3Boys:Sorry, I totally disagree. 250 COP (not adjusted for each year's PSLE performance) for affiliated NY students is unfair, plain and simple. NO other secondary school in the country offers \"discounted points\" for their IP programme, plus as already pointed out, 250 is lower than IP COPs for all other schools that play by the rules, DSA notwithstanding. Also, getting into NYGH IP helps secure a very difficult to obtain spot in HCJC.
Don't think we should conflate the issues here.
The NYGH COP for affiliation is just that, a COP for affiliation, not a COP for IP. Looked at another way, it's the highest affiliation COP for any secondary school is Singapore. It just that it also happens to be entry to an IP. Therefore it's NYGH duty to ensure that the students they take in can cope with the pace of an IP. It's hard to argue that a student with a t score of 250 would not have a fair shot at succeeding in an IP. Whether that happens to be lower than the general COP for IP schools for any particular year is irrelevant. The IP COP will fluctuate year to year as you have pointed out, subject to numerous factors including cohort size, applications and availability of IP places. As long as NYGH ensures that the students they take in via affiliation can manage, they have done their duty, they don't need to let the affiliation COP to float to meet the lowest COP for IP for any school for a particular year.
As a HCJC alumni, I am not saying my NYGH college mates were not good at their work, but let's also please not kid ourselves that granting affiliation discounted points for IP Programme is anything else but unfair. MOE should intervene. Cheers.