Practice That Pays Off: Master Compo & Oral with Cher.ai | Deputy CEO of Mind Stretcher Moses Soh

Hey. Hi everyone. Can you hear me? Okay. All right. Um guys, let's let's give everybody like a couple more minutes. Usually everybody just joins right on the dot. As you can see, uh now we have already there's been like 20 people joining over the past 5 seconds. Uh so let's just give a bit more time and then we'll get started at uh around 43 44. Okay. Uh maybe I just get a sense uh who who is here with your parents who are only parents. Uh you can just type into the host and panelist uh who is just here as a student. Okay, I see a lot of students. Very very very good. When I was younger, I only became uh really independent around P5. Okay. So, those of you who uh the students who are here by yourself, very very good job. Okay. You're on the right track. Um and today the stuff that I'm going to share with you guys, you guys can practice uh as much as you want. You're going to get fantastic feedback. And if you do well with CHI, you're going to do well PSLE. Okay? So, uh and this is all in your pocket. Uh you don't have to pay additional money. Uh as long as you're my student, you have this for free. So, I'm going to walk you through everything. All right? But well done for being here. And then um for the uh parents uh who are here I will also be going through quite a few things. I think um uh as with everything parents are the best teachers at home but all of us are working. I'm working my wife is working. Uh often times we don't have uh so much time you know to do research to understand the rubric. So today I'll give a little bit of a sense of why is built the way it does and what how it actually helps you. Okay. It's not just another ad tech tool. um if it was straight times wouldn't cover it. So I think we have gotten good recognition for what we're building. Uh and I'm very h happy to be able to share that with you today. Okay. Okay guys, I'm just going to get my a couple of slides up. Let's see whether you just let me know whether you can see it. Okay. Okay. Can you guys see uh can you guys see the slides behind me? Wait. Um let me see how do I see this. Okay. Okay. Come then let's get started. Okay. Uh I still see quite a few people coming in. Uh but uh you know early bird gets the worm. Okay. So let's let's get started. Okay. So um just a bit about me. Uh I I don't think I've met many of you yet. Uh but I am Moses. I'm currently the the deputy CEO of Mind Stretcher. Uh Mind Stretcher was started by my mother. I came in two years ago after working in the government. Uh in the government I was working on economic policy in MEES. Uh and then after that I started working on AI products uh for the government. So I built uh um a product called pair. Uh it's being used by a lot of civil servants today. Um I got the president scholarship in 2012. Uh and I am personally building CHI because I think um I want to share a couple of things that worked for me when I was in school. You know when I was in school um things were not always easy right? Uh there were many times where I failed. Um if I don't put in hard work I also won't do well. Uh when I was in SEC 3 um I was doing well. Then I told my mom that actually now that I'm doing well, can I play some computer games? Uh within three months uh my grades went from top in the class to failing physics and that's when I stopped playing. Uh when I was in SE one and I was distracted by uh relationships, my grades were also poor and until I sat down and started practicing my mathematics again did my math math grades improve. Okay, so uh things don't come easy to everybody. uh certainly not for me but the one thing I was always good at is that once I realized that I needed to practice then I really really work hard and I practice as much as I can. Yeah. But there were a few things that were very hard to practice. Okay. So why why why did I build CHI? Um compo and oral are very hard to practice. Uh when I was in sitting for my A levels there was this thing called general paper for the students here. It's just like writing. Okay. But instead of writing stories, you're writing about uh some issues in society. Um it's actually not very different from your stimulus based conversation kind of topics. Okay. Um and I used to write every single day in the morning. I would wake up at around 5:00 a.m. I would get a topic from the past year papers and I would write. I write right every day. But my teacher has no time to mark you know. So what I'm practicing is just getting my thoughts down on paper. If I think that I'm doing well, that's all I have. Okay. But my teacher definitely has no time to mark uh one paper every day. But if I wanted to do well, if I want to get a scholarship, then I really wanted to make sure that I could get an A. And so that's how I was practicing. Uh oral as well, uh when you want to practice reading, when you want to practice a conversation, um it's best when it's done one-on-one. And I certainly when I was young, I could not afford one-on-one tuition. Okay? So I could not even afford tuition. So today when I built Chaii, I want to make sure that if you are willing to work hard, then you have all the tools that you need. Okay? So that's why that's why um that that's that's what we're going to be bringing you through today. Okay? So um you know I want to just get a sense from everybody here. You can type in the chat uh how many uh for for your latest compo. Okay? If you if you have just done a combo in school, um can people just type in the chat uh out of 36 for continuous writing, uh what what are your scores? Okay, some really strong ones. Good. Some lot of people still on their journey. Hey, don't don't share AL1. Tell tell me exactly what you got. Okay, very good. So, okay. Uh, I see a lot of um I see a lot of you are getting between 20 to 30. Okay. Uh quite a few right in the middle. Uh a few on the higher end. Uh and a few uh below 20. Okay. Uh, and then what about for oral reading allowed out of uh 15? Uh, maybe you just share especially those of you who does do your WA2 if you got your results back. Okay. Yep. It's okay if you haven't gotten if you if you haven't gotten your results back for WA2. Maybe you can share uh the last one you remember. It's out of uh it's out of 15. Okay. The reading aloud segment. Okay, good. So, uh lots of people are are texting me and uh it looks like a fair bit of you are at about like the 8 to 11 range. Some of you are getting very well done. Okay. Um now let's make sure for those of you who are uh below 10, we're going to make sure that by the end of uh June, you guys are going to be getting full marks. Okay. Uh for reading aloud, this is something I I I I think it's it's something that you can really practice. Uh it's not like combo where there's a lot of judgment. Uh for reading aloud later, I'll show you guys exactly what your teachers are using to mark uh your reading aloud attempt. Okay. And then you can see actually it is is quite clear what we have to do. All right. So I think with with using the tools that we are sharing today, uh I think we should be aiming for full marks for reading aloud and for compo let's try and get above 30. Okay, people say I get 13 to 14. Uh, yeah. Um, is it good enough? Well, that's up to you. Uh, if it were me, I think like on our CHI platform, you should be aiming for about 14 out of 15 consistently. Then you're quite sure you're going to get 15 in reading aloud uh in the exam. Okay. I mean, because there's so many parts of the paper, some are more challenging than others. Uh, for things things that are within your within reach, we got to be smart. We got to be strategic. make sure that we get those marks so that we can buy ourselves some breathing space for the rest of the uh rest of the paper. Okay. Okay. Uh Shen, I can see your text. Don't worry. I can see everybody's text. If you're texting to me, I can see. Okay. So, don't worry if I'm not replying. I'll just talk talk about it here. Okay. Because right now, I am talking to how many people? I'm talking to almost uh 300 people. Okay. So, uh, I won't be able to reply to every single person. Um, but just keep texting me and I'll reply here. Okay, great. Okay, come. The first thing that we need to do guys is that I need you guys to if if you are if you have your own handphone uh scan this QR code join the CHI Sorry guys, one second. Okay. Um, can you guys see the this chat window? Is it blocking the slides? Okay. All right. I'll put it at the side. Okay. But uh for now um please scan this QR code over here. All right. This is the CHI WhatsApp announcement group. Okay. Um CHI is not at all done. Okay. We are really just at the beginning of what we're launching. In the next few weeks, there will be listening compre. Uh oh, I see we've reached the limit. Okay, let's have a look. Okay guys, I will sort this out. I'll text in Luma later, okay? How how we can join. Um, okay, we will sort this out. Okay. Uh, later later on there'll be a 5m minute break. I'll try and sort it out then and then we we will get everybody on board. Okay. uh very important to be part of the community because uh I'll be launching almost a product every one or two weeks. Uh I know what students need to uh to score well. A lot of times uh teachers just don't have enough time. Uh and there's not enough good practice material. So the next one that's coming out probably stimulus based conversation to practice as well as listening compre not just the easy kind of questions but challenging questions where you have to infer you have to understand like what the speaker uh was trying to hint at when he did this what was on his mind when he did this. Okay so a lot of challenging questions we prepared 200 uh proper practices uh PSL style uh PSLE level challenging questions um so look out for that. All right. Okay. Now, uh my goal is that for everybody on this call, uh we make sure that we get everything set up. So, if there's any issues, then we can walk through quickly. Okay. So, I've decided to make chai free for mind students uh this year. Okay. I think in future years is definitely going to be paid uh because I want to give students more rewards. Okay. But while we are while we are still developing it, uh I I will make it uh available for everybody and I want everybody to do well this year. Okay? That's my my goal. My goal here is not to make money from this. My goal is to make sure that at least for the components that we can support uh you guys do much much better. Okay. So, uh you guys can I'm just going to walk through how it how it works. Okay. You guys just do it with me if you haven't if you haven't done it already. Please grab a laptop, grab a grab a phone. Okay. We go to CHI redeem MS research preview. Okay. Okay. So, what do you need to do? Okay. Uh if you're actually let me just open the incognito page so that we can see uh what you guys will see. Okay. You go to this page, right? I have some information about what we are doing here. You go to try now. Okay. Okay, you create an account. So, uh let me see. I've created many many accounts already. Uh let's see. Okay. So those of you who are who haven't created account before, you guys will be able to create your account. You verify your email. Okay. And when you go in you will see this page. Okay. Uh I'm making available actually for outside. This again is a very discounted pricing for people are not my treasure students. But you go to the bottom and you see this thing have a mind treasure code redeem. Okay. Then you click redeem. Okay. And then you will get to uh you'll get to this page. Okay. Then for all of you in your mind my stretcher app, where do you get the access code from? You go into your mind stretcher app. Okay. On your home tab, you just scroll down and your CHI uh access code will be at the bottom. Okay. So, I'm going to give you guys like 5 minutes to do this. If you run into any issues, just type in the chat. Then let's see if we can help everybody out. Okay. Okay. A lot of people are saying I'm too fast. Okay. Come. Let's let's go through again. Okay. So on you go to ch.ai. Okay. ch.ai. Okay. Anyway, I'll send you guys the the the instructions after this as well. Okay. Uh this instructions are also on the Luma description. Okay. But uh you go to CHI. Then after you log in, there's this redeem button at the bottom of this uh subscri subscription tab. Okay. Then after you click redeem, you will see this uh this code. Then you have to key in your code. Okay. And where you get your code is you go into your mind stretcher app. Inside the mind stretcher app, go to the uh your student tab and then go to home. Okay. And then scroll down. Okay. Okay, I'm going to put this uh URL into the chat, right? Then uh uh you guys can can can have a look while I'm going through the going through the rest of the things. Issues with login. Okay, guys. I mean, yeah, I I I guess uh not ready for like 300 people to try and do at the same time. Um so, let let me let me carry on first. Uh and then after that we can get back to to to logging in. Okay. So I want to show you everything and then uh uh I'll hang around after the the webinar to make sure that everybody can get on. All right. Okay. Come let's let's get back to this. Okay. So PSLA English for for the students and parents. Um okay. Today we're going to be talking about continuous writing. This is inside paper one. All right. And then uh reading aloud which is inside paper four. Okay. And that's the the two things that we can start practicing today. Uh reading aloud is worth 15. It used to be worth 10. Uh continuous writing used to be worth 14. Now it's worth 36. Okay. Um so you can see actually reading aloud just on its own. If you look at it, um it is almost the same weightage as a full comprehension already. Okay. And this will take you 1 minute and 30 seconds of proper reading. Uh that's why I say it's low hanging fruit. We should really make sure that we can uh do well for it. Okay. All right. So, let's let's just quickly get started. All right. So, doing well for continuous writing. Uh in the um in the chat, can can people tell me if if you know what the rubrics uh what the rubrics are for continuous writing? How many of you are familiar? How many of you have seen the rubrics before? Okay, I see some content and language. Not me. Not familiar. Mountain. Okay. Story. Mountain is what you you use, but that's not the rubrics. Okay. So, it looks like about half of you don't know. Um, okay. So, very quickly, it's worth 36 marks and it's split 18 marks for content, 18 marks for language. Now, for