All About Preparing For PSLE
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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?
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Mummy-oan:
what i did :-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.
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: -
May I add on?
Dont forget the oral for both languages.Its impt and this section will be earlier than the written paper.
Cheers,
Leanneskss:
what i did :-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.
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: -
ms_lim:
Dear momkong1968,
There may be 2 problem areas: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
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?
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. ε ζ²Ή :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: -
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. ε ζ²Ή :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: -
skss:
1) English - buy idioms/phrases books (the ones u can get from popular - in comic form - coloured)
Hi!
Is this the book?Thanks![](\"http://i43.tinypic.com/2jfnev6.jpg\")
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Learners Publishing - Idioms in Action through pictures.
Start with these to get his interest first then subsequent you can get others with more idioms. -
smartmummy:
YES!!!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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Hi skss!
I heard that there is an audio Cd to practise for listening (EL)?May I know the title (If u know)?Thanks
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