Hwa Chong Institution (High School)

[CR_Daddy]

wanxuan75:

Maple leaf:

[quote=\"Oh My Gosh\"]Kinowing iSparks is for GEP and high calibre mainstream, may I check how are the rest of students allocated to the 3 consortiums? I do not think it is solely random? Is it by languages proficiency? DSA? Maths/ Science Proficiency? Heard all DSA are allocated to ProEd?

Not sure but ProEd seems to be for DSA sports.

HCI's explanation is that other than iSparks, the other 3 consortiums are randomly distributed. Our observation as parents is that it seemed to be random such that one year, there may be more DSA sports students in Aphelion, and the following year, there may be more of such in Ortus, etc. There is no ranking of consortiums in HCI. Each consortium has its own resources but all the students will sit for the same mid year and year end exams.[/quote]Hi All

It is not true that the DSA sports goes to Pro-Ed consortium only. My son and his 3 other friends are also in DSA sports but they are in Alphelion. In fact both of them are in the same class.

So I think it is random. Or maybe results based too ?

Hope it helps.

[Oh My Gosh]

Does HCI has free wifi services for the boys in the school compound? Just checking before I decide on the plan for his mobile. Is data plan really required in HCI or will simple sms and call suffice? So far he has been using only sms and call, then hook up to whatsapp/ internet when he have wifi at home.

[CatMoon]

Oh My Gosh:

Does HCI has free wifi services for the boys in the school compound? Just checking before I decide on the plan for his mobile. Is data plan really required in HCI or will simple sms and call suffice? So far he has been using only sms and call, then hook up to whatsapp/ internet when he have wifi at home.

Yes, the school has free wifi which many of the boys are using.

[wanxuan75]

Oh My Gosh:

Does HCI has free wifi services for the boys in the school compound? Just checking before I decide on the plan for his mobile. Is data plan really required in HCI or will simple sms and call suffice? So far he has been using only sms and call, then hook up to whatsapp/ internet when he have wifi at home.

So far, the parents in my class let their boys share their data plan. For me, i just get a singtel prepaid card for him, top up $15 for him every month where he can use $10 to get 1Gpbs of data. The rest of the credits can be used for calling home or sort. and for unused data quota, it can be rolled over if you top up in time

[Oh My Gosh]

CatMoon:

Oh My Gosh:

Does HCI has free wifi services for the boys in the school compound? Just checking before I decide on the plan for his mobile. Is data plan really required in HCI or will simple sms and call suffice? So far he has been using only sms and call, then hook up to whatsapp/ internet when he have wifi at home.

Yes, the school has free wifi which many of the boys are using.

Thank you.

[Oh My Gosh]

wanxuan75:

Oh My Gosh:

Does HCI has free wifi services for the boys in the school compound? Just checking before I decide on the plan for his mobile. Is data plan really required in HCI or will simple sms and call suffice? So far he has been using only sms and call, then hook up to whatsapp/ internet when he have wifi at home.

So far, the parents in my class let their boys share their data plan. For me, i just get a singtel prepaid card for him, top up $15 for him every month where he can use $10 to get 1Gpbs of data. The rest of the credits can be used for calling home or sort. and for unused data quota, it can be rolled over if you top up in time

What do you mean \"share their data plan\"? As if his classmates let him have \"hotspot\" to their data plan?

[wanxuan75]

Oh My Gosh:

wanxuan75:

[quote=\"Oh My Gosh\"]Does HCI has free wifi services for the boys in the school compound? Just checking before I decide on the plan for his mobile. Is data plan really required in HCI or will simple sms and call suffice? So far he has been using only sms and call, then hook up to whatsapp/ internet when he have wifi at home.

So far, the parents in my class let their boys share their data plan. For me, i just get a singtel prepaid card for him, top up $15 for him every month where he can use $10 to get 1Gpbs of data. The rest of the credits can be used for calling home or sort. and for unused data quota, it can be rolled over if you top up in time

What do you mean \"share their data plan\"? As if his classmates let him have \"hotspot\" to their data plan?[/quote]In some telco plans, you can pay an additional sum of money to share the data in your mobile plan. For instance, if yours is the old 12GB plan, you can just pay a sum of money to the telco and then share the data with him. For mine, cos my plan is 3GB, not enuf for me at times, so i get him prepaid card instead.

if he is accessing internet in sch, he can use the school wifi.

[Sunshine_bear]

Quick question on the timetable… What’s IS? And we bought Geography textbooks but Geography not in the timetable? Thanks in advance…

[Always21]

Sunshine_bear:

Quick question on the timetable... What's IS? And we bought Geography textbooks but Geography not in the timetable? Thanks in advance...

IS is independent study

Geography is taught second half of the year.
History is taught in the first half.

[Sunshine_bear]

Thanks so much!