Cedar Girls Secondary School
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Total : how many Year 3 IP classes ?
out of these : How many are Triple Science (year 3) IP classes ? -
What's this obsession with triple science?
Cedar tries to offer the girls the subject combi of their choice as far as possible. Unless the child is not doing well academically, almost all who opt for triple science got their choice. My dd opted to do chem bio and I had to listen to her teacher's ranting on how they allowed her to do chem bio even though they wanted her to do trip science. I believe in choosing subjects according to the child's interest. Many chose double science because they wanted to do 2 humanities. In last year's o levels, about 20% of the girls who scored all A1s were from double science classes. And there is no lack of double science cedar students in the top jcs. -
For what I know is that, the school strongly encourages the IP girls to take double science.
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Hi all
My DD has accepted the Cedar-ip offer and I hope she’ll be happy in her 4 years there before moving on to VJC. She said she wants to do Cedar proud:) Can the jie jie advise her on the books she can buy first for year 1 and perhaps give/sell her the year 1 notes as she’s so eager to read up?
Thank you! -
whitecarrotcake:
:welcome:Hi all
My DD has accepted the Cedar-ip offer and I hope she'll be happy in her 4 years there before moving on to VJC. She said she wants to do Cedar proud:) Can the jie jie advise her on the books she can buy first for year 1 and perhaps give/sell her the year 1 notes as she's so eager to read up?
Thank you!
Though my dd has already graduated from cedar, still a warm welcome to you. -
Thanks zeemimi! Friends have told me my dd will make lifelong friends in cedar as the girls there are very humble and helpful:)
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at Victoria Secondary school (boys), Hwa Chong Institution -
they use a Grading system, called the Mean Subject Grade (MSG).
The MSG is calculated :
by adding the points together, and then divide the sum by the number of Subjects taken.
do IP students in Cedar Secondary Year (3 and 4) also follow MSG system as like Victoria, or follow GPA (Grade Point Average) system, as in other IP Secondary schools like Dunman High ?
(different Secondary schools use different system to compute score) -
Warm welcome to Caringdad and WhiteCarrotCake’s dds!
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phtthp:
Hi,at Victoria Secondary school (boys), Hwa Chong Institution -
they use a Grading system, called the Mean Subject Grade (MSG).
The MSG is calculated :
by adding the points together, and then divide the sum by the number of Subjects taken.
do IP students in Cedar Secondary Year (3 and 4) also follow MSG system as like Victoria, or follow GPA (Grade Point Average) system, as in other IP Secondary schools like Dunman High ?
(different Secondary schools use different system to compute score)
VCA IP cumul GPA is calculated with the total sum of 5 subjs' gpas and dividg it by 5. The 5 subj must include 1 HMT/LA/Eng, 1 Sci/Maths, 1 Humanz and 2 other best. The rest must be 1.0 to promote. Cumul gpa must b 2.0 for yr3 and 2.5 to promote.
A thing to note is VJ req an overall gpa of 3.2 at the end of yr3+4 to do 4H2. If less than 3.2 but pass at 2.5 then will hv to do 3H2. So please work hard for yr3+4 as yr3 constitutes 45% of the overall and yr4 is 55%.
It is possible to fail Phy+Chem+Maths+Geog and still get the max gpa of 4.0 : ) -
zeemimi:
Hi zeemimi,What's this obsession with triple science?
Cedar tries to offer the girls the subject combi of their choice as far as possible. Unless the child is not doing well academically, almost all who opt for triple science got their choice. My dd opted to do chem bio and I had to listen to her teacher's ranting on how they allowed her to do chem bio even though they wanted her to do trip science. I believe in choosing subjects according to the child's interest. Many chose double science because they wanted to do 2 humanities. In last year's o levels, about 20% of the girls who scored all A1s were from double science classes. And there is no lack of double science cedar students in the top jcs.
I agree somewat with this provided my child is on the o lvl track as getting the best points is very impt for jc entry. But those on the ip track r a little different. They can afford to fail in some subjs.
I believe in giving my children options. At 14, my ds cldnt decide what his interests were. He did very well in the Chem+Phy modules, even full marks in Phy in his SA2. But he didn't do so well in Bio and passed with a few points. His teacher advised him to drop Bio. He told me he wanted to do so but he wasnt sure what he wanted to do in the future. Eventually he chose the 3 Sci and worked v hard on his Bio. He did so well in that subj that it shocked his Bio teacher (the one who advised him to drop Bio). He still maintained his perf in Chem+Phy so now bcos he pushed himself, he is good in all 3 Sci.
I find it rather interestg now bcos the same Bio teacher is now advisg him to take Bio in JC and aim for a H3 in it.
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