DSA 2017

[taurbear]

SOTA has emailed to candidates and announcement on the portal needs to be acknowledged.

[charchel]

taurbear:

SOTA has emailed to candidates and announcement on the portal needs to be acknowledged.

Received CO from SOTA for dance, but not sure if to accept it, DD loves dancing but heard the dancers' schedule are tough at SOTA, need to cope with IB schedule and dancers basically dance at least 11 hrs per week, school can end at 12am when there is performance or competition, this was told by a friend's hubby who was SOTA maths teacher. Also, understand SOTA now only allow one science at year 5 and 6, is it true?

[veryscared]

lee_yl:

veryscared:

If there isn't advantages, why would parents send their DC to tuition lessons specially designed for gifted programm?

Don't shoot me hor, but I read on the web before, natural gippers are smart but have behaviour issues, hence they are being grouped together. :? dont know how true is it?

I think there are many misconceptions about GEP kids. To be fair, many geppers are prefects or CCA leaders in their primary schools, and are also largely responsible for winning competitions for schools.

If one is \"veryscared\" about behaviour issues, then one has the choice not to send their children to schools like RGS, NYGH, RI or HCI, where there are many geppers!!

Tks goodness, my DS is not interested in RI and HCI. Anyway, he has CO from 2 schools, so not \"veryscared\" liao.

[taurbear]

charchel:

taurbear:

SOTA has emailed to candidates and announcement on the portal needs to be acknowledged.

Received CO from SOTA for dance, but not sure if to accept it, DD loves dancing but heard the dancers' schedule are tough at SOTA, need to cope with IB schedule and dancers basically dance at least 11 hrs per week, school can end at 12am when there is performance or competition, this was told by a friend's hubby who was SOTA maths teacher. Also, understand SOTA now only allow one science at year 5 and 6, is it true?

double science for those able to manage... its a case by case basis from what i heard at the parents symposium

[scotia]

WonderWoman:

Has Cedar released results across all domains? So far only heard of Math & Science from this group.

Hi WonderWoman, for Cedar Girls i think all DSA results should be out by this week becos the tea reception is on 28th Aug (Mon) 5.45pm. Hope you'll get your gd news this week!

[WonderWoman]

:thankyou:

scotia:

WonderWoman:

Has Cedar released results across all domains? So far only heard of Math & Science from this group.

Hi WonderWoman, for Cedar Girls i think all DSA results should be out by this week becos the tea reception is on 28th Aug (Mon) 5.45pm. Hope you'll get your gd news this week!

[WonderWoman]

Any news from SST?

[bbcat]

taurbear:

charchel:

[quote=\"taurbear\"]SOTA has emailed to candidates and announcement on the portal needs to be acknowledged.

Received CO from SOTA for dance, but not sure if to accept it, DD loves dancing but heard the dancers' schedule are tough at SOTA, need to cope with IB schedule and dancers basically dance at least 11 hrs per week, school can end at 12am when there is performance or competition, this was told by a friend's hubby who was SOTA maths teacher. Also, understand SOTA now only allow one science at year 5 and 6, is it true?

double science for those able to manage... its a case by case basis from what i heard at the parents symposium[/quote]I personally spoke to the Head of Science at SOTA during Open House earlier this year; he assured me that Year 5 n 6 students who are academically strong in science will be given the opportunity to take up double science on a case to case basis. However, there is no triple science combination in SOTA, so Medicine at tertiary level would probably not be a viable option for SOTA students.

Hope the info helps.

[phtthp]

Not just SOTA.


In the Junior Colleges, for Year 5 & 6, while preparing for A level, maximum permit only 2 (double) Sciences : either (Chem/Physics), or (Chem/Bio) combination, apart from Maths.

JC force you to take up one compulsory Humanities subject. (History / Geog / Lit / Econs, etc)


None of the JCs now allow A level students to take up Triple Science, neither.

If want to study Triple Science : only NUS High can, but study at an accelerated, fast pace.

[NikkiRGPS]

taurbear:

SOTA results out on portal! We got CO!

Congrats! My DC got a CO too!!!!!!!