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| Top PSLE student from Qifa Primary |
| 26 Nov 2009 |
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This year's top PSLE student is from Qifa Primary School.
Qiu Biqing has an aggregate score of 290 and this is the first time the neighbourhood school has produced a top PSLE student.
The highest PSLE score ever recorded here is 294 in 2007.
The top Malay student is Syafiqah Nabilah Shamshera from Raffles Girls Primary School with a score of 286.
RGPS also produced the top Eurasian student, Samantha Annabelle Neubronner with a score of 271.
The top Indian PSLE student is Muhammad Saad Siddiqui from Anglo-Chinese Primary School scored 277.
Some 97.1% of those who took the PSLE exams this year will proceed to secondary schools.
The figure is the same as last year.
Of these pupils, 63.1% are eligible for the Express stream, 22.4% for the Normal Academic and 11.6% for the Normal Technical courses.
Eligible students will receive their option forms to select secondary schools along with the PSLE results slips today.
Their Secondary One posting results will be released on 22nd December.
Parents will be able to receive the posting results through an additional channel, via SMS text messaging
The students from several neighbourhood schools are among those who scored well at this year's PSLE examinations.
Top PSLE student Qiu Biqing from Qifa Primary School did her school proud with an aggregate score of 290.
Although a consistent top performer, Biqing was surprised by her achievement.
Byron Ho with more.
Biqing couldn't read or understand English when she first arrived in Singapore from Guangzhou in 2006.
Over time, she got better as she made regular trips to the library and read widely to improve her grasp of the language.
Although there are no short-cuts for her success, she says support from those around her played a big role.
"My friends and teachers and parents help me alot. They always encourage me to speak English. They say it's never mind but if I cannot speak properly English with good grammar, but if I can just try to speak more English, then my English will improve."
Biqing’s English teacher Ms N Uma Rani commended on her positive work attitude and willingness to learn.
"Of course she's strong in all subjects but English was her weakest subject. She put in a lot of effort, she loves to read and I think that helped her tremendously. She used to write compositions every other day and passed it to me for comments and discuss with her friends who are slightly better writers."
Another student Joyce Sin from Gongshang Primary, was another top student who attended a neighbourhood school.
She shared how she studied for her exams.
"We study for a while and then we take a break, then we start study again. You can't finish all the study in one go, if not you'll really be tired out."
This year, just over 48 500 students took the PSLE.
Of these, 97.1% will proceed to secondary schools. |