Kangaroo Study 2025 PSLE Year-in-Review: A Year of Preparation

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Kangaroo Study 2025 PSLE Year-in-Review: A Year of Preparation

   
The PSLE has just concluded. Based on feedback from our students, this year's Paper 1 was relatively challenging, while Paper 2 was somewhat easier. Let's take a look at the views of some students and parents.


   
After seeing how students felt post-exam, let's look back at the goals they set for themselves two months ago.
   

   
Students indeed put in a lot of effort and solved many practice questions to prepare for the PSLE and achieve their goals.



However, this level of effort cannot be achieved starting only in the last two months. It requires sustained hard work from the children over the entire year. Let's see what this past year involved.   

1. Our Full-Year Course Design
   
1.1. Phase Issue 1
P6 students still have many important topics left to learn. If they directly attempt PSLE papers, they will find many questions unsolvable.
○ Solution: We utilize the P5 year-end holidays to intensively cover all the essential P6 topics. Therefore, we have consolidated all P6 topics based on this year's syllabus into a course comprising 9 lessons and one assessment.

P5 End of Year Class Syllabus:


1.2. Phase Issue 2
Students have learned all the topics, but have they truly mastered them? Which forgotten or missed concepts have gone unnoticed by parents and students?
○ Solution: We conduct a comprehensive review of all 77 examinable topics from the past three years. Due to the large number of topics, this review spans 22 lessons covered in Semester 1 and the June holiday class (15 + 7 lessons). Each lesson covers 3-4 topics to ensure thoroughness. Past 10-year PSLE questions are categorized by topic and integrated into each lesson, meaning completing the review is equivalent to practicing a full set of past-year papers.

P6 Semester 1 Syllabus:


P6 June Holiday Class Syllabus:


1.3. Phase Issue 3
All topics are covered, but how do we tackle potential challenge questions? Furthermore, P6 Prelim exams are typically more difficult than the actual PSLE.
○ Solution: We collect and analyze Prelim papers from top schools in recent years, compiling various types of ultra-challenging questions for students to learn, organized by chapter.
  
1.4. Phase Issue 4
Students can solve problems at home but lack exam experience. They feel nervous during actual exams and cannot perform to their true potential.
○ Solution: We train students' exam techniques and hone their exam temperament through four consecutive weeks of mock exams. This allows them to see their own progress from each test, building confidence for the actual exam.
   
P6 Semester 2 Syllabus:


2. Free Mock Exams and Seminars
   
In addition to our core courses, we provide free mock exams and seminar activities for all P6 students.

To allow graduating P5 students to experience the PSLE difficulty one year in advance, we designed the first mock exam during the P5 to P6 transition holiday.
• PSLE Mock Exam 1
   ○ Date: 28/12/2024
   ○ Participants: 70+

After the first semester of P6, students have learned many new topics and prepared considerably. However, it's difficult to gauge their current PSLE Math standard based solely on school exams.

Therefore, we designed the second mock exam and prepared a "June Holiday Preparation Seminar" for all candidate parents. The seminar was packed with valuable content, and participating families received two preparation booklets.

• PSLE Mock Exam 2 + Seminar
   ○ Date: 25/5/2025
   ○ Participants: 124
   ○ Number of AL1 Achievers: 21

After a holiday of intensive preparation, we believe many children have shown significant improvement. To utilize the remaining time for identifying and filling gaps, we designed the third mock exam, slightly increasing its difficulty. The aim was to pinpoint weaknesses rather than achieve high scores.

• PSLE Mock Exam 3
   ○ Date: 28/6/2025 - 29/6/2025
   ○ Participants: 212
   ○ Number of AL1 Achievers: 38

By September, is everyone fully prepared? We designed the final mock exam to allow children to see their progress and boost their pre-exam confidence. We adjusted the difficulty back to PSLE level and hope all achieve their desired results.

• PSLE Mock Exam 4
   ○ Date: 11/9/2025
   ○ Participants: 136
   ○ Number of AL1 Achievers: 59

3. One Year of Questions
  
How many practice questions does each student typically complete through a full year of the course?

➡ Handouts: 6-7 questions per lesson covering 3-5 topics.
➡ 20-minute Pre-lesson Quiz: 3 questions assessing topics from the previous lesson.
➡ 20-minute Post-lesson Quiz: 3 questions assessing topics from the current lesson.
   
➡ Homework:
        1: Re-do the problems from the lesson for consolidation.
        2: 5 practice questions post-lesson for topic reinforcement.
        3: Daily practice: submit 1 question per day via the App for consistent review.
        4: Review and re-do incorrect questions from homework and exams.
        5: Extra Practice (e.g., weekly papers or completing parts of the '351' book)

3.1. Total Annual Question Count

• From Coursework: 29 × 40 = 1160
   ○ Every lesson: 6 + 3 + 3 + 6 + 5 + 6 = 29 questions
   ○ Number of lessons: 10 + 16 + 8 + 6 = 40 lessons

• From Mock Exams: 188 + 140 = 328
   ○ 4 Public Mock Exams: (30+17) × 4 = 188
   ○ 4 Internal Mock Exams: (20+15) x 4 = 140

• From Extra Practice: 351 + 152 + 97 + 235 = 835
   ○ 351 Book
   ○ 152 Digi-Book
   ○ Top Schools Prelim Gauntlet: 97
   ○ Weekly Prelim Paper Practice: (30 + 17) × 5 weeks = 235



Total Number of Questions: 1160 + 328 + 835 = 2323 Questions!!!!

4. Final Phase Issue

Every student will forget some learned material, make different mistakes, and have different weak chapters. How do we ensure every student enters the exam hall fully prepared, leaving no room for error?
○ Solution: Personalized consultation arrangements for each student.

After each lesson, students must review and understand all their mistakes before leaving.
I provide additional Q&A after class for any remaining doubts. Often, classes end at 4:30 PM, but some students voluntarily stay to ask questions until 6:00 PM.
When encountering 1-2 tricky questions during practice, students can ask me directly via WhatsApp. I provide online solutions when I see them.
During the final four weeks, numerous time slots are arranged for students to bring their compiled questions for face-to-face offline sessions, where I provide targeted solutions, practice, and advice.

4.1. Student Q&A
Students will collect their own questions and come for Q&A sessions.







Wishing all children satisfactory results – your hard work will be rewarded!