WeiHan:

rosecy:

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For the brand name and prestige?

In my view, even if we want to narrow the comparison to academic of 2 schools, it is quite meaningless to simply look at % of As or number of awards won at competitions. We have to ask ourselves whether such \"better results\" are due to better students intake (due to different COP) or due to the value-add from school. More importantly, we really have to ask ourselves, what such % really mean to our kid. If he is getting As and winning award, does it matter if his school has a lower % than another school? Reversely, if our kids are not getting As and not winning awards, so what their school has a higher % than another school?

In short, we know all these schools mentioned are good schools and that's more than enough. The rest is really up to each child. Not forgetting academic result is just one aspect of education.

fully agree. RI/RGS/HCI/NYG took in the best every year. good results are expected but have these schools value-add to the students? think not.

just done a search on MOE website. RV received the Sustained Achievement Award for Academic Value-Added for 2007 & 2008 (last O lvl cohort) while DHS has never got it. SAA is for 3 consecutive years of achievement. So RV already value adds her students since 2005.

We have to be careful that, probably, if the student COP gets higher, it becomes increasingly more difficult to value-add. Having said that, I have to acknowledge that RV is one rare school that has high COP (always higher than 250) and yet can still value-add (academic).[/quote]Well said, mate!
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Augmum:

tabletennis:

:celebrate: relax, i don't want to offend anyone here. just sharing my experience. maybe dunman high offer holy-man education. but that's really not the main reason why my daughter goes to school. good a-level exam results after IP is more realistic. dunman high a-level exam results didn't tally with the 'we-have-one-president-scholar' campaign. it's just not enough to convince me. sorry. and given there are other schools to choose..

puzzle with yr sentence in bold, but we are yet to see RV \"A\" level results leh.....
for sec sch's selection, besides academics, there are still other factors to look for
1 am 1 parent (amongst others) who believes to look beyond the academics, otherwise my 1 st choice last yr would def be RGS.....

ManU123:

academic results isn't everything
but is impt is whether the school can produce an all-rounded student with good character, leadership, etc..

:celebrate: Merry X'mas, Augmum. Hope your child will excel in dunman high and mine will in river valley. Cheers!

:celebrate: relax, i don't want to offend anyone here. just sharing my experience. maybe dunman high offer holy-man education. but that's really not the main reason why my daughter goes to school. good a-level exam results after IP is more realistic. dunman high a-level exam results didn't tally with the 'we-have-one-president-scholar' campaign. it's just not enough to convince me. sorry. and given there are other schools to choose..

of course river valley. just to share my own experience with my daughter. i took her out of dunman high last year and transferred her to rv. on paper, dunman high is a top school. in reality, their standard is quite low and lacks rigour. all their junior high exam questions for all subjects are similar to or merely duplicates of the test questions that students already did before. the school boasts that they teach beyond the o-level syllabus but if you look closely at their exam or test questions and compare them with those from the non-ip schools, you would be shocked by how easy and straight-forward the questions are… it took me a while to finally make the decision to move my daughter. i didn’t quite believe when my daughter’s tutor first alerted me and strongly advised me to send her to another school. i ignored her advice for about a year…