clay569:

Jennifer:

I am intolerant of careless mistakes.


I used to work with a girl who is 20 years younger than me. She makes a lot of careless mistakes in her work. When I pointed out to her nicely, she told me she has always been like this since she was a student :faint:

As a working adult, careless mistakes reduce your credibility as a reliable worker.

We all heard of horror stories of surgeons leaving xxx in the patient's body during surgery. Bad habits should be nicked off when young.

A pupil who is careful in his work should be rewarded.

Could you pls share tactics to help a child overcome making careless mistakes?

My son used to be much more careless than now. I thought he has finally learnt that losing marks to carelessness is not worth it. He's still careless now but that's because he tends to work fast and miss a word or two in the question.

My elder son learnt the hard way.. His handwriting is for teacher to guess.. If careless he will say don't worry have method mark... In the end when his PSLE result it's only 200...he was devastated and from then his attitude change..

I hv tried so many method to change his attitude .. Any method you name it i have tired..

Today he will come and tell me that what I said then is correct ...and he is in JC now..

He has to see it for himself .. What I have learnt is the attitude towards what you do is important .. He has to see and feel it..

As a parent do not give up

Sspitfire:

Really worried that I might get U grade for MT or Science..

If a candidate get U grade for MT/Science, Is it an auto-fail?

Just relax and do you \"exercise \" for the last 2 time of the year.. When u think back next year.. U must be able to tell yourself that I hv done my best.. The rest no need to care now

HVR:

EthanEthan:

[quote=\"Jovialcho\"]So those avg students will have fair chance n competition for top schools; once high achievers too confident n made some careless, bump n down it goes. So better make sure no unforgivable n careless mistakes n avoid at all costs!!!

I guess that is the govt way of ensuring average students have a chance to the top schools and that top students are distributed to neighborhood schools

How is this possible? If average students meet the COP of top schools wouldn't it mean the top students also qualify for the top schools? So in this case if both apply to the top schools who do you think the system will decide which student is going to top school?[/quote]
It's all depend on the T score ... If u look at the past 4 yrs of the Sch.. It hover+-2 of the COP.. No matter hard or easy yr...

Jovialcho:

Believe next year to avoid such stress, more n more students n parents will head n try dsa option; surplus of candidates to compete for limited places through dsa. This will be next national challenge in future to secure a place in top schools !!!

DSA is one option.. But a very tiring one

notredame:

ngl2010:

Don't forget to bring dictionary tomorrow

Ya, better pack both inside the bag first. You are always so 'motherly' (not auntie ah). Thanks and all the very best to your ds. Glad that you have come to term with the struggle.

Change battery .. Change battery remember

notredame:

skyhigh_18:

...No wonder MOE knows that there is a very big gap between the good student and the average student in terms of attitude towards fellow classmate. My DD is in an integrated class that is mixed with GEP students... You can already see the attitude among them.. And it's not good

My DD Sch hv mix the top 10% of the mainstream with the GEP during certain lesson..which mean during MT & some other gathering they will be mix together.. Hence DD will be going to some of the GEP class or vice versa ..

Hi skyhigh 18. Can you please elaborate on those I underlined? TIA.

During the lessons .. The smart one will dominate the class and they will still grp among themselves .. By mingle among them may or may not do well with the confidence of the kid....because most of the stuff they already know ..

Nebbermind:

notredame:

Are you speaking for yourself? I think you should not generalise your perception. I seriously do not think 'the parent of the average students want to be near the Top students in results. Needless to say'.

Many of them have 自知之明 and are at peace with their lives and others like myself would like to stay away from the self-declared elites (without inner substance).

I am not defending myself as my dc is in the best class and his results hover between the top 1-8%. My dc belongs to the sandwiched group but what you had stated is a big insult to the parents of the average students, IMHO. :frustrated:

Your kid could be a top student but the parent's arrogance is certainly a mis-matched.

What is the sandwiched grp?

My understanding of this is sandwich grp is....Your child is not good enough to be GEP but fare better than mainstream student .. Which means you child mayb at the top 10% of his school Corhort Excld GEP

notredame:

Someone mentioned that we are not able to view our kids' psle scripts.

I think we can if we pay. It's about $100 for each subject, applying through the principal's office. I remember a few years' back, my elder dc's classmate's mum got a rude shock when her ds scored 230+ for t-score instead of the 250-260 they had expected. They asked to see the scripts. Don't know about the details but nothing was changed. Somehow, he managed to get into an IP school via DSA at sec 3. Phew, happy ending.

Yes .. I hv tried but later withdraw...You can pay but you cannot see the paper .. You are paying to review the paper hence if the paper is marked correctly you cannot challenge the marks as its done with moderation

And I think about it ..do not waste money to review .. If yours is marked wrongly ... I think everyone will pay and review paper.

I also understand that papers are marked by more than 1 teacher so unless all make a mistake.. More likely the results will not change.

Mommybel:

clay569:

[quote=\"25hr mama\"]In the current system, all students are taking Mother Tongue (Core module).

Students with the ability and interest in the subject will be encouraged to take up HMT, which is pitched at a higher level. Both parents & students are given the option whether or not to accept the offer.
Maybe, it's just my personal view, the same can be applied to the other 3 subjects, which means to also offer Higher Math, Higher Science & Higher English to students, so as to meet the learning needs of students of different ability and interest.

At the end of day, PSLE papers would still be pitched at the Core modules standard, which ideally, should be at a more acceptable or reasonable level of difficulty for the whole cohort, which means not overly easy & not overly difficult.
Actually v good suggestion. Your choice, your consequence. Everyone is happy this way.
Then maybe, or hopefully, not sure if it's workable, it will meet the needs of both parents and children with different ability and interest. Those who prefer to lead a less stressful life can choose not to opt for the higher level curriculum, and those who believe that their children's potential need to be stretched to their fullest can opt for them, it's a individual choice & preference, based on ability, interest and preferred stress level.

Just my 2 cents worth.

Interesting... And have similar merit points system like HMTL with some modification...

[/quote]Interesting thoughts .. Then some school will say niche program is science .. Entry to the school requires \"Higher level sci\" .. The cycle begin agn

notredame:

BeContented:

You will be surprised at how unrealistic some parents are......
Once PSLE papers are easy, I presume school exams will slowly be less difficult as well and we will be back to 'why paper so easy you din score???'

That's true about the current mindset of some parents. Super KS. On hindsight, these ambitious parents can coach their kids on their own then since the questions will not be too difficult and thus can rely less on tuition. For the above average pupils with reasonable parents like us, tuition can be totally eliminated. That's what our discussion was about earlier. :imanangel:[/quote]

Coach them to be a better person and not to complain when their so call advantage is not fully benefit them...