Parents of Primary 6 students in Singapore made special arrangements to ensure their children arrived on time for the first day of written exams for the Primary School Leaving Examination ( PSLE ) despite the ongoing train disruption.
CNA spoke to parents at Fairfield Methodist School ( Primary ), located in Dover, and Nan Hua Primary School, which is located in Clementi, on Thursday ( Sep 26 ) afternoon.  ,
Both institutions are situated close to the MRT channels that were impacted by the disturbance, which extended from Buona Vista to Jurong East.  ,
On Thursday, PSLE individuals sat for their English vocabulary documents 1 and 2. Paper 1 started at 8.15am while the next sheet started at 10.30am.
Of the 41, 000 candidates who sat for the papers on Thursday, five were late due to the train disruption, said the Singapore Examinations and Assessment Board ( SEAB).  ,
All five arrived just before the paper’s conclusion, and they were given plenty of time to live in before sitting in their seats for the entire exam’s period.
Of the five prospects, one sat for the documents in a unique assessment heart.
Candidates should get in touch with their schools if the coach was a disturbance, according to the board, and SEAB will work with them to assist them.  ,
When CNA arrived at Fairfield Methodist School ( Primary ) at about 12.20pm, a dozen parents were seen waiting outside for the Primary 6 students.  ,
When she learned about the station disturbance on the news last night, Ms. Rashida Begum, whose child will be taking the PSLE this year, claimed she requested an immediate leave of absence to take her child to school.
We never anticipated the significant break because we were prepared for our child to attend college by himself and believed the collapse may resolve itself over the weekend, but it did not,” she said.
Because we are staying in Queenstown, I took leave to drop him off this night so that he would have had to transform railways and not be able to arrive on time.
She continued, adding that her husband has taken a week off to take their son to school so they can use it in case the station goes into disarray on its second day.  ,  ,
If the train disruptions continue until the following week, we are also reaching out to our family members to see if anyone can assist us. Hopefully that does n’t happen.
Mr. Terence Png claimed to have made an advance reservation for a car last nights despite his daughter’s attendance for the PSLE this year.
” When we found out that the trains were n’t going to run today, immediately, we thought of an alternative, which is to book a taxi or Grab way ahead of time to ensure that we had a ride in the morning”, he said.
The ride from their home in Bukit Batok to the school cost S$ 30 ( US$ 23 ), he added.
It’s unfortunate that it occurred on the day of the PSLE first paper, he said, but it ca n’t be prevented.
My girl was n’t really impacted because we covered it so as not to strain her up.
Families at Fairfield Methodist also reported that the school’s Key 1 and 2 students were receiving home-based instruction on Thursday, which might have helped to ease the traffic flow this morning. Mr. Lucas Low, whose child will be taking the PSLE this year, claimed that because he typically takes his kids to school, was not all that worried about the train’s disturbance. They left their homes at their normal times, and customers flowed as usual.  ,