2022 PSLE is officially over!
This year PSLE threw up a few surprises but in a good way.
The notorious Maths paper was deemed as the most straightforward paper. While
it has some tricky questions, it is manageable compared to past year’s paper.
English threw a slight curveball with the composition, Chinese sparks a debate on
‘the man’ while it is all about turkey, mosquito and poop in Science. Do not
have a clue what these are all about, read on!
English
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| The Long Wait : PSLE |
Generally a paper without many surprises. The buzz was the composition topic-
The Long Wait.
Given that we had been ‘waiting’ for the past 2 years for Covid19 to be over,
this topic is quite apt, provided it is written in the proper context. Topics
on lockdowns, reunions and travel would be ideal in this situation. The long
wait for an iPhone after PSLE would probably score much lesser.
The photos provided are
Picture 1: Impatient girl sitting on the table, sulking with a drink beside
her
Picture 2: A calendar with a particular date crossed out
Picture 3: A Long Queue
Math
The surprise for Maths this year is that there are not many tricky surprises.
With curveball questions in the past, it is natural for the children to be
grilled on similar questions. Perhaps this year’s paper seems like a park walk for many because of constant grilling.
Here are some of the ‘tricker’ questions
Paper 2 Q16 : The Fence Question
Paper 2 Q17: Cake and Cherries
Paper 1 Q30 : Red Beads, Blue Beads
Chinese
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The main hoo-haa was over the Compo pictures. The compo show a series of
pictures where the main characters are a boy and an old woman. It apparently
depicts the boy losing his phone, and the old woman was deemed a suspect. The
man randomly appeared in 3 out of 5 photos, and some students only briefly him
in the essay. The online chatter was about the importance of the man to the
storyline.
Science
The most challenging paper for this year was Science, with 2 questions that
stood out.
The Turkey Question
The Turkey question requires an explanation of why the Turkey took a long time
to reach 160°C. The answer was fairly straightforward, with Turkey being
a poor conductor of heat.
The Mosquito and WASTE Question
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Question: Why mosquitoes/flies are attracted to smelly human poo/cow
dung/waste
Why we do not know the exact answer, but poo does contain nutrients which
in turn could be good food for the mosquitoes. However, the full questions might lead to another answer altogether, as we understood that this is just a part of a full question.
Honestly, we are stunned by
this question.
There you have it, the tough questions for PSLE 2022. To be honest, they are
not that difficult to solve or near impossible to fathom. In any case, we are
glad that it is over!
