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Cut Down Programs Of PSAC And Modular Assessments

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The Ministry of Education on Thursday 25th November has decided what chapters to remove from the syllabus of students in Grade 5. As formerly stated by the Minister of Education, Leela Devi Dookun Luchoomun, who understands that face-to-face and online courses cannot be matched, as much as the potential of each student towards a subject, Grade 5 students will have less to study and revise, particularly those who will take part in the Grade 5 Modular Assessments, i.e. History, Geography and Science and the Primary School Achievement Certificate, i.e. Mathematics, which are scheduled for the end of the third term. Below are the chapters removed in detail according to the ministry concerned

Chapters removed from the Modular Assessments:

Histoire-géographie 
Unit  Topic Sub-Topic
3 Settlement in Mauritius Topic 4 – Mauritius a British Colony
4 Weather and Climate Topic 2 – Rainfall
5 Port-Louis The Capital of Mauritius All
Sciences 
Unit  Topic
5 More about plants
7 Transformation of Energy
8 The simple Electric circuit

Chapters removed from Mathematics Grade 6 :

  WILL BE ASSESSED IS retained
Textbook – Part 1
Unit 7 – Fractions  Division of fractions (numerical and word problems) Only division with simple divisor
Unit 9 – Decimals  Word problems involving division of decimals
Textbook- Part 2
Unit 18 – Time calendar GMT
Unit 19 – Area  Area of Trapezium and Parallelogram
Unit 20 – Percentages Whole Topic Only basic one-step calculations is retained
Unit 22 – Ratio Whole Topic Only one-step calculations is retained
Unit 23 – Proportion Inverse Proportion
Unit 24 – Use of Area  Whole Topic
Unit 25 – Angles  Angles Finding one unknown angle is retained. Finfing one unknown angle in triangles and quadrilaterals is retained
Unit 26 – Charts  Pie Chart
Unit 27 – Coordinates & line Graphs Whole Topic
Unit 28 – Volume  Whole Topic Finding volume given length, width and height is retained
Unit 29 – Speed Whole Topic Basic one-step problems is retained
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