Tough PSLE maths questions: Why we can’t remove them so easily

Worries about a competitive and stressful milestone exam may cloud our judgment

It can be bewildering and disempowering to be stumped by a few difficult PSLE maths problems. ST PHOTO: LIM YAOHUI
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Are Primary School Leaving Examination (PSLE) mathematics questions unreasonably hard?

This perennial issue reared its head at a Straits Times forum last week, as parents raised issues with Mr Sng Chern Wei, deputy director-general (curriculum) in the Ministry of Education (MOE).

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