All About A Levels

[prettycoolmom]

Skyed:

prettycoolmom:

My daughter took eMaths and AMaths in O level she scored A1. She also did pure science and scored A2. But she did badly in Language B3 and C6 on humanities. Will she struggle when she takes H2/H1 economics. She's planning to take H1 Geography instead. please advise if this is a good choice. thank you

I don't think any of the humans subjects I did in o levels were very much relevant to econs. I took pure lit, and elective geog/ss and had A1 for both, but my J1 year I scored S, and D for my econs at mid year and promos. Essay style is different, and likewise for concepts. (although globalisation in ss and a little bit of human geog eg. purchasing power may help a tiny tiny bit in your j2 year).

Thank you, do you think for a student that does not do well in humanities and language in O level, will
economics be a struggle? In your opinion and experience, which subject is easier to score economics or geography?

[havok_ex]

sinoboy:

phtthp:

[quote=\"pirated\"]
Then, RI wasn't as 'good' as NJC

Back then (1969) :
why RI not as good as NJC : so LKY chose NJC, for his son (LSL) ?

thought since Sir Stamford Raffles founded Sg, RI was the Top school, even back in 1969 ?
RI was founded in 1823, existed 146 years with thick history, before NJC

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raffles_Institution

Maybe back then PM lead by example to send child to new school. It showed that even new school is a good school. Maybe back then it was even considerd neighbourhood school. Nowsadays very hard to find such lead by example example. [/quote]Quite true, I think the most obvious reason was that LKY wanted to show that the JC system was a long term kind of investment and not just a 'one time do then forget about it', like certain neighboring country's public projects. True enough, the JCs eventually came to be the bedrock of our post-secondary education system.

[also-mummy]

Seems that its very hard to succeed in appeals. The posted JC keeps the student in school the entire day the entire week during orientation (which incidentally ends on the day that all JCs suppose to stop all appeals) and some schools keep the students’ phones probably so that the students cannot keep on ‘bugging’ their 'dream/ preferred JC for their appeals or even receive messages to go for auditions, etc. There seems also to be little movement this year (if the ‘top’ schools nobody move, those lower down the ranking have no vacancies to move to). Maybe this is another way in which the authority can propagate "all schools are good schools" and tell you that if you cannot make it to your preferred school then stay where you are!

[dreamerz718]

also-mummy:

Seems that its very hard to succeed in appeals. The posted JC keeps the student in school the entire day the entire week during orientation (which incidentally ends on the day that all JCs suppose to stop all appeals) and some schools keep the students' phones probably so that the students cannot keep on 'bugging' their 'dream/ preferred JC for their appeals or even receive messages to go for auditions, etc. There seems also to be little movement this year (if the 'top' schools nobody move, those lower down the ranking have no vacancies to move to). Maybe this is another way in which the authority can propagate \"all schools are good schools\" and tell you that if you cannot make it to your preferred school then stay where you are!

I kind of disagree.
When i successfully appealed from ACJC into VJC, ACJC allowed students to leave school to submit appeal forms ( need to fill in an excuse slip though, but it is nothing much).
True, when I was at VJ orientation, they did keep our phones, but only incase durinf mass dance/games we drop it/ lose it, they returned us during breaks and meals though.
I appealed into VJ, 2 friends made it into CJ, two of my friends got calls to enter SRJC and someone from my VJC OG made it to raffles

[Skyed]

prettycoolmom:

Skyed:

[quote=\"prettycoolmom\"]My daughter took eMaths and AMaths in O level she scored A1. She also did pure science and scored A2. But she did badly in Language B3 and C6 on humanities. Will she struggle when she takes H2/H1 economics. She's planning to take H1 Geography instead. please advise if this is a good choice. thank you

I don't think any of the humans subjects I did in o levels were very much relevant to econs. I took pure lit, and elective geog/ss and had A1 for both, but my J1 year I scored S, and D for my econs at mid year and promos. Essay style is different, and likewise for concepts. (although globalisation in ss and a little bit of human geog eg. purchasing power may help a tiny tiny bit in your j2 year).

Thank you, do you think for a student that does not do well in humanities and language in O level, will
economics be a struggle? In your opinion and experience, which subject is easier to score economics or geography?[/quote]I didn't take geog at A levels so I can't really comment. I think econs is hard to grasp the correct technique to answer qns but once you get that settled it is v easy to score. eg. I studied for like 5 days for my mid year and promo econs papers and got S/D but for my J2 prelim, I studied less than 5 hours the day before and got B because I knew the technique already and I was familiar with my concepts. But if you can't grasp the way to approach then it will really bad, and very hard to pass in school. Plus unlikely to score well at As.

[Skyed]

dreamerz718:

zbear:

Congrats! Hope your appeal to VJC gets through!!!!

i got the acceptance call today, have successfully appealed into vjc!!!

Congrats! You won't regret it. Do explore the roofs at least once before you graduate HAHAHA.

[KuroYin]

from what I know, if students choose to take further math now, they do not need to choose a contrasting subject

[angwc]

There is no further math subject currently. Only H2 subject. H3 subjects are not counted towards university rank points. They are more for scholarship purpose or exemption of modules in university next time.


So yes you will still need a contrasting subject. Whether at H1 or H2 level is up to your school.

[pinky]

A level results will be released next Monday from 2pm. All the best to those who are collecting their results. You have completed 12 years of

education, what a journey :imcool:

[Ding]

I have just graduated from RI(JC) and is currently waiting for results. I have gotten A for H2 Bio, Chem and Math in prelims. I am looking for tutees and if interested, email [email protected]