{"id":796,"date":"2021-04-28T02:40:22","date_gmt":"2021-04-28T02:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandaochinese.com\/?p=796"},"modified":"2021-04-28T02:45:03","modified_gmt":"2021-04-28T02:45:03","slug":"schools-to-cut-mid-year-exams-for-several-levels-primary-1-and-2-pupils-will-not-be-graded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandaochinese.com\/schools-to-cut-mid-year-exams-for-several-levels-primary-1-and-2-pupils-will-not-be-graded\/","title":{"rendered":"Schools to cut mid-year exams for several levels; Primary 1 and 2 pupils will not be graded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"viewer-foo\" class=\"XzvDs _208Ie ljrnk blog-post-text-font blog-post-text-color _2QAo- _25MYV _1Fao9 ljrnk public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr\"><span class=\"vkIF2 public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\">\u53d1\u5e03: 2018\u5e748\u670828\u65e5<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"viewer-bs3cd\" class=\"XzvDs _208Ie ljrnk blog-post-text-font blog-post-text-color _2QAo- _25MYV _1Fao9 ljrnk public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr\"><span class=\"vkIF2 public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\">\u6765\u81ea: The Straits Times<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"viewer-1vbea\" class=\"XzvDs _208Ie ljrnk blog-post-text-font blog-post-text-color _2QAo- _25MYV _1Fao9 ljrnk public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr\"><span class=\"vkIF2 public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\">\u53d6\u81ea: <a class=\"_2qJYG blog-link-hashtag-color _2xVcV _2E8wo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zaobao.com.sg\/znews\/sea\/story20181121-909314\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><u class=\"sDZYg\">https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/singapore\/schools-to-cut-mid-year-exams-for-some-levels-primary-1-and-2-pupils-will-not-be-graded-or<\/u><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Mid-year examinations for Primary 3 and 5 and Secondary 1 and 3 students will be scrapped over the next three years, to move away from the narrow focus on grades and help students discover the joy of learning.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, there are no examinations for Primary 1 and just final-year examinations for Primary 2. From 2019, all graded assessments and examinations at Primary 2 will also be removed to give young pupils two test-free years. Teachers will use qualitative descriptors to report on their pupils&#8217; learning.<\/p>\n<p>And to stress the message that learning is not a competition, report books will no longer state the class and level ranking of a student at both primary and secondary levels. Marks for each subject will be rounded off and presented as whole numbers, without decimal points, to reduce the excessive focus on marks.<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-798\" src=\"https:\/\/sandaochinese.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/midyear1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1272\" height=\"945\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sandaochinese.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/midyear1.jpg 1272w, https:\/\/sandaochinese.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/midyear1-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sandaochinese.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/midyear1-1024x761.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sandaochinese.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/midyear1-768x571.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1272px) 100vw, 1272px\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-797\" src=\"https:\/\/sandaochinese.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/midyear2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"837\" height=\"931\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sandaochinese.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/midyear2.jpg 837w, https:\/\/sandaochinese.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/midyear2-270x300.jpg 270w, https:\/\/sandaochinese.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/midyear2-768x854.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 837px) 100vw, 837px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u53d1\u5e03: 2018\u5e748\u670828\u65e5 \u6765\u81ea: The Straits Times \u53d6\u81ea: https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/singapore\/schools-to-cut-mid-year-exams-for-some-levels-primary-1-and-2-pupils-will-not-be-graded-or &nbsp; Mid-year examinations for Primary 3 and 5 and Secondary 1 and 3 students will be scrapped over the next three years, to move away from the narrow focus on grades and help students discover the joy of learning. Currently, there are no examinations for Primary 1 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[29,30],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandaochinese.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandaochinese.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandaochinese.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandaochinese.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandaochinese.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=796"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sandaochinese.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":800,"href":"https:\/\/sandaochinese.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796\/revisions\/800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandaochinese.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandaochinese.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandaochinese.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}