The Second Step to ace your PSLE Chinese

Step 2 :
Know the enemy
There are 4 parts to the PSLE Chinese language paper and each part would be tested:-
1, Vocabulary and comprehension 90 (45%)

1a, Vocabulary 50 (25%)

1b, Comprehension 40 (20%)

2, Composition writing 40 (20%)

3, Oral recitation and oral conversation 50 (25%)

3a, recitation 20 (10%)

3b, Conversation 30 (20%)

4, Listening Comprehension emphasizing on comprehension. 29 (10%)

*Did you notice that Vocabulary alone takes 25% of your total score? Follow by the Comprehension, Composition and conversation each 20% of the score. Therefore by focusing on the above 4 items and trying to score full marks for all the above 4 items you would get 85% which is AL2! Isn’t that amazing?

And the push to AL1 is just score in the last 2 items:-

1, recitation 10%

2, listening comprehension 10%

In term of difficulty, I think the easiest item to improve is Vocabulary as it just involved studying the wordlist of primary 5 and 6 textbooks daily and revise those words every day.

The total number of words in Primary 5 and 6 textbooks are about 720 words. So by studying 8 words a day in January, you have studied all of the 720 in 9 months just before PSLE examinations started.

What to do daily?

For a start, Take out a Diary or a Notebook and start to take note of the words you learn every day in class and in your textbook.

Take note of Good phrases too.

NOTE:

all my pupils have to compile a list of words into exercise books to carry everyday for studying. So I think why not create such a word list for the convenience of all pupils.
Two years ago, my student A took the pain to complete primary 5 and 6 word list, studied it everyday (3 words a day). He started with 49.5 in primary 5 SA2, and Passed with a C in PSLE. it took him like 1.5 years to obtain that almost impossible pass.

Now I have compiled the word list from the new textbooks for primary 5 and 6 and your child can focus on those words to score. So why not order the books now.