Being able to solve mathematical problems gives Normal (Academic) student Low Jie Ying a sense of satisfaction - and even more so when her Express schoolmates approach her for help.
When she was in Secondary 1, the Paya Lebar Methodist Girls' School student was offered the chance to take mathematics and Chinese at the Express level, under subject-based banding, as she had done well in those subjects in the Primary School Leaving Examination.
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