Show me the papers or not?

She didn't understand how much those marks meant, but the mom who's very digits-mad is.

Everyday, I ask her "how's your paper?"
A :"Good!"
M:"Good means what? 80 over%, 90 over%."
A :"Dunno.........."

And so I crossed my fingers, eyes, hair and hope she did well. It may only be a test and results not taken into consideration but it does tell alot about the child. As the school puts it, "the results are not taken into consideration. It gives us a guide if the children understands the concepts. And use it as a guideline on the setting of the other test papers."
I pray hard she did well for her Chinese coz' they'll be banded accordingly.

Today, she showed me the papers in the car. 37/50 for Maths, 37.5/50 for English which works out to 74% and 75% repectively. It's definitely not good! She did better with those MGS and CHS papers but not her school's?
As I flipped through her Maths papers, she lost 8 marks due to her carelessness. 'Colour the number before XX, ' she can colour the number after XX. !!!!!! And there's the same mistakes of writing 2 different answers on her equations and the blank line. And the best mistake?? "How tall is the clown?" they have balls as units next to it. My dear girl can cock-eye or act smart to draw one line from the clown's head to the ball and write 61/2. ???? Line also didn't draw straight. And since when they're taught 1/2? Can't be the mother geh-kiang and teach her beyond what she's suppose to know. Dunno to call this mistake carelessness or geh-kiang.

I didn't know if I should further flip through the papers. Flip or don't flip also get scolding. Mom say must encourage (wah..........last time she nagged at me when she sees my careless mistakes for my Chinese papers) Don't flip - I wouldn't know what I should emphasize and try to build her up on during the June hols. Flip - I see those careless mistakes which she shouldn't have made and get mad. But I'm impressed there's 2 trick questions which she could answer. ?!?!?!
8 marks leh, That would have been 45/50 = 90%. With that results, I would have signed her papers. Yup! I refuse to coz' I did tell her prior to all her test papers that if she don't get 90% I won't sign her papers. She protested saying that "Mdm XX say must sign, cannot don't sign." It didn't cross her mind that she could have asked her daddy to sign for her?

English
She lost 9 1/2 marks. The same mistake as she did at home. Told her to read the sentence properly. The sentence mentioned 'last night', answer should be past tense. She wrote according to subject-verb agreement. Dunno to praise her for remembering the grammar theory or to chide her for not reading properly. 2 marks lost on 2 cloze passage for her geh-kiang fill-in-the-blanks. Very impressed she can spell the word 'pool' when sometimes she can forget how to spell 'study' but the picture showed a girl swimming. Geh kiang! Another one was either a mental block or carelessness mistake. The rests are in comprehension. The answer is right before her very eyes, she also can write wrongly. I mentioned before she can score at least 3/5 correct. In the written comprehension, she scored 7.5/10. The other one, a graphic comprehension, which I'll expect her to do well coz' she didn't have to think about phrasing her sentence etc.. she made 3 careless mistakes. 6 marks gone! Could have scored 47/50 = 94%.

When daddy came home, she dare not show him the papers. I showed him and expected a different respond from him. Turned out he responded in unison, "how can you be so careless?!" "Still dare to laugh?" So now he knows why I'm so mad with her, now he knows why I nag at her all the time, now he knows how careless his daughter is.

Should I resign to fate that probably that's her average score since she's been showing me 70++% for all papers? I don't know leh.. I expect more since these are works that she did cover in K2. She should be doing better. Then since she produce this kind of result to me, I might as well don't waste my time. Since it's not theory she don't understand but carelessness, I might as well go and enjoy myself. Know what I mean? The build-up frustrations I'm feeling now.

I don't understand why. I have 2 friends who's children (they themselves) are very competitive. They put pressure on themselves while their parents ask them to relax. Woah! If only my daughter is like that, I don't have to worry much. When she checks her papers, I don't know if she's really checking or just flipping the pages just for the sake of flipping the pages.
Then they are some kids who's parents don't give a damn about their studies can score well. I know it's really bad to compare results but I can't help but envy those parents lor.. Maybe my daughter is not smart as I think she is; maybe I should just bloody give up on her and go and enjoy myself. I badly need to go Spa.

The 2 friends I mentioned above. One of them, teaches her 3 children. They didn't go for any tuition at all, the mother handles everything. And when she told us her lifestyle, it sounded just like mine. Weekends are for studies as well. But her children produce superbly good results, always 90 over%, the older one is now in one of the Top Sec schools. So at least it reaped some results. Her youngest child is P1 this year and is very competitive, will cry when she cannot cope. Hmm... may be good/bad. I do worry if it'll affect her psychologically. But I guess she is very competitive herself coz' she saw how her 2 brothers perform in school so she set the high standards on herself. Well, I think that's maturity and sensible. If only Athena have half of her sensibility. Athena is far too playful, she can remember alot of nonsense things like "we've been here before, we eat this and that. I saw that road before etc..." but when I test her on spelling... "I forget."
Another friend, the son, must score better than others. He works hard. She don't have to tell him to bring out the books to revise, he does it himself. I remember telling her about what happened when Athena deliberately took her own sweet time to dress up for school. And she agreed what I did - reverse psychology - was right. Then she asked, "you mean Athena don't love school?" "She does, she enjoys her friends. Which I suspect she's there to play but she'll be happy if there's no school. Like once the P1 didn't have to go school, she was so happy." Her reply, "my son no... he can't wait to go school. Will hurry us instead. " From that conversation I could tell that her son is very responsible. Sigh......if only...............
One friend berates her son for scoring 24/25. She told me in a laughing manner too, that "just for 1 mark I nag at him from school to home."I thought that was funny, if only Athena could score that kind of marks I would be happy. But if that 1 mark was a stupid careless mistake maybe I would also point out.

So what's the main problem with my girl? Maybe she's not smart as I think she is. Maybe should go and hypnotize her and brain wash her to be very careful. I'm thinking if the other kids, at 7 years old, can check through their work carefully why can't my daughter do so too. Master Tan did mention this girl is really smart but needs alot of pushing. Mom went to the medium once, the medium also mentioned the same thing. Ill-fated me!!

If it's theory she don't understand, still can teach. Now I teach also no use, she understands but it's just her carelessness; or in a hurry to finish her papers. Thank goodness this is only a CA, imagine if it's a SA. I'll flipped and bring out the cane on her. Hopefully by Sept and year end, she'll do well.

Maybe I should start finding rat's eyes, tiger's eyes, lion's eyes - any animals eyes except for bats (blind as a bat) and let her eat.

It's a blessing in disguise that I didn't put her in RGPS or St Nics (ai yah..that place also difficult to get in) to face the pressure. I would have my blood vessels burst.
So she don't get to relax much in June for sure!