PSLE 2021 - Reconciling Ends With Means (Final Pt. 3)
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