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SBQ Revision : Name the skills-- List the steps

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SBQ Revision : Name the skills-- List the steps

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1. How far does A agree with B

2. A differs from B,  does it mean one of them is wrong?

3. How useful is Source A as evidence of Pei Hwa students' view of school?

4. How far can you trust B in it's claim that Pei Hwa students like their teachers?

5. Does A prove B that...?

6. To what extent are u surprised by Source E?

7. Having read E,  are you surprised by F?

8. Does E make F surprising?

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The government can close the income gap by providing free and compulsory education until a certain level. For example, the government can extend free education from the current primary level till tertiary level. Should they choose to study further, they will need to pay. This will then provide everyone with the basic knowledge and qualifications for a decent and well paying job. Hence closing the income gap in singapore.

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The Singapore government can close the income gap by having subsidised education. Children from families of lower income can apply for the Financial Assistance Scheme (FAS) so that the child will get free textbooks and uniforms. By doing so, children of lower income families would be able to have education without needing to worry about school fees. Without financial problems, the child would be able to get a higher level of education and get a job that is highly paid. Thus, people of lower socio economic status will be educated and get paid similarly to people of higher socio economic status, closing the income gap.

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Investing into education would help solve this issue. Schools with lower costs or greater budgets will be more attractive to citizens, and more people will be willing to go to and actively participate in school. Schools with greater budgets will allow student to attend more courses provided by the school and have better equipment to learn. This will lead to a more well educated country. More people will be be able to get jobs with higher pay due to better education, with a higher pay, they will be better able to get out of the lower socio economic group, and better able to to have more real dispoable income, thus aiding in closing the income gap. In Singapore, the government has provided government schools with funds, which have been used to build rooms such as the computer lab. In the computer lab, each student will be able to use their own computer during lessons. This different platform can aid in their learning. explain the outcomes of learning how to use the computer.
Communism wouldn't be that bad either

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The government can close the income gap by providing free and compulsory education.In Singapore,it is compulsory to attend school until primary six.The government could increase the free education to until at least secondary school.This will ensure that they will be able to gain more knowledge,which will qualify them for a higher paying job,and thus having a higher pay.They will then be able to get out of the low income group,and hence,closing the income gap in Singapore.

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The Singapore government can implement platforms to help low income families such as subsidiaries for students. Student of lower income families are able to sign up for the Financial Assistance Scheme (FAS). Students under the FAS would receive free uniforms, textbooks and coupons to be used to purchase food in the canteen. This reduces the amount of money spent allowing for every student to receive the basic education required. This allows students of lower income families to successfully get a job. Now they would receive a stable (=higher paying?) income and closes the income gap in Singapore.

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The Singapore government can close the income gap by subsiding education for the low income people. The government provide MOE Financial Assistance Scheme and help the low income people to get education to be educated so they will have better job in the future. Thus, this allows the low income people to afford having education easily letting them being educated and can let them lead a better life by having a stable job and have a better income. Hence, the government can close the income gap by subsiding education for the low income people.

educated ---> stable job, better income (stable = better?) ---> lead better life.

educated ---> SKILLED ---> employable for higher paying jobs --> higher income --> move out of low income group and thus close the income gap.

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The government can close the income gap by helping low income families such as providing them free education. Government can provide free education to Singaporeans in primary schools to ensure that Singaporeans have the required knowledge to work. By providing free education, Singaporeans will be encouraged and would want to send their children to schools. People will learn and become educated which allows them to be able to work and thus closing the (income gap) ...?? you fell aslp?

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One way to close income gap is to provide free education for all. For example, it is compulsory to go to school in Singapore and the school fee is free for Singapore citizens who are studying in primary school. By doing so, citizens are able to attend school and receive the education needed (leading to them being better skilled and more employable) and they will be able to go to work.(work = higher income jobs?) More citizens will be working thus closing income gap.

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The government can close the income gap by increasing the tax the richer people have to pay so as to increase funds available to help the poor in singapore. With more funds, the government is able to implement more schemes or improve current schemes that help the poor get through everyday life and reduce the income gap.

