All About GEP

[Neko]

vlim:

I also cannot get my ds to read Chinese story book as he said Chinese story is very 'lame' unlike English story. So he only know chinese words that they learn from the textbook...He is only force to read Chinese story book during school silent reading time...

my dd doesn't even bring a chinese storybook for the silent reading ! Die die read her english storybook. If the prefects catch her she'd just whip out her chinese textbk & (pretend to) read.

[vlim]

my ds only read 1 to 2 pages per silent reading session…so I always need to return the book to the nlb without him finishing reading it… :x

[WTK]

By the way, how do your DD or DS find the English paper today? Is mine the only one that having problem?

[theGEPPER]

hello to parents out there

i am a student in the GEP programme
i was just doing my research when i saw this topic and you people's comments
basically, i think that exams are hard. but the really important point is to 'revise smart'and to know that its not scary at all
this year's my sixth year in raffles and here are some tips that your child may want

ENG: Revise through your clozes REMEMBER: Look out for comparisons. Prepositions are always tested, but only one - three questions (if u check through the paper and no prepositions must be something wrong). IS ARE WAS WERE is never tested. that goes under the grammar section. as for comprehension, do annotations (hopefully if u have the time) and please explain the why questions, not just a statement.

MATH: read your teacher's notes and look through your worksheets. pla around with the calculator for the investigation. *if you dont know a 1 or 2 mark question, give it up and move on. 1 mark is eqivilent to 1.5 minutes, so plan well. always use guess and check if desperate:) note: never put' 1/8 = 123(wateva) coz you might not get any marks at all.

CHINESE: MY fav subject!!! Maybe you can remember some common good sentences to use in your composition. Look through the words in your textbook; getting those wrong would be terrible

SCIENCE: Write notes in class of important points so as to revise later on, try to use important concepts as answers. eg. start heat answer with \"heat travels from a hotter place to a colder place so...\" look at the MCQ closely. they might always trick you

SOCIAL STUDIES: read through notes, draw a concept map and timeline of the area tested, (read the exam topics!!!) remember important dates and understand important concepts. and listen carefully in class because i find that the teachers love to hint...
Last but not least, get into good relationships with your seniors! They may give you lots of help!
cheers.

[vlim]

mine p5 gep...said as compared to the practise paper which close to half the class failed...the cloze passage is easier but the comprehension is harder...btw he passed his practise paper so hopefully his ct score would not be lousier then the practise paper score..

[vlim]

theGEPPER:

hello to parents out there

i am a student in the GEP programme
i was just doing my research when i saw this topic and you people's comments
basically, i think that exams are hard. but the really important point is to 'revise smart'and to know that its not scary at all
this year's my sixth year in raffles and here are some tips that your child may want

ENG: Revise through your clozes REMEMBER: Look out for comparisons. Prepositions are always tested, but only one - three questions (if u check through the paper and no prepositions must be something wrong). IS ARE WAS WERE is never tested. that goes under the grammar section. as for comprehension, do annotations (hopefully if u have the time) and please explain the why questions, not just a statement.

MATH: read your teacher's notes and look through your worksheets. pla around with the calculator for the investigation. *if you dont know a 1 or 2 mark question, give it up and move on. 1 mark is eqivilent to 1.5 minutes, so plan well. always use guess and check if desperate:) note: never put' 1/8 = 123(wateva) coz you might not get any marks at all.

CHINESE: MY fav subject!!! Maybe you can remember some common good sentences to use in your composition. Look through the words in your textbook; getting those wrong would be terrible

SCIENCE: Write notes in class of important points so as to revise later on, try to use important concepts as answers. eg. start heat answer with \"heat travels from a hotter place to a colder place so...\" look at the MCQ closely. they might always trick you

SOCIAL STUDIES: read through notes, draw a concept map and timeline of the area tested, (read the exam topics!!!) remember important dates and understand important concepts. and listen carefully in class because i find that the teachers love to hint...
Last but not least, get into good relationships with your seniors! They may give you lots of help!
cheers.

thanks for your tips

[WTK]

vlim and GEPPER, please check your pm. Thanks

[Donkey Kong]

vlim:

theGEPPER:

MATH: read your teacher's notes and look through your worksheets. pla around with the calculator for the investigation. *if you dont know a 1 or 2 mark question, give it up and move on. 1 mark is eqivilent to 1.5 minutes, so plan well. always use guess and check if desperate:) note: never put' 1/8 = 123(wateva) coz you might not get any marks at all.

CHINESE: MY fav subject!!! Maybe you can remember some common good sentences to use in your composition. Look through the words in your textbook; getting those wrong would be terrible

SCIENCE: Write notes in class of important points so as to revise later on, try to use important concepts as answers. eg. start heat answer with \"heat travels from a hotter place to a colder place so...\" look at the MCQ closely. they might always trick you

SOCIAL STUDIES: read through notes, draw a concept map and timeline of the area tested, (read the exam topics!!!) remember important dates and understand important concepts. and listen carefully in class because i find that the teachers love to hint...
Last but not least, get into good relationships with your seniors! They may give you lots of help!
cheers.

thanks for your tips

Sorry I don't mean to be rude. These are exam techniques and I am a little disappointed when I see GEP pupils (may be not all) think like dat.

Eg, Chinese is your favourite subject. Think you should spend time reading the classics, history, etc. GEPs are expected to create good sentences and not memorising sentences. Not too difficult if you read widely. :lol:

Good relationship with Seniors: do it with hearts and good intention. I find many Singaporean students like to borrow/take seniors projects/reports then kopi kopi... becoz they wanna save time. This is happening worldwide even at Unis level. I gave immediate failure when I see students kopi, esp. in front of me. This is not the way to learn.

GEP are expected to be creative... remember. :celebrate:

[vlim]

Donkey Kong:

Sorry I don't mean to be rude. These are exam techniques and I am a little disappointed when I see GEP pupils (may be not all) think like dat.


Eg, Chinese is your favourite subject. Think you should spend time reading the classics, history, etc. GEPs are expected to create good sentences and not memorising sentences. Not too difficult if you read widely. :lol:

Good relationship with Seniors: do it with hearts and good intention. I find many Singaporean students like to borrow/take seniors projects/reports then kopi kopi... becoz they wanna save time. This is happening worldwide even at Unis level. I gave immediate failure when I see students kopi, esp. in front of me. This is not the way to learn.

GEP are expected to be creative... remember. :celebrate:

aiya I think is ok for him to share his experience with us la...most of them would not like to share...furthermore I do not think after reading his post, my ds would be much better then now (i think likewise for other kid) as different kid has different study method that suits them..... :dancing:

[Donkey Kong]

We need the best brains to teach our future generations. :love:


MOE should give GEP students teaching BONDS, make them teachers. Perhaps 20 yrs bond. Everybody want best teachers for our kids mah... :celebrate:

I feel memorising sentences is like we learning foreign languages. (Jap,Germ, French). No choice as we don't get to speak/hear daily. Chinese is something we contact daily, just tune in Ch.8 you can hear many clever sentences from Mark Lee, Ponsak.

Thanks for his/her sharing. At least I know how they feel. :shock: