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Agenda • Principal’s Presentation
• 2015 PSLE Results
• Overview of PSLE
• Direct School Admission (DSA)
• Secondary One Posting Exercise
• Teach Your Child How To Manage Stress
• Education and Career Guidance portal (www.ecareers.sg)
• Going from Primary to Secondary: What to Expect
“The minimum
entry requirement
for popular
secondary schools
was raised by
between two and
eight points this
year.”
The Straits Times
December 24, 2015
“Housewife Anne Tan, 50, thought her son
had a good chance of entering National
Junior College (NJC) based on last year's
cut-off score of 254. This year, it rose to 258.
Her son, 12, whose score was 256, was
posted to his second choice, Anglo-Chinese
School (Independent).”
The Straits Times December 24, 2015
CUT-OFF POINTS UP FOR POPULAR
SECONDARY SCHOOLS
“Secondary
schools told by
MOE not to take
in pupils whose
PSLE scores
don't meet cut-
off”
The Straits Times,
December 29, 2015
“… students are posted to schools
based on objective and transparent
measures of academic merit and
appeals afterwards should be aligned to
these same principles, to be fair to the
other students”.
The Straits Times on December 29, 2015
SEC 1 POSTINGS: HARDER TO
SWITCH SCHOOLS
Overview of the PSLE
BEGINNING WITH THE END IN MIND
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Purpose of PSLE
• PSLE is a “placement test”
• Purpose of the PSLE is to:
• Assess pupils’ suitability for secondary education.
• Place them in one of the appropriate secondary school courses, which match their learning pace, ability and inclination.
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Terms Related to PSLE
• Grades
• Raw score, T-score, Mean, Standard
Deviation
• PSLE Aggregate Score
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The PSLE Results Slip
GRADE
Aggregate
Score
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What is the PSLE Grade?
GRADE
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PSLE GRADING SYSTEM
(STANDARD SUBJECTS) Grade Mark Range Descriptor
A* > = 91 Has very good understanding of the
subject
A 75 – 90 Has good understanding of the subject
B 60 – 74
C 50 – 59 Has adequate understanding of the
subject
D 35 – 49 Has fair understanding of the subject
E 20 – 34 Has elementary understanding of the
subject
U < 20 Has not met the requirement for the
minimum grade
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PSLE GRADING SYSTEM
(FOUNDATION SUBJECTS)
Grade Mark
Range
Descriptor
G1 85-100 Is very good at the subject at the
foundation level
G2 70-84 Is good at the subject at the foundation
level
G3 50-69 Has an adequate grasp of the subject at
the foundation level
G4 30-49 Has an elementary grasp of the subject
at the foundation level
U <30 Has not met the requirements at the
foundation level for the minimum grade
level
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What is the PSLE
Aggregate Score?
Aggregate
Score
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What is the PSLE
Aggregate Score?
It is a sum of the T-Score
(Transformed Score) of the
4 subjects
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What is the T-Score for
each subject? If Pam scores 85% for English and
Science, does it mean that she has
done equally well for the 2 subjects?
• It depends on how all the other pupils in
the cohort fared.
• If the average marks for :
English is 80%; and Science is 55%
Hence there is a need to standardize the raw scores to take into account the relative performance of the cohort.
This is the T-Score
What is the T-Score for
each subject?
The RAW marks are transformed into the
T-score based on a formula using:
• Raw marks
• Mean
• Standard Deviation
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What is the T-Score for
each subject?
What is “MEAN” ?
• The MEAN is the average marks scored
by all P6 pupils for a particular subject
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What is the T-Score for
each subject? • What is the “STANDARD DEVIATION”
• It refers to how spread out the marks of all the
pupils are
Narrow Wide
Mean : 57 marks Mean : 57 marks
Highest : 62 marks
Lowest : 55 marks Highest : 95 marks
Lowest : 23 marks
SUBJECT A SUBJECT B
What is the T-Score for
each subject? • How is the T-Score calculated?
T = 50 + 10 ( X – Y )
Z
Where
X: Pupil’s mark for the subject
Y: Average mark (mean) scored by all pupils
Z: Spread of marks around the average mark
(Standard Deviation)
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What is the T-Score
for each subject?