What taxes?
implement more schemes such as?
and how will the scheme help to reduce income gap? need explanation

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The government can close the income gap through providing assistance for families when it comes to education. The government ensures that all Singaporeans have at least completed primary school by implementing compulsory 6 year education that is free for all children. The government also provides financial assistance along the way for lower income families for children in secondary and tertiary education, for example by providing financial assistance scheme to help the students purchase necessary school materials. This ensures that no one in Singapore is having their education hindered because of financial problems and everyone will progress as one, with each and every singaporean have a chance to excel in education and secure themselves a high paying job. Therefore, more families are able to get high (better) paying jobs and this will balance the varying income in Singapore

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The government can adjust the taxes different families need to pay to accommodate the poorer family. By charging higher taxes on richer people, it could fill in the holes that the poorer people can't afford to pay because of the lowered taxes required for them to pay. By giving and taking, the government does not face any economic loss in any way as the rich are able to fill in the holes the poor can't. By paying lesser  taxes, the poor will then be able to save more money to lesson the income gap as the rich will then not be able to save more money as their tax are higher .

gd explanation.
pls use specific example as income tax.

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One way the singapore government can close the income gap in singapore is to have free and compulsory education. in Singapore, education at the primary level is free and students must attend a compulsory 6 years of school with a PSLE cert. By doing so, students are able to get basic education to continue on their studies until they are certified to be certified for the career they desire. Singaporeans are then able to get into higher income jobs bo matter their family backgrounds. This could close the income gap in Singapore.

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The government can close up the income gap by increasing the tax liability of the rich in the form of higher property and car taxes at the top end.This wealth tax will change the consumption and investment behaviour of the rich remains to be seen. It is less likely the rich would move their assists outside of singapore because the income tax will still remains competitive and corporate tax is low relative to other developed economies. So when the rich people still remain in Singapore, they still have to pay the raised tax knowing that if moving out of singapore, there would be no benefit or reduced tax. (so i tax the higher income, how does doing so lead to---> )This will help to close the income gap.

Very good example. But failed to explain HOW does it close income gap.

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The government can increase the budget for education to fund systems such as Edusave, which subsidises  ees significantly. This can close the income gap as more people would be able to afford education past primary school, increasing the number of people who have the required skill for better jobs, leading to more people earning more money, closing the income gap

Edusave isnt specific to low income students. so pls use FAS as example instead.

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The government can close the income gap by adjusting the tax according to income for every household. This tax can be the water conservation tax that comes with every utility bill. Through this, the poor can spend less and therefore have more real income while the rich can circulate more money into the economy. With the poor having more money (real income) they can afford more, closing the income gap.

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The Singapore government can create 500,000 jobs for disadvantaged youths in Singapore by investing in youth jobs program. The more jobs the disadvantaged youths are provided, the unemployment rate goes down and they can earn money for themselves rather than relying on others. Thus, these youths can support themselves after they have jobs allowing them to close the income gap.

youth jobs programs such as? While we want to help disadvantaged youths, is it the special needs we are helping? or those from low income families? This example is too broad. Pls provide a more specific example.

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The government can provide subsidies in education for low income families so that the children of low income family can pay lesser for their school fees and at the same time still get the same level of knowledge as children who come from a high income family. Such example is the Financial Assistance Scheme (FAS), which provide the children with money for meals at school and provide free textbooks and uniforms for them. This can ensure that all children gets to get a opportunity to learn the required knowledge and skills and next time when they grow up, they can get a better paying job and help improve the family financial issues. This would help to close the income gap between the high and low income families.

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The government can try to spend more tax money on the poor income gap and try to reduce costs for events like NDP. By reducing cost on large scale events, it will reduce unnecessary amenities such as over the top fireworks and props and use those tax money to fund more charitable events for the low income such as charity drives. The government could also charge taxes proportionate to their income as 50% of singaporeans are okay with higher taxes if it is used to help the needy

two examples of reducing budget on events and increasing budget for low income and taxation.

but no explanations. So pls pick one example and explain how it closes income gap.

