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There has been some recent hoo-haa amongst Britain’s education fraternity over a report on the differing standards of mathematical competence between China and Britain.

Apparently this is a sample maths question from a university entrance exam in China:

China maths question

And this is its British counterpart for first-year students already in the university:

Britain maths question

So now you know how that mean studying cyborg in the form of your PRC classmate is produced and cloned :) .

Actually to be fair, the China question hails from Singapore’s previous A-Level Maths trigonometry syllabus, while the British question hails from Singapore’s Secondary Two Maths syllabus. So Singapore is right up there amongst the high standard nations as well!

But in our ever-relentless pursuit to be Number One in everything, Miss Loi hopes she won’t see this one day:

Singapore question

Thanks to Ah Chew’s blog who first provided Miss Loi with the news!

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  1. 1
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    Mossie`Ol Chin says,

    ok, it’s official, you’re siao…

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    Miss Loi avatar Miss Loi says,

    Mossie,

    Don’t try to change the subject.

    If you can’t answer the kindergarten question just say so!

  3. 3
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    LB says,

    OMG! I’ve always suspected I would have had a really tough time in a S’pore Kindergarten!

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    Miss Loi avatar Miss Loi says,

    LB,

    That’s why you are in Pastaland and not S’pore.

    So please, get out of my elite uncaring face!

  5. 5
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    Hai~Ren says,

    Found this page from Tomorrow.sg; I know the answer to part vi)!

    42 =)

  6. 6
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    Miss Loi avatar Miss Loi says,

    Hai~Ren,

    Wah you are so smart!!

    But where’s your working??! Minus marks!!!

  7. 7
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    huang says,

    uhhh. actually i did that relativistic energy stuff last sem, and we’re on to wave functions this sem. in a perfectly normal singaporean JC.

  8. 8
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    CKtalon says,

    haha..Special Relativity..
    huang, does the new A lvl syllabus include energy-momentum invariance stuff?

  9. 9
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    huang says,

    not as such because we’re not expected to play around with linear algebra much.. for SR, syllabus mainly about lorentz transformations.

    everyone’s having fun with multivariable calculus now though haha. schrodinger’s eqns..

  10. 10
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    CKtalon says,

    wow..the new A lvl syllabus seems hard =p
    Those are typical stuff people learn in uni..haha

  11. 11
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    Miss Loi avatar Miss Loi says,

    huang & CKTalon,

    We’re constantly raising the bar, aren’t we?

    The day we see that kindergarten question may not be far off! :)

  12. 12
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    tohkiatshengKEN says,

    what the mama?! O.O

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    piakpiak says,

    answer for part vi) of the kindergarten entrance exam is 42

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