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    JC or Poly?

    Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved Tertiary Education - A-Levels, Diplomas, Degrees
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    • janet88J Offline
      janet88
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      precioustime96:
      JC is better if you intend to study academically rigorous courses in Uni. If your child has little interest in academia, then Poly would be the way to go generally.

      my son is a chip off the old block. he knows how to operate any IT gadget without reading the manual. he took infocomm as his CCA but after 4 years of it, he got so tired.
      one would have thought he would take up infocomm in the poly, but firstly he didn't make it to ngee ann (his dream poly) based on his points but now he is undecisive what to do. doing A levels would give him that luxury of time to decide, like what the other ladies mentioned...not to forget another 2 years in NS...so a total of 5 years for him to decide what course to take & what he plans to do.

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        siling
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        precioustime96:
        JC is better if you intend to study academically rigorous courses in Uni. If your child has little interest in academia, then Poly would be the way to go generally.

        Quite true.

        But poly students go uni is not as easy as jc students go uni.

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          siling
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          janet88:
          precioustime96:

          JC is better if you intend to study academically rigorous courses in Uni. If your child has little interest in academia, then Poly would be the way to go generally.


          my son is a chip off the old block. he knows how to operate any IT gadget without reading the manual. he took infocomm as his CCA but after 4 years of it, he got so tired.
          one would have thought he would take up infocomm in the poly, but firstly he didn't make it to ngee ann (his dream poly) based on his points but now he is undecisive what to do. doing A levels would give him that luxury of time to decide, like what the other ladies mentioned...not to forget another 2 years in NS...so a total of 5 years for him to decide what course to take & what he plans to do.

          Good point.
          sometimes the kids may change their mind on what they shall major in.
          Your son got another 5 years to explore what his true interest is. šŸ™‚

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            masteryourmath
            last edited by

            Also to add, JC makes more sense to me because if one did badly for As, he/she can still retake. No such thing for poly since GPA is cumulative.

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            • janet88J Offline
              janet88
              last edited by

              masteryourmath:
              Also to add, JC makes more sense to me because if one did badly for As, he/she can still retake. No such thing for poly since GPA is cumulative.

              the JC route is very academic driven...just like O levels.
              interest is very important when choosing between jc or poly. both routes are equally tough. ultimately it boils down to interest. if the child cannot face another 2 years of academics, it is meaningless to take the jc route...also GP and MT is very tough.

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              • starlight1968sgS Offline
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                Janet

                Has your boy made a decision to go JC or poly?

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                  siling:
                  precioustime96:

                  JC is better if you intend to study academically rigorous courses in Uni. If your child has little interest in academia, then Poly would be the way to go generally.


                  Quite true.

                  But poly students go uni is not as easy as jc students go uni.

                  It only appear not as easy coz traditionally (prob now too), the more academic kids will choose to go to JCs.

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                  • janet88J Offline
                    janet88
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                    starlight1968sg:
                    Janet

                    Has your boy made a decision to go JC or poly?
                    he has decided to do engineering at SP.

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                      janet88:
                      starlight1968sg:

                      Janet

                      Has your boy made a decision to go JC or poly?

                      he has decided to do engineering at SP.

                      Gd that he has made the decision.
                      I guess you live in the west and SP at Dover is not too far away.
                      Spore needs more engineers!

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                      • janet88J Offline
                        janet88
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                        singapore needs engineers but hope SCs are given priority.

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