those of you who uh think you know it, um this is actually based on the um the official rubrics. Okay, so you may not have seen uh this level of detail before. Okay, for content and then language and organization. Okay, for content um now this is about whether your content addresses the topic. Okay. So, uh a um Oh, I see we are down. Okay. Sorry about that, guys. Uh I'll make sure that it get back it gets back up soon. Okay, but for now, okay, so this is what a a compo looks like. Okay, there's instructions. Write a composition of at least 150 words about being courageous. This is the topic. Okay, this is just a minimum. What we should be aiming for is about 4 500 words. Okay. And then you're given three images that you can use. So for parents, it's uh different from our time where you were given uh four pictures and they're all uh related to the story and we write about that. Okay? Now the images are all separate. Okay? And you only need to use one at least one of the images. Okay? You don't have to use all. You don't get bonus marks for using all. Just use at least one. Okay? So being courageous. You can see uh these images will be related to the topic. It could be this one is obviously about being bullied. This one is uh somebody saying sorry. This one is uh somebody speaking in the auditorium. Okay. Okay. So how are you assessed on content? Okay. Whether it doesn't matter what your language looks like but your content how does it uh how does it score? There are five bands. Okay. And we are looking at two different things. First is it are you relevant? Okay. And then secondly once you're relevant is it interesting and thoroughly developed. Okay. So something first and foremost could be not relevant. Right? If you wrote about uh let's say let's say you're writing about um being courageous but you forget to um you forget to use any of the images. Okay. then uh you are then what what that is counted as depending on how how well you wrote is that maybe you have some relevance. Okay. If you don't actually address the image, if you just use the image as uh um something that the author the the narrator noticed but is actually the image is not fully in uh fully driving your story uh then generally you'll score around Ben two band three. Okay. So relevance is the first thing. Or you could address the image but you forgot the theme. Right? So uh you could be writing about this but you forgot about being courageous. Your whole your whole story is about about this guy getting bullied and then he never actually stands up to the bully. Okay. So that's another way of writing off topic. Okay. You didn't address the theme. Okay. But once you address the theme then you're looking at whether it is highly interesting and thoroughly developed. So you could have a uh a very short story. Maybe it's about leadership and then the picture is a football. So you write a story about cheering your yeah uh you're in the football team and then you cheer your friends on and then finally you won. Okay. And then it's about 100 words. Uh there's not a lot of um meat in the story. Those things uh will score. Uh it will be relevant because you showed some leadership uh you commanded the team and all that but uh it is not it is not uh welldeveloped. is very minimal um and not interesting. Okay. So that is content and when we talk about language and organization uh language and organization is the other 18 marks. Okay. So that is about your story. Now it's about okay how do you tell it? Of course these overlap a little bit. Okay. If your language and organization if your language is really really very messy you're using there's a lot of broken English people can't understand the story uh your content marks will also get docked for sure. Okay. So language uh things like English all that ultimately these are languages okay they they cannot be broken up into small uh separate bits uh we have to write well okay so in in language organization they're looking at three different things okay one is that you use uh things accurately so grammar spelling punctuation all right after accuracy they look at whether you used a wide variety of vocabulary and sentence structure Right? And then overall, is the whole thing well organized? Right? Is it one whole paragraph uh 400word paragraph or is there a good uh use of paragraphing uh you know good connectors uh to move from one part of the story to another, right? Like after you bullied, you were turning around when suddenly something in you snapped. Turning around like I stabbed my bully in the eye, right? So th those are very good ways to link ideas together and that's what they're looking for here. Okay. So I'm already hinting at to you like actually there are a lot of ways to showcase this in the exam. Uh for parents who are here and students uh for me I treat examinations as a game. Okay. We need to know the rules of the game. Uh is this the only way to write well? Definitely not. Okay writing well there are so many different ways to do it. Okay. But in the PSLE uh we have to sit for a standardized exam. they want to check what you have learned. So there there is a game, there is a system that they're using to check your writing. So we need to know that and we need to uh play smart. Okay. And then if you want to write uh more creatively, you want to try different techniques. Just know that for continuous writing, you have around 40 minutes to do it. Okay. So me generally I play it safe. Um I do I come up with a simple system that I've embedded inside CHI that I'll teach you today. Okay. So in general you can see there's about five things that they're looking for. Is it relevant? Once it's relevant, is it well developed? Uh once it's well developed, actually did you use your um your language accurately? Then if you use it accurately, do you showcase a wide range of uh uh language devices? Okay. And then finally, does the whole thing seem to flow well? Okay. uh just just to tell you what I hope everybody does after this is that I hope everybody practices uh at least one combo every week. Okay, you don't have to just use the uh model comp. You don't have to you just use the topics on CHI. Uh there's a lot of uh practice papers out there. I'm sure your school gives them to you as well. uh you can just open up your mind structure file take any of the uh compo the s the the the combo exercises that we have set for you and you can key it into combo coach and you can do a a mock combo there. Okay. So weekly practice definitely have to do if you can do more do more and secondly study what good looks like. Okay. So look at uh model compositions and really study them. For me, when I set for O levels, I the highest marks I was getting for Chinese was C5. And then 4 months before the exam, I collected about 20 good compositions. I really studied them. I more or less memorized them until I could uh rearrange them uh for whatever topic that came out. Okay, I'm not saying this is the best way to study language, but for me, I didn't grow up in a Chinese speaking household. Uh I didn't really have a good background. Um but I think model compositions really help. Okay. And I have put model compositions inside uh CHI as well. Okay. So combo coach let's let's have a quick look. Okay. So okay let me just have a quick look at the chat. See how everybody is doing. Yes I will definitely uh Okay. I I guess people are starting to come in uh starting to be able to log in now already. Uh there is no let me quickly answer the some of the questions. Um there's no penalty for writing too many words but if you write too many words generally your compo is uh too complicated and uh you may not finish on time. Okay. How do we do more than 400 words in 45 minutes? Actually not possible. That's why all the model compos if you go into popular sometimes the model compos are way too long. I write 6 700 words. There's no way that you can do that in an exam. So all of u my all the chai model compose about 450 words. Okay. Um does vocab belong to language? Yes. Uh my structure code guys I I uh you will have I won't I won't be able to handhold every single person through this. So u I've already sent the link uh to redeem your mind stretcher code into the chat. uh just follow the instructions there. Okay. And then I've also included the um uh mind stretcher support number on that page. Uh when you click on the WhatsApp number there, you will be able staff to help you find your access code if you have trouble. Okay. So, I'm just going to keep going for the rest of uh the audience first. Uh in the future when I send stuff on Luma uh and I'll be doing this uh pretty much every week. Okay. Uh for different components, we'll go over what people have been doing. So I want to help all the P6 and P5 students directly as much as I can. Um so make sure that we do the preparation steps before the thing so that before the event so that you can follow along. Okay. But now now let's let's let's see how this applies to a combo. Okay. So uh being courageous. Okay. This is about being courageous. Uh you can write 150 words at least 150 words about any of these pictures. Okay. Okay. And what this child did uh was to write this sample composition. Okay. So I'm just going to put it on the screen. Uh we can read along. Okay. Let's just take 2 minutes. I'll just scroll slowly on the screen. We can read along and I want to show you how this rubric is applied. Okay. So, while we're reading, uh, basically there's a boy named Jimmy, uh, and there's a school bully called Hugh. Okay. And, uh, he gets bullied during his, uh, his recess. Okay. And then he was reading a book. Then somebody came over. Um, you know, Hugh threatened him. He bared his teeth in an ugly snarl. He hissed. Meet me at the playground of the school. Do not come without $30. understand. And then he's very scared of going to meet Hugh, but he say, "Okay, I'll just tell him I'll pay him $20 tomorrow. Hey, better late than never." Right. Then he went to the playground. Uh Jimmy's heart skipped a beat when he saw Hugh. And then he says, "I only have $10 now. I will give you $20 tomorrow." Then Hugh's face turned red with anger. He clenched his fist. He dealt a stinging blow to Jimmy's face. Red palm print appeared instantly. He said, "Ouch." Then there was a passer by who watched the entire scene. She was completely bewildered by the sight. Hey, stop what you're doing now before I report this incident to your teachers. Okay. Then he chased he chased the boys away. The three boys lowered their eyes and scampered off and he check, "Are you okay?" Then Jimmy says, "Thank you for being courageous." Okay. Uh let's let's have a quick discussion, okay? So we can understand a few things. Um what what do uh what do you guys think this uh compo compos should have scor? If you want to read the comp uh it's over here. Somebody said 35 out of 36. Somebody said 28 out of 36. Okay, maybe maybe uh let me see Sam still 30 plus. You guys thought it's 30 plus. Remember it's out 36. Yeah. Okay. If you guys can see my screen, you see a lot of people are saying uh 30 plus. Okay. Okay, you know, I'm going to go back to the go back to this cm. Okay, very good. A lot of different ideas. Um, let me get back to this. Okay, come. I want to hear from a few people. Let's talk about uh Okay guys, you can stop typing inside already. Let's see. Uh why don't somebody raise your hand if you want to share why you're giving the grade? Then uh Roy can can uh can grant the access please. Okay, let's see. Roy, can we let uh some of them speak? Let's see. Okay, I see a couple people raising their hands. I I will uh Okay, Sam. Um we have allowed you to speak. Why don't you share why you think it's uh I think you said it was >> 28. >> Uh what do you say h Sam? Let me see. You said 28 out of 36, right? >> Yeah. >> Okay. Sam, why don't you you share what what do you think the person did? Well, why do you think you deducted some marks? >> He had like a lot of like uh good grammar and good vocabulary, but then I feel like there should be more like information and detail about the couriers. And I feel like it should be like more than one paragraph or two paragraphs uh for singing uh courageous cuz like to have more detail and whatsoever. >> Okay. So you think that he needed more detail uh about the the part of him being courageous, right? In fact, actually Sam, let me ask you, do you think Jimmy was courageous? >> A bit. >> Why? Tell me. Tell me why he was courageous. >> Cuz like he still went there even though he had $10 with him and then he still said uh I will return you the remaining $20 tomorrow >> and he still took a stinging blow from Hug and then >> I see. Uh >> so if I if you take a stinging blow are you courageous Sam? a bit >> a bit okay and then at the ending paragraph I know I know it was a bit small on the screen um but we had to do it online um in the last paragraph he thanked the passerby for being courageous okay um okay so so that's the 28 let's see people who gave it uh higher maybe uh okay >> I see a lot of people a lot of people Thank you so much Sam um >> maybe we go with Uh okay. So some of you are giving it lower. Okay. Maybe we have one more. I think uh Tala um has had his hand up for a while. Why don't we let uh Tia Tala share his thoughts? We can also uh let Tilden uh speak. I saw a request here. Yeah, a lot a lot of people are giving it quite high marks as well. Uh come guys uh Tilden or Tala. Uh either of you can unmute yourself and speak. >> Hello. >> Yep. I can introduce yourself to everybody. >> Uh I give the combo 24 of 36. >> Okay. You give it 24 of 36. Why? Why is it 24? uh because in the story the the boy who was getting bullied didn't actually do the courage ad but it was actually a passer by and then the passer by was not actually one of the main characters but uh more of a side characters. So basically this means that they didn't include the car really include the courageous act or like the main like the like the whole the whole point of the paragraph is supposed to be the courageous act but >> exactly exactly exactly >> but they didn't write on it. >> Okay very good very good tala. So so Tala has caught something. Okay and these are the kind of subtle things right. So in comp coach we are not just a grammar catcher. Okay Tala thanks thanks so much. Maybe Tilden. Uh uh a quick one. >> That's how that one was me. >> Oh, it was Ten. Sorry. Okay. Okay. Great. Uh thanks very much Tilden. Okay. Um so exactly right. So Tilden caught something. Okay. And Combo Coach, we are not just a grammar checker. Yeah. If you want to do grammar checking, if you want to uh