Sunday 26 June 2011

What went wrong?

Dear darlings,
The results for Prelim Practice Paper 1a and 1b are a concern as I strongly believe you are capable of  achieving better results. I am especially worried for Paper 1b as there are marks reflected as low as 22 out of 60. Even for those who usually scored well are not performing at your usual standard.

Well, there are also those who had done well ( not many, sad to say that the number I have is only 2)and it would be a good for them to share their secret to the excellent results for Paper 1b. Excellent results refers to 55 and above out of 60. The 2 owners would know who I am referring to.

Remember that we are here to learn from one another and the reflection done online is by no means to make anyone feel small or lousy or to magnify the strengths or weaknesses of anyone in my class.

Rationale : We are using ICT tools to allow us to learn from one another to promote collaborative learning (CoL) and self directed learning (SDL).

Please look through the papers and post your "findings" for the "Not so good" performance so that we can work together to arrest the "problem(s)".

Love you always,
Mrs Mak

31 comments:

  1. Mrs Mak, I promise that you will see good results at the end of the year.

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  2. Dear Mrs Mak,
    I am very sorry for doing badly. As it was a holiday, I slept late the previous night and woke up with a headache. This cost me my concentration and awareness so I did my questions carelessly. In other words, I did badly due to my unintentional carelessness.

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  4. Dear Mrs Mak,
    I think i was too careless and did not revise enough during the school holidays.I could have done better if i was more focus and less careless.
    Cheers,
    Jin Jie :D

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  5. >>>WARNING<<<
    My REAL NAME IS YAP ZHI HENG
    Continue:
    To all people who read this blog:
    RAW SCORE-90--Well...sometimes we are born naturally clever, or vice versa.For both Maths and Science, some people just need more learning. For the mistakes, it may be careless, just don't know or else, not enough reason to the answers. Carelessness(like me)-need read questions more properly.Don't know-Learn more. Not enough reasoning- Try to explain to the examiners not by words but by arrows or other so-called symbol. For English and MT, they are testing you how much you know. For English, read more books(Not simple books) and learn more words from there. Chinese, you need to not called memorise the words of P4-P6 textbooks but to learn it and remember it in your heart. (What I find out is memorising only helped abit, if you memorise any thing, you only remember it for a day to three months.)
    This concludes my reflection.
    Regards,
    >>>Yap Zhi Heng<<<Don't take me as a stranger just because my google name is not my real name.
    P.S. This blog's useful for replacing the email stuff as the email is temporary.
    P.P.S(forget is P.S.S or P.P.S) We can discuss

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  6. Dearest Mrs Mak,
    The questions are difficult for me to handle. I was also became friends with 'CaReLeSs' in some of the questions. I wasn't FaMilLaR with some of the questions too. I was FrIgHtEnEd by some of the questions and during the last five minutes, I have not done 4 questions. I think there was also not enough TiMe for me to complete the paper.


    P.M: For those who got above 40, what is your secret? 0.o


    Regards,
    Donovan



    ***My score is 40/40,38.5/60,78.5/100***

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  7. Dear Mrs Mar,
    I was very tired as it was still during the holiday. I think I should revise more. I think I was still in the holiday mood. Looking at the question now, I think I could do some of them.
    By: Aik Chong :):

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  8. Dear Mrs Mak,
    I think i had done badly because i did not read the questions carefully. Also, most of the number of questions i did was done carelessly thus leading to a very low score.. However, there are a few questions that i really do not know how to do.Maybe if i had read the question properly or had revised more on that topic more thoroughly during the school holidays i would have at least scored a Method mark... Anyway, from now on i will read the questions carefully and try to avoid careless mistakes and check my work more thoroughly so that i can achieve better marks.
    This practice paper has made me realise to buck up in my studies to do my work more carefully so that i can get at least a high A.

    Regards,
    Dina Iman [6-9]

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  9. Dear Mrs Mak,
    I think I did badly because I was too careless in some of the questions, although I had the correct method, I got the wrong number.There was also a few questions where I really did not know how to do it. I think that this is probably becuse during the holidays I did not really revised much and I played quite a lot too, and hence my brain was not 'warmed up'.
    Yours Sincerly,
    Gracelyn 27/06/2011

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  10. Dear Mrs Mak,
    I think i did badly because i was to careless and did not read the questions carefully. Probably i was still in a holiday mood...
    I will work even harder to get a Better result and not play so much.
    Yours truly,
    Min Fang

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  11. Dear Mrs Mak,
    i think i did badly because the questions were too difficult for me. i have not encountered a lot of the questions before. however, there were some questions that i got wrong was due to some careless mistakes i made. also, there was not enough time for me to do 'guess and check' method for the questions that i didi not know how to do. i hope i can get better results for the next practice paper.
    regards,
    Felinda

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  12. Dear Mrs Mak,
    i think i have done especially badly for this paper because i was too careless and still on 'holiday mode', thus i did not check my work properly. I think this paper is very tough and the questions not easy to solve. But, once we had the discussion in class and went through each question in groups, i found that every question was not as hard as it seemed. If this paper is Prelim standard, i would seriously start to worry about the standard of the PSLE paper. Nevertheless, i will put in doubly the efforts in my work and of course, focus more on my Maths as it is my weakest subject after all.
    I don't think the low marks i got for this paper is embarrassing, i just see it as a sign for me to work even harder than ever. I did revise during the holidays, but not as much as i thought, hence the low results. I will definitely work harder though. :)
    Regards,
    Vanessa 27/06/2011

