Review: PSLE 2014

Well, I didn't take part in this year's PSLE, my sibling did. When I listened to my sibling telling me some of the questions in this Year's PSLE, I was like "What?"

  All the Editing Questions were really complex words, such as aquarium, etc. Some of the students in my sibling's school could not spell some of the words. They are words that are not included in the PSLE's 100 Commonly Mispelt Words that the school provided, maybe that is the reason why SEAB wanted to set these words for the PSLE!

  Also, the Synthesis and Transformation Questions were really weird! Example of this weirdness is the second question (answer being Between the two mountain is a bridge, or something like that.) A lot of the questions were Transformation questions.

  This year PSLE English Paper was the final year for the old syllabus, therefore MOE wanted to increase the difficulty of the paper. However, I am surprised to see that many students thought that the paper was easy, probably from the high raw score of this year's 2014 English Paper 2!

  For next year cohort, here's things to take note:
1. Be wary of the editing, more and more complex but not commonly misspelt words will come out from now onwards,
2. The New Visual Text Comprehension will be based on the Visual Text shown at O Level English, therefore for a challenge in this section, do the English 1128 Syllabus O Level TYS (2013-2014).
3. The new Composition Section will require you to think of different perceptions of the three pictures. Try to use all pictures, as that would allow you to have an easier time getting the Content Marks.
4.  Try to understand what some animals/images symbolises as, such as a goose as peace and chess as a power stuggle.

  The Maths Paper was relatively "easy" for the paper. However, my sibling got a B instead of an A* which my sibling got in his prelims. Therefore, SEAB has fooled ALL OF YOU! The questions requires a lot of unpacking and digesting, much like this year's O Level Chemistry Paper. The students of this cohort has underestimated the questions and got a lot of questions wrong. Therefore, if you have gotten an A* for this paper, you may have gotten an A instead.
  If you want some of the questions that came out for this paper or even the question papers for the 2014 PSLE Paper, please PM me (subject to availability).

  The Science Paper was very easy to my sibling, but after I heard about the questions of the paper, I was like *exasperated. It was really hard! Why would everyone think that the paper was really easy? Some even mix up some facts just to answer a question, such as the fungus growing on the feet question. 50% of the Section B questions required a complex thinking process in order to be answered. This is equivalent to this year's O Level Science Papers, which everyone answered very badly, which I heard. If that is the case, why would the PSLE student think that the questions are really easy.

  Therefore, I would recommend the following things:

  If you have enough funding for your PSLE expense, buy the Chemistry, Biology and Physics O Level TYS. There are several topics that make use of Primary School Topics, such as Reproduction and Matter. O Level questions are really tough, therefore this would train you to answer the questions in the PSLE.

  Do you have any questions? Post below or just PM me!

Over and out.