My daughter will be taking PSLE this year. Uniquely for Singapore parents, PSLE does spell a sound of tense for us. Thankfully, DD is more self-driven student than her brother was. Yet, I cannot help but feeling stressed.
Just another day, she had SA1 maths paper. When she came home, she was in tears. Usually, maths is her strong subject. She has been getting A* since P4 days. She told me the SA1 paper was hard, she had no time to finish all the questions, and worse still, she had no time to shade the OAC answer sheet for Paper 1. My initial reaction was heart sunk. I could literately felt that my heart went down, and my blood rushed to my head.....but I reminded myself to stay calm, she was already so devastating, certainly did not need me to add more "emotions". Later that day, I wrote to her Maths teacher to explain the whole situation. If it were another SA1 paper, I would not have written to her, but P6 SA1 results can affect DSA application. I therefore had to ask teacher's "overlook" this grievous mistake.
The maths teacher is a very kind, caring lady. She was also my son's maths teacher. She assured my daughter that she would help her in whatever way she could.. Exam panic can happen to anyone. I just hope that my daughter will learn from this experience. I am also thankful that this incident happened on SA1 not actual PSLE.
Well, the journey of PLSE has began!.
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Test anxiety is awful. My daughter recently took her end of grade tests, and she was on pins and needles until she got the results. Fortunately, she passed them all.
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