This is it! The exams started end of last week and we are halfway through it now. We’re done with English and Maths, but have Mother Tongue aka Hindi and Science left.

The haze situation is still bad, fluctuating between 150 to over 200. My only worry last week was that the PSI should not be high during the exams.

So far of the papers they’ve done, both said English was very easy. BB said he didn’t feel any different than writing a school exam.My concern now is that if the paper is so easy, then maybe the marking will be difficult with the cohort average high and so the standard deviation also low….What this means for marking I don’t know! Hopefully both get an A*(praying for that) or atleast an A for English.

During the Maths exam, at one of groups on Facebook that I belong to, someone posted that Paper 1 was a killer! I immediately got scared and started praying to all the Gods and Goddesses I know as I was very worried about GG as Maths is her weakest subject. It was agony till they came home and then an anti-climax when they announced it was tricky, but moderately difficult….

People posted questions on Facebook and based on the answers there and confirming with BB, I think he can score a good mark…Now need to hope the bell curve is in their favour…

Ok, two more to go and then we are home free… and can start worrying about the results!

The PSLE exams start next week!!

The Haze situation in Singapore is getting real bad. Last week, on Thursday, it was spiking the whole day, finally peaking at over 300, which is the Hazardous range. Parents in all the groups were fretting over how the children will cope with this in the run-up to the exam when the Ministry of Education declared Friday a holiday for Primary and Secondary schools in the light of the situation. Friday morning was bad, but cleared up quite a bit mid morning. BB & GG’s school also cancelled the Mid Autumn Festival and Family Day the school had planned!

Now praying hard that the haze remains in below 100 (the preference) or in the 100-150 range till all exams are over. We were told this situation will go on till early November due to the El Nino effect here!

Praying hard both GG & BB do well in the exams so that they can choose their school, and the school does not choose them!

Please pray for us!!

We had the Listening Comprehension exam on Friday and while GG said both languages were easy, BB said they were tricky. Aiyoh!! I don’t know whom to believe now…Hopefully they do well in the exams and get into the schools they want to get in.

I have been coming home at lunch and continuing working from home this week. Actually just 3 days as Thursday and Friday I was working from home the whole day. I will do this the next week also and then the week after that which is PSLE week, I will be at home till the end of the exams!

Both the children are stressed over the exams. GG vents it out and says she gets weird dreams, but BB is more close-mouthed. I think he has started sleepwalking. We found him in our bedroom the other day, trying to remove one of S’ pillows. Then yesterday, he woke up and found his jacket on the table – when he went to bed wearing it!

Hopefully they will do well in the exams – please pray for us as we reach the cresendo in this journey!

With increasing trepidation, we are staring at the countdown to the PSLE! It’s now just about 3 weeks to the big exams!

The Listening Comprehension exams are next week and then after 10 days, the written exams! I am seriously stressed now….I can also see BB & GG start stressing, more GG than BB (he’s the don’t have any worries boy). GG is stressed over her results, especially Maths…

I will be speaking to my boss tomorrow to discuss a shorter working hours (at work) so that I can come home when GG & BB are home from school and continue working from home till the exams are done.

Then it’s time to look forward to our short getaway! Please pray for us folks…

The Prelims ended this week and they also got their results back. BB did quite well, and if he manages to do a bit better in Hindi, he can score pretty well in the exams. GG was ok, except for her nemesis subject Maths! I am hoping the next one month we can focus on the parts where she can score and so hope to get decent scores in the subject.

I was away most of this week too, so it was S who held fort again. Next week is the Listening Comprehension. I think I need to talk to my boss about working lesser hours till the exams now…