just check whether you spelled things correctly, just paste in Microsoft Word. You'll get a red squiggly line. Okay. But what we look for is not just the the grammar, the vocabulary, but we also check for these kind of things, right? Did you actually address the topic properly? Okay, like like what we just discussed honestly uh between Tilden uh and between uh uh Sam um you can see that there's different perspectives. Okay, some say that okay because he dared to go and meet Hugh after school so he's courageous. Uh other people said hey actually but he went but in the end like he was not courageous at all like he got he got punched and then somebody saved him. So how is he courageous? Um I'm not saying that uh either one of these is wrong. Okay. But actually for me it would be best if we write the compo in a way where there's uh it's clearly on point. Okay. That's what I'm saying. Uh I'm not teaching you how to hack the system but I'm teaching you that uh your markers are also human. Each teacher that is marking for PSLE is going to mark a 100 scripts. Okay. Uh we want to make sure it's as clear as possible uh for for the marker that you have been on topic that you did develop it well and so on and so forth. Okay. So when uh we submit that into combo coach. So let's have a quick look. Okay. So once you log in you'll see this page. Okay. you go to compo coach. All right, we have a few themes that you can uh practice on. Uh we have identified a few themes that commonly come out in PSLE. Okay, but uh you can submit your own topic. Okay, so anything that your school gives you uh or my structure gives you you want to practice, anything you find the past year papers you want to practice, uh go to mark any compo, okay, you can type the theme in. So this has been courageous. Uh let's say you want to just write about the picture where the boy is uh standing over another boy. So a boy standing over another boy holding a bag. Okay. And take the compole, paste it in. Okay. So for some of you, you I I think you should practice on fullcat paper because that's what you're going to be practicing with uh for the exam. Uh, but once you're done, parents, you can use chat GPT, you can use clot, just take a picture, ask it to transcribe things out, you'll get the text out. Okay? I I left it like this because I want you guys to check the transcript before you submit it. Okay? And then you simply click this. You double check that everything looks okay. Okay? And then click get my report. Okay? And then it will start to analyze it. Okay? just in interest of time I'll show you what the final report looks like but you'll be analyzing it uh as I mentioned I used to build AI products in government so I I have used the AI models in a in a thoughtful way to make sure that they mark according to the rubrics uh and they can catch some of these nuances that we're already talking about like it actually looks like it could be on on topic but actually uh it's not okay so when we take a look Okay. So in this case, so yeah, so this is the compo that was submitted. In this case, compo coach gave it a 22 out of 36. Okay. Much much lower than what uh the students and families were sharing. Okay. Uh I think some of you did point out 24 22. So this is around uh Ben three. Okay. So actually quite a few of you gave uh this benry result. Some of you gave much higher uh because I think you were focusing on the language. All right. So when we go through you will see that uh remember we talked about the rubrics right? So topic and relevance. First of all did we address the topic? Uh in combo coach what we'll do is we'll give you your band actually per rubric area. Okay. So we won't just give you okay you got 10 out of 18 and don't then we don't tell you what you did well and what you didn't do well okay what we'll do is every single part that I shared about whether it's relevant whether it's developed properly uh whether you use language accurately then do you use a wide range of vocabulary and then the whole thing is it well organized we give detailed feedback for each what does the detailed feedback look like okay so over here um we will highlight where you did Well, okay. So, this composer, I think for sure what it did well is that it set the stage really well, right? Actually, he is bullied the way that he was scared of Hugh and all that. These are the the right setup for somebody uh to show their courage later on in the story. So, you did a great job. Okay? And we will we will highlight areas where you did well. Okay? So, we'll be very specific. Uh you'll notice that this feedback is a lot more detailed already than uh most composition feedback that you receive from teachers. Okay, in school and this not teacher's fault. If you really want to mark like this, it will take you 1 hour per como. Okay, and uh teachers are humans as well. They they need their own time. Uh if they are teaching a 100 students in school uh one composition, they will spend the entire weekend at Starbucks marking. Okay, so it's not uh it is very hard for uh teachers to produce this kind of thing. And that's why I want to create this so that teachers can also focus on where they can add the most value. Okay. So, we do we we point out where you're doing well and then we tell you actually why are you in Ben two. Okay. While the story is about courage, your main character falls into the convenient stranger trap. Jimmy spends the whole story being afraid and when the climax arrives, a passerby suddenly appears to save him. Jimmy never actually acts courageously himself and he even thanks the stranger for being courageous. uh to fully address the the topic, the main character needs to be the one who learns the lesson and takes action. Okay? And then how to improve, make the main character the hero of the story. Okay? True courage is doing the right thing even when you're terrified. And then we don't just point this out. We will show you how to rewrite. Okay? So over here, Hugh raises his fist, but this time Jimmy didn't close his eyes. No, Jimmy said, his voice shaking but surprisingly loud. I'm not giving you my money anymore. Even though his knees were trembling, Jimmy stood his ground. Okay, so this is how guys, this is my daughter if you can see her. Um, well, I'm teaching on a Saturday. Okay, so we we will we will show how to improve and then I put in a few things that I I use to make sure that am I really on on point. I call this the litmus test. Okay, this is something that we'll also be teaching in June to all my instructor students uh in our power up PSLE program. The litmus test is you want to know how you're on on point, whether you have addressed the team. Actually, you just try and summarize your whole story into one sentence. And in this case, you can you can tell I demonstrated courage by watching a passer by chase away the bullies who were bullying me. Okay? Once you write down how you demonstrated courage, uh you can start to see this is problematic. All right? Whereas if you wrote something simpler, I demonstrated courage by standing up to the bully, then it's obviously on point. Okay? So that's what I'm trying to share with you guys. Uh don't feel like we have to study for the exam. Okay? What I'm trying to tell you guys is that uh the examiners are not here to to trick you or trap you. We just want to make the composition very easy to understand. Okay? So this litmus test is one way to spot whether you are on topic or off topic. when you put everything into one sentence and explain how you demonstrated the theme does it make sense or not is it obvious okay and I'll check whether you have used the image uh well okay so over here there's integral okay integral means that you really integrated it well right you use the image perfectly cuz some students uh let's say the let's say for this being courageous compo and there's a boy standing over another boy holding a back sometimes people will write a totally different compo but they just walk past somebody in the corridor standing over another boy holding a bat. Okay, then that is the image has been used in the composition but actually it's not driving the composition, right? Maybe there's another courageous event where he goes to save somebody um uh who who was uh you know maybe he fell down in the drain uh and then it was quite dangerous so he went to save him. that you you walk past a boy sending another o over another boy. If you use the image like that, that doesn't count. Okay? And then you are off topic. You you did not showcase your ability to use the image to drive your story. Okay? So we we do this for every single thing uh every single part of the rubric. We check what we tell you what you did well. We tell you why this band, how to improve. Okay? And then actually here why did this actually score badly for language organization. This is because what we understand from some of our teachers is that there are also internal guidelines where if you are if you are not on topic okay then your language and organization there is a cap. Okay. So this is what we have built into the system. Okay. So frankly I think this student's language is probably above average either a high Ben three or Ben four. Okay. Okay. So when we look at here indeed he's b three. Uh this is a high band three to bend four. Okay. Um but we will check for a lot of things that I think even parents ourselves when I started to prepare students for PSD again there were many many rules I had to revise. So what we look for is um of course what what did he do? Well, he used actually quite a lot of uh sophisticated vocabulary, victimization, immobilized, but when uh but why where was he inaccurate? Actually, we see a lot of this for students. There's this thing called phrasal verb errors, right? Where actually because you write a phrase wrongly, it has a totally different meaning. So, stood up for me. When he said to the passer by, "Hey, thank you. You stood up for me." But he actually wrote stood me up. Parents here, you know, stood me up means uh something very different. It means that you were supposed to meet me but you didn't meet me. So stood me up and stood up for me means totally different things. And um the dialogue rules. Okay. So over here uh many students make this mistake when they write dialogue. If there is a fragment after that hue snapped, then this has to be a comma. Okay. Okay, a lot of students write a full stop. Okay, and and then finally we show we we we do this for every single rubric section. All right. And we will pull together all the little corrections that you have to make. These are the more of the mechanical errors. There's an annotated combo at the bottom of the compbo report. Okay? You will see some parts here where the punctuation is wrong. Uh here where a red palm print appear instantly if we feel that there is a opportunity to uh write it uh in a more of a show not tell way. Right? So a bright stinging handprint blossom across his cheek uh then we will point this out. Okay. So this is grading. Okay. Of course very important is to get good accurate grades uh actual feedback. then you know where you are at. Okay, that's that's part one of compost coach. Okay, I'm going to take a quick pause here just have a look at the questions. Yeah. So, exactly those I think parents who who know, right? Um parents who have seen marking and even when you pay for private tuition, uh thank you very much. This is um this is the stuff that I will use for my own kids guaranteed. And now I'm going to treat all the structure students as my own kids. Make it available to everybody. Okay. Would there be a Chinese CHI? Uh yes. Yes. But we I I'm only one guy working on this because it's very hard to delegate to engineers. Um why? Because what is a good compo actually is not easy to tell and you need to be a good writer, a good student who knows what we are trying to teach students. Then you can build this well. Okay. So I will get to Chinese uh in a bit. Math and math and science you will see something probably around the July period. Okay. uh miss suggestion let us upload a picture of the question yes it's possible um but uh for now this is what we have uh is a is a simple change to make uh but I also think it's good uh it's is already usable today okay uh but yes I I I I'm glad some parents can see this for parents who uh have not paid for private tuition before actually this this level of marking is impossible to get even with a private tutor okay so I'm very happy that all of you can have it today I want you guys to practice is at least once a week. Okay. All right. But you know, I said there's two things, right? There's a weekly practice, but uh if you practice and you keep doing the wrong things, keep doing the wrong things, keep doing the wrong things. Um writing and language, right? Uh for the students here and for the parents as well, you know that the only way to get good at writing is to read good writing. Yeah, you need to see it. You're not going to invent good writing by yourself. You need exposure. Okay? But there's a lot of writing out there. What is good? What is bad? What is suitable for PSLE? What is not suitable for PSLE? What is possible for you to execute on? What is really really too chim uh for you to learn for PSLE? Um, of course, for those of you who I saw you are scoring 33 out of 36 already, you have a good foundation. Okay. Then what I'll do today is I'll show you the toolkit that you need to do to keep that consistently high. But for those of you who are in like the low 20s range, you want to get to 30 plus, actually today's session will be super useful for you because not only do we do weekly practice, but we need to study what good looks like. Okay, so this is my next thing inside combo coach, which I think the discerning parents will realize is extremely rare as well. Okay, and we take a look now. So apart from grading where I give you your score and you notice that there's 604 words. Okay. The next thing I do is that for the image that you you submitted and for the topic that you submitted, I will also write a model comp combo for you. I'll give you a model comp. Okay. Now model compose some parents tell me actually I can just throw this into chat GBT. Right? In fact, that's what I understand some schools are doing now to teach comp writing. and they say take a picture of the exam prompts put it into chat GPT when it comes out then you just study what that uh what what what composition comes out I tell you a few problems okay you you know you you'll notice it when I go through this compo now this compo this model composition is written such that compo