2014 PSLE Discussions and Strategy

[zbear]

MotherHen:

Finally sat down and flipped through the Secondary School Selection book over the weekend, thinking maybe to do a preliminary list of 6 choices. Provided she does well, I think my first 2 choices (which I think are my dd's first 2 choices as well) remains. The other 4 will have to wait till the results are out.

its good to list down 2 lists of schools before results are released. Knowing your child's standard by now, you will more or less know which schools she will qualify.

The 2nd list will be the one with COPs much lower than your child's expected results.

I find these useful so that when the results are out, you wont be caught in a 'panic button' situation.

[Mumflower]

zbear:

MotherHen:

Finally sat down and flipped through the Secondary School Selection book over the weekend, thinking maybe to do a preliminary list of 6 choices. Provided she does well, I think my first 2 choices (which I think are my dd's first 2 choices as well) remains. The other 4 will have to wait till the results are out.

its good to list down 2 lists of schools before results are released. Knowing your child's standard by now, you will more or less know which schools she will qualify.

The 2nd list will be the one with COPs much lower than your child's expected results.

I find these useful so that when the results are out, you wont be caught in a 'panic button' situation.

Did you mean to list out 2 grp of schools? :scratchhead:

[zbear]

Mumflower:

Did you mean to list out 2 grp of schools? :scratchhead:

Well if you have nothing better to do from now till release of PSLE results.

i learnt from my kids' experience - for both my two kids, I only did 1 list.

For DD, she performed better in PSLE than her school standard, so I just need to choose an IP school instead of my original list of MS schools.

For DS, he performed worse in PSLE, so my original list went to waste becos he didnt qualify at all for any of the schools which I originally select.

Then, we had to quickly run through the Admission book/go to the schools which he qualify in order to create a new list. That had to be done within the week before submission.

[sharonkhoo]

Mumflower:

zbear:

[quote=\"MotherHen\"]Finally sat down and flipped through the Secondary School Selection book over the weekend, thinking maybe to do a preliminary list of 6 choices. Provided she does well, I think my first 2 choices (which I think are my dd's first 2 choices as well) remains. The other 4 will have to wait till the results are out.

its good to list down 2 lists of schools before results are released. Knowing your child's standard by now, you will more or less know which schools she will qualify.

The 2nd list will be the one with COPs much lower than your child's expected results.

I find these useful so that when the results are out, you wont be caught in a 'panic button' situation.

Did you mean to list out 2 grp of schools? :scratchhead:[/quote]What I did with my daughter was to prepare a list with a couple of schools from every likely range of scores: eg. 210-220, 220-230, 230-240 etc. The idea was that whatever score she got, we could use some part of that list. In the actual listing of 6 schools, my plan was to list a couple just a bit higher than her score, a couple around or slightly below her score, and a couple of 'safe' options. Seemed like a reasonable plan.

[hhgold]

Hi, do you know how the CCA points are given for Chess CCA?

[isetan]

Hi, anyone knows of info of date of psle result release?

[chloecube]

highly likely is on 21 Nov (Fri), becos i saw many open house on 22 Nov

[GiftedGem]

SEAB has indicated tentatively release date between 21 - 24 Nov.

Likely to be Fri (21st Nov) based on last year trend.

[isetan]

GiftedGem:

SEAB has indicated tentatively release date between 21 - 24 Nov.

Likely to be Fri (21st Nov) based on last year trend.

I thought it's always on Thursday for past few years?

[sleepy]

Friday last year too