EXAMPLE
Pupil’s mark (X) in exam = 50
Average mark (Y) scored by
all pupils = 68
Spread of marks (Z) around
the average mark (Y) = 14
T = 50 + 10 (50 – 68) = 37.14
14
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What is the PSLE
Aggregate Score?
Aggregate
Score
The Aggregate Score is calculated by
adding up the T-Scores for all the
subjects.
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What is the PSLE
Aggregate Score?
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Subject Raw
Score X
Mean Y SD Z T-Score
English 80 50 20 65
Math 90 50 19 71
Science 90 60 15 70
MTL 80 60 15 63
Aggregate Score 263
Courses in Sec Schools
Types of courses in secondary schools:
• Express (E) – 4 years
• Normal Academic or N(A) – 5 years
• Normal Technical or N(T) – 4 years
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Types of Secondary
Schools
• Autonomous Schools (AS)
• Independent Schools (IS)
• Niche Programme Schools
• Special Assistance Plan (SAP) schools
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Specialised Independent
Schools
• NUS High School of Maths & Science
• School of Science & Technology
• School of the Arts
• Singapore Sports School
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Specialised Schools
• NorthLight School
• Assumption Pathway School
• Crest Secondary School
• Spectra Secondary School
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Information on 2016
Direct School Admission-Secondary
(DSA-Sec) Exercise
What is DSA–Sec Exercise? • Introduced in 2004
• Participating schools are given greater flexibility in
selecting students.
• They will be able to select a percentage of their
students for admission outside of the centralised
posting system, via their own admission criteria,
which may include academic and non-academic
achievements and talents.
• Provides students the opportunity to demonstrate
a more diverse range of achievements and talents
in seeking admission to participating schools.
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• The DSA-Sec Exercise is NOT a centralised
posting exercise.
• It is an admission exercise to allow participating
secondary schools to select some P6 students
for admission to Secondary One (S1) based on
their achievements and talents before the PSLE
results are released.
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• Students successfully allocated to their DSA-Sec
schools will NOT be allowed to participate in the
annual S1 Posting Exercise to opt for secondary
schools and will NOT be allowed to transfer to
another school after the release of the PSLE
results.
• Successful DSA students are expected to honour
their commitments to their posted DSA schools for
the duration of the programme that they are
admitted into.
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DISCRETION FOR DSA
TYPES OF SCHOOLS
Specialised Independent Schools (SIS)
Eg NUS High, SOTA, SST
100%
Schools with Integrated Programme (IP) 50%
Independent Schools (IS) without IP 20%
Autonomous Schools (AS) 10%
Schools with distinctive programmes
approved by MOE (SDP) [(include Niche
Programme (NP) / Applied Learning
Programme (ALP) / Learning for Life
Programme (LLP)
5%
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Singapore Sports School
(SSP)
• If you have accepted an offer from Singapore
Sports School, you SHOULD NOT exercise any
school preference during the DSA Exercise School
Preference Stage.
• You should continue to take part in the S1 Posting
Exercise,
• If you do exercise your school preference during
the DSA Exercise School Preference Stage, your
earlier SSP offer for your child will be void.
Results Release Stage
(Late November) DSA-Sec school allocation results will be released on the
same day as the release of the PSLE results
If successful in the DSA-Sec application, the pupil will
NOT be eligible to participate in the S1 Posting Exercise to
opt for secondary schools. He/She is also NOT allowed to
transfer to another school.
If unsuccessful, the student will be provided with a S1
Option Form to participate in the S1 Posting Exercise.
Student may opt for schools that did not offer you a place
under the DSA-Sec Exercise, since only a certain
percentage of places in these schools were for the DSA-
Sec Exercise.
