2016 PSLE Discussions (Born in 2004)

[janet88]

lynntan15:

janet88:

[quote=\"funkymonkey\"]My special needs daughter scored 171, eligible for NA even though she's been scoring single digits since P4. We were praying for at least 130. What are our chances of getting into CHIJ KC NA? It's COP is 169........

:congrats:

It is indeed very encouraging to read this. Congrats to your daughter and yourself as well. Must be a lot of hardworks on both parties. Well Done ideed.[/quote]No matter how much we have done as parents, the credit still goes to daughter because she sat for the exam. With the major hurdle down, next one will be the S1 posting and with that we can finally get a closure.

[Monkeymom]

Hi! Heard that the cohort result is good, the COP might increase too. May I know if my dd psle aggregate lower 2 marks with the top sch COP, do you think if i can take the risk to put this sch as first choice? The second choice is meet the sch COP. TIA

[phtthp]

janet88:

No matter how much we have done as parents, the credit still goes to daughter because she sat for the exam. With the major hurdle down, next one will be the S1 posting and with that we can finally get a closure.

hi Janet,

As long as your daughter put her affiliated Secondary school as #1 choice, and her T -score can meet the affiliated COP for the stream that she want, she can go back to her affiliated Sec school already. Don't worry, too much

[catddy2002]

janet88:

nansk:

My dd is very happy with her result. She exceeded the non-affiliation cut-off for her affiliated IJ school.

My Daughter will be going back to her affiliated secondary IJ. Normal academic.
She was very happy when she saw her name as having 'the most improved results'.

:congrats:

[catddy2002]

janet88:

nansk:

My dd is very happy with her result. She exceeded the non-affiliation cut-off for her affiliated IJ school.

My Daughter will be going back to her affiliated secondary IJ. Normal academic.
She was very happy when she saw her name as having 'the most improved results'.

:congrats:

[wolf88]

teachingmum:

Hi, my son is offered HMT. He did not take HMT in Pri school and has secured a place in an IB sch. Heard that HMT is not needed for those taking IB. Is it true?

Yes, it's true. My nephew in SJI doing IB is doing normal MT.It's just that there is a smaller group of them.

[Sun_2010]

janet88:

nansk:

My dd is very happy with her result. She exceeded the non-affiliation cut-off for her affiliated IJ school.

My Daughter will be going back to her affiliated secondary IJ. Normal academic.
She was very happy when she saw her name as having 'the most improved results'.

So happy for you and her. All the hard work paid off. :rahrah:

Janet, Time for you to not only celebrate but take a nice long well deserved break.

[BigDevil]

Monkeymom:

Hi! Heard that the cohort result is good, the COP might increase too. May I know if my dd psle aggregate lower 2 marks with the top sch COP, do you think if i can take the risk to put this sch as first choice? The second choice is meet the sch COP. TIA

If your expectation is that the COP will be higher than previous year,
you are basically throwing one choice away since your daughter's T-score
didn't even meet previous year's COP, let alone this year's.

Then again, you have a total of 6 choices. So long as you exercise caution,
and choose one or two schools with COP well below her T-score, then there
is no risk at all.

[lookingforward]

hi,

My girl scored 229 for her PSLE, A* for English, A for Science, B for Maths & Chinese. We are staying at Hougang and with no car. May I have some suggestions from kind souls here, what are the secondary schools to be considered for her Sec 1 posting?

** She doesnt want to go to Hougang Sec & YCK Sec

In fact she wanted to go XinMin or Zhonghua, but she didnt do as well as expected, will it be risky to put these 2 school as part of her choice?

Appreciate your advise, thanks so much :thankyou:

[lexis]

teachingmum:

Hi, my son is offered HMT. He did not take HMT in Pri school and has secured a place in an IB sch. Heard that HMT is not needed for those taking IB. Is it true?

Depends on the school. HMT requirement is for admission to local universities, but for IB students, the HMT requirement can be satisfied by Pass in SL/ HL MTL A or B paper taken at IBDP examination (see: http://www.nus.edu.sg/oam/docs/FAQs%20for%20International%20Baccalaureate.pdf)

However, different IB schools do it differently. I think ACSI and SJI do take the MOE HTML paper (or at least the kids have the option to) but for SOTA, they do the IB MTL paper at Year 6 and don't offer the HMT O level paper. IBDP requires a subject from the language group (Group 2?) so those kids who take the HMT paper at year 4 will have to do another language at ab initio level at Year 5-6.

You need to check with the school's MT Dept to get a definitive answer.