coach grader will give it full marks okay so if you want to see what a full marks composition looks like this is it will it really get full marks in PSLE as I mentioned composition unlike things like reading aloud composition it can be quite subjective okay so I wouldn't be surprised if there's a range 33 to 36 but surely these will uh easily score you the highest marks in the composition continuous writing section okay and what do we do what what do we try to do in our model compost now last time uh for those of you who have had older children with my structure before uh in 2017 2018 we at a series of extremely popular composition books called uh mind stretcher a star writing and if you look at those composed books they are very nice compositions because of a few things first they always have a simple plot okay they don't do a complex plot that you cannot execute in the exam if you go to popular and you pick up some model compo books their compositions are 700 words long uh it is is full of twists and turns of course it reads very interestingly but you cannot do in exam. Okay. What we advocate for me personally in an exam 40 minutes write a simple linear combo avoid complicated plots. Okay. And when it's simple we can quickly address the theme. So uh just now Sam mentioned right actually you should have spent two paragraphs focusing on him being courageous. Yes absolutely. You can think of the composition as you have five paragraphs. You have two paragraphs to set the scene, two paragraphs to really go in depth into the into addressing the theme and then sum up. Okay, that's it. And then each paragraph you incorporate a lot of descriptive language then is very clear. It's easy to execute on. Okay, so what do we look for for Ben five writing? Okay, what I I did, okay, so this is not taught in mind stretcher yet, but we're going to cover in the June power up program. I've boiled down uh what I call the mind stretcher toolkit. Okay, and these are like of course you want to write well, there are many many ways to learn, but five things you you should do which are very high value, which means they are obvious to the examiner. Okay, the first thing is that your opening needs to be strong and you set the scene exactly where you need it to be already. Okay, within the first one, two paragraphs, you have already obviously addressed the theme, right? So, if the picture uh you've already addressed the picture, so if the picture is a guy standing over a boy, then that needs to happen either in the first or the second paragraph. Okay? And you start off setting the scene. That means you paint where it is. So, if it's if they're wearing school uniform, it's a school courtyard, right? So you can start it off with uh under Tomato skies uh the school courtyard uh was bleak and empty right and then after that we can continue but in the corner uh there was a boy so sobbing right and then we go to addressing the picture okay so but we try to make sure that our first sentence we set the scene okay you can see what what this does already yeah immediately the examiner knows that you have addressed the topic or you're going to address the topic. But what am I asking you not to do? Okay, what I'm asking you not to do is complex plots, especially things like flashbacks. Okay, again here maybe there's controversy about this, but for me, uh PSL is not the place to use flashbacks. Uh I won some creative writing competitions when I was younger. Of course, we can use a bunch of uh beautiful beautiful literary techniques. But in the exam, if you do a flashback, you know, you look at your watch and suddenly you were thrown back 20 years into the past. Sometimes in the exam, you you don't get to make it back to the present day, you know, and then your story is incomplete. So when you write a complex plot like that, you make it harder for yourself. So, if it were me, uh, and you you you can make up your own mind on the exam, but if it were me, I'm going to write a simple plot that goes from point A to point B, and I'm just going to showcase my language as much as I can. The second thing is that upgrade your verbs and adjectives. So, you know, if you're going to if you say one rule that I set for myself, I try to not use words like walked and said, right? Uh we can crutch, we can limp, uh we can hobble, we can stumble, uh sit, we can whisper, we can gesticulate, uh we can growl. Um but upgrade it, right? Make sure that when you have the opportunity to, you close your eyes, you imagine what this person looks like when he's doing it, and then you come, you use your vocabulary to do it. Impactful dialogue. I'm going to show you a pattern that I I suggest you do at least once or twice uh inside your comp because it not only showcases good organization, it showcases sentence structure variety and it showcases uh vocabulary and descriptive writing. Vary your sentence structures later I'll show you and then keep the ending simple. Okay. So if you look at this, the model compo writes a full mark version. So a simple opening, right? The lane behind the school was completely deserted. I trudged along the cracked pavement, my heavy footsteps echoing against the brick walls. A sharp shout suddenly shattered the afternoon stillness. You can you see the mo I don't waste three paragraphs before I get to the scene. The moment I do this, you know that this is going to start to address the the boy getting bullied. My blood froze in my veins. I crept towards the corner and peered cautiously around the rusted fencing. Okay. What I saw made my stomach churn. Zack, the most notorious bully in primary 6, was looming over a much smaller boy. It was Toby from my class. Toby was cowering on the ground while Zach held his heavy school bag high in the air. A ferocious skull plastered across his face. Okay, image is done. Okay, and then great vocabulary. Okay, so I've shown you that's what setting the scene means. This is what upgrading the verbs and adjectives means. Okay. So, so far, you know, he loomed. He wasn't standing. He loomed. Okay? He wasn't just sitting on the ground. He was cowering, right? Um I didn't just walk along the pavement. I crutched. Okay? Um I crept. I peered cautiously. Okay? So, lots of lots of good vocabulary here already. And I'm I wrote this uh if some of you know uh one of the master teachers at Mind Stretcher, the co-founder, Elvin Qu, he's a great writer. His writing I cannot emulate because why? He writes it in a way that is very accessible to primary five and primary six students. If the primary five and primary six students on this call look at this, there's nothing here that you cannot do. There's no crazy vocabulary. There's no weird sentence structures. There's no random quote that you have to memorize. My blood froze in my veins is a very very basic way of writing. But you can see when it's put together, it's easy to access. And uh Elvin also writes in a way that uh tells the inner story, right? when I crept around us the the corner. I appeared cautiously. Uh you can tell that the the the the narrator is nervous already. Okay. But I've trained the AI to write exactly like that. So now we can produce that model composition for any topic that you want. Okay. And this is really not just throwing to AI. You can see there's a lot of thought that goes into this. Now impactful dialogue. If you look over here, look at this thing here. Okay. This is one pattern that I suggest you guys do. Okay, that means three things here. One, start on a new paragraph, your dialogue. Secondly, you do this thing where you have a dialogue. This uh who said it and then descriptive writing to set the context, right? So, please give it back. Toby's voice tremble. Uh sorry, Toby pleaded his voice trembling. Or it could be uh Zack if you want if you want to put the dialogue in, you know. Uh, you can't make me, Zach scoffed. Uh, his voice slicing through the air uh, like a knife. Okay, so this thing about dialogue, who said it, how he said it, and then the descriptor, it's a very nice way to uh, inject some variety. It has your it lets you use dialogue in a thoughtful way. uh it does it it does it in a very high visibility way because you give the dialogue uh enough sent enough words and then you showcase your vocabulary with this ending part and as well as this descriptor this verb. Okay. So all of these things that uh we have been teaching students in the past uh we have put it into the model compositions. Okay. Vary your sentence structures. If you look over here, one way to check, okay guys, as even those those of you at Scotwell, I will also say that it also depends on your teacher in school. Okay, are they lenient? Are they themselves good writers? Okay, but one way I always check whether I have varied my sentence structures. I try my best not to start any sentence with the with I. Okay, I did this, then I did that, and then I did this. No, you see over here, Zach scoffed. He swung the back out of reach, treating it like a repulsive price. I shrank back against the wall. Every instinct screamed at me to run away. If I intervene, I would inevitably become his next target. My palms grew stick with sweat and my throat went completely dry. Can you see here, guys? This is what I mean by descriptive writing. Right now, is there anything happening in the plot? No. Right? He just swung the bed away and then we captured the the narrator's reaction. This is what I think uh is what I would do in PSL. Simple simple plot, right? You just see him bullying the boy, holding the back, how do you react? And then when you confront him, what do you do? That's it. Okay? Don't need to go from I woke up in the morning. Then I was very happy going to school. But then I got bullied in the in in school and then after school I was going to meet him and then after school I got bullied. Uh and then after that I told the headmaster. The headmaster next day when I tell the guy uh not to do not to do this. You know that kind of plot. you actually spend a lot of time writing the plot instead of showing your vocabulary, right? And you don't have time in the PSLE. So, keep it simple over here. You know, without warning, uh, Zack, unzip the back, turn it upside down. Then, I could not turn a blind eye. I stepped out from the shadows. This is a dramatic short sentence. Basically, every single thing that I think is good for you to notice, I've either annotated here or I've put it out into the vocabulary list for you to to revise. Okay. And then you know drop the back. I added forcing my voice to remain steady. You see this this technique again dialogue uh verb and then descriptive uh writing. Okay. And there you go. And then finally what does the ending look like? I used to think that being courageous meant not feeling any fear. Right. But as I watched Toby sling his heavy back over his shoulder, I knew the truth. Fear will always be there. Courage was simply about choosing to act anyway. Okay? So this is what a good ending looks like. Now for these things, of course, I can just give you this checklist, right? But you need to see it, right? And you need to go and try it, right? So some people ask, hey, are you saying you should go and memorize this? Maybe it's controversial again, but I said I'm saying yes. You know Ben Franklin, Ben Franklin is one of the founding fathers of America. When he wanted to be a good writer, he turned out to be a fantastic writer after a while. But when he wanted to be a good writer, he actually just copied good writers so that he can understand the rhythm of their writing, right? What feels unnatural to you and why are they writing like this. So I think if you want to get good uh try writing the the combo, okay? At least you you wrestle with the topic by yourself, but after that do your corrections. Make sure you know all the mechanical dialogue rules and all that kind of stuff. Okay, those are easy marks to get. Uh but take the model comp really study it. Try and write it out. Write write every sentence out. I guarantee you your writing will start to change. Okay? Because when you write it out, it internalizes much more than reading. Okay? Today I only have a bit of time with you guys. I just have to read through. But what I'm trying to do with Cha is I'm trying to put me in your pocket. Okay? So that anything that I will have written, anything that I will have highlighted for you, anything I will have said to do actually now you can do it at home for free because you're a mind stretcher student. Okay? Right? So it has a lot of stuff and and one last thing that is really really cool. Okay? Apart from annotations, apart from the vocab list, we have this thing over here adapt for other topics. Okay, this is where I I'm also pointing out for parents if you use chat GPT sometimes what you will get is a model comp that cannot be used for any other composition any other topic. Okay, I'll give you a good example. There was one composition about being showing gratitude and then one of the pictures was a flower. Okay. So, Chat GPT when I was working with it wrote uh quite a nice composition actually uh too long. Okay. Too complex but it was about a boy sitting for PSLE and then uh he had a grandmother who was very concerned about him. So every day in preparation for the PSLE she would plant a flower right as a present for him at the end of the PSLE. Then after PSLE he realized he had been ignoring his grandmother. So he went to her house. He noticed the flowers for the first time. Then he helped her to uh tend to the garden after his PSLE and they grew closer uh and they managed to help the garden grow very nicely after PSLE and in this way he said thank you to her. She was also um doing something kind for him. Okay. So quite a beautiful story. But if I change the if I change the uh the picture from a flower to a toy suddenly that plot is really really really really tight to the image. Okay. Okay. So what I tried to do without without making it off point is I tried to make sure that this kind of plot if you learn it uh the model composi if you learn these plots uh they are relatively easy to adapt for other very close by topics whether it's doing the right thing an act of kindness standing up for someone a lesson learned. Okay. And what you can do is that after you have the model comple, you can try and use the same image but different topic. Okay. Or you can change both the topic and image and you try try to write the compole like the model comp. Try to use the same kind of plot, the same kind of vocabulary, but learn how to adapt it. I have the notes here. Okay. Um, okay. I know I've been talking for a while. Um, I'm going to have a quick look at the chat again. Okay. Um, let's see. Where is my chat window? Where's my chat window? Chat. Okay. Is the composition report printable? It will be by next week. Uh for for now, you can just go through. Uh I'm I'm going to speak about reading a lot later. Okay. Are you able to send the compost to me? If you go to CHI's website, okay, let me type to everybody. If you go to Chai's website, uh, compo coach, you have few, you can see about four sample compos over there. Okay, KL O, I'm studying hard and I'm taking notes right now. That's fantastic. Okay, I guarantee you if you listen to this webinar, your marks will rise by at least five five marks. Okay, at the very least because the vocabulary, the sentence structures, these are things that uh a lot of teachers don't teach properly in schools. Uh what what I want to try and do is to make it obvious to you. Um yes, other people can teach it, okay? But I have I've never seen it put clearly for people. And these are the five most uh five this is 10. These are the five most uh high value ways to make your compo obviously good. Okay. Okay. Um, so guys, I'm going to hang around here uh for five minutes, but I think we should take a quick break because after this, I want to talk to you about reading aloud already. Okay. Um, uh, Erica is going to end at 6. Uh, it'll probably go a little bit beyond that, but if you have to go, it's okay. Okay. I'm going to cover reading aloud uh quite quickly. That one is simpler. Uh, so we'll definitely end most of the main content by six, but there's something very important at the end I need to share with you guys. Okay. Alan we is okay. Okay. So guys, um, let's all come back here by 5:20. Okay? Go and take 7 minutes. Uh, go and drink water, take a break. 