Preparation for Term 4 Week 4

S4-08

No preparation required. Just bring your LDs to class for the remaining two lessons.

S4-06

1. Complete the SCGS Prelim paper found here and mark your work using the answer scheme found in the same folder. After you have done so, complete the feedback survey found here by 5 Oct (Mon) 2359h.

2. Bring your LDs for all remaining EL lessons.

Consultation

I am only free this week at the following slots. 

Mon - Night Study time

Tue - Afternoon

Thu - Up to 2:20pm

Fri - After farewell assembly onwards

During your study break, you may also book slots in the morning or afternoon to meet me for consultation. 

Preparation for Term 4 Week 2

Both S4-06 and S4-08

1. Bring your prelim essays to class. We will continue to do some work on them. 

2. Complete the BPGHS Prelim 2015 paper, mark your work using the answer scheme found here (scroll all the way to the end) and complete the feedback survey found here by 25 Sep (Fri) 2000h. 

We will not be going through the BPGHS compre in Term 4 Week 2 but you are likely to receive another compre for next weekend. So you are advised to complete this as early as you can. 

S4-08 only (Tue's lesson)

For each of the following questions from the GCE O-level 2014 paper, prepare a complete essay plan.

1. Which features of Singapore and its citizens make it a major tourist attraction for people from all over the world?

2. Which person has the greatest influence on your life at the present time, and why?

3. 'The best things in life are free.' Write about some of the occasions when you have found this to be true.

Summary of Brainstorming skills

Dear students,

For your convenience, please click here for a one-page summary of the brainstorming skills.

Preparation for Term 4 Week 1

All classes

Please do complete essay plans for the 4 prelim essay questions. We will be doing feedback for prelim Section C in Term 4 Week 1. The questions are as follows in case you have misplaced your paper.

1) Describe some significant experiences during your growing-up years. How have these experiences shaped your values?

2) Modern teenagers are slaves to trends. Do you agree?

3) Promises should always be kept. Discuss.

4) What do you consider to be your country's greatest achievement? Why does it mean so much to you?

S4-08 only

Lesson 1

We will be doing feedback for Prelim Paper 1 Section B. Please read, analyse and grade the following sample before coming for lesson. Bring your Prelim scripts. 

(a) Sample Script

(b) Marking Rubric

(c) Question Paper 

Revision during Sep holidays

1) Revise all the skills taught to you over the whole year. If you don't remember where you have placed your notes, the two places to find everything are:

(a) The Lesson Materials folder

(b) The Cohort Drive 

2) Read up on a few common areas / areas of interest to you so that you have some content for the essay paper. Sources of information are:

(a) Class mindmaps

(b) Reading Programme articles

(c) Cohort Facebook group

3) Do compre practice. You can obtain the past year papers with the answer scheme at the following places:

(a) NEW!! Other schools MYCT 2015

(b) Practice Papers on cohort drive

(c) Pre-Prelim package (if you haven't complete it)

(d) June holiday Practice (if you haven't completed it)

You are reminded that the papers are strictly for your own personal use as a Sec 4 student of SST. If you use it for any other purposes, including but not restricted to tuition, dissemination to your juniors or friends from other schools, you may run afoul of the relevant copyrights regulations.

Prelim Feedback and Situational Writing Practice

Prelim Feedback

Please refer to the following links for the answers to the editing section and the Listening Comprehension Section. You are the only classes which have not been returned these sections in class and you will get them on Mon when we are checking the other sections. Please use this to check your answers to ensure that they were marked correctly. 

1. Editing

2. Listening Compre

Situational Writing Practice

This will be the last piece of marked situational writing piece you are writing in Secondary School. Please do the 2014 GCE O-level situational writing piece found here. 

1) Your response must be typed written on Google Doc in Arial Font, Font size 12. You should have a margin of 2.5cm all around. Leave a blank line when you start a new paragraph. Submissions in the wrong file format will not be marked.

2) You should write no more than 500 words. This is in line with the 2014 Cambridge examiner report that students who "...wrote in excess of the suggested word limit...did not necessarily increase the effectiveness of the content and frequently resulted in a rushed or incomplete Section C."

3) Upload your response here . 

Update on Project Ace and Project Beta 2nd submission

Those of you who submitted for the second submission for Project Ace and Project Beta, I intend to mark it and return it to you. You will get it back in time before I set the very final piece of written work for the class. My apologies for the delay. 

Preparation for Term 3 Week 9

S4-08

For Lesson 1 and Lesson 2, we will be doing preparation for the GCE O-level oral examination. No preparation is required. Please note that Lesson 2 will take place on 26 Aug (Wed) first period. 27 Aug (Thu) first period will be Bio instead.

For Lesson 3, we will be doing feedback for Prelim Paper 1 Section B. Please read, analyse and grade the following sample before coming for lesson. 

(a) Sample Script

(b) Marking Rubric

(c) Question Paper 

S4-06

Lesson 1

We will be doing feedback for Prelim Paper 1 Section B. Please read, analyse and grade the following sample before coming for lesson. 

(a) Sample Script

(b) Marking Rubric

(c) Question Paper 

Lesson 2

For each of the following questions from the GCE O-level 2014 paper, prepare a complete essay plan.

1. Which features of Singapore and its citizens make it a major tourist attraction for people from all over the world?

2. Which person has the greatest influence on your life at the present time, and why?

3. 'The best things in life are free.' Write about some of the occasions when you have found this to be true. 

Pre-prelim comprehension package

Dear students,

The answers to the comprehension practice package distributed in class can be found here. You can find the question papers in the same folder if you need them.

Two papers do not contain Section A. They came to us that way, with missing pages. So it is not a printing error.

This set of 5 practice papers should last you till Term 3 Week 9. You should aim to complete 3 papers before prelims as revision, and do the other 2 after prelim.