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SINGAPORE: Students from ACS Independent did well in last year's International Baccalaureate or IB examinations.
Thirteen students achieved a perfect score of 45, that's half of 27 students worldwide with that score.
Some 360 students from ACS International took Chinese as an IB subject, and most of them come from English-speaking households. All of them passed the subject.
Under the IB programme, there is less emphasis on writing and more focus on using the Chinese language.
The International Baccalaureate is one of the testing models which the Ministry of Education is looking to introduce to assess students' proficiency in the Chinese language.
Timothy Singham, Year 5 student, ACS (Independent), said: "From primary school all the way till secondary 4, it's a bit of pen and paper. It was a bit like you just come to class and you keep doing. Whereas now, I think, you see a lot of real-life application on what Chinese can do for you.
"It's really useful, especially because I come from a non-Chinese speaking family. And speaking Chinese is probably my biggest difficulty.
"And therefore I think in class, our Chinese teachers encourage us to do skits and participate in different kinds of lessons, which most of the time, force us to speak. And when we speak, definitely we gain a love for the language and of course we improve." - CNA/vm
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