All About GEP

[vlim]

verykiasu2010:

Way2GO:

vlim,

ur DS is on the AMEC course?
Can share his experiences n ur opinion on this?
Thks.

your child in AMEC ? who is running the course ?

thanks

hi way2go,
Well I am not too sure as my son will only be starting the first lesson next week. This is an advance maths course so I suppose is a gd course to further enrich kids who are good in maths..so I have been longing my son to be able to join this course since last yr.

Heard from my son school is engaging someone outside to course them in the first term and subsequently by one of the school teacher in charge.

[vlim]

ngbrdad:

P5.

P4 is the family project thingy.

I thought by now all p5 gepers would have been allocated the type of project? If I am not wrong, at end of p4, the kids would be ask (maybe not all school) which project they prefer...and teacher in charge will assign the type of projects and made known to them once school reopen for p5. Not all students will get the type of project that they like. One or two of the options need audition.

[tamarind]

I wonder if anyone has read this ? If what he said were true, then GEP does not seem to be able to help a truly gifted child.


http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/


One of the more common lies is that we refused the offer of help from the MOE. This is not true. At the time major decisions were made to walk out on the MOE/GEP there was NO offer of help on the table...absolutely NOTHING. What happened is that we walked out because the GEP refused to arrange practical classes for Ainan, in Chemistry; they refused to let him take classes in any other subject at a higher level; they refused to give him maths support to aid his sciences; they refused to offer any more than one hour a week of theory classes at NUS High (which we didn't ask for...he was able to do the theory at home and the classes they offered were, contrary to the lies being told, BELOW HIS ABILITY at the time). We walked out because there was nothing on the table. However, Singapore, with its lying national tongue, is saying that we walked out on an offer of science workshops at the Science Centre. What crap. That offer came about 6 months after we had ceased all contact with the GEP. How could we walk out when we had ALREADY done so??! The offer is not what it seems either. It was an offer for us to PAY FOR classes at PUBLIC workshops that ANYONE could attend. There was nothing special about this offer. Also, it came after we had made arrangements with Singapore Polytechnic to have practical classes there. We were therefore unable to attend the workshops, in any case, because our son's time was already committed. So, the Singaporean media have created this lie that we walked out on help offered by the GEP to make us look difficult, when the facts are that they were OFFERING NOTHING at the time we walked out. That is WHY we walked out. Their account makes no logical sense, because it is a lie.

[vlim]

chim :? :? :? don't quite understand :? :? :?

[verykiasu2010]

it is only a one-sided story

[Way2GO]

tamarind:

I wonder if anyone has read this ? If what he said were true, then GEP does not seem to be able to help a truly gifted child.

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/

vlim:

chim don't quite understand

There was some discussion of this in another thread.
If I find it, I will post here.
Cawley's blog sounds very lop-sided in retrospect.

[Way2GO]

vlim:

hi way2go,

Well I am not too sure as my son will only be starting the first lesson next week. This is an advance maths course so I suppose is a gd course to further enrich kids who are good in maths.

Knew it's an advance course only for selected kids.

vlim:

so I have been longing my son to be able to join this course since last yr.

Any prep? or its also go in blindly like the GEP selection thingy with the altitude - if he has it, he has it?

vlim:

Heard from my son school is engaging someone outside to course them in the first term and subsequently by one of the school teacher in charge.

Yes. This course goes beyond the GEP maths syl.

[vlim]

Way2GO:

vlim:

hi way2go,

Well I am not too sure as my son will only be starting the first lesson next week. This is an advance maths course so I suppose is a gd course to further enrich kids who are good in maths.

Knew it's an advance course only for selected kids.

vlim:

so I have been longing my son to be able to join this course since last yr.

Any prep? or its also go in blindly like the GEP selection thingy with the altitude - if he has it, he has it?

vlim:

Heard from my son school is engaging someone outside to course them in the first term and subsequently by one of the school teacher in charge.

Yes. This course goes beyond the GEP maths syl.

from moe website:
At the Advanced Mathematics Enrichment Classes, pupils will

be exposed to various challenging advanced mathematical problems
discuss and examine advanced mathematical concepts in greater breadth and depth
learn different and efficient problem-solving strategies and techniques to tackle the problems
Target Group
Selected Primary 5 and 6 GEP pupils who are mathematically precocious.


There is no preparation for the selection test. Students are not informed of the test date. My son that date came back and told me he had taken the test and was very hard.

[verykiasu2010]

yep, it was a surprise test

[ngbrdad]

vlim:

ngbrdad:

P5.

P4 is the family project thingy.

I thought by now all p5 gepers would have been allocated the type of project? If I am not wrong, at end of p4, the kids would be ask (maybe not all school) which project they prefer...and teacher in charge will assign the type of projects and made known to them once school reopen for p5. Not all students will get the type of project that they like. One or two of the options need audition.

Yup just checked with my DS that he was allocated his first choice.
Really can't recall whether he told me anything about it last year.
At first during the briefing I thought they have to do all four and I was thinking how on earth is that possible ?