Visual Assets — V3: 8 Filler Words That Cost Marks
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8 Filler Words — Story
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PSLEPrep.sg
PSLE Chinese Oral — can you hear these at dinner tonight?
Most common filler — signals uncertainty to examiner
Stalling while searching for the right word
Repeated as a verbal crutch between ideas
Chains sentences without real progression
Self-affirming pause — adds no content
Thinking out loud — loses fluency marks
Restating without adding — wastes exam time
Audible hesitation between thoughts
Fillers cost marks under Fluency & Delivery (流利度) — worth ~8 of 30 conversation marks. Reducing fillers is the fastest single improvement most students can make.
Try this tonight
Ask your child to describe their day in Chinese for 60 seconds. Count the fillers.Even if you don't speak Chinese, you can hear 嗯, 那个, and 然后. These are the marks left on the table.
Practice with AI scoring at PSLEPrep.sg
8 Filler Words — Square
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PSLEPrep.sg
Can you hear these at dinner tonight?
Most common filler — signals uncertainty to examiner
Stalling while searching for the right word
Repeated as a verbal crutch between ideas
Chains sentences without real progression
Self-affirming pause — adds no content
Thinking out loud — loses fluency marks
Restating without adding — wastes exam time
Audible hesitation between thoughts
Try this tonight
Ask your child to describe their day in Chinese for 60 seconds. Count the fillers.Even if you don't speak Chinese, you can hear 嗯, 那个, and 然后. These are the marks left on the table.
Practice with AI scoring at PSLEPrep.sg
8 Filler Words — Portrait
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PSLEPrep.sg
PSLE Chinese Oral — can you hear these at dinner tonight?
Most common filler — signals uncertainty to examiner
Stalling while searching for the right word
Repeated as a verbal crutch between ideas
Chains sentences without real progression
Self-affirming pause — adds no content
Thinking out loud — loses fluency marks
Restating without adding — wastes exam time
Audible hesitation between thoughts
Fillers cost marks under Fluency & Delivery (流利度) — worth ~8 of 30 conversation marks. Reducing fillers is the fastest single improvement most students can make.
Try this tonight
Ask your child to describe their day in Chinese for 60 seconds. Count the fillers.Even if you don't speak Chinese, you can hear 嗯, 那个, and 然后. These are the marks left on the table.
Practice with AI scoring at PSLEPrep.sg
8 Filler Words — Landscape
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PSLEPrep.sg
Can you hear these at dinner tonight?
Try this tonight
Ask your child to describe their day in Chinese for 60 seconds. Count the fillers.Even if you don't speak Chinese, you can hear 嗯, 那个, and 然后. These are the marks left on the table.
PSLEPrep.sg
Most common filler — signals uncertainty to examiner
Stalling while searching for the right word
Repeated as a verbal crutch between ideas
Chains sentences without real progression
Self-affirming pause — adds no content
Thinking out loud — loses fluency marks
Restating without adding — wastes exam time
Audible hesitation between thoughts