All About GEP

[phankao]

syshi:

phankao:

Dunno ... my son, for one, never gets into the top academic ranks. At the same time, he has no problems doing fairly well in IQ tests ... altho' not well enough to get into GEP though. hahah! The English must've surely stumped him.

Most probably on the General Abilities. A lot of children fail at that... English and Math can be trained... but not General Ability

No, he always scores v high in all those abstract & general ability tests. Last year he also did some as part of DSA, and for one of them, we had the results. He did best in Math & GA, poorest in Eng. There were no other sections for the tests.

[Way2GO]

OT :oops:

u all noticed few shorties in cabinet -
MBT, WKS, KBH...
but PM has always been tall?

[2ppaamm]

phankao:

No, he always scores v high in all those abstract & general ability tests. Last year he also did some as part of DSA, and for one of them, we had the results. He did best in Math & GA, poorest in Eng. There were no other sections for the tests.

Strange, why would he do poorest for Eng? My kids seem to find Eng easier than the Maths part. Do you speak Eng at home? Or could it be the school they attend?

[Way2GO]

2ppaamm:

Strange, why would he do poorest for Eng? My kids seem to find Eng easier than the Maths part. Do you speak Eng at home? Or could it be the school they attend?

That's what my kid said after last year's selection tests too.
English was easier. Maths was VERY difficult.

[phankao]

2ppaamm:

Strange, why would he do poorest for Eng? My kids seem to find Eng easier than the Maths part. Do you speak Eng at home? Or could it be the school they attend?

Yes, we speak English at home. And they attend a SAP/GEP pri school (or used to). :lol: But somehow my elder boy is poor in language. Poor as in comparison to his Math & Science lah. I don't find that surprising. Just that he is better at doing subjects that require less linguistic expression? HAHAHA!!! My younger boy is never good at IQ tests of any sort and is good only in Math & Chinese. Even Science is too much of \"language\" to him - the English kind ... and no, we don't even speak chinese at home(at least not when the elder 3 were young), so I don't know where he got his love of Chinese from.

[2ppaamm]

phankao:

Yes, we speak English at home. And they attend a SAP/GEP pri school (or used to). :lol: But somehow my elder boy is poor in language. Poor as in comparison to his Math & Science lah. I don't find that surprising. Just that he is better at doing subjects that require less linguistic expression? HAHAHA!!! My younger boy is never good at IQ tests of any sort and is good only in Math & Chinese. Even Science is too much of \"language\" to him - the English kind ... and no, we don't even speak chinese at home(at least not when the elder 3 were young), so I don't know where he got his love of Chinese from.

Yep, sometimes things are just so strange, don't you think?

[syshi]

2ppaamm:

Hi,


I have a friend who is 1.73m, his son 1.84m. Don't think it has all to do with the food, this boy sleeps very early every night, and eats very little. He is still growing. His mum is about 1.6m.

To grow tall, 3 elements (from my years of research - which may mean nothing :)):
1. Sleep
2. Exercise
3. Diet.

I fulfill all those... Ha.. Ha.. Ha...

[vlim]

hai..wonder how to help my son to counter stage fright...He is very uneasy with oral presentation...

[2ppaamm]

vlim:

hai..wonder how to help my son to counter stage fright...He is very uneasy with oral presentation...

Make him practise, practise, practise in front of you. Give him impromptu projects to present in front of you. Train him to speak his mind and in the least prepared situation.

Don't correct him, just listen and observe him improve with every presentation.

Practise makes perfect! That's how I train my students. Don't know if it will work for you, but you can certainly try!

[vlim]

2ppaamm:

vlim:

hai..wonder how to help my son to counter stage fright...He is very uneasy with oral presentation...

Make him practise, practise, practise in front of you. Give him impromptu projects to present in front of you. Train him to speak his mind and in the least prepared situation.

Don't correct him, just listen and observe him improve with every presentation.

Practise makes perfect! That's how I train my students. Don't know if it will work for you, but you can certainly try!

But my kid has no problem in speaking up in front of me but when coming to oral presention in public...scared scared....yesturday he told me he 'purposely' did badly in an audition so that he does not have to go on stage to give annoucement :stupid: :stupid: .... hai ..cannot scold him as I think most people got stage fright including me :lol: