The notoriously steep dip in results from Pri 4 to Pri 5 has been well documented and painfully lamented by parents.

Here’s the thing. Pri 4 Science is frightfully easy. I let my son try the first six MCQs of my school’s P4 paper and he got five out of six correct. The question he got wrong dwells on identifying the young plant in a diagram - hardly one to get right for someone unexposed to the mechanics of Science papers.

Not to say that my son is exceptionally brilliant, but it’s a testimony to how sophisticated preschool education has become these days.