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List of Secondary Schools Participating in 2016 DSA-Sec
Exercise — for Admission to Secondary One in 2017
• MOE website www.moe.sg/education/admissions/dsa-sec
MORE INFORMATIONON
DSA-SEC EXERCISE &
SECONDARY SCHOOLS
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• Respective Schools Websites
• sd
SECONDARY ONE
POSTING EXERCISE
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Secondary One
Posting Exercise
Sec School Info
Booklet (Term 4)
Collection of PSLE Results / Sec One Option
Exercise
(First week of year-end
school holiday)
Sec One Posting Exercise
(within 5 working
days including
day of release of results)
Collection of Sec One
Posting Results
Choosing a
Secondary School
Factors to consider: • PSLE Aggregate
• Course recommended
• Historical cut-off scores of schools
• Special programmes offered by the secondary schools
• Your child’s academic ability
• Distance from your residential address
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Special Programmes in
Secondary Schools (a) Higher Mother Tongue (HMT) Languages -
Higher Chinese/ Higher Malay/ Higher Tamil
• Offer a Mother Tongue Language at PSLE and
• Top 10% cohort or Top 11% - 30% band who meets the language criteria,
• A* grade in MTL or
• at least a Merit in the HMTL
• Eligible pupils will receive the invitation letter to apply together with the release of the PSLE results
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(b) Third Language Programmes
Special Programmes in Sec Schools
Category Language Citizenship Course MTL Pre-requisite
1 Malay (Special
Programme)
No restriction
on citizenship
Top 10%,
Express,
Normal
(Academic)
Must not have offered
Malay / Higher Malay
at PSLE
Chinese (Special
Programme)
Must not have offered
Chinese / Higher
Chinese at PSLE
2 Arabic Pupil or parent
must be SC /
SPR
Nil
Bahasa Indonesia Must not have offered
Malay / Higher Malay
at PSLE
3 French / German Top 10% Nil
Japanese Must have offered
Chinese / Higher
Chinese at PSLE
(c) Other Language Programmes
Language
Programme Objective
Elective Programme in
Malay Language for
Sec Schools (EMAS)
Deepen pupil’s understanding
and appreciation of Malay
Language and culture
Regional Studies
Programme (RSP)
Learn about Southeast Asian
culture and contemporary
society
Special Programmes in
Secondary Schools
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(d) Art/ Music Elective Programme (AEP / MEP)
• Applicable to Express course pupils
• Interested eligible pupils advised to select schools
offering the programme among their secondary
school choices
• Upon successful admission to the secondary
school offering the programme subsequently,
pupils to apply for it directly at the school
Special Programmes in
Secondary Schools
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Special Programmes in
Secondary Schools
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(d) Art/ Music Elective Programme (AEP / MEP)
In line with MOE’s approach to grow the potential and talent of students across a wider range of domains, MOE will:
• Extend the Enhanced Arts Programme (EAP) and Enhanced Music Programme (EMP) to seven more schools, and
• b) Appoint three schools that are currently hosting Art Elective Programme (AEP) or Music Elective Programme (MEP) as AEP and MEP centres. These centres will conduct lessons for students from non-AEP/MEP schools.
List of EAP and EMP Schools
Year EAP EMP
Existing EAP/EMP
schools
CHIJ Katong Convent
Nan Chiau High School Ngee Ann
Secondary School
St Andrew’s Secondary School
Chung Cheng High
School (Main)
St Margaret’s Secondary
School
2016 Naval Base Secondary School
Orchid Park Secondary School
Siglap Secondary School
Ahmad Ibrahim
Secondary School
2017 Jurong West Secondary School
New Town Secondary School
Yuhua Secondary School
Special Programmes in
Secondary Schools
For more details about EAP
and EMP Schools, visit the
following website:
http://www.moe.gov.sg/media/press/2015/05/m
ore-opportunities-for-sec-sch-students-develop-
talent-in-art-music.php
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(e) Gifted Education School-based Programme
• At secondary level, special provisions made for Gifted Education Programme (GEP) pupils in schools offering Integrated Programme (IP) and GCE ‘O’ Level tracks.
• P6 GEP pupils may opt to study in either tracks.
• Refer to S1 Information Booklet for list of schools offering respective tracks.
