PSLE results - Nov 25, Sec 1 posting - Dec 22
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The results of the 2015 Primary School Leaving Examination (PSLE) will be released on Wednesday (Nov 25).
Students may obtain their result slips from their respective primary schools from 11am on that day, the Ministry of Education said on Friday (Nov 20).
Eligible students will receive option forms to select secondary schools when they collect their results slips.
In every sealed Secondary One (S1) option form, there will be a unique S1 Personal Identification Number (S1 PIN) which can be used to submit the secondary school options online via the Secondary One internet system.
The internet system will be accessible from 11am on Nov 25 to 3pm on Dec 1 through the Ministry of Education's Secondary One Posting website at www.moe.gov.sg/education/admissions/secondary-one-posting/.
Alternatively, the option form can be submitted through the student's primary school. Submission at the primary schools can be made during the following timeslots: 11 am to 3pm on Nov 25; and 9am to 3pm on Nov 26, 27, 30 and Dec 1.
The Secondary One posting results will be released on Tuesday (Dec 22).
The posting results can be accessed through any of the following channels:
* SMS via a local mobile number (if provided by the applicant during the application process)
* At this link: www.moe.gov.sg/education/admissions/secondary-one-posting/
* At the child's primary school
Students are to report on Dec 23 at 8.30 am to the secondary schools they are posted to.
More information on the Secondary One posting exercise and the Secondary One internet system is available at MOE's Secondary One posting website or in the information booklet, Choosing Your Secondary Schools, previously distributed to the Primary 6 students.
For enquiries, parents can call the MOE Customer Service Centre at 6872 2220 on weekdays from 8.30 am to 5.30 pm and from 8.30 am to 12.30 pm on Saturdays.
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Yay~ Get PSLE papers soon~
So who's going which Secondary school????
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Can collect back papers meh?
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Mendaki offers advice through hotline for students collecting PSLE results on Wednesday http://str.sg/ZRfD
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Some advice:
If your PSLE results is so-so (ie. Can go express but very limited schools to go for express stream, yet cannot go Normal Academic because more than 200), my advise is look at the mean (average) aggregate of the secondary schools (if the information booklet do not have, go to www.moe.gov.sg look at school information. There confirm have mean score).
besides cut-off point, there's information about the mean (average) and median (50th percentile).
Choose the secondary school where the mean (average) aggregate is close to your PSLE aggregate, because the programmes at the secondary school is designed for the average students there. If below average (or at cut-off point), it may be hard to follow.
It's better to be an average fish in a pond, than to be a small fish in a big pond.
Nonetheless, even if bad, does not matter. Just make sure you reflect and improve. Don't so hard on yourself. Life is much more than just exam results. Failure is the mother of success.
I have seen before people with high PSLE score but because they play all the way (no time management and/or do not have priorities) in sec 1 sec 2, their sec 1 sec 2 results is so bad that some of them actually have to go to NA stream.
Meanwhile, I know of many people whose PSLE score can only go NA stream but because they work hard, they are promoted to Express stream, went on to JC/Poly, now in University.
Likewise for NT. I know of many people from NT promoted to NA. Sec 4 take N level (Normal Academic), sec 5 take O level, went on to JC/Poly, now in University.
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Before anyone compares secondary schools, please do not even start.
Every school is a good school.
After all, they are all small children. :)
It's only because of different intelligence levels (at PSLE), that they are being streamed into different secondary schools, which best suit their intelligence level.
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Originally posted by jurongresident:
Every school is a good school.
YAHRIGHT
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D-DAY!
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About 66.2% of pupils who took 2015 PSLE qualify for Express stream in secondary school http://str.sg/ZR8d
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Yay~ all get results riao~
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Acid choose which sch?
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My son got 212 for PSLE. He got A for English, A for Chinese, B for Math, B for science. His CCA was Brass Band.
We are deciding between Boon Lay, Jurong Ville, Jurong West, Juying, Pioneer, Westwood and Yu Hua.
Which school should we put as first choice?
Any advise?
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someone said Every school is a good school.
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Originally posted by FireIce:
someone said Every school is a good school.
