Ex-Teacher Takes the Lid Off Singapore's Secondary School English Syllabus

2024-04-04 07:54:08 Education

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The results for the Primary School Leaving Examination (PSLE) are finally out, and education-crazed Singaporean parents would be cracking their heads as to where to send their children for their secondary school education.

Other than the obvious fact that not all of Singapores secondary schools are created equal, the question of educational load would also be at the forefront of each and every parents minds.

An ex-teacher and author has stepped in to address this situation, and his blog post is promising to allay concerns about what their children will be facing after the PSLE, at least where the English Language subject is concerned.

Entitled [What to Expect from Secondary School English (GCE Ordinary Level Syllabus 1128)](http://www.thecher.xyz/gce-o-level-english/secondary-school-english-gce-ordinary-level-syllabus-1128), the blog post will give a blow-by-blow account of the English syllabus, as well as the various papers the students will be taking throughout their secondary school years.

When asked about his intention for writing the blog post, Lee Lin Cher sole contributor to education and information website, The Cher (TheCher.Xyz) has this to say:

The move from primary to secondary school is a big one. On its own, the PSLE is already a very stressful exam for both parents and students alike. Yet, before they can recover from the ordeal of the PSLE, another set of uncertainties have set in, this time relating to what secondary school life constitutes.

This blog post will shed some light on the educational requirements of secondary school life, at least where the English Language subject is concerned.

To Lee, the big reprieve so to speak to both parents and students is that the secondary school English curriculum is largely similar to that of the primary school, in that, the same components are being tested.

The only difference lies in the difficulty levels of the English paper, which is only logical since your children are moving up the rungs of education, Lee explains.

To read the blog post, [click here](http://www.thecher.xyz/gce-o-level-english/secondary-school-english-gce-ordinary-level-syllabus-1128).

The maverick author has been posting about the Singapore-Cambridge General Certificate of Education (GCE) Ordinary (O) Level English exams since a few months back, and he is not about to stop due to his conviction that the GCE O Level English exam is the most important among all the subjects that a student will take.

In a previous blog post, the self-professed Knowledge Broker launched an e-report, detailing all the different situational writing formats a GCE O Level English exam candidate must master before he or she can ace the GCE O Level English Paper 1 exam.

The e-report, which is as relevant to a Secondary 1 student as it is to a Secondary 4, is free for download to anyone who signs up for The Chers mailing list.

To read the blog post, visit [http://www.thecher.xyz/gce-o-level-english/different-situational-writing-formats...](http://www.thecher.xyz/gce-o-level-english/different-situational-writing-formats-need-know-ace-gce-o-level-english-paper-1-exam).

A candidate at the GCE O Level exams might ace every subject that he or she is taking, but if the same candidate fails the English Language subject, the said candidate is technically doomed, Lee concluded.

About The Cher (TheCher.Xyz)

The Cher, or TheCher.Xyz, is the brainchild of Mr Lee Lin Cher, an ex-teacher who currently teaches the English language on the weekends. An avid reader and a prolific writer, TheCher.Xyz is a personal effort on his end to inform, educate and entertain.
The website covers topics on health, wealth and education, and promotes items, services and products that are deemed beneficial to visitors of the site. Readers will find TheCher.Xyz to be refreshing, weird and downright irreverent.