My post in my blog becomes a weekly affair.
I am still nursing from my "wound". Isa disappointed me again. She did badly for all her subjects except Chinese. I have yet to see the papers but can reasonably say she must have done poorly in her Maths Paper 2 especially the section on Long Questions. Kids easily panic when they see Long Questions and Isa is no exception.
As for Science, again the booklet B that kills. Isa simply does not know how to answer properly to get more marks. I can only gather that her mind is still not mature enough to handle most of the questions in this booklet. She may have learnt the facts well but how they are being applied is a totally different story.
For English, the comprehension cloze is one of the sections she did badly. She simply did not know what are the suitable words to fill in. If she cannot understand the content of the passage very well, she is unlikely to fill in the right words. Marks have been deducted from Synthesis & Transformation, Open-end Comprehension etc.
D said accept the papers humbly, learn from the mistakes and move on. Yes, how easy to say than done. But besides this, what else can I do?
Grades or marks is not everything but they are very important in the students' world, as money in the adults' world. Grades determined the type or choice of classes and secondary schools the kid can attend. Better grades means can attend better and famous schools. Better grades means the kid is cleverer and has greater chance to succeed.
I have again lowered my expectations on Isa.
Learning is a life-long journey. Setbacks are inevitable during this journey. We have not been seeing light in this long and dark tunnel. But we still have to move on!
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I had prepared for the worst so I was 'not too disappointed' at the rock bottom scores... but I have to keep my chin up to encourage my dd. I have told her that these are her starting points- as low as they may be, she is expected to improve from here. So we have worked out more reasonable goals for SA1 (though she is despairing that there is only a month left!) and the amount of effort she needs to put in consistently. Falling down is common but its more important that they pick themselves up and we need to cheer them on... ;))
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