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[verykiasu2010]

octopusmum:

HI all


my eldest ds is taking psle this year and yes, we have applied for dsa already. NUSH and NJC respectively. nush no chance liao since he didn't even make it for the camp. waiting for njc results but i don't have high hopes really. there is an interview portion which i think will be too tough for him....
so, being the type that likes to plan ahead, i am thinking of what other better schools are there.

njc cut off point 4 to 5 pts, is this the cut off point to get into the JC to do A levels? my time was not so low leh and i am an ex njcian !

of course, if his \"O\" results are good enough, i will consider better jcs but if not that good ,then the affiliation will help, right? then again, i think i am thinking too far ahead.....

my son's teacher never gives us an \"estimate\" t score for my child. i guess that will put too much stress on parents plus child and based on what, can the teacher come up with the estimate!?

I would think that NUSH is easier to get in than NJC

yes the 4/ 5 points refer to entry to JC .... by then most places in good / top JC are already taken up by pupils at Sec 1 via PSLE

affiliated schools are : ACS, VS, CHS, St Andrew .... not many (not incl all-girl schools)

strange that the school does not have an estimated t-score for the kids from P5 onward

[octopusmum]

during the meeting when the principal briefs the parents on what to expect for PSLE, someone asked about T-score estimate. The principal explained that there is no point in giving an estimate cause it may be v different from the actual one since the actual T-score takes into account all the p6s in whole of singapore…


hmm…i didn’t know that most places in good jcs will be taken up by pupils in the IP programme…sigh! guess the kids will have to work v hard throughout their school life if they want to get to good schools , good jcs etc. In summary, our education system is just too stressful!!!

[Augmum]

octopusmum:

during the meeting when the principal briefs the parents on what to expect for PSLE, someone asked about T-score estimate. The principal explained that there is no point in giving an estimate cause it may be v different from the actual one since the actual T-score takes into account all the p6s in whole of singapore....


hmm....i didn't know that most places in good jcs will be taken up by pupils in the IP programme....sigh! guess the kids will have to work v hard throughout their school life if they want to get to good schools , good jcs etc. In summary, our education system is just too stressful!!!

no doubt it is not an accurate T-score, it does give an indication of where yr child stands.......
i know of parents fr various primary schools,
their kids are made known of their T-score fr P5 onwards (some sch start fr P6 SA1 onwards)
so i was rather surprised that yr child was not given the estimation.......

[Brenda10]

Augmum:

octopusmum:

dtheir kids are made known of their T-score fr P5 onwards (some sch start fr P6 SA1 onwards)

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Hi Augmum

DD teacher ask them to estimate by x 0.70 for the 4 subjects so as to have some idea

[Augmum]

Brenda10:

Hi Augmum

DD teacher ask them to estimate by x 0.70 for the 4 subjects so as to have some idea

hi brenda, i have heard of this estimation b4, so how accurate it is ??
(i mean as seen fr other kids, i know yr girl is still in P5)

[Brenda10]

Augmum:

Brenda10:

Hi Augmum

DD teacher ask them to estimate by x 0.70 for the 4 subjects so as to have some idea

hi brenda, i have heard of this estimation b4, so how accurate it is ??
(i mean as seen fr other kids, i know yr girl is still in P5)

Hi Augmum

I’m not sure how accurate. During the Parent-teacher meeting this Jun, the form teacher said the intention (using 0.7 instead of 0.75) is to encourage the children to work harder if they have any desired dream school in mind.

[Augmum]

Brenda10:

Hi Augmum

I’m not sure how accurate. During the Parent-teacher meeting this Jun, the form teacher said the intention (using 0.7 instead of 0.75) is to encourage the children to work harder if they have any desired dream school in mind.

brenda, i think it is a bit overly conservative leh....i just happened to work it out, transformed to rather low T-score......

[Brenda10]

Augmum:

Brenda10:

Hi Augmum

I’m not sure how accurate. During the Parent-teacher meeting this Jun, the form teacher said the intention (using 0.7 instead of 0.75) is to encourage the children to work harder if they have any desired dream school in mind.

brenda, i think it is a bit overly conservative leh....i just happened to work it out, transformed to rather low T-score......

Hi Augmum,

Yes. You’re right. If we base on average 80 marks for 4 subjects, using 0.7 would get 224. If use 0.75 that would get 240. Different is “16”.

[verykiasu2010]

a responsible school would use their own data, year after year, to apply the t-score formula, to derive the students’ school t-scores, and the school would also keep track of their actual t-scores, one by one, cohort after cohort


in this way, the school knows its own standard when benchmarked against the national standard

what so difficult about it ? most schools have computers, right ? this is not in the 80s

for example, one school consistently show that their own school t-score (P5, P6 SA1, prelims, etc) is always lower than actual t-score when the psle result is out

they tracked that the range is between 15 to 60 points increase for the kids, from the prelim t-score to actual psle t-score

my DD’s increase was 35 points higher than the prelim

[JonC]

You are given the attachment slip every time you get the report which provides info good enough for you to put into the T-Score formula to work out the T-Score of your kid in Class and Level in school.


But it is difficult to know national level. But what verykiasu2010 is correct that if school historical data of school and national deviation can work out where will it be.

But every cohort’s quality and the papers difficulties also plays a big part too.