Discussions over tough PSLE maths questions are undoubtedly an annual affair. Apart from leaving some, if not many students deflated for not being able to tackle the questions, it has also led to ...

Here are some of the tougher PSLE maths questions, by year, according to maths tutors. 1. 2009: Jim bought some chocolates and gave half of them to Ken.

Educators who have been monitoring the math questions over the years are better at analysing the difficulty of the exam. WILLIAM SAM PSLE marks will eventually be moderated.

The big stressor of COVID-19, a natural focus on PSLE’s sorting role and investments in tuition combine to make PSLE maths papers a flashpoint each year, says NIE’s Jason Tan.

The easier questions do not get the same attention, and this causes a selection bias. People start thinking that the math paper must be so hard because it contained these couple of difficult ...

Dr Yeap: Let’s use the PSLE Maths Paper 1 as an example. It is 60 minutes long and is worth 45 marks. There are 10 multiple-choice questions and five short-answer questions worth one mark each.

But for this year’s PSLE maths paper, they were shocked to find that their children had scored AL 3, AL 4 or AL 5. “If a single child’s carelessness caused them to stumble on the exam, we ...

Future PSLE students should take note to be extra careful of such deceptively simple questions, and reread problem sums to ensure that they apply the correct concepts. Marcus Goh runs Write-Handed, a ...

It is also less confidence-destroying for the child, who for example does not see the 2 traditionally impossible-to-solve questions at the end of every PSLE Maths paper, unless they are one of the ...

Discussions over tough PSLE maths questions are an annual affair, with parents taking issue with "tricky" questions from the national examination in 2015 and 2017.