Ya, but we have to make six choices leh. So, how? Which school put first, second, third? :(
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since all sch good sch then put nearest to furthest loh
can wake up later
reach home earlier
then got more time to study
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same story same competition every year
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the harsh reality every singaporean kid will face
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PSLE results: Pick secondary school that will let your child thrive
Q How does the school posting system work and what else should I consider in selecting a secondary school for my son?
A The Education Ministry announced two years ago that it was reviewing the PSLE scoring system and how it is used for secondary school admission.
But, for now, the old system applies: Students go to the secondary school of their choice based on their aggregate score in the PSLE.
First, students are ranked according to detailed aggregate scores that extend to decimal points.
The No. 1 student is posted to the school on top of his list of six choices. Likewise, the second student and so on, until there are no more vacancies in the school.
Where there are two or more students with the same rounded aggregate score (yes, scores are actually rounded to the nearest whole number) vying for the last place in a school, they will be posted based on their citizenship. Singaporeans get first dibs, followed by permanent residents and international students.
The student who fails to get his top choice will be posted to the next school on his list. If that school is also full, he will be sent to his third-choice school, and so on.
Where there are two or more students with the same rounded aggregate score (yes, scores are actually rounded to the nearest whole number) vying for the last place in a school, they will be posted based on their citizenship.
Singaporeans get first dibs, followed by permanent residents and international students.
If there is still a tie, between two Singaporeans for example, the one with the higher unrounded aggregate score will be posted to the school first. If the two have the same unrounded aggregate score, then posting will be determined by a computerised ballot.
Students who fail to get a place in any of their choice of schools will be posted to one near their home which still has vacancies.
However, they must have met the school's lowest PSLE aggregate. Those still without a school will be posted to one in other postal districts that still has vacancies.
If your son's school has an affiliated secondary school, and he wants to go there, he must indicate it as his first choice. This gives him priority to go there. However, it does not guarantee admission; this is subject to the availability of places.
Some secondary schools may also set extra qualifying criteria for admission from affiliated schools.
For schools offering both Integrated Programme and O-level tracks, affiliation priority will be given only for the O-level track.
Some secondary schools offer special schemes such as the music and art elective programmes. If your child is interested in any of them, do include schools that offer them.
Q What other considerations should parents have?
A Distance is important. Time spent travelling to and from school can be better used to take up sports or co-curricular activities.
Parents are often torn between a more and a less competitive school.
Research has shown that students may actually do better in a less popular - or what researchers term a "less selective" - school.
Research suggests that a student's confidence depends not only on his own accomplishments, but also on the relative accomplishments of his classmates and schoolmates. This means students who view themselves as having low or average ability will get a confidence booster if they attend an average-performance school.
The reverse is likely to be the case in a high-achieving school.
Parents should consider carefully their child's strengths and weaknesses. Does the child thrive in competition or will his self-esteem be dashed if he goes from being first in class to being last?
Consider also the sports and co-curricular activities a school offers as they are crucial to the development of character and soft skills such as communication and teamwork in children.
In the end, instead of aiming for a top school, parents should pick one that will help bring out the best in the child, be it in academic work, sports or the arts.
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Nanyang & Rulang Primary School allegedly have the highest PSLE aggregate scores in 2015
Since 2013, it also has not revealed the highest and lowest scores achieved by pupils in the cohort.
All these rules were enforced in a bid to reduce the emphasis on academic results.
However, that hasn’t stopped rankings-obsessed people in Singapore from trying to put together their own list or even floating around their own versions of top PSLE scores online.
Here is one of the unofficial, but allegedly top PSLE T-Scores, a.k.a. aggregate scores*, in 2015, viamathsproblemsums.com, which was seemingly tabulated and subsequently put out on Nov. 26, 2015, one day after PSLE 2015 results were announced:
Source: mathsproblemsums.com*[The sum of the four subjects’ T-Scores combined make the aggregate score, at least according to this explanation.]
It is not known how this list was even compiled, but as you can see, it claims that the highest 283 aggregate score went to Nanyang Primary School and Rulang Primary School.
For those of you who are really keen, here’s a primer about what T-Scores, also known as Transformed Scores, are:
• T-scores are “Transformed Scores” for each subject that give the relative rank or position of a pupil’s performance compared to all the other pupils.
• T-scores are used to standardise raw scores across the level or cohort.
• T-scores allow pupils to be ranked fairly.
• Because of the way T-Scores are tabulated, there is no such thing as a highest PSLE aggregate score or a maximum of 300.
