Exam Tips for PSLE and GCE
89Exams Tips for PSLE Students in Singapore
Parents seem to be the ones who are reading this when it comes to PSLE. Like Stephen Covey says... Seek first to understand.... Yes! Understand why your child did not perform well for his SA1. At this age of 12 years, this child may not know what is before him. He may not know the grave consequences if he does not do well for PSLE. If you are reading this at around September, you may still be able to help your child, if he has awaken to the fact that he has to buck up or else...... Then a hectic schedule of monitoring his work and completing past exam papers from various schools. Getting a very good tuition teacher to keep him on track and to get his concept and knowledge right.
If you are looking at this in January with months to plan for PSLE start by helping him by achieve little successes (that is if your child is not a motivated student). Help him see studying as fun and enjoyable. Find a tuition teacher who is strict and yet able to shower praises whenever he improves, or make learning fun and easy to understand. Get him enrolled in some programs to help him with his academic performance or help change his mindset. He will be motivated to learn more, because his mindset has changed. Do not resort to scolding or nagging or even comparing with his siblings or friends who have done better.... it does not help. Put yourself in your child's shoes... be a supportive parent.
By all means, find the right program and invest to help your child to help him excel in his exams and also in his future.
If you really need further advice in this area, you may email to me or leave me a comment with your email address and mobile no. and I will get back to you.
Exam Tips, GCE O Level Exams
Preparing for GCE O levels seems remote until it hit June for some students. Then in September, some start to panic and look for all kinds of solutions or helps. You will need to learn to work out your own goals. Learn some proven memory skills and start to strategize to perform better your aggregate of L1R4 to permit you entrance into the course and school of your choice. To get into a JC or Polytechnic, it is good to aim for an aggregate of about 15 and lesser or even much lesser.
It is highly achievable if you are able to sit down and start putting up a time-table to prepare for exams. Set the Exams as main priority and work at it. Create a small study group with friends of like-mindedness who also want to excel in the exams. Find a conducive place to study and share notes. Pull out past ten years series, and tackle questions one by one. Assign one question to each member of the study group, and get each one to teach how he arrived at those answers. By teaching others, you learn more because you really spend time to prepare to teach your friends. Go through this process until you are satisfied that you have covered the whole syllabus for that subject. You may email me should you need some exam coaching.
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Comments and Enquiries
In response to parents' complaints regarding the recent PSLE 2009 examinations, MOE has this to say... "Singapore's exam board says PSLE papers not too tough....there is a good coverage of syllabus and a judicious balance of easy, average and difficult questions". I think they have enough expertise and professionals to determine how the exam papers should be set. Parents who have children sitting for PSLE 2010, there is no cause for alarm.
Hello everybody.. My O Levels exams start from the 14th of october... i am soo scared.. and due to that i can't really study hard.. my subjects are english language, urdu language and mathematics.. all of them require practise (is that the right spelling?) , i know that but i just can't get myself to sitting down for long hours.. i need help reeally quick.. Help being good advice.. What should i do??? =S
"Parents up in arms again over PSLE Mathematics paper"...this was in the news today 10 Oct 09. The introduction of calculators for Mathematics paper may be the cause, questions were kind of tougher, that ever regular A* students cannot complete all the questions. The only consolation is.... the marks will be moderated. Your child who is an A* scorer may still be able to retain his A* for his favourite subject. Let us wait and see... do not start panicking.
Sorry I do not provide helps with regards to past years PSLE exam questions. you can check with http://www.speedmaths.com or other websites that promote such helps.
Can you provide some of the common PSLE Math questions (preferably difficult ones)which have come out in previous years, with the solutions?
I am a Primary Six student taking my PSLE this year. For my Prelimary Exams, I scored 2 As and 2Bs. Subjects which I scored B are Science and Chinese, can you help me to improve: like recommending some Chinese Composition Guides which are useful or some Science Guide Books which contain overall revision from Primary 3-6?
Sorry for the many requests! Would appreciate your help.
I can be contacted @ saddestwhisper@hotmail.com
Nervours girl, most people are scared when taking any exams. For Oral, calm yourself down by breathing in and then slow breathe out, do it a few times until you calm down. Just think that you are going into the room to tell someone a story, imagine that this person is a very good friend you have always talked to, but now you have to speak in a polite manner. Take your time to speak or talk, do not rush. Pause for a short while to think if you need to. what I have shared are basic stuff...hope this helps.
My Oral PSLE exams Is tommorow.....
Im soooo scared...
What should I do to remember all the things a that I want to say while doing the exams without feeling nervous ?
Please help me !! =]
Some have asked me whether programs conducted by SuperTeens, MindEdge, MindChamps, Adam Khoo, Brain Development, Tony Buzan will help their children to get good grades. I can only say that your child must like it and is able to commit himself to work on those things he has learnt from those programs. If he is forced to attend those programs, and against his will, please prepare for negative responses to those programs. If you can afford to part with the few thousand dollars, you can try. Maybe it will work for him.
