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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. Mossie`Ol Chin's Avatar
    Mossie`Ol Chin commented in tuition class


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  2. Miss Loi's Avatar
    Miss Loi Friend Miss Loi on Facebook @MissLoi commented in tuition class


    2007
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    Mossie,

    Don't try to change the subject.

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

  3. LB's Avatar
    LB commented in tuition class


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

  4. Miss Loi's Avatar
    Miss Loi Friend Miss Loi on Facebook @MissLoi commented in tuition class


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  5. Hai~Ren's Avatar
    Hai~Ren commented in tuition class


    2007
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    Found this page from Tomorrow.sg; I know the answer to part vi)!

    42 =)

  6. Miss Loi's Avatar
    Miss Loi Friend Miss Loi on Facebook @MissLoi commented in tuition class


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    Hai~Ren,

    Wah you are so smart!!

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

  7. huang's Avatar
    huang commented in tuition class


    2007
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    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. CKtalon's Avatar
    CKtalon commented in tuition class


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

  9. huang's Avatar
    huang commented in tuition class


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    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. CKtalon's Avatar
    CKtalon commented in tuition class


    2007
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    wow..the new A lvl syllabus seems hard =p
    Those are typical stuff people learn in uni..haha

  11. Miss Loi's Avatar
    Miss Loi Friend Miss Loi on Facebook @MissLoi commented in tuition class


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    huang & CKTalon,

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

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

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    tohkiatshengKEN commented in tuition class


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  13. piakpiak's Avatar
    piakpiak commented in tuition class


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

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    qwerty1106 commented in tuition class


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    *skips the first 3 parts* T.T lotsa marks gone

    iv)Since that there is no specification on what the time is, size of universe when time<0 is 0.00(correct to 3s.f.) as there are only energy, no mass

    *sees the next part and realises that it is a give-away question

    v)Since that the universe started with the big bang, which is a large amount of concentrated energy, the Universe came about when by luck, energy is concentrated in 1D (ie. a small dot) and expands!

    XD

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