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The government can charge taxes proportionate to their income, like the Income Tax, Goods and Services Tax and the Property Tax. Because the higher income earners have to pay more taxes, and the lower income earners pay lesser taxes, all due to the amount of money they earn, the higher income people will have lesser money after paying taxes and lower income earners have more money after paying taxes, hence closing the income gap.

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The Singapore Government can charge higher taxes from those with high income and use the extra money to give subsidies and income supplements such as WorkFare benefits to the Low income earners. It can also be used to give higher subsidies for Low income earners through MediFund and MediShield. This will be able to close the income gap in Singapore.

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HOW will Medishield or higher subsidies close income gap?

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Singapore Government can close the income gap by implementing a new scheme such as Wage Credit Scheme. The Government will co-fund 40% of wage increases for Singaporean employees over the next 3 years, targeted specially at helping the employment of low- to medium-wage Singaporeans. This would ensure that Singaporean employees earning from low to medium income to be able to have a sustainable idealism, being able to have an excess salary on top of what they earn. Thus without having to trade off the cost of having high income earner to actually have to 'give' what they earn in order to help the less fortunates. In this way, this scheme allows low and medium income earners to earn what they work for and getting the extra.

pls link back to the answer the question at the end of the paragraph.

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The government can vary the amount of taxes that singaporeans can pay.the low income earners can pay less taxes while the high incomer earners can pay more tax. The government do not need to worry as they would receive the same amount of taxes from singaporeans. For example government can provide schemes such as financial assistant schemes(FAS) this only applies to low incomer earners only. It help to subsidize school fees etc. The low income earners would not have to worry so much on giving back to society and just focus on saving.This helps to close the income gap as the low incomer earners will spend less with these financial assistance and be able to focus on accumulating wealth.

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One strategy the government can implement to close the income gap is to tax the high income group more and the low income group less and the money can be used for schemes such as FAS. Thus reducing the income gap because the low income group can save money on education.

how does saving money on education close income gaps?

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The Singapore Government can make the 6 years compulsory education up to 10 years. For example, students now only have to go through 6 years of compulsory education until we clear PSLE which means they can choose to stop studying after the 6 years of compulsory education. However, if the government increases it to 10 years, they will have more knowledge even if they choose to stop after 10 years as compared to them stopping after 6 years of education and therefore be better skilled stand a better chance to find a decent paying job in the future which might allow them to accumulate greater wealth. Hence, through this the government would be able to close the income gap.

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The Singapore Government can provide children in families of low income subsidised rates for school. For example, the government can help them by having a scheme, such as the Financial Assistance Scheme (FAS), where such students can be identified and be given subsidised school fees, free textbook and uniforms. By doing this, the parents of these children will not have to worry about paying so much for their child's education. This allows the parents of these children to work and earn more money as their children are in school. This also ensures that the children are able to get an education and learn the skills and be able to get a stable (=higher paying job) job in the future. Hence, through subsidised school rates, the parents of the students spend less on school fees and materials, and the children will be able to get stable jobs in the future and this increases their savings and assures them of having a job in the future and thus, reduces he income gap.(how does increasing savings assure job in future? pls reconsider the flow of your explanation outcomes)

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the Singapore government can can issue out a subsidizing scheme to Singaporeans, especially those with low-income wages.For instance, the government has given cost reductions to all Financial Assistance Students (FAS) such that their parents do not have to reimburse a large sum of money to allow their children to participate in activities that build them up holistically.Moreover,low-income households can save up more for paying bills and other necessities.This would allow a geater shared holistic development of the future generation and creates opportunities for adults to increase their lifestyle affordabilities,accompanied by a more stable household. This strategy used by the government would be able to ensure greater equalizing across the socio-economic status of Singaporeans and thus, close the income gap in the country.

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The Singapore government can provide better compulsory education that is geared towards the future. As the world of technology has advanced greatly, it would only be right to educate the students on how to be more tech-savy. For example, in place even in Pei Hwa, we have a pilot programme for the use of iPads for education. There is also schools that start to teach their students simple coding and programme, such as: HTML, Java and Python. Starting next year, 2017, Programming will also be one of the many O-Level subjects and is called computering. Students will then be able to use these skills in the near future in the workforce, getting higher paying jobs. (how does higher paying job close gap? one missing link.) Therefore, decreasing the income gap in Singapore.

