Chinese Language

concerning the Chinese Language as a subject

Foundation Chinese, failure in Chinese and how does the first two question affect your child’s psle score?

Foundation Chinese, failure in Chinese and how does the first two question affect your child’s psle score? In short if your child is near failure in p4 or p5 Chinese, school would ask you if you want your child to take foundation Chinese. Would I take or not? What is foundation Chinese?Foundation Chinese means that

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What are the changes to PSLE Chinese from 2017 to 2020?

(A) 2017 Chinese PSLE Changes to new 2017 Format with Video conversation in Oral examination. The weightage of each papers are not changed. The changes is the oral now has eOral video conversation to replace picture oral and conversation.Paper 2 has more mcq questions and section B is reduced to 7 questions with 22 points

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Should you take Higher Chinese in Primary school and Secondary?

Should you take higher Chinese? What is higher Chinese? Higher Chinese is advanced Chinese which has like 20-30% more words than standard Chinese and the test paper requires a higher level of mastery of comprehension and composition. And it does not affect psle score that much. It gives +3 for distinction, +2 for merit and

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The three problems student have with comprehension

The three problems student have with comprehension: 1) it’s always not technical problems. It’s mostly attitude or motivational ones like I cannot do, I don’t know, I cannot read, I don’t like Chinese etc. 2) students do not have a reading habit. Comprehension always happen because of understanding and reading experience. 3) laziness to highlight

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What if I’m take Higher Chinese in my PSLE? (2019)

Higher Chinese Language (HCL) is an optional Subject in PSLE and “O” Levels. HCL only report a grade in your certificate which helps those children who apply to SAP school. The grade will be added to the children’s T-score. Grade add on pointsHCL >80, you get Distinction for 3 bonus points.HCL 65-79, you get Merit

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