* Nanyang JC (NYJC)
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If you have done a research on tuition centres, it is not difficult to find that there are classes set aside specifically for NYJC students. This means there are enough NYJC tutees to form classes of their own in centres near NYJC. My point is if NYJC teachers are really good enough, why would there be many students still sourcing for external help?
I am aware that tuitions are common among all JCs students. It’s just that there’s no exception for NYJC. -
mindays:
Try harder, mindays!
I took Physics for my A levels a donkey years ago. I can tell the standard of the papers. I took a look at paper 1 and 2 of these schools and skimmed through them. My neighbour's son who graduated this year passed my DS his set of papers (year 2015). He was from NYJC. I was initially surprised of how he possessed these approx. 20 school papers. He said NYJC provides these school papers for the students to practise. Yes, all of them are year 2015.
Oh to answer your question, I must say, it takes pure luck to have a neighbour who have copies of such papers. It is not possible for me to share these papers with you, digitally. I do not want to break the law as these are copy-righted materials. I am sure you wouldn't do such a silly thing to \"prove\" what you say.
A better way for you to check my credibility is to ask other JC students about the difficulty.
It is impossible to exchange exam papers with 'approx' 20 JCs+MI within the same year, i.e. in 2015. It would have been more convincing if you said that your neighbour had bought the 2014 exam papers from suppliers located near Clementi , Kovan MRT or Bras Basah Complex. :evil: -
mindays:
This is an interesting analysis. Thank you for kind sharing of infoPersonally, I had seen JCs papers for Physics.
On average for Physics ,
HCI is the hardest among all JCs
RI comes 2nd
NJC 3rd
VJC, NYJC, DHS, RVHS - have a fair share of difficult qns (at least 70%)
TJC, ACJC, AJC, SAJC - moderate - tough qns
MJC, CJC, YJC, PJC, TPJC, SRJC, IJC, JJC - basic - moderate qns
MI - basic qns
If you don't believe me, take a good look at their papers.
I believe all JCs will try to teach their students within the syllabus.
HCI, RI may broaden their students' skills set by teaching outside the syllabus though.
how about similar comparison analysis : for H2 (Chemisty and Biology) ?
which JC often set difficult questions for Chemistry, and for Bio ?
Thank you, very much -
25HMOM:
I believe it is still possible to exchange prelim papers with every jc with lots of hard work from the teachers.
Try harder, mindays!mindays:
I took Physics for my A levels a donkey years ago. I can tell the standard of the papers. I took a look at paper 1 and 2 of these schools and skimmed through them. My neighbour's son who graduated this year passed my DS his set of papers (year 2015). He was from NYJC. I was initially surprised of how he possessed these approx. 20 school papers. He said NYJC provides these school papers for the students to practise. Yes, all of them are year 2015.
Oh to answer your question, I must say, it takes pure luck to have a neighbour who have copies of such papers. It is not possible for me to share these papers with you, digitally. I do not want to break the law as these are copy-righted materials. I am sure you wouldn't do such a silly thing to \"prove\" what you say.
A better way for you to check my credibility is to ask other JC students about the difficulty.
It is impossible to exchange exam papers with 'approx' 20 JCs+MI within the same year, i.e. in 2015. It would have been more convincing if you said that your neighbour had bought the 2014 exam papers from suppliers located near Clementi , Kovan MRT or Bras Basah Complex. :evil:
But my question is: Is it rational and necessary for nyjc teachers to go to lengths to get almost all the jcs' papers? Due to time constraint, most JCs will just select a few (upper tier) JCs' papers for their pupils and go through the answers with them, which is more practical.
Mindays, did your neighbour's dc complete all the papers? Did he/she pass to you all the physics exam papers even if they were done, as I will only pass undone papers to others? Did these papers come with answer keys? Isn't it more convenient if you were to purchase new 2015 jc prelim papers from vendors for your ds which are available since early this year? -
KTKS:
I believe it is still possible to exchange prelim papers with every jc with lots of hard work from the teachers.
Try harder, mindays!25HMOM:
[quote=\"mindays\"]
I took Physics for my A levels a donkey years ago. I can tell the standard of the papers. I took a look at paper 1 and 2 of these schools and skimmed through them. My neighbour's son who graduated this year passed my DS his set of papers (year 2015). He was from NYJC. I was initially surprised of how he possessed these approx. 20 school papers. He said NYJC provides these school papers for the students to practise. Yes, all of them are year 2015.
Oh to answer your question, I must say, it takes pure luck to have a neighbour who have copies of such papers. It is not possible for me to share these papers with you, digitally. I do not want to break the law as these are copy-righted materials. I am sure you wouldn't do such a silly thing to \"prove\" what you say.
A better way for you to check my credibility is to ask other JC students about the difficulty.
It is impossible to exchange exam papers with 'approx' 20 JCs+MI within the same year, i.e. in 2015. It would have been more convincing if you said that your neighbour had bought the 2014 exam papers from suppliers located near Clementi , Kovan MRT or Bras Basah Complex. :evil:
But my question is: Is it rational and necessary for nyjc teachers to go to lengths to get almost all the jcs' papers? Due to time constraint, most JCs will just select a few (upper tier) JCs' papers for their pupils and go through the answers with them, which is more practical.
Mindays, did your neighbour's dc complete all the papers? Did he/she pass to you all the physics exam papers even if they were done, as I will only pass undone papers to others? Did these papers come with answer keys? Isn't it more convenient if you were to purchase new 2015 jc prelim papers from vendors for your ds which are available since early this year?[/quote]Yes, it's through the hard work of the teachers to exchange papers.
