Conquering Singapore's Education System

 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 always believe there are many ways to solve a

On July 9, 2022, I completed teaching him Primary School Science. I used My Pals series below and I strongly NOT recommend these. It is because they are actually the Science textbook used in his school ! 98% of the contents are the same as his Science textbook. My goodness, what a waste of money! I do love the chapters like, cell , human body systems and electrical systems . Pretty good science chapters covered in the primary school. These two My Pals XTRA Tests series are the best of all for primary school science subject. Definitely, a MUST BUY! You do not need to buy any other science assessment books than these two. In fact, these are the only two science assessment books I bought too. Do not rush to complete the questions. Do it slow and make sure you understand the entire concepts presented in the answer keys, especially the open-ended questions. You must know how to answer the questions with the right keywords too. His next 2 years tasks would be completing the 2 assessment b