At the PSLE level, the singular practical importance of scoring well is to raise one's chances of securing admission into a secondary school of one's choice. The higher one's PSLE score, the better one's chances are. This is the heart of the issue. And because the PSLE is a measure of academic (only) performance, it is inevitable that the large part of a student's time and energy would be spent in pursuit of that perfect or near perfect score in the English, Mathematics, Sci

A well rounded individual describes a person who has varied interests. For a student, whose full time occupation is studying, being well rounded means having interests outside of pure academic work. These 'outside' interests could be anything from sports to the arts, or coding to social work. On a more 'lofty' level, a well rounded individual could also refer to a person who has strong core values; someone in possession of a wide array of skills and knowledge who could tackl

It's official now. The T-score system will be replaced by the Achievement Levels (ALs) system. It seems heated debates have been erupting across Singapore about whether the change will actually reduce stress on students (and their parents). That is understandable enough, for national policy changes in our country have never failed to trigger mass intellectual exchanges from canteens to kopitiams. The thing many do not realise though, is that 'reducing stress' is actually not