2018 P1 registration exercise for 2019 intake

[zac's mum]

floppy:

Orb:

[quote=\"zac's mum\"]People take it as a form of insurance. Cheaper than insurance premiums, even!

Once upon a time it used to be guaranteed insurance... in recent years not so.

Actually still not so bad lah... apart from a handful of schools, the rest still pretty much guaranteed.
For those handful of schools, just need to shift < 1km to be double safe.[/quote]Yes. It is still guaranteed insurance for <1km.

[kittypie]

Hihi,

May I ask, how will affiliation help in the new AL scoring system which will affect the current Dragon babies? As compared to the current PSLE scoring system?
Thanks in advance!!

[floppy]

Orb:

floppy:

[quote=\"Orb\"]

Once upon a time it used to be guaranteed insurance... in recent years not so.

Actually still not so bad lah... apart from a handful of schools, the rest still pretty much guaranteed.
For those handful of schools, just need to shift < 1km to be double safe.

All it takes is for MOE to increase the number of seats reserved for Phase 2B and 2C from the present 40 to send all the “hot” schools into balloting at 2A1/2A2.[/quote]It's gonna be like the property cooling measure... dribs and drabs, incremental changes.

That said, I find the 40 reserved seats policy unevenly applied. Consider the 2 extremes:
40 places out of CHS total vacancy of 210 places ~19%
40 places out of NYPS total vacancy of 390 places ~ 10%

[phtthp]

first of all, go back to your MGS (BT), ask Principal :


is the new AL affliation Cut-off-point set, equivalent to current T-score 220 (for MGS), or even better than 220 ?

if even better, than you will be smiling.

[kittypie]

phtthp:

first of all, go back to your MGS (BT), ask Principal :


is the new AL affliation Cut-off-point set, equivalent to current T-score 220 (for MGS), or even better than 220 ?

if even better, than you will be smiling.

Oh sure, will go enquire about that! Thank you, phtthp!

[zac's mum]

kittypie:

Hihi,

May I ask, how will affiliation help in the new AL scoring system which will affect the current Dragon babies? As compared to the current PSLE scoring system?
Thanks in advance!!

If the child’s primary school does not have an affiliated secondary school, then she will be undergoing random balloting with another SC child who scores the same cut-off-point as her and who puts the same secondary school at the same choice order.

But if she has an affiliated secondary school to apply to, then she will be able to enter at that discounted cut-off-point, before any non-affiliated competitors.

She must still meet the discounted cut-off-point, of course.

There is no word, however, on what happens if 2 affiliated students have the same score. Resolved by ballot too? That’s like blind scissors paper stone :mad:

[kittypie]

zac's mum:

kittypie:

Hihi,

May I ask, how will affiliation help in the new AL scoring system which will affect the current Dragon babies? As compared to the current PSLE scoring system?
Thanks in advance!!

If the child’s primary school does not have an affiliated secondary school, then she will be undergoing random balloting with another SC child who scores the same cut-off-point as her and who puts the same secondary school at the same choice order.

But if she has an affiliated secondary school to apply to, then she will be able to enter at that discounted cut-off-point, before any non-affiliated competitors.

She must still meet the discounted cut-off-point, of course.

There is no word, however, on what happens if 2 affiliated students have the same score. Resolved by ballot too? That’s like blind scissors paper stone :mad:

Thank you, zac's mum! I believe this applies to both the current T-score as well as the future AL system?

[zac's mum]

kittypie:

zac's mum:

[quote=\"kittypie\"]Hihi,

May I ask, how will affiliation help in the new AL scoring system which will affect the current Dragon babies? As compared to the current PSLE scoring system?
Thanks in advance!!

If the child’s primary school does not have an affiliated secondary school, then she will be undergoing random balloting with another SC child who scores the same cut-off-point as her and who puts the same secondary school at the same choice order.

But if she has an affiliated secondary school to apply to, then she will be able to enter at that discounted cut-off-point, before any non-affiliated competitors.

She must still meet the discounted cut-off-point, of course.

There is no word, however, on what happens if 2 affiliated students have the same score. Resolved by ballot too? That’s like blind scissors paper stone :mad:

Thank you, zac's mum! I believe this applies to both the current T-score as well as the future AL system?[/quote]In the current T-score system, balloting occurs only extremely rare cases. That’s because the 3-digit T-score actually has a string of decimal points behind it, which is unique to each child. You will hardly ever see 2 kids with the same string of decimal points applying to exact same school. In such rare case, it is resolved by balloting.

[kittypie]

Thanks again, zac’s mum! Does it mean affiliation will have a better advantage for the new AL system than the current T-score?

[zac's mum]

kittypie:

Thanks again, zac's mum! Does it mean affiliation will have a better advantage for the new AL system than the current T-score?

It definitely has an advantage. The gap between the affiliated/non-affiliated cut-off-points may or may not become narrower over time depending on supply & demand - that’s the part which remains to be seen. Just go for MGS I say. Definitely gives you more peace of mind. Affiliated JC too (for O level route).