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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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Students waiting to collect their PSLE results at Opera Estate Primary School on Nov 23, 2022.
The results of the 2022 Primary School Leaving Examination (PSLE) will be released on Nov 23, 2022. School candidates will receive their results from their respective primary schools.

It can be bewildering and disempowering to be stumped by a few difficult PSLE maths problems.

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Jason Tan

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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).

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