* Hwa Chong Institution (HCI) - College

[Skyed]

6 nett is impossible unless your cca is stunning. Plenty of 3 pointers appeal into HC and RJ since the 3 cutoff is partial.

[Lynn2010]

I understand that even those 3 pointers who applied, they will look at your overall score. That is, eg. my DD case, she was told by RJ this:


Last year, dd and friend went to RJ open house. DD has 9A1s while friend 7A1 and i think a A2 or B3. RJ told my DD to proceed and she will get a place while telling the friend to give up trying (or something to this extend)

Hence, i believe HC may be similar

[FrekiWang]

Even 5 pointers who fail to be admitted into NJC (NJC only takes partial 5 pointers by balloting) will not be able appeal in. The 20 vacancies approximately for appealing cases are distributed to about 10 niche CCAs. You need to have a sound record and a list of achievements in the CCA that NJC is interested in.


90%+ of the appealing cases end up as failures as NJC has only about 20 vacancies for more than 200 candidates every year.

[SupaSiMCraft]

Lynn2010:

Last year, dd and friend went to RJ open house. DD has 9A1s while friend 7A1 and i think a A2 or B3. RJ told my DD to proceed and she will get a place while telling the friend to give up trying (or something to this extend)

Uh oh... does this mean I might not be able to go to Raffles? I had a raw score of 6 points. I've deducted 2 for a pass in HCL and 2 for CCA, so my final score is 2. My results were as follows:
English- A1
HCL- C6
Combined Humanities (SS+Elective geog)- B3
Higher Music- A1
Mathematics- A1
A Maths- A1
Chemistry- A1
Biology- A1
Chinese (pu tong hua wen )- A1
I only have 7 A1s and I barely passed HCL...

[jtoh]

SupaSiMCraft:

Lynn2010:

Last year, dd and friend went to RJ open house. DD has 9A1s while friend 7A1 and i think a A2 or B3. RJ told my DD to proceed and she will get a place while telling the friend to give up trying (or something to this extend)

Uh oh... does this mean I might not be able to go to Raffles? I had a raw score of 6 points. I've deducted 2 for a pass in HCL and 2 for CCA, so my final score is 2. My results were as follows:
English- A1
HCL- C6
Combined Humanities (SS+Elective geog)- B3
Higher Music- A1
Mathematics- A1
A Maths- A1
Chemistry- A1
Biology- A1
Chinese (pu tong hua wen )- A1
I only have 7 A1s and I barely passed HCL...

Congrats on your excellent results.

Your nett score is 2. No problem getting into RJC.

Out of curiosity, you scored A1 for CL and C6 for HCL. Was the HCL paper that tough?

[SupaSiMCraft]

jtoh:

Out of curiosity, you scored A1 for CL and C6 for HCL. Was the HCL paper that tough?

Not really actually, can't have been that tough since it got at least 89% passes in my school

[zeemimi]

jtoh:

SupaSiMCraft:

[quote=\"Lynn2010\"]Last year, dd and friend went to RJ open house. DD has 9A1s while friend 7A1 and i think a A2 or B3. RJ told my DD to proceed and she will get a place while telling the friend to give up trying (or something to this extend)

Uh oh... does this mean I might not be able to go to Raffles? I had a raw score of 6 points. I've deducted 2 for a pass in HCL and 2 for CCA, so my final score is 2. My results were as follows:
English- A1
HCL- C6
Combined Humanities (SS+Elective geog)- B3
Higher Music- A1
Mathematics- A1
A Maths- A1
Chemistry- A1
Biology- A1
Chinese (pu tong hua wen )- A1
I only have 7 A1s and I barely passed HCL...

Congrats on your excellent results.

Your nett score is 2. No problem getting into RJC.

Out of curiosity, you scored A1 for CL and C6 for HCL. Was the HCL paper that tough?[/quote]Is it a \"confirm\" all 2 pointers can get into RJC? now dd also thinking if she can get in since there are many 2 pointers around. According to DD, the HCL paper was manageable but she was only expecting a B3. So she was overjoyed with an A.
The ESIP is given to top 5% of the O level cohort. Anybody knows what is the cutoff?

[jtoh]

Hi zeemimi,


In the past few years, all 2 pointers have successfully entered RJC and HJC, as well as many 3 pointers. Unless there’s a proliferation of 2 pointers this year, I would think entry to RJC and HJC should be more or less confirmed. Do you sense that there are a lot of 2 pointers this year?

[zeemimi]

jtoh:

Hi zeemimi,


In the past few years, all 2 pointers have successfully entered RJC and HJC, as well as many 3 pointers. Unless there's a proliferation of 2 pointers this year, I would think entry to RJC and HJC should be more or less confirmed. Do you sense that there are a lot of 2 pointers this year?

Yup. Her school alone has > 70 2-pointers. I saw the rjc website admits about 250 through jae.

[jtoh]

zeemimi:

jtoh:

Hi zeemimi,


In the past few years, all 2 pointers have successfully entered RJC and HJC, as well as many 3 pointers. Unless there's a proliferation of 2 pointers this year, I would think entry to RJC and HJC should be more or less confirmed. Do you sense that there are a lot of 2 pointers this year?

Yup. Her school alone has > 70 2-pointers. I saw the rjc website admits about 250 through jae.

That's a lot of 2 pointers. Are all of them confirmed 2-pointers, or >6A1s? Because not all who score >6A1s are necessarily 2 pointers. How do these numbers compare with last year's performance at your dd's school? About the same or much more?

I wonder how other schools did, and if the O levels are graded on a curve.

I expect that just as many top scorers would apply to HCI, so that would double the number of places available at the very least.

Without actual statistics it's hard for us to predict. It would be interesting to find out the COPs on Feb 5.