Next year, MOE will bring the change of PSLE Chinese format in place.
Video in Oral vs Picture Oral and picture description+opinion vs 3 open-ended questions style oral
This year, MOE has test run the Video Oral programme in Secondary and Primary schools and using ICT to conduct Oral is a huge step to streamline PSLE examination ICT involvement.
Ok the main change in Oral format is the usage of Video to stimulate thinking and speaking. Video makes objects 3 Demensional, real time and that should helped pupils think it is easier. Well you have to think twice as there is a lot of details in the video that you have to pause and watch, most pupil missed the point the go ahead anyway, to get trapped in the their egoistic mind. Yes you cannot just watch the video once and be confidence of taking the examinations. There are more than meets the eyes details in the video that is missed by the untrained eyes.
3 Details often missed by pupils:-
1) The moral of the video is always in the narrative at the first 5 seconds of the video, you want to make sure you truly understands this narrative. pupil always need to remember at least 3 things that happened in the video.
2) The 3 main questions are almost asked in order but the questions asked may varied according to the teacher asking and the pupil taking the examination.
3) The highest mark goes to the pupil who is familiar to the words and phrases used in that kind of situations in the video and most will require pupil's to be able to tell a story that had happened in his life which could be fabricated.
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