Difficult PSLE 2019 Math Question!

[Heartlander]

My P5 girl told me the other day that her maths teacher complained to the class why anyone would complain that this year's math paper is so difficult. She just completed the PSLE marking and quite a few got full marks haha! 

[Tianmo]

2 hours ago, Heartlander said:

My P5 girl told me the other day that her maths teacher complained to the class why anyone would complain that this year's math paper is so difficult. She just completed the PSLE marking and quite a few got full marks haha! 

Every year the same one lah... 

 

[1fast1]

Actually, there's nothing wrong with throwing a curveball in an exam, as long as it's limited to just one or (at most) two especially hard questions. Separate the men from the boys. 

We always like to think it's the local guys who set especially hard questions because Asians are masochistic or something. But I've seen even worse examples in Cambridge exams. 

During my year's A level Physics paper, the electronics question was a goddamn down counter. Something most of us had never seen before. A series of flip flops (bistables) with the *inverted* output of one chained to the input of the next. So it would be a 4 bit countdown, 1111,1110,1101,etc. The truth table was quite a mind-fark.

Mind you, this was normal A-levels, not the S-paper (which I also did and found less challenging than that one question). 

So even the AMDK can torture students with the hitherto unseen and untaught. Granted, from what I've heard, the locally administered Cambridge exams are more challenging than the ones in the UK (not sure if it's true) but my point still holds. 

Edited October 24, 2019 by Turboflat4