I personally think this 15% distribution is fair. - The majority of questions are accessible to most students, with a small number of questions allowing stronger students to demonstrate their mastery of the subject . - Each pupil's marks in the new scoring system reflects the child's mastery of the subject as there is no bell curve or quotas imposed on the number of pupils for each Achievement Level (AL) band. There is one nice Chinese article talking about PSLE Mathematics. Actually two thirds of the students are able to cope with the challenging questions. They quoted one simple modeling question below, arguing that the primary students now are taught to solve such question by modeling instead of traditional algebra way. Does Maths have to be so difficult? (schoolbag.edu.sg) Of course, I asked my 10 years old boy to solve this question in both ways. He was taught solving the question in algebra way by me in the past. I alway...