DSA 2017
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Ms Tay MY:
When my DD was attending all the interviews, the feedback after every session was really quite telling. Every school has their way of sussing out the type of students they are looking for. They arrange and conduct the interviews in a very organised manner but each school does it differently. The type of and focus of the questions they ask also differ greatly due to the different culture and focus of each school.
During interview, how to identify those P6 interviewees that are purposeful in entering the DSA Secondary school ?phtthp:
[quote=\"yap_susan\"]That is the purpose of interview.
It is also to screen out those who are purposeful in getting in. Not just because parents says so.
Children ought to have a say in it since they are the ones studying in that school ultimately.
Some parents may have already pre-program their children for interview with answers, show to interviewers during interview that they are purposeful.
From our experience, I don't think there is a need to question if the schools' interview committees know how to tell a coached interview response from a genuine spontaneous one. Even the kids themselves within the interview groups could tell when they hear a \"prepared answer\". My DD told me that after every answer, further probes and request for elaborations from different teachers will come shooting out quite rapidly. The kids have no time to extract prepared memorised answers.... It will have be the genuine natural responses that will stand out.
Having said the above, it is also the schools' perogative to determine the deciding factor when it comes to DSA for different departments eg. Sports. If the school wants to focus on developing the sprints, then they may relax the interview criteria for the sprinters so that they will get achieve the intended aim of improving the school's sprint team.
The \"top\" schools also do not want students who are too far off the schools' academic standards. The follow-up processes in Sec 1 - Sec 4 for non-performance in academic studies is just too painful and demoralizing for students, parents and the school. So I really don't think any of the schools will set out to recruit students who obviously cannot keep up with the school's academic studies.[/quote]Oh yes... When interviewers shoot out qns, it really tests the child.
It is good to be equip with some knowledge of the school. Kids need to know some background in order to assimilate into the school well too in future. -
Which Secondary schools in Sg allow DSA via Robotics ?
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phtthp:
Which Secondary schools in Sg allow DSA via Robotics ?
Hearsay - SST? -
https://www.moe.gov.sg/admissions/direct-admissions/dsa-sec/stem
Here's the infophtthp:
Which Secondary schools in Sg allow DSA via Robotics ?
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Does anyone know when will SST email us for shortlisted applicants for the next phase of selection ?
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My DS has applied to HCI under the academic DSA track, no news till now. Does anyone of you received any notification from the school to attend interview? or any notification if you got rejected?
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My DS has applied to HCI under the academic DSA track, no news till now. Does anyone of you received any notification from the school to attend interview? or any notification if you got rejected?
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Just received an interview notification from HCI for Sports and Humanities domains.
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U got it today?They called you or via email?
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HCI sent an SMS to say that shortlisting results are released and said to check the spam folder. My notification was indeed in the spam folder.
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