[Clementi] Primary Schools

[ChiefKiasu]

aggellim:

...you can try to find previous PV of the school to understand how the system works , also when you sign up for PV, talk to the person-in-charge to see if you can dig out more information about what kind of ' duties ' are thrown out to the PV group . or PM me :love:...

Thanks aggellim! Happy Niu Year to you! :celebrate:

[aggellim]

[quote]Thanks aggellim! Happy Niu Year to you! [/quote]

hi ChiefKiasu ,

Wishing you and your family a Happy & Prosperous Lunar New Year ! May the year of OX brings you abundance of Goodwill < Joy Happiness ! Gong Xi Fa Cai ! :celebrate:

[ruiruimum]

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My daughter will registrate at 2012,so i submited the application as volunteer for nanhua primary school,after 1 month it was rejected!so dispointed!
which school is better near my house?qifa primary school or clementi primary school?
it seems that the academic score of the first one is better than the later,but the later seems more popular?which one a?

[Luanee]

ruiruimum, NPHS is famous for being very stringent in their PV selection, a lot of ppl are rejected every year, so dont be disheartened.


And u are right, clementi pri indeed much more popular than qifa. Balloting is usually conducted in clementi pri for phase 2C if u stay out of 1km.

[ruiruimum]

thanks,Luanee!it seems very hard to select,qifa no need conducted balloting even in 2C,I can sure my daughter can enrol, but the score looks more better,for clemnti PS even need balloting ,but in recent 10 years no one can got above 275 in PLSE.

Coz there are only a few HDB near qifa,only those private houses, and near clmenti PS are all HDB, the application is more than qifa ,then it’s more popular,right?

[Luanee]

If u look at last year's stats, Clementi Pri has 270 total places, and out of this, 110 taken up in phase1. Whereas for Qifa which has 300 places, only 79 applied under phase 1. Why is this so? Phase 1 is for kids with siblings already in the school. Rightfully, this number should be more or less proportional to the school's population. :?


How did u compare these 2 school's results? I think Qifa had a top Indian student in year 2004. Is that how u conclude Qifa has better results than Clementi? And btw Clementi did have at least one student above 275 in year 2007. Whereas Qifa did so in 2004 and 2007.

[ruiruimum]

ya,u r right!clemti PS IN 2007got one above 270,while qifa got 2 in 2004 and 2007.i got from here:

http://www.kiasuparents.com/kiasu/content/singapore-primary-schools-ranked-academic-excellence
Maybe 3 years later i will try to appy both two schools then select which one.

[ChiefKiasu]

ruiruimum:

ya,u r right!clemti PS IN 2007got one above 270,while qifa got 2 in 2004 and 2007.i got from here:

http://www.kiasuparents.com/kiasu/content/singapore-primary-schools-ranked-academic-excellence
Maybe 3 years later i will try to appy both two schools then select which one.

Hi ruiruimum, do be careful how you use the data. For all we know, the schools may have dozens of students scoring 274. Is a school with 50 top students scoring 270-274 really worse than a school with 1 student scoring 293 while the highest amongst the rest did not exceed 270? The fact is, we need to look at the consistency by which the school is able to achieve those high scores. You should discount any school with less than 3 top scorers above 275 within 5 years as good data points in your consideration. The information publicly available from MOE does not give us the ability to drill down beyond that.

[ruiruimum]

chiekiasu,thanks for ur reminder!

ya,i also think so,we cann’t think it’s a good school simply according to the amount of the top sudents.But as u know,only those famous school have more than 3 top students in past 5years,since my daughter maybe cann’t enroll in Nanhua,so it’s hard to make decision only can refer to those data.I think i 'll ask some friends for more information about the 2 schools later.
BTW:Maybe i’t s time fo us to consider move to those famous school:)

[ysy]

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I am considering sending my boys to Nan Hua Pri since my hubby is an alumini of the school. However, (1) the school seems to have a rather low profile compare to schools like Henry Park, Nanyang Pri, ACS etc. Thus wonder how good it is and (2) my boys' Chinese Language is really bad. Wonder whether they will feel out of place in a SAP school or maybe I should send them to a more 'angmoh' school like ACS or SJI Junior.