5:20, come back here. We're going to focus and we're going to go through reading a lot. Okay? I want to make sure that you guys can focus on it because, you know, next weekend we are we have the mind stretcher student achievement awards. The valid Victorians are going to be there. Uh, PSL valtorans and O levels. Every single one of them has said that these special master classes that we conduct really help them for PSLE. Okay. So, I want you guys to be able to focus. Let's take a quick break. 5:20. Uh, come back here. Okay, we'll start sharp. Okay, I'll be here. Uh, you guys can take a break, but I'll be here. Uh, any questions, just type um and then we can I'll answer it for everybody. Okay. Uh, XB, my child is scoring around 27. It's only 3 to four months left to PS. Does he have time to improve? Yes, absolutely. Absolutely. But we got to be strategic. Okay. So maybe for those of you who are still hanging around, I'll share this later. Okay. But uh of course first we need to practice on AI. Okay. Practice makes perfect. Okay. But uh we are going to go through a lot of the uh techniques as well as you can see here we can generate model compose right. what we have done uh in this June PSLE power program. Yeah, I put the link inside uh the chat as well over here, right? What we have done is that we have found 10 model compose that your child should study and we we're going to give them to the to your to the students and make sure that you really really study these 10 because we have so far had 100% accuracy uh hitting the PSLE composition topic. Okay. So we are going to we have identified 10 that mostly cover all the common topics uh easy for students to to study um and we have shortlisted them. So this June PSLA powerup program right we try to focus on uh strategic preparation. So you see for English for combo writing you know I know a lot of a lot of parents are wondering okay what should we do next four months uh we think that you know I don't want you to spend all your time going from the bottom up. I don't think there's enough time already to like oh practice hooks and then practice vocabulary learn a lot of vocabulary uh we need to look at it strategically let us see how it fits together in one whole composition so for compost we we have found uh 10 must know composition plots 10 must know model compose we'll give it to students uh same thing for other components okay because I know of you are major students uh this one is June uh is in June if you haven't signed up I encourage you to sign up uh as soon as you can the slots are already running out. Uh we have done something quite incredible for my instructor parents. Other other centers out there uh they charge like four three $3 $400 for a boot camp. Uh for me I have always found that the boot camp format is not uh 100% ideal because it's a very big group with a small group of teachers. So what we have done actually is that for $250 per subject in June, if you pay $250 in June, you will get four additional classes. Okay, we call these mastery sprints cuz they're not our normal classes. We'll focus it on like the must know for PSA, all the strategic things like grammar, what are the 20 most commonly tested grammar mistakes, combo, what are the 10 must know compo plots, right? It's not just drills anymore. is actually to make sure that you know what you need to know for PSLE. We'll do four small group classes. Okay, that means the the classes will be between you know uh it'll be the small group format. Uh and then we will also have the online boot camp for all students who have paid for this power up PSLE program. Not only that but you can see here right I have eight eight things compo compri synthesis grammar oral sbc listening compre we will give eight exam packs uh physical exam packs to every student who will come for these sessions okay so we are really pulling out all the stops I think this uh is never been done like that in Singapore before um why are we doing it because we know what works uh we need more time with the students so we have created this uh this deal where for outside you pay more, you get less. I think this one you get a lot more and it's very very practical. Okay. So Kyle, I'm going to miss my friends after primary school. Yeah. Yeah. But you know, funnily enough, a lot of my best friends are in secondary school. As people start to learn more about themselves, then uh you know, then then you have more stable friendships. Okay. Is it a must to write a compbo topic in a compo? Absolutely. So if you look at the model compositions, I always do it uh properly. Right? I don't do it in a very awkward way, but we have to we we should in the beginning and the end try to address the topic as clearly as possible. Uh Willen, what is your question? Will the AI be able to send the notes to other people? No. No. Okay. Do I need to opt in for the free trial to look at the compositions? Uh, no. You can look at it on the on on the public page. Okay. But uh you can uh but you for all the parents here, if you're mind parent, you don't have to go through the free trial route. Okay. You just use the ju just just click the the page where you over here. Okay, go to Chi pricing over here. Have a mind treasure code. Redeem. Okay guys, I'm going to pause this for like 1 minute. Okay, I'm just going to grab some water. I'll be right back. I'm going to start in 1 minute's time. Okay. Okay. Um, quickly address a few questions. Does CHI offer to student only sign up for the June power up? Nope. It's available to all my schedule students. Okay. But the June power up uh because you pay additional fee, you get actual teachers in the classroom, four mastery sprints, one full online boot camp, uh, conducted by the master teachers. Okay. Okay to reinforce a couple of things that uh uh that we are covered in the classroom and then eight exam packs per subject right actually we have seen because we have launched it this year like this uh almost 50% of my instructor parents have signed up already okay and we are starting to run out of slots so if there are people here who have not signed up yet I I suggest you just take a look um of course it's up to you you may have already your preparation plans but the way I designed it working with the curriculum team is that what is the must know things. So, for example, in science, uh not just more practice questions, right? But I've gotten them to extract out, uh the 20 most common concept traps, okay? What are things that people always mess up, right? Like, uh the difference between the gullet as well as the esophagus, right, for respiration and digestion, always mess up. Uh what are the common mistakes uh like um in answering? So, I I've gotten them to extract out answer templates for common question types. This is also to help our students revise properly, right? Like where if we for example energy transfer questions, we always have to say uh because this the height has increased then the amount of gravitational potential energy has increased. We have to talk about the change not that because it is higher than there is gravitational potential energy. So these are things that uh we have really tried to make very practical. I think uh you guys will get tremendous value out of it. Uh but please take a look and make your own make your own decision. Okay. Well, according to this permanent throat damage as in PS got oral. Okay. Yeah. So, um we don't we don't take into account accommodations. We just mark. Okay. Okay. I can't reset password. Will ven I know you are typing in capital letters. If you could turn off your cap cap slot, that would be great. Um let me take a look after this. Okay. All right. Thank you, Willen. Hey, Augustia, see you typing all sorts of things. Hopefully, it is your hopefully it's your dog. Okay, come. Let's get started reading aloud. Okay, everybody. So, reading aloud. Okay, I hope everybody is back already. Let's get started. All right. Okay. What am I going to cover? I'm going to quickly cover how you are marked and then some uh some uh common myths that we have heard. I'll quickly disabuse you of it and then after that I want to do uh some live practice and I'll show you chai. Okay. Okay. So maybe in the chat again uh people can just message me uh show me tell me like what you most recently got for your reading your reading aloud. I know you guys sent me above uh but is is way way back in the chat. Okay, generally quite good I think. Okay, good. Good. I would say a lot of you are at least bent four. Okay, very very good. Okay, I'm happy to hear that. Okay, so how are we going to get full marks? Okay, because this one unlike composition I think you should aim for full marks. Okay, and you should not rest until you get there. Okay, biggest oral challenge maybe can some of you can share for reading a lot. What are some of the common mistakes that you make? Why are you not getting full marks? Um uh guys, uh just type okay. Why are you not getting full marks? Choking on my saliva. Okay. No expression. The S and T sounds very good. Nervousness. Fast reading. Fantastic. I get nervous. Reading too fast. I mess up the words. Yeah. You see when I speak fast so I mess up words. Okay. Reading in a monotone rush. I got no expression complicated. Okay. Very good. Okay. So what we always find actually is that the most common issues. Okay. Okay, I go from basics to the advanced and this doesn't apply uh just to oral. In fact, for some of you, you may know that Mind Stretcher uh over the past um two years, we now run the top public speaking school in Singapore. Why is it that whatever we do, we want it to be good? Because we we know how important this stuff is. Okay, so Master Speakers, our students have literally won every single speaking competition in Singapore. Okay. And we have the highest distinction rate uh in Singapore for the Trinity public communication exam. Okay. So we know what we are doing not just for PSLE but for the life skill of communicating. And the most important thing the first thing you fix speak at a moderate pace. Okay. If you speak too fast from there then on everything is uh is a problem. You speak too fast, uh you're going to make a lot of mistakes because you can't read in advance. You speak too fast, you're going to misread a word. You speak too fast, even if you vary your tone, it's they cannot hear, right? And if you speak too fast and then there's no pauses and then I make a lot of mistakes and then I stutter, then it's very obvious to the teacher that uh you have made a mistake. Okay? So speaking too fast. The next thing is speaking too softly. Okay? Reading and speaking at the end of it, huh guys, very important. I'm sharing this with you even before I talk about the rubrics because this is these are the the key messages for parents and students to understand. Speak at a moderate pace. Speak up. Why? Because reading and speaking is entirely about the impression that you give to your to your teacher and to your examiner. In the real world, it's also about the impression that you give to the other party talking to you. Okay? So if you speak too softly, you are going to find that you are you come across as not a confident reader even if you have read everything well. Okay. So if you want to get full marks 15 out of 15 speak at a moderate pace speak up. Okay. You don't need to shout. Now not telling you to shout. Don't tell everybody that Moses this president scholar told me to shout in my examiner. Not asking you to do that. But speak up. Okay. And once you have this actually the rest are a bit easier to do. you will be able to pause just like for me as I'm thinking I'm pausing I can't do that if I keep speaking non-stop and because I speak at a moderate pace then I can vary my tone right I can emphasize certain things speak with expression and then I can vary my tone because I am speaking slowly I have a lot of time to showcase what I can do with my voice right and eating your words uh this is something I always focus on as well. You see when I speak to you guys I don't have a exam voice and a normal voice. I've always looked up to Lie Kuwanu and then today President Tam the way that they speak they speak so clearly in all situations and it lets them be effective communicators. Okay. So uh these are the few challenges that we always see and this is what we'll fix in CH AI. Okay. Now, before we get to the rubrics, just want to quickly disabuse you guys of a few things. Okay? Now, uh in the chat, okay, I'm going to ask you guys a few things. You tell me true or false. Okay? Okay. Uh the first piece of advice, make sure you make eye contact with your examiner. Do you need to do that or you don't need to do that? True or false? Yeah, true in SBC. Very good. Okay. But false in reading. Yeah, in reading just read. Okay. Secondly, you need to memorize the passage