"pls help", it is not a good sign to revise and then you cannot remember. You may want to learn to write down (and draw relevant pictures) on a peice of blank paper what you have just learnt. Write/draw and talk to yourself until you fully understand what you have just revised. You can also use concept map, mindmapping, or word linking with pictures to help you retain what you have revised. Never revise by doing it silently. If you are afraid to disturb others when you say it out loud, whisper as though you are teaching a friend in the library.
Carntella, I suggest that you talk to your subject teacher. Ask her POLITELY and COURTEOUSLY..."Good morning Miss/Mr _____. May I trouble you a little. I am finding trouble with my comprehension oe and cloze, is there a good time in your schedule to meet you after school to help me in this area?" If this does not help, look for a good english tuition teacher to help you, as there is not much time.
im taking psle but whenever i revised it will go away the next day! what do i do?
My Comprehension OE n comprehension Cloze are troubling me....
Michelle if you could please write to me at jolly@mltlearning.com and I will respond to you individually. Jolly Tan
I need to work hard on my english and math, just wondering if you can give me some tips on how to tackle the ploberms and how to improve on english and math ?
I need to work hard on my subject foundation chinese,science and english, I was wondering if you could give me some tips how to improve my grades in this subjects that im weak in?
i'm taking the o levels next year and i would like to know of some tips to improve my grades :) im weak in the languages(english,chinese) and combined humanities(social studies/elective literature) so i would like to ask if you have any suggestions on how to study and improve on these subjects?
thank you very much! :)
P.S. about the suggestion above, are we supposed to link the topics for the subjects together?=
I need to qualify whether you are taking the PSLE or GCE O levels.
It is always good to have an overview of each subject you are taking. Put up a concept map or mindmap, get all the topics of the subject onto the map. Then place the headings and sub-headings onto the map also.... it can be very elaborate. It is when you start drawing and writing, that you will begin to see the whole picture.... before I carry this further.... are you PSLE or GCE O student?
any tips for a student himself? like what is a good way to revise the subjects.
Hi... There are several ways to stop being nervous. If it is because you are still confused about what you have revised, and have not fully understood the content of your subjects... which means you also are not able to put those facts and figures into memory. If you really need to understand certain topic, please approach your teacher or tuition teacher and voice your concerns. Pick up some memory techniques... if you are in O levels... take a look at the success coaching program I mentioned in the first paragraph. If you understand your lessons and able to put to memory and recall with ease... your nervousness will slowly go away.
For Oral... I help those who are English speaking only... but I think it does apply to Chinese oral too.... Just imagine you are going in to talk to your friends and have a conversation with them. Greet the examiners with a smile and a confident "Good morning! Sir or Teacher". Sit upright...Take a few deep breaths before you start to read. Take your time to read or provide an answer, at a good pace. As you answer... do not rattle away. Use short pauses... and control your breath... you just have to practise it in front of your teacher a few times, it will be great. Hope I have given you some tips to think about and work on.
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I have just added a VIDEO from YouTube from a Past PSLE Student to share about preparing for the English Oral Exam. http://hubpages.com/hub/PSLE-Exam-Preparation Watch the Video by clicking this link.
http://hubpages.com/hub/PSLE-Exam-Preparation In this article, I address ideas to work with, with your child. Do not start preparing for PSLE when PSLE is just 2 months away. If you have younger children.... start to find ways to prepare them and make learning fun.... they will excel on their on way without pressure.
PSLE Oral Exam for English and Mother Tongue on 14 & 15 August 2008 respectively.
PSLE Listening Comprehension for English and Mother Tongue 12 September 2008, Afternoon and Morning respectively.
PSLE Written Exam 2008
English 3 October, Mathematics 6 October, Mother Tongue 7 October, Science 8 October, Higher Mother Tongue 9 October,
Refer to http://www.seab.gov.sg/SEAB/psle/2008PSLETimetable
Preliminary PSLE Exams are usually held in late August.
So the PSLE time is in Sept or Oct?
One more week and June Holidays are over. To top with exam preparation, my son who is taking his PSLE this year, has to be back in school for some lessons next week. The school is asking them to be back for 3 mornings, to help them with preparing for PSLE. I think it is good for him, or else it is not easy to get him focussed on his PSLE preparation....and sense the urgency...3 more months then the PSLE Prelims.
I have just completed another article on EXAM TIPS FOR GCE O LEVELS. This is an expansion of what you should do... a step by step advice to help you prepare for your GCE or GCSE Exams. Click this for more http://hubpages.com/hub/Exam-Tips-for-GCE-O-Levels
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Parents or PSLE candidates... if any tuition centre boasts of having teachers working with SEAB, employed in their teaching team, please do a due dilligence check before registering for their programs. Today's news mentioned about a centre called SUCCESS.NAT.... I am following this news.