Conquering Singapore's Education System

Revision 03 (last paragraph): updated on December 22, 2023. Revision 02: updated on December 22, 2022. PSLE COP for year 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018 and 2017 were shown below.  My child is a boy. We target the three secondary schools below, but his PSLE will be in year 2024 instead.  New PSLE scoring system was introduced in year 2021. Based on 2021 PSLE COP, the sure-in scores required for the 4 schools below are: (1) Raffles Institution: AL 6 (P) (2) Hwa Chong: AL 7 (D) - for info/benchmark only. (3) Anglo-Chinese School (ACS) Independent: AL 7 (P) (4) River Valley High School: AL 8 (P) In conclusion: (1) AL 4 & 5 can choose Raffles Institution . AL 6 can be risky. (2) AL 6 can choose ACS . AL 7 can be risky. (3) AL 7 can choose River Valley High . AL 8 can be risky. (4) AL 8 shall check other high schools too. Let's see if such strategy works for the PSLE COP for year 2022. The COP result will be announced by December 23, 2022, after the school posting results. It is interesting

Some good questions about PSLE.  I agree with the author below.

He had English essay and Chinese essay tuition in Primary 4. He has to write one English essay and one Chinese essay every weekend, almost. :) He had cultivated interest and gained confidence in writing essay in English and Chinese and that also reflected in the scores in the essay section in particular. Hence, we decided to let him to continue the tuition next year too. His Chinese Essay tuition is Huang Cheng . It's about S$50 per 2 hours session (in average). Chinese Enrichment | Learn Chinese with Hua Cheng Education Centre His English Essay tuition is WR!TERS@WORK . It's about S$75 per 2 hours session (in average). Center for Excellence in Creative English Writing in Singapore -Writers@Work (writersatwork.com.sg) Just for sharing.

I am happy that he was offered to take Higher Chinese class at Primary 5.   Primary 4 Achievements: Primary 4: Edusave Certificate of Academic Achievement 2022 Primary 4: Silver Award at Singapore & Asian Schools Math Olympiad (SASMO) 2022 Primary 4: Bronze Award at Singapore Math Kangaroo Contest 2022 Semester 1 He didn't do many test paper this year but he went for English and Chinese essay tuition . He has to write one English essay and one Chinese essay every weekend.