try to focus on the strength of your child and encourage them instead of nagging on their weak points. I believe your ds can do it. 加油 :rahrah:[/quote]

what i did was my hubby and myself took a lot of half day leave to accompany, teach, coach from academic to self-building (asking him to grow up, secondary teachers expect matured children, etc etc etc). For my boy, he's v attention seeking... especially parents attention.

Totally agree with you to set small, achievable targets and he feel the sense of satisfaction to push himself further.

my son is those who once praised, over the head already. :slapshead: :slapshead:
even his tuition teacher said he works under pressure and must be pushed hard. :nunchuk: that will reveal his best performance... :faint:[/quote]

btw, my son was 60s to 70s in P5. He aimed himself getting As for all and A* for Science. we shall see on 24th nov....

I would strongly advise parents to send kids to Berries :love: for Chinese. I sent my eldest too late. I sent my 2 younger ones since K1 and they consistently get around 95 marks for their chinese. We speak only english at home.... :itwasntme:

ms_lim:

zeemimi:

[quote=\"momkong1968\"]Can someone advise what should I do? My DS is doing PSLE 2012...


1. When I put my son in class tuition, he talked too much, teacher put him at the back of the class and no improvement in grades. Past 6 mths I paid for 1to1 tuition 2x/week and he failed EL & CL and borderline for SC and MA (w/o improvement). What else can I do?

2. Everytime after taking every papers, he confidently claimed that the paper was easy and he would score at least 70 (except CL). How do I diagnosis what went wrong? Should I change tutor before it is too late?

3. EL/SC/MA same tutor, CL Chinese national tutor. My DS always failed in the CL compre section (avg 2/10, this SA2 9/34). He can read but just couldn't pick the answers from text and worst, when he has to write his opinion/comments on the morale of the story etc., he's clueless.

I am desperate now

There may be 2 problem areas:

1) Son's attitude. You hv to check on that, his attitude towards studies, life, etc.

2) The tutors. Are they qualified? Is the Chinese national tutor aware of MOE's requirement for chinese? Getting a chinese tutor to stimulate interest in chinese and to help a child academically is different.

Also, is the EMS tutor qualified? How is the tuition conducted? Does the tutor try to identify his weakness in certain topics and work on these?

Dear momkong1968,

I understand your frustration. My ds2 is taking PSLE in 2012 too. His results for ENG/MT have always been borderline whereas for MA/SCI are roller coaster results. For every exams, I will always till the day result is out. Since mid of this yr, we have stopped all his tuitions and sent him for a motivation course instead. It is quite expensive tough. On top of that, my dh and me coach him ourselves. Surprisingly, we realized his attitude towards studying starts to improve and at least for MA/SCI, his results are more consistent for CA2/SA2. He is slowly making improvement in ENG/MT too compared to 1st half of this year. One good surprise is he even got a silver award for a recent Maths Olympiad. We continue to encourage him and he is very motivated with his achievement so far. At last, I start to see some light at the end of the tunnel.
My humble opinion : find some ways to motivate your ds and never give up on him. Set realistic target for him and for every improvement that your ds has made, even small improvement, praise him and encourage him to work harder. Review the target and set new ones once he has achieved it. I think it is also important that parents try to focus on the strength of your child and encourage them instead of nagging on their weak points. I believe your ds can do it. 加油 :rahrah:[/quote]what i did was my hubby and myself took a lot of half day leave to accompany, teach, coach from academic to self-building (asking him to grow up, secondary teachers expect matured children, etc etc etc). For my boy, he's v attention seeking... especially parents attention.

Totally agree with you to set small, achievable targets and he feel the sense of satisfaction to push himself further.

my son is those who once praised, over the head already. :slapshead: :slapshead:
even his tuition teacher said he works under pressure and must be pushed hard. :nunchuk: that will reveal his best performance... :faint:

Mummy-oan:

Hi mummies,

My dd is going to sit for psle in 2012 too. quite worry. May I seek your expert advise on how to improve EL, CL, MA and SCI? What is your teaching methods? Some friends advised to just let her do all the practise paper. Is that sufficient?
Quite lost.

what i did :-
1) English - buy idioms/phrases books (the ones u can get from popular - in comic form - coloured) and let him read them and tell him to use them correctly in composition. It will increase the marks. for paper 2, practise and practise on the top school papers from p5 to p6.
2) Maths - 1 to 1 tutor. practise and practise. when i mark, i mark them in front of him. make sure u stick with the time given on paper one. then analyse with him how he should allocate the 50 mins to each of the questions, else give it a pass and come back again. when i mark them, i use specifically write down those that has \"careless mistakes\" and \"did not read question properly\". and then as he does a few papers, i told made a count on each paper at front page on the marks lost for \"careless mistakes\" and \"did not read question properly\". In that case, if these are lowered, the total marks is increase by XX. From that he can see and be careful. It works for him but on and off there are still one or 2. He managed to reduce these mistake by about 17 marks. if he does a paper now, he could still have 2 to 3 marks with such category.
3) Chinese - buy the hao ci hao ju book for p5 and p6 5a,5b,6a,6b. test spelling on them + test the meaning + ask him to form sentence on them. ask him to use them in the compo.
4) Science - practise and practise on past year p5 and p6 papers. making sure he knows how to use the keywords. the way teacher give marks to the answers. I think Raffles Girls papers does a very good answer sheet to state how they award marks. I showed him exactly the answer sheet and he progresses better with each paper.

but still... having said all the above... :xedfingers: I am still waiting for his results to prove if the above works.
if not, you can ignore the above. :rotflmao: