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2009 Top PSLE girl from China
Author: Jennani Durai
Source: The Straits Times
Date: 26 Nov 2009
Of the 48,541 Primary 6 pupils who sat for the PSLE this year, 97.1 per cent were able to proceed to secondary school.
Two-thirds of students were eligible for the Express course, around 22 per cent for the Normal (Academic) course, and around 12 per cent for the Normal (Technical) course.
A total of 1,424 pupils (or 2.9 per cent) were assessed to be not ready to go on to secondary school.
This cohort is the first to come under Subject-based Banding, which allowed Primary 5 students last year to have the option of taking a mix of subjects at Standard or Foundation level depending on their individual abilities.
The top Indian pupil this year is Muhammad Saad Siddiqui from Anglo-Chinese School (Primary), and the top Malay pupil is Syafiqah Nabilah Bte Shamshera from Raffles Girls' Primary School.
Qiu Biqing is seen here talking to Mr Haqam, her oral skills teacher who called to congratulate her. Mr Haqam had called another teacher's handphone, who then passed it along to Qiu. -- ST PHOTO: JOYCE FANG
THIS year's top student in the Primary School Leaving Examination (PSLE) could barely speak any English when she moved here from China in 2006 with her family.
Qiu Biqing, 13, from Qifa Primary School, achieved an aggregate score of 290, with four A*s and a Distinction in Higher Chinese.
Her father, Mr Qiu Guo Hua, 45, is a research fellow at the National University of Singapore, and her mother, Madam Xie Xiaojin, 42, is a research assistant there. They both work in a physiology lab.
The top Indian pupil this year is Muhammad Saad Siddiqui from Anglo-Chinese School (Primary), and the top Malay pupil is Syafiqah Nabilah Bte Shamshera from Raffles Girls' Primary School.
Biqing said that she improved her English by reading a lot, and not being afraid to speak aloud even if she made mistakes.
She has a place in Raffles Girls' School through the Direct Schools Admission process and hopes to become a lawyer or a novelist.
2009 PSLE Top Pupils
2009 PSLE Schools with Top Pupils
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