New PSLE System in 2021 which All Students Should Understand more
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Starting in 2021, students taking the Primary School Leaving Examination (PSLE) will no longer be scored based but instead their individual performance in the subject will be taken. The new PSLE scoring system which uses Achievement Levels (ALs) rather than T-scores is a part of the Ministry of Education’s (MOE) efforts to move away from over-emphasizing academic results.
Under the new AL scoring system, each PSLE student will be scored using eight ALs, with AL 1 being the highest score and AL 8 being the lowest. The eight ALs are set based on the learning objectives of the curriculum and are designed to reflect students’ level of understanding and mastering of a subject. Students taking Foundation level subjects are graded from AL A to ALC, which is mapped to AL 6 to AL 8 of Standard level subjects respectively, for the purpose of the Secondary One (S1) posting exercise.
Under the AL scoring system, there are only 29 possible PSLE scores compared to the more than 200 possible aggregates scores under the previous t-score system. where the school will be less differentiated based on cut off points (COPs)_ so the student will have a wider range of secondary school to choose from.
Students will also continue to be admitted to their courses — Express, Normal (Academic), and Normal (Technical) — based on their overall PSLE score. For example, this student who earned an AL 6, AL 4, AL 5, and AL 4 would be placed in the Express stream, as the PSLE score is less than 20. Students applying for admission to Special Assistance Plan (SAP) schools will receive a posting advantage if they pass Higher Chinese Language (HCL).
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