• In principle, the higher the aggregate score, (e.g. 294 in year 2007), the wider the standard deviation, the more difficult the exam(s) that year, the more distinctive the better top students are from the majority.
How are T-Scores calculated in PSLE?
• T-score is the adjusted score a student will get for a subject after factoring in the level or cohort’s mean and Standard Deviation for that subject.
• The formula for T-Score is
X = Raw score of student in the subject
Y = Average or Mean Score of the level or cohort
Z = Standard Deviation (SD) of the level or cohort Standard Deviation (SD) is the spread of the marks around the average.Have Nanyang & Rulang Primary School produce top primary school students previously?
The answer is yes. In fact, the last known top student came from Rulang Primary School. She scored an aggregate of 283 in 2011.
Nanyang Primary School’s history of top PSLE performers is even more illustrious.
Nanyang Primary has produced Singapore’s top pupil in the PSLE for four consecutive years from 1993 to 1996. Past newspaper reports also featured Nanyang Primary School students topping the cohort in 2008 (aggregate score: 287), 1999 (aggregate score: 285), 1998 (aggregate score: 288).
A total of 39,286 Primary 6 students sat for the PSLE this year. Among these students, 38,610 students (or 98.3%) can proceed to secondary school. This is higher than 2014’s 97.6 per cent.
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Originally posted by FireIce:
since all sch good sch then put nearest to furthest loh
can wake up later
reach home earlier
then got more time to study
Okay. I know I say before that every school is good school, but my wife thinks otherwise. She say that some school the discipline not very good, got gangster, etcetera. Then I think about it. Actually quite true leh.
I scared my son mix with bad company and be negatively influenced.
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there can be bad company
but if ur son does not want to be influenced, he wont be influenced
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true...
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posting day!
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Cut-off points up for popular secondary schools like Raffles Institution and Nanyang Girls' High
The Straits Times
Dec 24, 2015
The minimum entry requirement for popular secondary schools was raised by between two and eight points this year.
The increased scores - which are aggregated from four subjects at the Primary School Leaving Examination - follow a record performance by this year's cohort.
Schools with the highest cut-off points include Nanyang Girls' High, which took the lead with 264 points, up from 262 last year.
The score for both Methodist Girls' School and Raffles Institution rose from 256 last year to 261, while that for Raffles Girls' School went up by two points to 260.
Hwa Chong Institution's cut-off went up by four points to 260, while Dunman High School's score was 258, compared to 253 last year.
The cut-off scores for CHIJ St Nicholas Girls' School's Integrated Programme and O-level track this year were 258 and 253 respectively, up from 253 and 245 last year.
Students were informed on Tuesday of the secondary schools they have been posted to.
Some parents whose children missed the mark for their chosen school by a few points are making appeals.
As in recent years, the Ministry of Education (MOE) did not release this year's top score, which indicates how well pupils did compared to their peers, but many online believe it to be 283.
Some parents also said they expected the cut-off points to increase as many pupils fared so well.
Of the 39,286 Primary 6 pupils who sat the PSLE this year, a record 98.3 per cent did well enough to move on to a secondary school, up from last year's 97.6 per cent.
Between 1980 and last year, the percentage of students eligible to enrol in secondary schools ranged between 81.7 and 97.8 per cent.
An MOE spokesman told The Straits Times that cut-off points are not pre-determined before students are posted to schools as these depend on their PSLE results and their school choices.
"The previous year's posting aggregate range is published to serve as an approximate guide, and the eventual range may vary depending on demand patterns and cohort size for that year," she said.
She added that factors such as teaching programmes, teachers' commitment and student motivation contribute to the improved performance of PSLE cohorts.
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).
"He wanted to do the Art Elective Programme in NJC, and we live six MRT stations away from the school," said Madam Tan, who submitted an appeal to NJC this month.
Dr Sin Wen Yee, 46, whose son was posted to Catholic High School's Integrated Programme, said she considered appealing to Raffles Institution, his first choice, which he missed by two points.
She said: "I expected that schools would have higher cut-off points because many of his schoolmates had fairly high scores and my son was surprised with his own score.
"But my son, who was from Catholic High School's primary section, says it is a happy place to be in, and he feels that he will have more opportunities to excel and shine."
