Listening skills are not only important for understanding people around us, but in Singapore, there is a section in the language paper (in primary school and secondary school) that is devoted to testing listening skills.
Category: Oral
Scoring well in the PSLE Mother Tongue Oral Examination
Do exams give you and your children anxiety? Well, PSLE Mother Tongue Oral Exam is one such exam that creates a steep difficulty curve and can be hard to navigate for many students. Although Singapore is a multi-linguistic country with citizens speaking many languages, the use of English, Chinese, Tamil and Malay in our curriculum can make it challenging to learn. Many educational factors affect the way students score in oral exams. Outlined below are a few ways to help your children improve their performance during the oral exam, which also leads to an increased probability of scoring well on paper.
How to score higher for PSLE English Oral Examination?
With only a little more than two weeks remaining for this year’s PSLE oral exams, we are sure that many students might be feeling the tension and giving it their all in preparation. Making up about 15% of the student’s marks, this section demands maximum attention, but the section is also where many students stumble and fall.
PSLE Oral is coming! How can I help my child?
Communication is a vital skill for everyone, irrespective of what path they choose in life. This fact is evident from the importance given to the oral exam.
How can I converse better?
Effective communication isn’t a skill that is acquired overnight. Ask any successful speaker or anyone in your circle who converses well on how they acquired this skill? You’re going to listen to these replies – “It took me years of practice to master this skill”, “I used to read a lot of books”, “I used to give speeches to a large audience” and so on.
Let’s Speak Well!
There have been few men like Churchill who have been both popular as well as controversial. He had a speech impediment and used to stutter. While he was 29, Churchill stood up to give a speech in Parliament.