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  13. Dear Mrs Mak,
    I did badly because i was still in the holidays and i also had a very bad stomach ache that day. I was not careful enough too!
    Regards,
    shijia

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  14. Dear Mrs Mak,
    I made alot of careless mistakes in this practice paper.I also spent too much time on the first few questions. As a result, I did not have enough time to finish those four or five marks questions so I quickly did those questions. I also did not have time to check the paper. If i had not spent so much time on doing the first few questions i would have scored a higher mark.
    Regards,
    Xin An

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  15. Dear Mrs Mak,
    I feel that one of my methods in paper 2 question 15 was too long-winded. Therefore, i would try and see if i can solve the question using a faster method.
    Overall, i have done well for this paper. However, this does not result in me being proud and arrogant as this is only a practice paper and not the real prelim exam. So i must continue to work hard and strive for excellence.
    Regards
    Charissa Lee

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  16. Dear Mrs Mak,
    I was not careful when I did the paper and spent too much time on some questions, so I did not have enough time to check through the paper thoroughly and hence there were some careless mistakes and calculation errors. I will try harder next time.
    Regards,
    Andrea

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  17. Dear Mrs Mak,
    I was careless and spent too much time on some questions. I would have done better if I had been more careful. I have to read the questions more carefully, be more meticulous and check my work more thoroughly to avoid careless mistakes in order to achieve better results.
    Regards,
    Zi Xin

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  18. I was too careless and made many mistakes. Looking back at the paper, I could actually done better as I did not read the question carefully. I will work harder and do better in the next test..
    Regards,
    Jeremy

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  19. i misread some of the questions and was overconfident on some of the 'easy' questions so i did not check through them as thoroughly as the 'tough' questions. as a result, i lost some marks.
    good thing - i applied some of the secret recipe method in to some questions and got them correct...
    -wang yao

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  20. Dear Mrs Mak,
    I feel that I did pretty badly for my practice paper.Although I did badly,I would work hard and do much better than before.I think that what make me not do well ,I think that i am nervous at that time.This woild be a good opportunity to reflect what really went wrong.
    Regards,
    Jia Hui

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  21. Dear Mrs Mak,
    I feel that I did very badly as I did not read the questions carefully. I misread some of did it wrongly or I did not understand what topic the question is tested me about. I also made friends with 'CARELESS' during the paper. I was also slightly tired as I had trouble falling asleep the previous night. Furthermore, I was still in the 'holiday mood'. Also, I did not know how to do some of the questions. I did not know what method to use or I just didn't understand what the question meant. However the main culprit is time. I am not so good at managing my time properly so I was left with little time to do some of the questions. As a result, i had to rush through at the end. Next time, I will try to read the question more carefully and check my work more thoroughly.
    This practice paper had been an eye-opener for me. I realised that now I have to pull up my socks to score for my PSLE. I hope I will improve my lousy score of 67/100.
    -Kang Ngee

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  23. Dear Mrs Mak ,
    I think it was because I was very careless and misunderstood the meaning of the question, but there was also some questions I don't know how to do. I gave the answer in fraction instead of ratio. I was a bit tired during the end of the test and I did not check properly. I guess it was because I did not get enough sleep. If I did not make those silly mistakes, I will have gotten more marks. To prevent this to happen again, I decided to stop being friend with "careless".
    Regards,
    Wen kang

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  24. Dear Mrs Mak,
    I did not do well because I did not know how to do the questions at the back of the Paper 2.I also spent too much time on some questions and that caused to me to not have enough time to check the paper and i made some careless mistakes and calculation errors. Next time, I will read the questions carefully and be more meticuleous to get better results.

    Regards,
    Livia

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  25. Dear Mrs Mak,
    I was careless and spent too much time on some questions which i was stuck in. I would have done better if I had been more careful as i had many calculation errors in the paper.Next time, I will read the questions more carefully and be more meticulous in my work. I will also have to check my work more thoroughly to avoid careless mistakes.
    Regards,
    Kernix

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  26. Dear Mrs Mak,

    I think that on that day, perhaps i was too sleepy and i was still in the holiday mood and what's more was that i was just way too careless!!!! After flipping through all the questions, i realised that some of the questions i knew how to do but it turned out that i was just too careless and misread the question. I must make sure that i become more meticulous in daily work and when PSLE comes, i must give my best and strive for A star....

    Regards,
    Jing Yi :D

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  27. Dear Mrs Mak,

    I think I did badly because I misread some of the questions.I was quite careless and I spent too much time on some questions.I think that I did not manage my time properly this time round and I was left with little time for questions at the end of the paper.

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  28. Dear Mrs Mak,

    I was disappointed with my results as I did not perform well. I misread a lot of questions which costed me marks. I also had some careless mistakes that could have been easily avoided. I was also still in the 'holiday mood' and was not concentrating well as I was a little sleepy.

    Regards,
    Yan Yi Xue

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  29. Dear Mrs Mak,
    I am very sorry for my poor results.I think I did not perform well as I did not understand a few questions.It might also be due to my nervousness that resulted in my poor results.There were also a few careless mistakes due to my misread of questions.I will make sure that I become more meticulous and check through my work after I had done the paper.

    Regards,
    Zhi Qing:)

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  30. I will do better in the next upcoming test and not lose marks due to my carelessness.

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  31. Dear MrsMak,
    I have been too careless in my work so i will minimize my mistakes and work even harder next time!
    I also have to practise a lot more maths!I have to blame myself for this type pf results...
    Regards,
    pei Xuan

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