2010 DSA(Direct School Admission)

[ningy]

Just heard from DD1 who came back fr NYGH Bilingual olympiad that the NYGH teacher told them that those who get Gold/ Platinum for maths olympiad will be exempted fr the GAT test for DSA.

[skyjuice]

ACSI has 90 places for Sports DSA. Since the school has so many sports, it seems each will have only less than 10 places. The number of just non-feeder students who attended yesterday’s talk way exceeded the number.

[match3frog]

Can I know if RI requires a personal statement to be handed in together with application form + portfolio or after candidate has been short listed?


Thanks.

[john.09525316]

I heard other reason going for O level was the students find the JC years of that school too stressful and taking O level give them a chance to open their door to other JC since the ultimate route is to get A level and go to Uni or O level give them an additional option of joining poly, not necc due to poor result. Duno how true are all these …[/quote]


A friend of mine whose daughter currently study in RJC JC1. I asked her how do u find the path of IP program in RJC? she said that actually IP prg is not so suitable for her. She is very stress, she has tuition for Maths, Bio and Eco. She told me during her time in RGS (Sec), IP prg, they did a lot of other projects which was not so much relevant to the JC, the foundation of most of the subjects will taught very fast and the gap between ‘O’ and ‘A’ is a huge jump, therefore many students find it very difficult except those who did their RA (Raffles Acadmic) in Sec will find it easy, most of them will have take tuition for at least 3 to 5 subjects. Wow, is that so, can your imagine these are those students who PSLE scored above 260+, and yet they have to go thru such a difficult life in JC, how about those main stream students? I feel sad and bad for these group of generetion in Singapore. Pls comment

[ningy]

My friend's DD1 scored abt 270 in PSLE and got into RGS; she was in one of the best classes and then joined RJC (1st batch of IP); suddenly she got a lot of tuition but eventually didn't do well in A levels - my friend was so \"ashamed\" of her DD1's results that she refused to say any details except her grades were not good but luckily can still do a business course at NUS (at first have dreams of getting scholarships). Now, with DS2 - still followed the same path - got into RI and have lots of tuition. Don't know if it is really the teachers teach less and so the students need to get tuition or the parents very kiasu and make sure they have tuition to supplement. Always heard that students nowadays have tonnes of projects - so dunno if they've spent too much time on projects and not enough on studies. On the other hand, we always read in the ST that these IP schools produce so many straight As students and the A level results are so good and so good. :? :?

[verykiasu2010]

ningy:

My friend's DD1 scored abt 270 in PSLE and got into RGS; she was in one of the best classes and then joined RJC (1st batch of IP); suddenly she got a lot of tuition but eventually didn't do well in A levels - my friend was so \"ashamed\" of her DD1's results that she refused to say any details except her grades were not good but luckily can still do a business course at NUS (at first have dreams of getting scholarships). Now, with DS2 - still followed the same path - got into RI and have lots of tuition. Don't know if it is really the teachers teach less and so the students need to get tuition or the parents very kiasu and make sure they have tuition to supplement. Always heard that students nowadays have tonnes of projects - so dunno if they've spent too much time on projects and not enough on studies. On the other hand, we always read in the ST that these IP schools produce so many straight As students and the A level results are so good and so good. :? :?

so, is it like not good enough to get scholarship = not good results ?

[wonderm]

ningy:

eventually didn't do well in A levels - my friend was so \"ashamed\" of her DD1's results that she refused to say any details except her grades were not good but luckily can still do a business course at NUS (at first have dreams of getting scholarships).

I heard it is not easy to get into business course at NUS, 4As for A-Level. It may be just that the girl did not meet the mother's very high expectation since she felt \"ashamed\" of her DD's result. It is very hard to say if the O Level path would have yielded better results. Number of As aside, IP programme is supposed to prepare the students better in the real world.

[Herbie]

How ‘many’ DSA application is ‘ideal’? Any advise?


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[KSP]

ningy:

My friend's DD1 scored abt 270 in PSLE and got into RGS; she was in one of the best classes and then joined RJC (1st batch of IP); suddenly she got a lot of tuition but eventually didn't do well in A levels - my friend was so \"ashamed\" of her DD1's results that she refused to say any details except her grades were not good but luckily can still do a business course at NUS (at first have dreams of getting scholarships). Now, with DS2 - still followed the same path - got into RI and have lots of tuition. Don't know if it is really the teachers teach less and so the students need to get tuition or the parents very kiasu and make sure they have tuition to supplement. Always heard that students nowadays have tonnes of projects - so dunno if they've spent too much time on projects and not enough on studies. On the other hand, we always read in the ST that these IP schools produce so many straight As students and the A level results are so good and so good. :? :?

This is the same scenario whereby you may find a rotten apple in the whole truck of good apples. Likewise, you may also find some very good students from the mainstream in their O/A level who are considered as late boomers.

[cascada]

In a top school, one can be just a small fish in a big pond.