All About A Levels

[VitoRelax]

Jennifer:

Dreamt last night seab announced 4th March releases A level results

walau jeniffer, you must be stressed huh ? until you dream about it ...

[VitoRelax]

zbear:

Does this system applies to Poly admissions as well?

Of course.

The JAE form comes with 12 choices and you can select a mixture of JCs, Polys, MI and ITEs in your 12 choices. And the algorithm allocates all the 29,000 students to these institution depending on what your choices are.

If you get a score of 2 and put Simei ITE as your first choice and RI as your 2nd choice, of course you will get into Simei ITE.

If you get a score of 25 and put JCs in all your 12 choices, of course you ended up with no place to go.

[Jennifer]

VitoRelax:

Jennifer:

Dreamt last night seab announced 4th March releases A level results

walau jeniffer, you must be stressed huh ? until you dream about it ...

:rotflmao:

Btw, how come you keep typing jeniffer for my name?

[lee_yl]

grownupbaby:

If A and B both have same score, both Singaporean and everything the same, who comes first? According to JAE booklet, it is random selection by computer. But school staff said the choice put also comes in consideration. If A put choice 1 but B put choice 11, A will get. So, I am not sure if it is really true.

Thanks for sharing.
If indeed stated inside the JAE booklet, very likely students with tied score have to go through the random selection by computer (aka balloting). That's interesting.

[lee_yl]

VitoRelax:

lee_yl:

Is the selection of JC carried out the same way as secondary school selection?

If you are comparing allocation of PSLE ---> secondary schools and L1R5 ---> JC,
then the algorithm is essentially the same except that in PSLE ---> secondary schools, the ranking is easier to understand bcos all students in PSLE has marks till 9 decimal places.

Yes, I understand how the algorithm works for the selection of secondary school. Given how t-score can be calculated to 9 decimal places (some say 13th decimal place), it is highly unlikely that there will be a tied score somehow.

I am quite surprised that under JAE, they have random selection to break a tied score.


Once the PSLE t-score has been replaced by banding, we may see such issues during the pri to sch school selection. :yikes:

[VitoRelax]

lee_yl:

Yes, I understand how the algorithm works for the selection of secondary school. Given how t-score can be calculated to 9 decimal places (some say 13th decimal place), it is highly unlikely that there will be a tied score somehow.

I would say in PSLE, it is not as likely as O Levels.

In PSLE, it is possible to have a tie and randomly selected by computer to break the tie.

If in PSLE, if A and B both took the same subjects and got the same score for all the 4 subjects, even if you have 1,000 decimal places, their score will be the same ... this is because the same mean and standard deviation will be applied to the same score ...
[quote]I am quite surprised that under JAE, they have random selection to break a tied score. [/quote]When you have grades in single digit number, this is what is happening ...
[quote]Once the PSLE t-score has been replaced by banding, we may see such issues during the pri to sch school selection. :yikes:[/quote]And more parents will complain why their kid cannot go to this school while their neighbour's kid with same score can get it to the school ...

The current PSLE t-score is good ...

[VitoRelax]

Jennifer:

VitoRelax:

[quote=\"Jennifer\"]Dreamt last night seab announced 4th March releases A level results

walau jeniffer, you must be stressed huh ? until you dream about it ...

:rotflmao:

Btw, how come you keep typing jeniffer for my name?[/quote]Ooops ... paiseh, Jennifer ... :imsorry:

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Thanks all for the lively contribution, especially @VitoRelax!


Just to give you an update... my daughter got into her second choice AJC today.

Glad that we still give a shot at a JC which she missed by 1 point

[esme38]

The posting result was out today. An update... my DD got into HC.

[anxious.01501dad]

:congrats: esme38

May I know if HC is her first choice?