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Symptoms of a less-than-perfect primary school education system?
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Tears over "tough" math exam
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EVEN before the ink had dried on the answer scripts, tears started flowing and complaints were made to the media yesterday about the Primary School Leaving Examination (PSLE) paper on mathematics this year.
Consultant trainer S B Chan told Today that the paper was so tough, his daughter and his neighbour's daughter cried after handing in their answer scripts. He said the questions asked were "different in their content" and "nothing close" to the standard of the school's prelim paper.
Two of the tougher sections also carried a heavy weightage of marks, according to the students. Geylang Methodist's Gerald Lin and White Sands' Cherie Tan said that they had found the paper tough. Of her 35 classmates, only about five managed to finish the paper, Cherie said.
"It was difficult and I didn't have enough time. Many of my classmates didn't finish the paper on time and some of them cried," she said. "Some of the questions were not clear (in the way they were asked)."
But a primary school math teacher, who invigilated the exam yesterday, said she did not see any of the students from her school crying. She said: "I didn't go through the whole paper, but I felt it was okay. But there were a few IQ-type of questions, not textbook-type of questions. The questions were not so direct and are not taught in school.
"Maybe they were not 'routine' questions, so the children didn't know what to do."
TodayOnline.com
Tears over "tough" math exam
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EVEN before the ink had dried on the answer scripts, tears started flowing and complaints were made to the media yesterday about the Primary School Leaving Examination (PSLE) paper on mathematics this year.
Consultant trainer S B Chan told Today that the paper was so tough, his daughter and his neighbour's daughter cried after handing in their answer scripts. He said the questions asked were "different in their content" and "nothing close" to the standard of the school's prelim paper.
Two of the tougher sections also carried a heavy weightage of marks, according to the students. Geylang Methodist's Gerald Lin and White Sands' Cherie Tan said that they had found the paper tough. Of her 35 classmates, only about five managed to finish the paper, Cherie said.
"It was difficult and I didn't have enough time. Many of my classmates didn't finish the paper on time and some of them cried," she said. "Some of the questions were not clear (in the way they were asked)."
But a primary school math teacher, who invigilated the exam yesterday, said she did not see any of the students from her school crying. She said: "I didn't go through the whole paper, but I felt it was okay. But there were a few IQ-type of questions, not textbook-type of questions. The questions were not so direct and are not taught in school.
"Maybe they were not 'routine' questions, so the children didn't know what to do."