so you can maintain eye contact with the teacher. True or false? Yeah. False. Good. Last but not least, uh you need to use hand gestures while you're reading. That that counts. Okay, good. But you see just now some people were saying that they got penalized for pointing at the words. Okay, so you you need to know um that guys uh that there's also a whole range of uh standards being applied in school. That's why I put this slide here so that we can talk about what we understand from the rubrics, okay? And what we know to be true. So if your teacher tells you something else in school, just make sure that you know for reading the reading aloud section is just reading. Okay, just make sure that we are accurate in reading, expressive in reading, we're fine. Okay, so all of them are false. Okay, now what is inside the rubrics? Okay, parents and students just take note. There's three parts. Okay, even though there's only five bands, okay, it's not just looking at one thing. They're looking at three things. Or rather, put it this way, they're looking for three things. Okay? So, if we can make these obvious, that's how we score well. Clear, consistent pronunciation, fluent with appropriate pauses, effective variation of pitch and tone. Okay? So, they're looking at your pronunciation. Are you fluent? And when they say fluent, they're actually looking at pauses. It's in the rubrics. Okay? It's not a general impression. is in the rubrics that are looking for pauses. Effective variation of pitch and tone. Okay, look, it's effective. It's not whether you vary your pitch and tone. Okay, so you're not there to sing a song. Okay, come. So guys, so there's five five bands is out of 15 looking at pronunciation, fluency, appropriate pauses, and then variation of pitch and tone. Okay, so uh raise of hands, who wants to try reading? Okay. And then let's try and see where everybody is at. Okay. Let's Yeah, I'm going to go back to Zoom. Till then, till then, I gave you a chance just now already. Okay. We we let other people try. Don't keep spamming the chat, please. Hey, Willen, let's try. Mr. Capital Caps locks. Okay. Can we let uh Willan unmute himself? >> Hi. >> Hello. Will Hi. Can you introduce yourself to everybody? >> I'm Willen from Pong Primary School. >> Okay. Hey. Hi. Nice to meet you, Willen. Uh, okay. I'm going to make this full screen. Okay. So that you can read it. >> Okay. >> I think I'm blocking our part, right? Okay. Let me close this. Hey, uh, you guys can, can you tell me if you can see the whole screen? >> Uh, your face is kind of blocking some part of it. >> Sorry. But is it handsome? >> Okay. Okay. Yeah. I turn off my video. Okay. Hang on. Huh? How can you see it now? >> Uh, your muscle soul is still there though. >> Okay. >> It's okay. I can still I can still see clearly. It's okay. >> Hey, wait, wait, wait. I want you I want you to the full No excuse. Okay. Hang on. Let me turn this off. How do I share? Stop the Okay. Oh, wait. I need to share the screen content only. Okay. Oh, is it now clear? >> Yeah. >> Would you prefer my face back on? >> Uh, it's okay, I guess. >> Okay. Okay. All right. So I give you 10 seconds. Just just look through first. Okay. So of course it is harder than your PSLE because PSLE you have 5 minutes to to look through but also prepare for your SPC. So you just look through familiarize yourself. So for the parents here who are not familiar there is a uh one of the changes that came out is that there's now a scenario attached to the reading passage. Okay. And what they are trying to look for is that can the student show awareness of how they have to adapt their reading to different scenarios. So in this case, Willen, can you read out the scenario first for everybody? >> It is your turn to present at show and tell during an English lesson. You have prepared the script below and will now read it aloud to the class. >> Okay, great. Are you are you ready? >> Yeah. >> Okay, let's give it a try. Okay, whenever you're ready, go ahead. Good morning everyone. For show and tell today, I've brought along two postcards of the Jodi River. They are my grandmother's prized possessions because they are possibly a century old. The first postcard shows a bustling scene of the Jodi River. Can you see these boats along the river? Sadly, they don't exist anymore. Now, there are river taxis which tourists can board for a short ride. And during the cruise, they can admire the National Theater and the newly constructed art center. I asked my grandfather what was the most memorable to him about the river. He said, "Long ago, my friends and I used to swim in the river. Some naughty boys would even push their friends in fully clothed." The second postcard shows a wooden bridge across the river. Do you know it was built entirely by the villagers? It's amazing that it had lasted over two decades before it was demolished. I come to the end of my presentation. I hope you found it interesting. Thank you for your attention. >> Okay, very good. Very good. Well done, Willen. >> I stumbled a lot. >> Okay, let's talk about that. Let's talk about that. So, before I ask everybody to grade you, uh, Amanda says, "This guy is good at reading." I think you are okay. But what would you what grades would you give yourself? >> I mean like band two or something like 12. >> Uh Ben four. You mean? >> Yeah. Oh, sorry. I got it wrong. >> Okay. What What would you give yourself 12 out of 15? What What do you think you did wrong? >> Like I stumbled a lot and I think I read a bit too fast and my puzzles weren't really that good. >> H What do you think you did? Well, >> I think my expression >> I I I think everybody in the crowd would also agree. Uh very expressively red. Um let me get my face back on so I can talk to you. Okay. Uh okay. So in the chat now I want to see uh what people thought his grades would be. out or 15. >> Okay. Very good. Yes. I I would say it's probably around there. Around 12. >> Um 12 to 13 depending on how strict your teacher is. Okay. But I will give it I will give it a 12. Right. >> Why? Because Will, you see the um you were so excited to read, right? Um and I know the moment you started you started to feel yourself going very fast already and then it's very hard to slow down. Okay. So a few things where I think over here they are my grandfather's prized possessions. You started to stumble cuz you you were going at a bullet train speed here already. Good morning everyone. For show and tell today I brought along two postcards of the Jodi River. Okay. And um and then I think over here as you sped up again, I asked my grandfather what the most memorable to him about the river. Now I know you know that you started to mess up so you lost a bit of confidence here. Okay. But I think you recovered well. You you read on here fully clothed. You even had a British accent. Um so yeah, I think in general uh very expressive, well done there. But I think see the thing about reading aloud, right? Okay. Remember my goal is not to help you guys score well. My goal is to help you guys get full marks. Okay? And you want to get full marks, you need to avoid obvious mistakes, okay? Which means that if you swallow some S's and swallow some T's, usually it's okay. You just make sure that right up front you pronounce stuff really clearly so that the examiner has an impression that you read very well. Right? Good morning everyone. For show and tell today, I've brought along two postcards of the Jodi River. Okay. So, the first thing I think if you want to score full marks is just avoid the obvious mistakes. Okay. And you can only do that when you read at a moderate pace and you give yourself time to read ahead. There are no way you're going to do it perfectly if you speed read. Okay. All right. Somebody wants to try. Uh let's do one more and then after that I'll show you chai. Okay. Till then, sorry. I'm going to let other people try first. Okay. Come. Let's uh I want to go. Is is that is Jinny C can we let Jinnie try please? Uh Roy if you don't mind Jenny if you can if you see the unmute button then unmute then uh I'm very happy though that everybody is trying to try okay what you guys are going to do is you're going to try on chi and I have a special challenge for all of you okay some uh quite fun prizes at the end uh but don't worry today let me just um oh not not jennish uh jinny g i n y >> let me see uh is unmuted already. >> Hello. I can I can Who is this? >> Jenny. >> Jenny. Hey, nice to meet you, Jenny. Uh, can you speak up? Speak up a little bit and then introduce yourself to everybody. >> Uh, school. >> Okay. Which school are you from? >> Okay. >> Okay. And you are you are from you're in P6 this year? >> Yeah. >> Okay. Okay. I'm not going to ask you to do this one. Okay. We're going to do a different a different uh practice passage. Okay. So, first of all, can you just read out the scenario to everybody? >> You are presenting tips on being a good neighbor during a class discussion. >> Okay. Uh Jenny, you're going to have to uh speak a bit more loudly into your microphone. Okay. But I'm going to turn off my video first. Okay. You tell me when you can see uh when you can see everything. Okay. Hang on. Huh? Let me see. Okay. Can you see the passage clearly? >> Yes. >> Okay. Okay. When you are ready, you can have a why don't you take 15 seconds, calm yourself down, have a quick look at the first few lines, then we'll get started. >> Do all of you ever wonder what makes a neighborhood truly feel like home? Well, let me tell you. It's not just about it's not just the houses or parts. It's the people. Being a good neighbor may seem simple, but it has a big impact on those around us. Last week, I helped my elderly neighbor, Madame Ling, carry her groceries upstairs. "Thank you," she said with a warm smile. "I don't know what I would have done without your help." That small moment reminded me how even tiny actions can make a difference. Being considerate, like keeping noise levels down, returning borrowed items, or even just greeting your neighbors, goes a long way. I once borrowed a ladder and returned it with a thank you note. My neighbor, Mr. Raju, smiled and said, "Come over anytime." Communities thrive when we look out for one another. Whenever it's organizing a book block party, sharing tools, or simply saying hello, these acts build trust and create a sense of belonging. So, what's the lesson here for all of us? Being a good neighbor doesn't take much. Just a little kindness, a bit of effort, and maybe a ladder or two. Let's all do our part to make our neighborhoods friendlier and more fun for everyone. I hope you find these small tips of mine useful. >> All right. Wait. Well done. Well done, Jinny. Well done. What do you think? What do you think of your your attempt? >> I stumbled it at I stumbled a bit at the front part. The it's not about the houses of art. >> What do you say? It's not about right. I think I think that's what you said. >> Yeah. >> Okay. And what else? How many marks would you give yourself? >> I don't know. >> No, you cannot not know. So, so one thing I want to do in my classes, you you may give a wrong answer, you may give a right answer, but I want to give an answer. Okay. Because we need to know uh we need to know how we do in the exam. Really important. Okay. It is a game. Okay. If we don't know the rules and we don't know how the game is played, then even when you're a good student, which I it sounds like you are actually, then we can get into trouble. Okay. So, why don't you talk me through roughly what do you think your marks are? >> Right. 12 >> out of 15. 12 is it? >> Yeah. >> Okay. Where do you think you uh you could have done better apart from the slip up at the front? I also stumbled a bit at the block party cuz I accidentally said book. >> You said uh whenever. Right. >> Yeah. And also the whenever. >> Okay. Those those are stumbles. Okay. So stumbles I think. Yes. I agree with you. When it's obvious uh actually you can do a better job recovering from it, right? So you don't uh keep up the stumble. Uh and anything else you thought you could have done better? >> I could have gone a bit faster. >> A bit faster. Actually, I thought your reading speed was was perfect. Um, I thought actually you could have incorporated a bit more variation in your tone. Okay. Uh, you read you tend to read a little bit softly. Um, you have something what is called a downward inflection. So, you actually a lot of great speakers have the downward inflection. One very famous speaker is Barack Obama, right? When you say things like communities thrive when we look out for one another. Okay, it goes down. It makes everything sound very uh authoritative. Okay, but uh it cannot be like that for the whole passage. Okay, so communities thrive when we look out for one another. Whether it's organizing a blog party, sharing tools, or simply saying hello, these acts build trust and create a sense of belonging. Okay. See, I did the downward inflection again at the end, but in the middle I let it go up. Okay. So, we need to consciously think about the shapes of what we're saying and say it. Okay. Okay. But very good. I I would also agree. I think people in the chat. Okay. So, now you know this kind of feedback where we go through, okay, what do you do well? What do you do badly? These are things that I want to do at home. Okay. And I know a lot of people are saying, "Hey, why why was why was I not picked?" Because you see guys, reading aloud is a one-on-one activity. Okay. I cannot pick all of you guys. Okay? So that's why I built something like CHI so that you can practice at home. Okay? Let me show you guys what a CHI reading report looks like. And bear in mind, I I think that this is probably the most important component to get right. Okay? because it's so it's so useful. Speaking well is so useful. I think the MOE did a great job by increasing the weightage. Um and now you have something that you can practice. It'll be useful for your exam, useful for your life. Okay. So let me show you what reading aloud looks like. Okay. So for reading aloud um you will be able to Okay. For example, go to I'll show you guys from the start. Okay. So you go to the reading aloud page. Yeah, you can choose from one of our various uh passages. These are all PSL style, so the vocabulary is accessible. Um, it is about quite Singaporean kind kind of themes. Okay. Um, why don't I try something and we can see how I do. Um, because you guys are are pretty good actually. I find you guys really good. Okay. So, I want you guys to just practice. Make sure that uh by the time you hit PSL, can