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Tough PSLE maths questions: Why we can’t remove them so easily
Worries about a competitive and stressful milestone exam may cloud our judgment
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It can be bewildering and disempowering to be stumped by a few difficult PSLE maths problems.
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Jason Tan
Are Primary School Leaving Examination (PSLE) mathematics questions unreasonably hard?
This perennial issue reared its head at a Straits Times forum last week, as parents raised issues with Mr Sng Chern Wei, deputy director-general (curriculum) in the Ministry of Education (MOE).
