WELCOME TO MY BLOG...

Hi there! Thank you for taking the time to drop by... I hope your visit here would a fruitful one and that you have found what you're looking for. This blog was created especially for primary school teachers and pupils in an effort to help them in their pursuit towards excellence in the Science subject with the UPSR exam as the final destination. It is also meant for parents whom I hope might find some of the information here useful to help your children to do well in the subject. Nevertheless, if what you're looking for is not here, please be free to post me a note and I'll try to make up whatever necessary to meet your expectations. Have a nice day.....!

MY LINKS

1. Science Questions Bank
2. My Blog (BM)

ABOUT MYSELF

I have been in the teaching profession since 1969 and had since taught in two schools ;SK Methodist,Parit Buntar and SK ST.Anne's Convent,Kulim,Kedah. . Since then, I have been quite active in the development of Teaching and Learning of Science at the National, State and District levels. I have also often been invited to give talks to schools to assist UPSR candidates in enhancing their understanding in the Science Process Skills involving the Section B part of the UPSR exam paper.

OVERVIEW OF FORMAT OF PAPER

The UPSR Science paper consists of 2 sections, A and B. Section A consisting of 30 multiple choice questions test students of their scientific facts and concepts that they learnt from Year 4 to 6. Students are required to memorise and understand these facts and concepts so as to be able to answer the questions in this section successfully. We can say that questions in this section are recall questions whereby students just recall the necessary scientific fact/concept to answer those questions. Nevertheless, although they are basically multiple choice questions, they are presented to the candidates in quite a number of ways (10 to be exact!) by which each of these has different level of difficulty. This is based on the Bloom's Taxanomy. The basis for the assessment in this section is the 5 themes in the science syllabus.In contrast with Section A, Section B is a totally different kind of assessment. This section requires students to use their thinking skills to produce the most appropriate answer. Information and data are readily given in the question and students have to analyse these to come out with the best answer. The basis for the assessment in this section is the Science Process Skills which I've listed in my earlier post.So, as you can see Section A requires students to give the information needed while Section B requires students to use/analyse the information given and then come out with the best answer for the question asked.

1. SCIENCE QUESTIONS BANK
2. MY SCIENCE BM BLOG

SCIENCE PROCESS SKILLS

There are 12 scientific process skill that should be expertises by pupils in primary school. The scientific skills are :1) Observing 2)Making inferences 3) Classfying 4)Measuring and using numbers 5) Predicting 6) Communicating 7) Using space and time relationship 8) Defining operationally 9) Interpreting data 10) Controlling variables 11) Making hypothesis 12) Experimenting.

From the 12 SPS, only 5 of them are tested in section B Science UPSR and the others are tested in PEKA science. The scientific process skills are :

Making inferences
Predicting
Interpreting data
Controlling variables
Making hypothesis

TIPS IN ANSWERING SECTION B SCIENCE UPSR

Here is some of my sneak Peak link of UPSR Exam Tips. As usual great tips comes in small packages.
The Questions come with the answers attached. The questions will consist of the Exam Tips guiding the students to understand the concept rather than memorizing the answers. Yes !! exam tips are short in length??? We even provide you the notes to study. Dont worry your child will not just memorised the questions because there notes to guide him/her to understand the concept.