Preliminary Practice 8b

Dear all,
For Q13, angle z is the acute angle at point B. It is blocked by the shaded area of the triangle.

Do make use of these few days to reflect what you can do to ensure you can have a fruitful revision before 29 Sept. Be
S- specific (have a timeline to set  yourself on the subject or topic you want to revise)
M- measureable ( how can you tell your revision is effective? )
A-achieveabe ( how do you know you have achieved your target or aim in that revision?
R- results ( if you were to do a parallel question on that concept, can you apply it and fully understand
     how to solve the problem?)
T- timebound ( with one hour, can you maximise your time to revise or it was wasted because you have 
     squandered the time daydreaming or doing something else)

Meanwhile, I have done a rough calculation of your results based on class average and max and min score for Maths and English.
Do use it as a benchmark to gauge where you stand in class and pull up your socks!!!
Those who are above the class average, do not be conceited. Those who are below, make sure you do not stay at the bottom for PSLE!

Those in red are below class average. The names are arranged in descending order in terms of marks.
English (average : 78.6, highest : 91.3, Lowest : 59.5)

LEE HUI YI CHARISSA

YAN YI XUE

HO JING YI

AU XUE QI VANESSA

BRADEN TEO WEI REN

FONG YI NING, JULIA

RAY TEO HUI YUAN

WANG YAO

LIVIA LOW LI YI

SUREND S/O THIYAGARAJAN

LOON JIA HUI

DINA IMAN BTE KHAMILNULLAH

HO MIN FANG

HOU XIN'AN

KERNIX SIEW YUQING

ANG JASON

VIKASH KUMAR S/O SIRIKUMAR

HO XIN YING, ANDREA

CHUA YI XUAN JONESSA

GRACELYN HO RU TING

NUR DIYANAH BTE MOHAMAD YUSOFF

LOW KANG NGEE

DONOVAN LIM WEI BIN

LEOW JUN HENG

TAUNG MIN HUI

LEE PEI XUAN

FELINDA YEO YAN YING

TENG ZHI QING

LEE WEN KANG

LIM WEN XING, JULIUS

LIM WEI CHEN

GLENN FONG WEI QUAN

IGNITIUS GOH YU ZE

KOK JIN JIE

NEO WENYANG, JEREMY

NG ZI XIN

TAN KHOON KIAT

HENG AIK CHONG

KU SHI JIA

YAP ZHI HENG

LIAUW YONG SHENG

LIU FAN

Maths (average : 83, Highest : 100, Lowest: 58)

NG ZI XIN

LEE HUI YI CHARISSA

HO XIN YING, ANDREA

RAY TEO HUI YUAN

YAP ZHI HENG

DONOVAN LIM WEI BIN

LEOW JUN HENG

LOON JIA HUI

HO MIN FANG

LOW KANG NGEE

VIKASH KUMAR S/O SIRIKUMAR

BRADEN TEO WEI REN

IGNITIUS GOH YU ZE

LEE PEI XUAN

YAN YI XUE

NEO WENYANG, JEREMY

GRACELYN HO RU TING

WANG YAO

KERNIX SIEW YUQING

FELINDA YEO YAN YING

HO JING YI

TAN KHOON KIAT

KOK JIN JIE

GLENN FONG WEI QUAN

LEE WEN KANG

CHUA YI XUAN JONESSA

ANG JASON

FONG YI NING, JULIA

LIU FAN

HENG AIK CHONG

DINA IMAN BTE KHAMILNULLAH

KU SHI JIA

LIAUW YONG SHENG

LIM WEI CHEN

TAUNG MIN HUI

HOU XIN'AN

SUREND S/O THIYAGARAJAN

TENG ZHI QING

LIM WEN XING, JULIUS

NUR DIYANAH BTE MOHAMAD YUSOFF

AU XUE QI VANESSA

LIVIA LOW LI YI

For those who did well for this prelim, continue to work hard. For those who did not do as well as you had expected, reflect what went wrong and continue to work harder. I believe those who have the DRIVE and MOTIVATION and the THIRST for A*, you will get your A*. If you leave it to fate, then you will not get anything.

Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices. - Alfred A. Montepart

Maths Paper 23 Aug 2011

Dear darlings,
For the Maths Paper tomorrow, remember to bring your CAREFUL friend with you. Be meticulous in your checking. Ensure that ALL questions are attempted and workings are all shown. Please do not ASSUME the markers can read your mind if you do not show your workings.

Legible handwriting is crucial! Shi Jia, Yong Sheng, Surend, Aik Chong, Andrea, Zhi Qing, Ray, Wei Chen, Khoon Kiat, Wang Yao, please be EXTRA careful with your handwriting!

Calculators, set squares, Protractor, ruler and general stationeries must be with you in school.

For questions that requires rounding off, look carefully and round off carefully. For circles using pi, round off at the last step otherwise your answer will be affected. READ your questions with care.

Meanwhile, for your English paper, there are a few children who did not perform as well as expected. Please pull up your socks. Below are the few names that I could recall:

Heng Aik Chong
Kok Jin Jie
Tan Khoon Kiat
Liauw Yong Sheng
Liu Fan

Please ensure you do well for the rest of your papers, otherwise, your aggregate total will be affected.
As I always mentioned and repeated, no one subject is less or more important than another. They are ALL equally important as they carry the same weightings.

Last but not least, School bags! Bring a small bag.
-Your recess will be at 9am. You should finish the Paper 2 by 12pm. So you only bring your Science stuff.
- Place your school bag neatly in two rows outside the classroom.

Most importantly for tomorrow, READ your questions carefully and be at your best behaviour. Your future is in your hands.

Love you,
Aunty Loh Soh Mah

Oral Day 1

Dear Darlings,
How's the Oral for Day 1 ? For those having the English Component, was it easy? Were you able to describe the picture? Conversation? Were you able to engage the examiners? I hope everything went on smoothly. How about the Mother Tongue Component?

Post your comments.

Stay composed and look confident for the oral tomorrow. Continue to give it your best shot. All the best for tomorrow.

After that, concentrate to prepare for your Prelim for next week.

On Monday, please do not bring a big heavy bag to school. Have a small bag with ALL the necessary stationery in your pencil case, a story book. You will be having examination for the whole day, there will not be time for much teaching. Bring your secret recipe and good attitude and your CAREFUL friend.

Prelim is important as it tells you how well prepared you are for your PSLE.

Love you always,
Mrs Mak

Last Minute advice

Dear darlings,
For those who are in the first session, remember to report by 7.10am. Please inform your parents that you will be kept in the auditorium after your oral till around 10 plus. Latest by 10.30am you will be dismissed.
Bring your foolscap and pencil case.

For those in the second half, your reporting time is by 9.30am. After the oral, you will head straight home.

Look through those oral practices you had and go through them once and do make use of good phrases  for your picture discussion. If possible, do try to see if you can link up the discussion with our STAR values, meaning you can say that if the boy had self-discipline, he would not be burning midnight oil to prepare for his examinations. He is imposing unnecessary stress on himself.

During your preparation time tomorrow, do go through in your mind how you are going to respond in the conversation component. Understand the question and if not clear, politely ask the examiner to repeat,
" Could you repeat the question?"
Think through carefully and not be narrow minded in your interpretation of the question, like the word "neighbour", you know what I mean?

Key word : ENGAGE your examiners. LOOK at the examiners during the conversation, not at your question paper. Maintain eye contact! Put on a smile :)
OPen your mouth to read. Read clearly and be audible, don't mumble.
Take note of your posture. NO FRIED FOOD! NO SPICY FOOD!

Introduce yourself : I am _________, my index number is __________.
May I take a seat? (Maintain eye contact!)

BE A STAR FOR YOURSELF TOMORROW.
You have come so far, waiting for this day. Give it your BEST SHOT!

Spiritually with you,
Mrs Love you dearly...

Oral examinations

Dear Darlings,
Please stay focused and give the best of yourself in this coming Oral examinations.