can somebody tell me how many days are there from now to PSL? 89 very fast. Okay. 72 like 3 months. Okay. Very good. Okay. I think your oral might be shorter. Um but you know if you do one practice every day of reading aloud that means you have done 80 practices by the time you go there. Okay. I want you guys to do that as a minimum. Okay? Make sure you do it so that when it's time to read on the spot, you have made all the mistakes that you need to make already. You have gotten all the feedback that you need to get. Then you just let your natural self perform. Okay? But let me try. Let's see practice now. Okay. And even I may not score score marks, but what I'm looking at is not just the marks. Marks I'm trying to make sure that I'm in band five. Okay? when you hit band five, whether they give you 14, 15, or 13 is really subjective as well. Okay? But what I'm looking at is the feedback. What am I doing well? What can I do better? I'll start. Good morning, teachers and friends. Have you ever stood at the bottom of a steep hill and wondered how you ever climb it? Life can feel like that sometimes, overwhelming and impossible. But here's the thing. Every great journey begins with a single step. When I first joined the track team, I was the slowest runner. During our first practice, I finished last panting and embarrassed. Why even try? I thought my coach told me, "You don't have to be the best today. Just aim to be better than yesterday." So, I started small. I ran one more lap than the day before. I shaved off a few seconds from my time. Each little improvement didn't feel like much. But over weeks and months, those small steps added up. By the end of the season, I wasn't the slowest anymore. The same principle applies to everything. Whether it's studying for exams, learning a skill, or overcoming challenges, break your goals into smaller pieces, take it one step at a time and keep going. Remember, success isn't about giant leaps. It's about the small, consistent steps that lead you to the top of the hill. You don't have to see the whole path. Just take that first step. So, take that first step. Your journey starts today. Oh, what do you guys think? Can pass, guys? Let me see. I pull up the chat. 14. Who gave me 14? Who are you? Tilden, that's cuz I didn't call you just now. 13. Talia, what did I what did I do badly? Okay. So, generally people think it's Ben five. Okay. And what do I give you guys when you do a recording? Okay. So, when you do a recording, yeah, generally speaking, guys, one another thing to just take note of is that PSLE is relative. Okay? You're going to be speaking together with a lot of other students. So, as long as you do a performance, a recording, a reading that is free of mistakes, relatively expressive, you're going to get full marks. Okay? Now, today I know we're a little bit critical. We're trying to point out certain stuff. What I want you guys to avoid is the obvious mistakes and then just vary your voice. Speak consistently, speak clearly, you will get full marks. Okay? So, what does it look like? So again for pronunciation, fluency, expressiveness, I'll tell you guys which band you are in for each of them. Okay, I'll give you an overall score and now we start to do things that you can't really get in schools. Okay, first of all, this grade right is really important. Uh many people can give you feedback but this one we I have tuned it so that it gives you the same grades as our mind stretcher master teachers. Okay, so you can you can put some faith in this grading. Okay. But now, as I mentioned, it's not just about the grades. It's about getting better. So, when you go into the pronunciation side, okay, again, I do a few things. I tell you what you did well, right? And because we're doing this through uh AI, you can see I can actually extract out uh things that I can extract out the clips. Okay. So, hang on. Let me make sure I'm sharing my audio. Share sound. yourself speaking. Okay. I remember attending the school's open house. I'm sure so you you'll be able to hear yourself speaking. Okay. And uh we will go through what are the areas where you where you make pronunciation errors. Okay. So over here uh make sure the a sound sounds like a as in they not ah creativity not creativ creativity right so us Singaporeans we tend to swallow the middle of our words so you'll be able to see where you make mistakes okay uh now we we don't only just show you we don't show you every single mistake you made okay because at the end of the day they're looking for clear and consistent pronunciation they're not looking for 100% correct pronunciation So I've already in here use AI to filter out what are the most obvious ones uh that will affect your score and then I also capture actually every single thing that our analyzer flags. Okay. So this one you can take it as feedback as well, right? This one is very common. A long e, right? Create creativity feels instead of feels creativity. Uh the ending ses uh expect right not expect. Okay. So all of these here you can hear yourself saying it as well as the uh what what a proper reading would sound like. Okay. For fluency, you see this is again like we don't just ask uh whether you are fluent or not. In my opinion, there's a particular speed to read at. So um I measure your word per minute through the entire thing. If you can stay close to this, that's great. Okay, I want you guys to get into the habit of what is a natural speed to speak at. If you go online, you search for Taman Sham Gatnam's interviews, you see the speed that he speaks at. I think that is a perfect speed. It gives him a lot of time to think. Uh it will give you a lot of time to think as well. Okay, so that's where I've calibrated it at. And I also particularly look for pauses, right? A few sentence boundary pauses where you could have actually spoken and incorporated some some appropriate pauses. And then finally, this this thing about expressiveness. You know this is one where many teachers in school just tell their students to be more expressive. But how can they demonstrate and many times they cannot because Singaporean are not expressive to begin with. So what I've done here is that for each uh passage here, I've gone to identify which are the sentences that you read a little bit monotonously and then I let you hear you versus a very expressive reading of that sentence. Okay, I I think my my my sound sharing is not working. But when you guys do the report, you guys should take a look at this. Okay, when you guys go to before you start a passage, I will always give you this screen. Okay, before you click practice now, you'll be able to see actually my suggestion of how you should read this passage. Right? So, you start measured and contemplative, thoughtful and reflective. Right? Choosing a secondary school felt like one of the biggest decisions of my life. Okay? So, I've annotated everything here. the the curriculum team has also helped to curate this, make sure that uh it's something that we agree on and you can hear what a model reading sounds like. Okay, once you listen to this, in fact, a lot of students last year when we first launched this, they got very very good just by listening to the model reading and trying to copy it. Again, it's just uh for example, for some someone like Ginnie, right? I think you're actually quite a strong reader. Now, what we need to do is to have a much bigger dynamic range in the voice. you're confident, uh, you don't make many mistakes. Now, let's go even further. Okay, so we click this. We can listen to what it sounds like. Just try and read along. Try and copy. Every time it goes up, we try and go up. Is this the only way to read it? Of course not. There's many ways to read a passage. Okay? But what I want to do is I want your range to increase so that when you feel like doing it, you can do it. uh just like for me just now when I was reading I purposely just tried to read things in a different way at certain points so that the examiner knows that I am trying to vary my tone. Okay. Okay. So that is uh reading aloud. Okay. So um I wanted to announce this challenge. This is just for fun of course. I mean uh you guys practicing for your PSLE is very important. uh and I want you guys to have fun doing it as well. Okay, so uh starting from next week, okay, I'll be announcing this to the whole of Mind Stretcher, but since you guys took some time out of your Saturday, I give you guys a sneak preview and some early head start. Uh from now until the end of June, okay, next one and a half months, um the three students who get the most number of full mark attempts on CHAI, uh we will award them one Universal Studios Singapore ticket each. Okay, this is just uh a fun thing that we're doing. Uh I hope you guys uh find it fun practicing, but most importantly, I hope you guys practice as much as you can. Okay. Um now, I know we're coming up to six soon, so I just wanted to to for those who are not around during the break, um how does this pair with what you're doing in mind stretcher? Okay, first of all, this stuff is allows you to practice at home. Okay, but I know for some of you, you want uh more guidance. So as I shared with uh folks during the break uh mind stretcher we have put together this June PSLA powerup program. Okay. It is I think the first of its kind in Singapore for about $250 additional in June. We not only conduct four extra classes but we also conduct an online boot camp for your stu for students uh done by our master speakers and we issue eight exam packs per subject. Okay. I'll take this time now. This one I didn't cover during the break. I want to show you guys what I mean in the exam packs. Okay, these are not small little materials. So, Mavis, our head of English is on the call. These are things that uh we have all been working on uh in the composition pack. We will go through right see over here the the four small classes we call them mastery sprints because we're going to cover the very strategic things for preparing for this component. Okay, these are not like our usual classes. So, we will cover some stuff during the M mastery sprints and cover things in the boot camp. Okay. So, we'll go over uh framework for how to write, right? So, in combo coach and in chai compo coach reading aloud, we let you get graded. We show you the model compositions. But if you want uh the curated list of composition topics, the composition plots that our English team has spent time checking through making sure that this is ready for PSLE, uh please consider coming for uh our PSLE powerup program in June. Okay. Uh we I think we have the materials I've been looking through, they're really good. Uh we don't do this just for composition. We do this for every single uh component. So grammar, we find the most common tested grammar mistakes. uh oral SBC we short list uh 10 must know SBC topics and we give you the pointers that you need to use um again these are just very practical and from there if you have a firm foundation you're confident then you can s your far way during the exam you can come up with new things during the exam okay but if you're not confident if you want to get to a different level then actually take a look at this I think it's very practical uh we do the English and Chinese they mirror each other actually our Chinese program uh we are seeing a lot a lot of signups and we don't have a lot of classes. So if you want help with Chinese uh we do the same thing um where we again we short list uh uh plots model compositions for you to take a look at okay and we bring you through and revise all the critical things that you need to know as a mind student uh for the math and sciences. Uh I was sharing during the break as well that these are not just more practice papers. Okay, I have asked them to focus really on one the highest frequency topics that come up for the exam and two uh don't just let students do practice questions. Make sure that all the answer keys they incorporate uh the mustos for exams right for energy questions energy transfer we need to get the direction increase decrease inside there uh so on and so forth okay so for math and science they have been combing through all the past year papers if you want to benefit from the team's work uh please do consider uh we're conducting this during June uh morning afternoon uh evening as well uh if you cannot make your regular time slot uh if you cannot make for a certain time slot. We are conducting this across mind stretcher. So there's at least like 300 different classes per week for you to choose from. Okay? Uh per subject. So I'm sure you can find a slot if you want to. And then the online boot camp will be held in week four. Okay? I'm looking forward to seeing you guys there. As I mentioned also, I'll be conducting these kind of um seminars uh every one or two weeks. Okay? Especially as I launch new things in CHI. The next one coming up will be SPC as well as listening compre. Um I will go and sort out how to let you guys all join the WhatsApp group. Uh I understand we hit our our limits already. Uh that is really the size of the people who are interested in this cuz there after the straight science article we also had an influx of people. So um can you guys please look out on the Luma event for this one? I will share a blast through there. Everybody who has registered there I will share a blast of uh instructions of how to sign up for the Chairi community and I'll be making all the announcements through there. Okay. Um, so Safilia, can you share again what we should key in for password and username for Chi? Uh, you have to create this yourself. So when you go and redeem your mind stretcher research preview code, right? You go to the login page. Then if you don't have an account, you click create account. Okay? Then you create your account already. Then you can uh once you create account, then you can go and key in the access code. Uh okay guys, uh that's really all I have for you guys. Uh for those of you who want the the link, I'll paste in the chat one more time. Uh the link to Chi is also in the chat. Um Xavier, the model compo is generated when you submit a compo. Okay. And if not, you can also check it out on uh some model compos on Treyi compbo coach. Okay. I I see a lot of people have signed up. I'm I'm really glad uh I hope my my goal is for every munch student to come because we have really spent a lot of time putting together the most important things for each subject. Okay. Uh otherwise I'll be here for the next uh 5 10 minutes. Anything that you guys want to ask I'll be around. Uh please go ahead. Will