2016 PSLE Results & Secondary Posting Discussions

[anxious.01501dad]

Morinosuke:

karu:

Not sure if it's been shared. What's the trend of COPs for the past say 5 years? Does it fluctuate more than +/- 5 points?

Here's some historical info:
http://wwwdontmesswith6a.blogspot.sg/2011/09/p6-prelim-results-and-expected-psle.html?m=1

Based on the trend it's unlikely the COP fill fluctuate by more than 5 points.
According to DD 2012 PSLE papers were one of the toughest, which likely explains why the 2013 intake COP was highest for most schools.

I believe the main reason for the higher 2013 higher COP was because of the bigger cohort. The 2012 PSLE cohort are dragon babies. For the 2013 S1, there were in fact some schools where the COP increased by 5 or more points over the previous year, though these were not considered the top tier schools.

[Morinosuke]

anxious.dad:

Morinosuke:

[quote=\"karu\"]Not sure if it's been shared. What's the trend of COPs for the past say 5 years? Does it fluctuate more than +/- 5 points?

Here's some historical info:
http://wwwdontmesswith6a.blogspot.sg/2011/09/p6-prelim-results-and-expected-psle.html?m=1

Based on the trend it's unlikely the COP fill fluctuate by more than 5 points.
According to DD 2012 PSLE papers were one of the toughest, which likely explains why the 2013 intake COP was highest for most schools.

I believe the main reason for the higher 2013 higher COP was because of the bigger cohort. The 2012 PSLE cohort are dragon babies. For the 2013 S1, there were in fact some schools where the COP increased by 5 or more points over the previous year, though these were not considered the top tier schools.[/quote]Cool, that makes sense. Thanks for the insight.

[Gxmas]

Hi, what will be the impact on the results if the kid drops the 3rd language subsequently? Will it be viewed unfavourably? Thanks!

[jedamum]

Not sure if the policy is the same for all schools but my Ds sch policy is if one does not want third lang to be computed in the sch year end results, withdrawal from the course needs to be completed by a certain timeline eg a month before end of year third Lang paper (this is an eg, pls go check out as I leave it to my Ds and not sure of the details.

[Gxmas]

jedamum:

Not sure if the policy is the same for all schools but my Ds sch policy is if one does not want third lang to be computed in the sch year end results, withdrawal from the course needs to be completed by a certain timeline eg a month before end of year third Lang paper (this is an eg, pls go check out as I leave it to my Ds and not sure of the details.

Thanks jedamum!

[Gxmas]

Hi, may I know what happens if the selected 3rd language from cat 3 is oversubscribed? Will MOE allocate another language within cat 3 for the child? Thanks!

[jedamum]

You will be allocated to your next choice subject to vacancies. If you put nil, then no third lang. I think we put same for all three options as we were not keen on any others.

[Gxmas]

Hi jedamum, that means if we want only cat 3 languages, we have only one shot at it right? Since we can only choose 1 language from each cat? We are not keen in other cat. Thanks!

[MArVeLIciOUS]

I have always wondered why MOE takes more than a month to publish the Sec 1 posting results. Any computer can churn out the results in an instant…

[ChiefKiasu]

MArVeLIciOUS:

I have always wondered why MOE takes more than a month to publish the Sec 1 posting results. Any computer can churn out the results in an instant......

You must understand that computers must still wait for humans to mull over and type in their choices. And there could be exceptions in the processing that may require human intervention. Unfortunately, humans don't work nearly as fast as computers can.