Nobody can make you do what you can do best, only yourself.

Do not allow yourself to be short changed by your poor attitude. You must continue to be a fighter and the urge to fight for a place in the better schools must always be your driving force.

What you need to know has been taught to you. It is then your chance to show off your application skills now to the examiners what know and are capable of  doing better.

Nobody is born to fail. With perseverance and resilience, we will see success.

For Oral, remember that the examiners are here to give you marks, not deduct marks.
Please go and get the marks by doing what you can do best - Talk!

Show off your skills by engaging in intelligent conversation with the examiners. Look confident and leave a good impression with your well thought through answers.

Love you always,
Mrs Mak

National Day celebration 8 August 2011

Dear all,
For tomorrow, remember to come to school in RED T-shirt with school shorts or skirt.

Bring your secret recipe and your maincourse answers which we have not gone through.

Do Remember to work on your lantern (see samples below) and bring it to school by thursday. Your design for your "iphone" is also due on Thursday.

Jeremy, Wang Yao and Charissa, please bring back the certificates that I had returned to you. I need them  for the recognition day on Thursday.


Love you always,
Mrs Mak

Science

Dear All,
I have decided on Mr Ho's behalf that you will do those MCQ and open ended questions on Adaptation and Man's impact on the environment in the PSLE booklet itself.

Love,
Mrs Mak

Speed Questions from P6-8

Dear all,
Please visit P6-8's blog and look for the posting in July on speed. Let's revise that topic and since questions are readily available, we will try those questions.

Always there for you except on PSLE exam days,
Mrs Mak

Secondary Schools

Dear all,
I went to look up the book which you will be receiving at a later date on choosing your Secondary Schools.
I thought you had better be well informed of the cut-off points. The results are based on 2010's cohort, thus when you get your book this year, there may be some changes to the cut-off points. Use the data below as a reference:

                                              Express
Anderson                             248 - 268
ACS(I)                                253 - 269
Catholic High                       249 - 264
Cedar Girls                          244 - 271
CHIJ (St Nich's)                  249 - 276
Dunman High                       260 - 282
Hwa Chong                         259 - 283
Maris Stella                         232 - 248
Nan Chiau                           232 - 252
Nanyang Girls                     263- 287
National Junior College       259 - 278
Raffles Girls                        263 - 284
Raffles Institution                262 - 284
Victoria                              246 - 270
Xin Min                             242 - 263

Do start to think of where your grades will lead you to. It is not too early to plan for your choices.

Remember Ms Chua spoke to you about the IMPORTANT word "CHOICE" and the MOST FEARFUL word "REGRET"?

Which word would you choose? The choice is YOURS...

Always there for you,
Mrs Mak

Main Course - 3 August 2011

Dear All,

Reflection : Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices. - Alfred A. Montepart

1. Mavis and Janice have some beads each. If Mavis gives 30 beads to Janice, she will have 4 times as many beads as Janice. If she gives 150 beads to Janice, she will have 1 1/2    times as many beads as Janice. Find the number of beads Mavis has.

2. There were some marbles in Box X and Box Y.    1/4  of the marbles in Box Y were taken out  and put into Box X. After this, both Box Y and Box X contained the same number of marbles. If there were 120 marbles in Box X in the beginning, how many marbles were there in Box Y at first?

Your chef,

Mrs Mak

Main Course

Dear all,

Reflection:Well done is half done - Aristotle (Pupils diary Pg 55)



1.   10 jugs of water can fill  5/8    of a pail. Another 4 jugs and 5 cups can fill the remaining part of the pail. How many cups of water can the pail hold?

2.   A slice of cake cost 5 times as much as a bun. Yani spent  1/5   of her money on buns and  1/2   of the remainder on 4 slices of cake. How many buns did she buy?

3.   Ali and Muthu share a sum of money. If Ali gives  1/2  of his share to Muthu, Muthu will have $48 more than Ali. If Ali gives 1/4 of his share to Muthu, Muthu will have $28 more than Ali. What is the Ali’s share?             

Your chef,

Mrs Mak