PSLE has its highest score in 17 years!

Posted on November 22, 2007 by shiunn - http://singaporewalk.wordpress.com/2007/11/22/psle-highest-score-in-17-years/

Natasha Nabila Muhammad Nasir from the Gifted Education Programme.
With an aggregate score of 294, Natasha – who is also the top Malay student – has the highest PSLE score in 17 years since the current PSLE system was implemented in 1991.
One of the top Chinese students is Leong Feng Ping from West Grove Primary, while the top Indian student is Vanessa Malishree Dharmaratnam from Raffles Girls’ Primary.
The top Eurasian student is Santa Maria Priscilla Nicole from CHIJ Katong Primary.
A total of 49,817 Primary 6 pupils sat for the PSLE this year – 798 pupils fewer than last year’s cohort.
Of these, 97.7 percent are eligible for secondary schools.
63.5 percent of these students made it to the Express course, 22.2 percent for Normal (Academic) course and 12 percent for the Normal (Technical) course.
A total of 1,152 pupils are assessed as not ready for secondary school in 2008 or more suited for vocational training.
I felt that it is truely amazing that someone can actually obtain 394 out of 400 for the exam, especially when there are languages papers and essays. Anyway, i must agree that Singapore is still an elitist society. Even articles are filling readers with statistics about how many students are going for which kind of courses be it special express or normal, this goes to show that the readers are also very interested to find out more about the situation about who can make it where in education of singapore. Well, be it good or bad it all depends on our own perspective.