Pls include eg of Singapore having 6 years compulsory education.
and how improvement in education such as introduction of IT skills like Microsoft etc is introduced even at primary level.

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A strategy that the singapore government can use to close the income gap is to provide free or subsidised education in singapore. For instance, in singapore, singapore citizens are provided with free primary school education, and singapore citizens studying in secondary schools also have a highly subsidised monthly school fee of only s$5. Furthermore, even when singapore citizens reach a pre-university level in singapore, their monthly school fee is only s$6. This way, low income families will not face any difficulties paying for school fees, and also provides education for the younger generations. When this generation reaches the stage in which they have to join the workforce, they wouldnt face as much competition as there is now. This is because majority of them went through the same education and none are lacking behind because they lack knowledge as compared to others. This closes the income gap in singapore as jobs will be more fairly distributed, and hence the amount of salary each worker gets as well.

Pls include specific example of Singapore providing free primary education and heavily subsidised secondary education.

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To close the income gap,the Singapore government can subsidies goods and services for the lower income families,by implementing schemes.For example,The Community Health Assist Scheme(CHAS),this scheme enables Singapore Citizens from lower and middle income households to receive subsidies for medical and dental care.Through these subsidies,lower income families will be able to spend less money on these services,resulting them to be able to save up the money and increase their savings.Therefore,closing the income gap.

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The Singapore government can provide subsidies for students. For example, Singaporean students who are in the lower income families are eligible to sign up for Financial Assistance Scheme (FAS). Students are able to receive free uniforms and textbooks from the school and are also given coupons to buy canteen food. This will help to reduce the amount of money needed to be spent and able to add on to the amount of money that can be saved. Thus, this will help to decrease the income gap.

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The government can provide platforms to assists the low income families, which allows their children to have the basic education. For example, the financial scheme(FAS) helps provide financial assistance to the needy Singaporean students, so that all Singaporeans, regardless of their financial background, can have the basic education that is required. This increase the chances of the students getting a job, which ensures a stable (means high?) income, thus this closes the income gap in the years to come.

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The government can implement subsidised  goods and services like school fees,for example,students from low-income ...?

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The government can provide courses to students throughout their education to prepare them for working life. Courses like ICT enrichment allows the students to gain skills about IT which prepares them for work in the future. By doing so, they are equipped with the necessary skills and education for a better paying job. This increases the chances of more people getting better income jobs, (which increases the ability to accumulate wealth) thus reducing the income gap in Singapore.

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The Singapore government can create more schemes to help the families in the lower socio economic status. By creating more schemes the people in the lower socio economic status that are unable to work due to disabilities are able to get subsides which could help them in paying healthcare and daily necessities.  Thus the income gap would become closer as the poor would not need to pay so much for their healthcare and therefore they can use the money to pay for other stuffs or save it.

what healthcare scheme are we referring to specifically? pls at least mention healthcare subsidies.

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The Singapore government can provide free education to close the income gap. For example, it is compulsory to go to school for at least 6 years in Singapore and the school fees for primary school is free for Singapore citizens. In schools, the students will be equipped with knowledge they need for in the workforce. With the knowledge, they will be able to find better jobs and will receive higher income. This closes the income gap.

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One way the Singapore Government can close the income gap is to impose more taxes on richer households and less taxes on poorer households. For example, the Singapore Government has implemented taxes such as the road tax for richer households that are wealthy enough to own cars. Richer households will thus need to spend more on taxes and have less money to spend on other luxuries. They will spend less money overall.(you mean spend more money?) Meanwhile, poorer households will save more money as a result of paying less taxes. This will thus close the income gap in Singapore.

road taxes are for those who owns cars BUT it doesnt mean that lower income get subsidies/ pay less tax. pls use income tax as an example instead.

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One way SG gov can use is to provide subsidised goods and services for the lower income families. For example, the gov had built polyclinics in order to provide affordable healthcare for low-income families, in exchange for longer waiting times. This will help them reduce money spent on necessities like food and healthcare, thus accumulating more monthly savings (yes, good point), closing the income gap in SG