IMO, the key was to understand the intake sizes at many of the schools from 2020 onwards. Based on some of the COP fluctuations throughout the years (especially the 2022 PSLE with the Tiger batch) and a rough indication of balloting (nothing official though), there were some warning signs of what might happen.

The other factor is with every year that goes by, parents/students are more in tune with optimizing the AL score (i.e. don’t allow one subject to drag down your total).

Of course, no one could say for sure exactly what was going to happen.

Anyways, life goes on. With an open mind, most kids will be happy and find good opportunities wherever they ended up.

The recent Secondary 1 posting outcomes were “comparable” to those of the previous cohort, with more than 80 per cent of pupils being posted to a school of their first, second or third choice.

Also similar to previous years, more than nine in 10 secured a place in one of the six schools they chose, said the Ministry of Education (MOE).

Most pupils who needed a tie-breaker were sorted by citizenship and school choice order, with about one in 10 going through computerised balloting, said a spokeswoman for MOE. These trends are similar to previous years’.

Since the Secondary 1 posting results were announced, some parents have taken to online forums to express concerns that their children did not make it to their secondary school of choice.

They said there seemed to be significant changes in school cut-off points and wondered if this was due to the larger Dragon cohort size.

In 2024, 40,894 pupils sat the Primary School Leaving Examination (PSLE), compared with 38,088 in 2023, 37,095 in 2022 and 39,119 in 2021.

The Secondary 1 posting results will be released at 9am on Dec 18.

In a press release on Dec 11, the Ministry of Education (MOE) said pupils can check their postings through:

• Short Message Service (SMS) via a local mobile number
• S1 Internet System (https://www.moe.gov.sg/s1-posting) using the student’s birth certificate number or FIN, and the S1 pin
• At the pupil’s primary school

Pupils do not need to report to their new schools after receiving their posting results, but refer to the posted schools’ websites for more information, the ministry added.

Parents who are on Parents Gateway will also receive instructions from the posted schools from the afternoon of Dec 18.

All the best to the Dragon kids receiving their psle results tomorrow!

I have friends who seem extremely worried that the increased number of candidates in this Dragon year (versus no corresponding increase in places in secondary schools) will skew the cut off points significantly. What are yalls’ predictions?

Saw a FB comments from a parent who went to a mid tier school open house that it will increase intake.

Your guess is based on averages, thus each class absorbing 2 more pax. I personally think the undersubscribed schools at the bottom will absorb the spillover demand (if it is true that the top schools will not bend on increasing class size).

These are birth numbers from the last dragon year and the year before

2011 39654
2012 42663

Increase of 3009 babies from previous year

There are around 150 secondary schools

Average class size is around 33 students

The additional 3009 babies, say spread equally across the 150 secondary schools, each school will
have to take on additional 20 students.

If each school has average of 10 classes for each intake, spreading the additional 20 students across 10 classes, each class will increase by 2 students. And average class size will increase to 33+2=35. I think all schools still can absorb without making any major changes.

The supply side can be taken care off to meet the expected surge in applicants. Cut off point should not change just because of more dragon babies.

I have friends who seem extremely worried that the increased number of candidates in this Dragon year (versus no corresponding increase in places in secondary schools) will skew the cut off points significantly. What are yalls’ predictions?

https://www.moe.gov.sg/news/press-releases/20241113-release-of-2024-psle-results-and-secondary-1-posting-exercise

FairPrice Group will be giving out 12,000 free breakfast bundles to Primary 6 pupils who are taking the Primary School Leaving Examinations (PSLE) in 2024.

In a statement on Sept 11, the FairPrice Group announced that it will distribute the breakfast bundles at 131 Cheers and FairPrice Xpress outlets across the island on Sept 20 and 21.

“Each breakfast bundle, worth more than $20, includes breakfast essentials such as milk, cereal, wholemeal bread, as well as protein from Brand’s Essence of Chicken and canned tuna, to fuel students through their final revisions and examinations,” said the statement.

Those interested in redeeming the bundle can present their student cards or PSLE examination slips for verification at the participating outlets, which can be found on FairPrice Group’s website.

The redemptions are limited to one bundle per pupil and will be given out on a first come, first served basis.

So far 2 Prelim picture compos content I know are:

• 公德心 + 注意安全 (boy who was climbing up a tree in park to pluck fruits got stopped by a man)
• 守秩序 (2 boys rushed to get into the bus, 1 of them got pushed and fell the confronted the other, fight about to happen)

@kylene Shared about this in previous year’s PSLE as well as the O Level CL thread - examiners’ expectations and grading will alter according to difficulty level of the topic/questions. For example, if the topic is relatively easier, than they would expect more in depth elaboration and/or better choice of phrases/vocab.

Not sure if the examiners feel the same as I do ! Personally I feel i阅读 is harder as 健康生活 is like the basic stuff they learn .