Special Programmes in
Secondary Schools
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(f) Integrated Programme (IP)
• Some schools offer the Integrated Programme
(IP) – pupils in IP schools proceed to JC without
taking the GCE O-levels
• The Integrated Programme seeks to stretch
pupils and provide greater breadth in academic
and non-academic areas
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Special Programmes in
Secondary Schools
(f) Integrated Programme (the list is not exhaustive)
IP School Academic Path
*ACS (Independent)
*St Joseph’s Institution
*Methodist Girls School
School of the Arts
International Baccalaureate
(IB) Diploma
NUS High School of Mathematics & Science NUS High School Diploma
Dunman High School
Hwa Chong Institution (Secondary)
Nanyang Girls’ High School
Raffles Institution
Raffles Girls School
River Valley High
*Cedar Girls Secondary
*Victoria School
GCE A-levels
Temasek Junior College
National Junior College
6-Year IP
Special Programmes in
Secondary Schools
(f) Integrated Programme (IP)
To see the latest list of schools that offer IP, visit the following website:
https://www.moe.gov.sg/education/secondary/other/integrated-programme
Special Programmes in
Secondary Schools
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Eligibility Edusave Entrance Scholarships for IS (EESIS)
• Awarded to Singaporeans who have performed
well in PSLE and admitted to Independent
Schools
• Eligible pupils to receive Eligibility Letter
• Interested eligible pupils advised to select
Independent Schools among their secondary
school choices
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Eligibility Special Assistance Plan (SAP) Schools
• Bonus points for admission to SAP schools
• Interested eligible pupils advised to select SAP schools
among their secondary school choices
• Eligible pupils to receive Eligibility Letter
Higher Chinese Grade Bonus Point
Distinction 3
Merit 2
Pass 1
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Eligibility
Course Option (for borderline cases)
• Express / Normal Academic Option Band
• Normal Academic / Normal Technical Option
Band
• Pupils in option bands must exercise course
preference
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Secondary One
Posting Method
Rank all pupils
by their PSLE Scores 285
284
263
240 and below
By Merit :
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By Choice
285
1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th
A
284 B
243 C
There are many other pupils ranked above Pupil C
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Secondary One
Posting Method
After 6 choices…
Manually Posted by PPS
Group Postal District
Postal Sector
Postal District
NOTE :
If there have
been changes in
your address,
please update us
as soon as
possible.
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How can Parents Help • Before PSLE, choose the secondary school & set
the GOAL
• Use the SA1 results to determine the current
REALITY
• Decide on how to close or narrow the gaps and
reach the goal – OPTIONS
• Then start working on it – WHAT’S NEXT?
Subject Mean mark Maximum mark Standard
Deviation
English Language 69.7 91.5 11.1
Chinese 67.5 89.0 14.4
Malay 71.3 92.5 13.5
Mathematics 66.7 99.0 22.1
Science 66.5 92.5 16.9
Foundation English 56.1 86.0 18.1
Foundation Chinese 51.3 74.0 16.7
Foundation Malay 72.5 91.0 11.2
Foundation Math 35.6 92.0 22.4
Foundation Science 35.2 70.0 15.8
Higher Chinese 70.5 82.5 6.7
Higher Malay 76.8 83.0 7.8
PROGRESS REPORT - SA1 YEAR 2015
Primary 6
YOU WILL HAVE 6 OPTIONS TO
CHOOSE A SECONDARY SCHOOL
BUT
AFTER THAT
THE SECONDARY SCHOOLS WILL CHOOSE
YOU !!
AFTER THE PSLE 63
Preliminary Examinations PSLE
(Tentative)
Oral
25 & 28 July 2016
Higher MT Papers
12 August 2016
Written Papers
22 to 25 August 2016
Listening Comprehension
26 August 2016
Oral
18 and 19 August 2016
Listening Comprehension
16 September 2016
Written Papers
29 Sep to 5 Oct 2016
Important Dates
https://www.moe.gov.sg/admissions/direct-admissions/dsa-sec/overview
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1. Managing Expectations
Every child is a STAR
Strengths, Talents, Abilities, Resources
What are his/her fears? Likes/dislikes?
Realistic and Achievable
2. See PSLE in the Right
Perspective
PSLE is an Assessment Tool
Most importantly, we must not destroy
their interest and love for learning
More pathways for our children to
achieving success and life long learning
Caring and conducive home environment
for our children to thrive in
3. Good Efforts = Good
Performance
Praise the efforts made
Continuously encourage and support our
children
Taste the sweetness of success
Self esteem and self confidence
enhanced
4. Love your child anyway
5 Languages of Love
Physical touch
Words of Affirmation
Acts of Service
Giving Gifts
Quality Time
5. Simple Relaxation Techniques
Deep breathing exercise
Progressive muscle relaxation
Relaxing (stress releasing) music
Visualization
Education and Career
Guidance Talk
Ms Teh Soo Bin
HOD, Pupil Management
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Going from Primary to
Secondary: What to Expect
Mdm Lee Lai Yong
Retired Principal
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