How to Up your PSLE Chinese language Grades with Proven Methodology?

Hi there, We know that there are three things that will hinder your child from achieving a HIGHER grade in PSLE Chinese Language, and they are :-
A) Limiting beliefs,
B) Low Confidence or low moral learning environment,
C) Bad  habits in studying or wrong learning strategy.

Ok, Who am I?

Hi, I am Mr Tan LM from mrtansg.com welcoming you to this page. This page will provide insights to inspire your children to score As for PSLE Chinese Language and I will tell you how to do it. 

I have a Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/SGPSLEChineseSupport/ which helps parents prepare their children for their PSLE Chinese Examinations.

My Experience

I taught in MOE school since 1998. I have worked with a wide range of students and from those experiences I have learnt that children are sometimes hold back in Chinese Language by the above barriers and I can see recent years, PSLE Chinese is becoming a very important milestone in your children’s life. And I have helped several children get over their fear.

If your child is bright, and they can handle other subjects very well, then maybe I can help your child overcome the one thing blocking them from getting the high PSLE score they deserve.

3 things to UP ONE grade that you deserve in your PSLE Chinese.

One child, let call him Tom, this year is very active and tends to talk about every topic unrelated to Chinese. He scored 60-70 in SA1 which is quite good but his parents thinks he can do better as he had scored high 80s for all his other subjects.

When I take him up for lessons, I did a goal setting session to help him understand what is his current situation and find out his ambitions. Then I plotted a career path for him and mapped his study route out, I pointed out to him what is the best way to study Chinese and What to focus his attention on.

Tom quickly saw the need to score in Chinese for his PSLE. Furthermore, he knows how to study for it using my study map. He worked hard and recently got 80+ overall for his Chinese prelims for PSLE. that’s a jump of 1 grade and his parents are very pleased with Tom’s result.

Every child is different but I want to work with parents who are determined to let their child be successful in PSLE Chinese, and children who wants to get the best score they can in PSLE Chinese and invests in their future.

and lets get money out of the way……so that I can help you child score higher.

Joe was from a neighborhood primary school in Singapore and he has not passed composition and paper 2 since primary 4. When We get together to assess the situation at the end of primary 5, he was not too optimist about even passing PSLE Chinese. But from his eyes, I see a desire to achieve success in his PSLE.

So I make it very clear to him from the start that only hardworking pupils will make it, he was not comfortable but he said firmly, “I will get an A!”

So we went through the process of goal setting, weekly target setting and every week we will review what need to be done and celebrate what had been done. He was not too hopeful back then but he carried out all his work diligently week after week.

He studied the word lists in primary 5 and 6 textbooks word by word, writing notes on their meaning, character and hanyu pinyin. He would repeat this process every month and continue to revise those words now and then. And every week we would go through those words and nouns and practice on reading those textbook passages repeatedly.

After 3 months, His composition almost passed and his paper 2 showed improvement especially section A MCQ where he got a pass 26/50.
(If you can write a composition with less grammar mistake, less sentence construction mistake and less misspelling then you have half won the battle.)

Then our focus turned to composition where he would write a composition every week, memorize a list of phrases and nouns and to try to memorize a good composition week after week.

The first composition is super hard, he was no used to memorizing so much content so we cut the composition into bits sized sentences. we started from the first sentence, then the second then the third and the last in the first paragraph. this process continued for several weeks until he got used to the process and the process got faster and faster. then we started to write the composition from memory.

Every week we learnt a new composition, read them out aloud and then memorized them. Then he was to write the composition using his own word words. Why not copy? well I have tried that and children tend to blindly copied everything and learnt nothing from it.

SA1 results shown that he not only passed paper 1 (24/40) and he passed paper 2 too. (I think its due to his expended vocabulary, his MCQ got 32/50.)

Then as July draws nearby, We again changed our focus to oral which is due mid September. There are 2 parts in oral, so we start to read out 5 oral passages weekly and hand in as audio clips via whatsapp or sms. He was delighted to hear his voice and I get to check on his process daily.

But he started to be nervous and felt pessimistic, falling for the weaker himself. I coach him on how to handle stress and fear. And he moved on.

Nearer oral, I practice with him the oral process and what the 3 questions would be. And I go through several topics which I think is very important for PSLE.
(Remember pre-oral I listed down the important contents(topics)

• 1) Keep our environments clean
• 2) Go Green, earth hour, recycling, reuse etc
• 3) Traffic safety
• 4) Healthy eating and living
• 5) Helping the needy, giving seats etc
• 6) Be independence like learn to cook, organizing school bags etc.
• 7) Values such as Responsibility, hardworking, Caring could be a topic too.

Well one of them is the oral topic!)Prelims results was just released and he passed his composition and scored 42/50 for MCQ (topping his class). For section B, he got 28/40. So Prelim overall he got over 60% for Chinese Language. He was so happy with the result and he had never felt so much confidence with the subject. He will be ready when he is taking it on 2nd Oct.

Even if a pupil faced a challenge, They can overcome their barriers and achieve great things. And I can help them achieve their aim!