1. P6 Parent-Teacher Meeting 24 Jan 2015
WELCOME
P6 Parent-Teacher Meeting
24 Jan 2015

2. Outline Important PSLE Dates Preparing your child PSLE T-Score
Posting Method
Selection of Schools
DSA

3. Important PSLE Dates* Oral Exam (EL & MT)
20 and 21 Aug 2015(Thu & Fri)
Listening Comprehension (EL & MT)
18 Sep 2015 (Fri)

4. Important PSLE Dates Written Exam 1 - 7 October 2015 English Math
Mother Tongue
Science
Higher Mother Tongue
PSLE Marking Exercise October 2015

5. 1st Week of Nov/Dec Holidays 3 days after releasing of results
Important
Dates 2015
Distribution of
Booklets
Sep
1st Week of Nov/Dec Holidays
PSLE Results
Option Form
Submission & Capturing
3 days after releasing of results
Here is a list of important dates for PSLE students.
All PSLE students should receive the S1 Posting Information Booklets through the primary schools in end-Aug.
Barring any unforeseen situation, the PSLE results will be released on 22 Nov.
The option exercise will be from November. All option forms will have to be submitted by 27 Nov, before 3.00 pm to the primary schools.
The posting results are to be released on 22 Dec and students will need to report to the secondary school posted on 23 Dec.
Posting Results
Dec*
Day after
Posting Results*
Reporting to Sec School

6. What is the school doing …
Right mindset
Confidence
Motivation
Stress & Time Mgt
Teacher Deployment
Class arrangements
Options & Opportunities
EMOTIONAL
PHYSICAL
PUPILS
INTELLECTUAL
Communications
With Parents
School Leaders’
Involvement
Subject Mastery
Exam Skills

7. A pupil who can do well … Drive and interest to give off the best
The right attitude
Consistent effort – goes the extra mile
Stays focused and pays attention – listens to teacher
Good quality work – prompt and neat
Keeps a schedule and tracks his /her performance
Good time & stress management
Reads widely

8. Subjects taken at PSLE English Lang 100% Mother Tongue 100 %
Maths %
Science %
Higher mother tongue is not included in the computation of PSLE aggregate score
Any aggregate of 250 and above will be given HMT or 3rd language option

9. PSLE Aggregate Incorporates performance of pupils in all 4 subjects
Allows pupils to be ranked fairly

10. Different subjects have different levels of difficulty
Why use T- Score
Different subjects have different levels of difficulty
So are the spread of marks from the average mark, i.e. the standard deviation (spread = standard deviation)

11. What is T-Score
It gives the relative position of a pupil’s performance as compared to the performance of all the other pupils in that subject
The raw mark obtained in the exam only shows how good the pupil is in that subject, not how good he is as compared to others
Elaborate on SPREAD:
As how ell the pupils’ performance are spread across the possible mark range. In some sense, spread denotes how precise a given test (as an instrument)
Proceed s to the next slide to illustrate the concept of SPREAD as Precision of instrument.. The extent to which the test is ble to distinguish the performance of the pupils.

12. PSLE T-Score T-score 50 + 10 ( X - Y ) Z X = pupil’s mark for the
subject
Y = average mark scored
by all pupils
Z = spread of marks
around the average
mark (Standard Deviation)

13. T- Score
Pupil’s mark for the subject = 80 Average mark scored by all pupils = 60 Spread of marks around the average mark = 20 T-score = ( ) 20 = 60

14. A need for standardisation of the raw scores
Transformed Score or T-Score
The previous slide showed that different subjects appeared to have different standard and thus there is a need to standardise the marks before aggregating them.
This is done through the use of T-Score.

15. Example 1 Subject Raw Score Mean SD T-Score EL 80 50 20 65 Maths 90 1971
Science 60 15 70
MT (CL) 63
Aggregate score for this pupil is ….. =

16. Example 2 Subject Raw Score Mean SD T-Score EL 80 50 20 65 Maths 90 1971
Science 60 15 70
MT (CL) 63
Pupil scores 90 marks for both Maths & Science but has a higher T-score in Maths

17. Example 3 Subject Raw Score Mean SD T-Score EL 80 50 20 65 Maths 90 1971
Science 60 15 70
MT (CL) 63
Pupil scores 80 marks for both EL & CL
but has a higher T-score in EL

18. Aggregate calculation
English Paper: Ave marks, Y = 85; Std Dev, Z = 25 Maths Paper: Ave marks, Y = 50; Std Dev, Z = T(Subject) = (X – Y)/Z
Raw score (X) EL MA
Total
Pupil A 95
(A*) 80
(A)
175
Pupil B 90 83
173
T-score EL MA
Total
Pupil A 54 80
134
Pupil B 52 83
135
A pupil scoring 3A* could end up having an aggregate less than one scoring 3A.

19. Selection of Secondary Schools
Put in 6 choices of secondary schools
In order of preference

20. Choice of Secondary School
Academic Ability of Child
Type of School and Programmes Available
Distance from Home
Schools’ previous year posting aggregate ranges
Distance of school from Home
Affiliated Schools
Direct school Admission

21. Posting of Pupils 285 284 263 240 and below By Merit :
Rank all PSLE students by their PSLE Scores
By Merit :
285
284
263
240 and below

22. By Choice
285
1st
2nd
3rd
4th
5th
6th
284
263
FULL
FULL

23. After 6 choices……
Postal District
Group Postal District

24. Our appeal to you ….. Set realistic expectations
Provide a conducive study environment at home
Monitor work and Motivate child
Work hand in hand with teachers
An eye on child’s Cyber world

25. Q & A