As there are limited A level resources, exchanging papers with the respective JCs is a common thing.
As I see, most papers were completed. At least 80%. Answer keys were provided at the back of the papers. I don't buy papers from vendors as it is very expensive. It's up to one's preference. -
25HMOM:
If you would like to say that, I rest my case. That's because for every thing I say, you will find all ways to twist my content. My neighbour's son really gave my DS the papers. It may sound unconvincing to you, well that's you.
Try harder, mindays!mindays:
I took Physics for my A levels a donkey years ago. I can tell the standard of the papers. I took a look at paper 1 and 2 of these schools and skimmed through them. My neighbour's son who graduated this year passed my DS his set of papers (year 2015). He was from NYJC. I was initially surprised of how he possessed these approx. 20 school papers. He said NYJC provides these school papers for the students to practise. Yes, all of them are year 2015.
Oh to answer your question, I must say, it takes pure luck to have a neighbour who have copies of such papers. It is not possible for me to share these papers with you, digitally. I do not want to break the law as these are copy-righted materials. I am sure you wouldn't do such a silly thing to \"prove\" what you say.
A better way for you to check my credibility is to ask other JC students about the difficulty.
It is impossible to exchange exam papers with 'approx' 20 JCs+MI within the same year, i.e. in 2015. It would have been more convincing if you said that your neighbour had bought the 2014 exam papers from suppliers located near Clementi , Kovan MRT or Bras Basah Complex. :evil: -
phtthp:
I saw NYJC's chemistry paper for H2. It seems do-able. Moderate and Tough questions were mainly found in the papers. I know HCI's chemistry papers are killers too.
This is an interesting analysis. Thank you for kind sharing of infomindays:
Personally, I had seen JCs papers for Physics.
On average for Physics ,
HCI is the hardest among all JCs
RI comes 2nd
NJC 3rd
VJC, NYJC, DHS, RVHS - have a fair share of difficult qns (at least 70%)
TJC, ACJC, AJC, SAJC - moderate - tough qns
MJC, CJC, YJC, PJC, TPJC, SRJC, IJC, JJC - basic - moderate qns
MI - basic qns
If you don't believe me, take a good look at their papers.
I believe all JCs will try to teach their students within the syllabus.
HCI, RI may broaden their students' skills set by teaching outside the syllabus though.
how about similar comparison analysis : for H2 (Chemisty and Biology) ?
which JC often set difficult questions for Chemistry, and for Bio ?
Thank you, very much -
roborovski:
Agreed. In NYJC, there are frequent tests from what I know.hellohahaha:
Hmm you're right. A level standard questions can more easily be found. But is it normal for JC 2 (or 1) students to have class test every week? Heard that may happen in NYJC. Anyone knows what about other JCs, or whether that is true?
From what I gathered, it is normal for JC2 students to have tests every fortnight, but not common to have class test(s) for JC1 students every week :nailbite: In JC1, students have to cope with an extra subject which is Project Work and some need to do MT. That will total to 2 extra subjects in JC1 as compared to JC2. It will be over-whelming to have too many tests. Morever, smart and diligent students may prefer to be empowered to learn more independently instead of being spoonfed with tests. -
roborovski:
I would like to add that when JCs share their answer schemes, they are mostly edited. If I am not wrong, NYJC has marker's report that can only be shared internally within the school. Comprehensive answers may be given to NYJC students but it can be brief when shared with other JCs.
Interesting analysis. You seem to be ranking the Physics papers according to the JCs' COP!mindays:
Personally, I had seen JCs papers for Physics.
On average for Physics,
HCI is the hardest among all JCs
RI comes 2nd
NJC 3rd
VJC, NYJC, DHS, RVHS - have a fair share of difficult qns (at least 70%)
TJC, ACJC, AJC, SAJC - moderate - tough qns
MJC, CJC, YJC, PJC, TPJC, SRJC, IJC, JJC - basic - moderate qns
MI - basic qns
If you don't believe me, take a good look at their papers.
I believe all JCs will try to teach their students within the syllabus.
HCI, RI may broaden their students' skills set by teaching outside the syllabus though.
My DS1 had just graduated from JC last year. From his experience, the model answers given by the NYJC teachers weren't very comprehensive/substantial, and so were some other JCs. He did not mention if NYJC papers were indeed tougher than most JCs but IMHO, being able to provide a good answer to any question set by the JC is of great importance too. -
mindays:
That is because you are too exaggerating
If you would like to say that, I rest my case. That's because for every thing I say, you will find all ways to twist my content. My neighbour's son really gave my DS the papers. It may sound unconvincing to you, well that's you.25HMOM:
Try harder, mindays!
It is impossible to exchange exam papers with 'approx' 20 JCs+MI within the same year, i.e. in 2015. It would have been more convincing if you said that your neighbour had bought the 2014 exam papers from suppliers located near Clementi , Kovan MRT or Bras Basah Complex. :evil:
Previously you sounded like a fresh ex-student of nyjc as you mentioned what the alumni would say about their jc of late. Then suddenly you progressed to being a parent of a jc student.
Then you mentioned your nyjc neighbour was able to do 80% of almost 20 physics prelim papers before the A level's. Do you know the time gap between the end of jc prelim and the A levels exams? :skeptical:
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