I know you can't reset your password? Let me go and take a look. Okay. George Wong, is it free? Okay. That's why you guys should join at the start. Okay. Uh it is free for mind stretcher students. Yes, Gory, you can leave. Okay. Thanks very much, guys. Uh have a great rest of the weekend. Talk to you guys soon. Okay. Uh we have some interesting things on math and science. Uh we will release it when we're ready, but for now it's English first. Uh for the power program, yes, the the classes will be recorded. I encourage you to to book the the makeups with the mind app. Now you can do makeups across the whole manure system. So you should attend it uh the inerson class. I think it's most effective for your students. But if you're traveling then yes it'll be recorded. Johan can I read one passage? You just read your eye. Okay. I have to get back to my kids too but I'll be around until 610. Uh Sean, yes. Uh so so I'm currently the deputy CEO of Mind Stretcher. Okay. So I I lead the company. Um and then for the boot camps, I'll be at some of them. Amanda, yeah, if you have an enrollment uh with Mind Stretcher, then uh you can uh sign into CHI for free. Uh if not, it'll be $25 a month. Sarah, yes, I think it is a game changer, but uh this is like literally 1% of what I what I have in mind. Uh when I'm done, if you guys have younger kids, I think you guys will have even more help. How to join the boot camp? Good question. Uh can you go to this link? Rohan mind stretcher PSL power but subjects. Uh from here you'll be able to register. Uh Niha not able to join Chai. Can you can you tell me what you're what you're seeing? Yes. So, so it's not a revision class for existing students. Uh the boot camp is brand new material. Okay. Where we go through all the strategic things that you need to know for each subject, right? Because we need extra time with the students and we spend a lot of time preparing these eight exam packs. We focus on exactly all the techniques, the question types for S&T, the model compos for compo. Okay. So we really try to be very practical. Email ID login and stuck there. Yeah. So you got to create an account. Uh Try, you go and click the create account button and then you'll be able to create an account. Do you think it boost my confidence in talking to a real person? Absolutely. So actually with my son, he's 6 years old. I let him read some simpler passages. It also helps him to speak more clearly. Okay. So, the the stuff that we're doing here is very practical also for real life. Okay. But we got PSL right in front of us. Let's let's do it. Jared, is it worth it to pay? I guarantee you it's worth it to pay. Go ahead. Do I teach other subjects? Uh, yes, I do. Um, I was strong at all subjects. Uh, and I have some ideas of how to teach better at various subjects. But making my way slowly through the whole MRE system. Mr. I think is already doing well. Okay. I think the quality is there. We try and keep our fees affordable. Um but now with technology and now with a few things that I've picked up over the years, I'm going to be making my stretcher better and better. We swan how to redeem the code. It is at will the price increase? Yes, Jared. That's a good question. it will definitely increase as I put more things inside. Okay. Do I recommend other AI? Um I mean I think chat GBT and CL can be helpful for for certain things but especially if uh you're not familiar with the syllabus, you may learn the wrong things. In fact, I was giving a talk at RSM on Monday. Um and then one of the parents in the crowd, they asked me actually my son is using cloth to prepare for chemistry paper tomorrow. Um, and my husband tells him no, but I am telling him actually you should just prompt carefully. But we're all a bit worried because he used cloth to prepare for physics last week and he failed. This is a very common thing because if you're not using it correctly, it's just garbage in garbage out. Okay. So, um, for me, I'm trying to build the things that I think we need, things that I can stand behind. It won't be perfect just like how a teacher is not perfect, a human is not perfect, but I think it's a lot better than what we have today. For boot camp, what subject do we teach? We do all four. All four subjects. English, math, science, Chinese. No higher Chinese for this time around. Uh Trapy, if an account of this email already exists, please log in to continue verification. Then you got to log in with your account. Is it 250 per subject? It's about 242 per subject. Yeah. And there's bundle discounts if you sign up for more than one. Yeah. But I'm trying not to emphasize too much on the price. I think the price is already uh way way way uh better deal than anything you find out there. Just look around. Um nothing comes close that they people conduct four classes, a boot camp, all for less than what they charge for a monthly fee. So we're trying to do do this well for everybody. Um trying to keep keep the students in mind. Jared, when did I create this? I've been working on CHI since last year. Uh the P fixes last year, they use a very early version. There's some issues, but but even last year, we graded 3,000 3,000 reading allowed attempts. We graded uh 2,000 plus compositions. This year, I expect it to be a lot more. Uh there's no higher mother tongue uh for boot camp. Uh but you take a look at the Chinese. Um I I I would say that for high mang don't come for the boot camp. It is not at the right level. What's the maximum amount of marks I can improve? The sky is the limit. Wherever you want to go, as long as you practice, you can get better. Where to find a recording? Well, we'll send it out over Luma. Are you the CEO of Mind Stret? Yes, I am. Uh you go. I'm still on video actually. You want to say hello to everybody? Okay. I'm over here for two more minutes. Uh, can you do one for paper two? Yeah, I do have that in mind. Uh, what should we do to join master speakers? Ah, very good question. Okay, for those of you who have younger as well as older kids, okay, for PSLE year, I think you better focus on PSL if you need to. But, uh, if you want help with like your interview preparation and all that, Master Speakers is a awesome place. Okay, for those of you who are still online, I I guess you're interested. There's a hundred of you, so I'll just share. master speakers is very special. Now, as a CEO of of Mind Stretcher, I get a lot of requests from other schools to acquire them. So, I have a good sense of what other schools are run like. Okay. And one interesting thing about master speakers is first of all, we have a great track record. Um, PESA uh debates a lot of these programs, the winners as well as the the people who are chosen are from master speakers. And we only started this over the past two to three years. But the second thing is how do we do it? How we do it is through the structure of the class because a lot of speaking schools they run it as an English class. So there's a lot of time spent editing the script uh changing the grammar making it sound better. But actually for speaking the most important thing is to speak. Okay. And the classes in other centers are too big. So master speakers is not run like a normal mind stretcher class. It is a 1 hour session not a two-hour session. and the class size is five and we make sure that every student at least speaks for 5 to 10 minutes per class. That is how we get improvement. Okay. So I put the master speakers uh link into the chat. Uh yes, you are allowed to leave now. Anybody I'm not holding it back. It's done already. Okay. Um I'm just chatting with people who have questions in the in the chat. Do you think for compost 32 or 36 is good for advanced class? Absolutely. Like if you're there, I will focus on other subjects already. Okay. Maybe just take note of those five things I talked about. If you can continue to refine your compo, make sure your your opening you have a you have a pattern that you feel very comfortable with and then you really try to vary your sentences. Look at the model compositions that I wrote. Actually, you'll find that there are so many ways to vary your sentence, right? Instead of saying and then and then and then actually we can talk about what he's doing like you know uh peering around the corner. I noticed, right? So there's many ways to make a combo better. Okay. So there's no limit to it. I would say uh I would still encourage you to do one practice a week. Okay. But if you are 32 or 36, I I think you should focus on other subjects that you are weaker at. What advice do you have for Chinese aura? I think it's very similar. Him. Um do I need to join boot camp if student is already attending? Yes. Yes, you do. So, Miss um the boot camp is uh as I mentioned is a is a separate curriculum. Okay. We are we taking the extra time to cover the stuff that we want to cover in the last three months before PSLE. So each of the subjects we really focus on like strategic preparation. Okay, not more practices but strategic preparation. So I put the link already in the chat. You have a look through if you have any questions can direct them to the mind stretcher staff. Do you see an improvement in students data mind stretcher? Yeah. So you know our mind stretcher student award I mean for us we try and do it honestly and of course there are times where at the end of the day mind stretcher cannot work magic. Okay. A student has to practice at home. If I went for tuition for two hours a week no matter what magic words my teacher says there's no way I can get as good as I got. I got as good as I got by practicing at home. Okay? Because duration is 2 hours a week. The rest of the week is 166 hours. There's no way uh things can go into your head within 2 hours if you don't practice at home. Okay? So um but at the same time when people do practice at home then when they come to mind stretcher they get the frameworks, the techniques, the guidance from the teachers then they improve. So this video that is playing here is our mind stretcher student achievement awards last year. all these students uh they got either A1, AL2, uh they got into the GP uh they did well for the O levels and we even recognize people who maybe they didn't get the top grades but they they made a lot of progress you know so uh that is our goal at my structure make sure that students progress right maybe it's not about having the most fun uh but 100% we want to make sure that you do Well, if you want to put in the work. Okay. Sorry. What is the minimum comple? Uh, there's no minimum complement for A1, but A1 is uh 90 and above. Um, so you can't lose too many marks. Why isn't there other empty subjects? What What do you mean? Uh, Johan, is it enough that only study only the boot camp material? Uh hey there's no limit. I tell you guys like for me as long as I see that it's useful then I just read make sure that I know what is happening then I move on. Okay like uh practice papers for O levels I was doing one or two every day right and I was already a strong student but I try not to leave anything to chance because for me I wanted to do well. I wanted to I didn't want my mother to pay for university. I wanted to get a scholarship. D wanted to get a scholarship. So I left nothing to chance. I worked really hard. Um yeah, what I can say is that boot camp materials are very useful. Okay. Yes, Sean, you can leave. Um why is Chai called Chai? Because students call their teachers ch and uh it also is the ending part of mind stretcher. And lastly, this word ch H e r uh is actually a French word share, right? And uh sha shami is the name of the dove of the of the p of the pigeon that uh save a French battalion. Okay. So this word means dear friend. Yeah. So I like the name a lot but anyway it's just a name. At the end of the day is the tools that I want you guys to focus on. Okay guys uh I think the questions have come to an end. Is chair only useful for primary school students? Uh I think for now yes I would say um if you practice the compose here what I'm told by my the secondary team is that this level of composition writing uh is also good enough for secondary school okay because we don't we don't teach a very basic thing um for reading aloud uh that uh it's it's not the same format as in secondary school um but uh next week I'll be launching the listing compri that one is also applicable for secondary school students. So if you're manual student I encourage you to just try okay um oh 200 what's the best score to get get 200 aim for that okay um now I tell you guys when I was doing my PSLE I was super overconfident cuz I was very good at English and then I made the mistakes that I'm telling you guys not to make today. So I actually wrote a very complicated plot. I thought I would be able to do it and I I almost didn't finish and I was so stressed out. I knew my English compo was weak. Yeah. So I made a mistake and that's why after a while I keep telling students keep it simple. Okay. It's you're not here to prove that you are a fantastic writer. You're just here to prove that you can write under the PSD conditions. Um let's see do I face what what was that question somebody asked me do I face challenges as a CEO of man structure well I think you know uh yeah I mean there's always a lot of things to to sort out at the end of the day is a very people business uh but I'm quite excited I think there's a lot of things to do in education I have two young kids as well so a lot of things that I'm solving I want solve for them too. Does Master Speakers help with oral SBC? Yes. So, if you want to learn how to speak on the spot, Master Speakers is great. Okay. What was your PSLE score? It was 269. Yes, I So, I I I do teach at my structure, but I don't teach small classes. I always teach this kind of big classes where at least I can talk to a few hundred uh students at the same time. Do I have problems making chai? Uh, of course. Anything worth doing is not easy. Okay, guys. Last question. If if anything how long will it last Jared? Uh so this access will your free access will last until the end of PSLE. Okay. Unless I see a lot of abuse of the platform then I have to tighten stuff up. But um otherwise I I want to make it free as long as I can. Okay guys, let's call it a day. I had I had a great time. Uh thanks very much. Uh and I will talk to you guys again soon. Okay. uh look out on the on Luma again for uh the instructions of how to join the WhatsApp group. I'm so sorry about the limits, but I guess our group was much bigger than we expected. Okay, thanks guys. Have a great Saturday. Have a great Sunday. See you guys soon. Take care.