Here are the results of the voting in The Wisdom of the Crowd on this issue - Should we remove PSLE?
40% said that we should scrap PSLE entirely to remove the pressure on the children.
28% said we should keep PSLE but show the results in two bands - pass, fail.
22% said that we should keep PSLE in its present form as it encourages students to study hard and get good results.
10% said that we should keep PSLE but have three bands - excellent, pass, fail.
A total of 72% prefer PSLE to be scrapped or changed significantly.
See the breakdown of the votes in
http://www.wisdomofthecrowd.sg/chart.aspx?ID=528
40% said that we should scrap PSLE entirely to remove the pressure on the children.
28% said we should keep PSLE but show the results in two bands - pass, fail.
22% said that we should keep PSLE in its present form as it encourages students to study hard and get good results.
10% said that we should keep PSLE but have three bands - excellent, pass, fail.
A total of 72% prefer PSLE to be scrapped or changed significantly.
See the breakdown of the votes in
http://www.wisdomofthecrowd.sg/chart.aspx?ID=528
Foreign kids from both 1st world & 3rd world have no psle and yet have no problem getting high paying jobs in S'pore...
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